Introduction


The Mustang pictured below (bottom) was first purchased by my father-in-law, Buddy, in 1986, in Connecticut. Shortly after, he purchased a second six-cylinder convertible and sold the pictured one to my wife's cousin, Ronnie. Dad died in 1994. When Ronnie decided to sell the car to finance an in-ground swimming pool in 2006, my wife Sharon and I decided to buy it, and brought it home to Tennessee.
The car had undergone a cosmetic restoration before Dad bought it, and apart from some minor detailing since then, was still in the same condition when we bought it.
In June 2010, I found out it was a Sprint 200, Package A, 3-speed manual transmission. And after reading an article in the archives of the Mustang Times by Jim Smart, went looking for the Broadcast (Build) Sheet. I found it wrapped around the wiring harness behind the speedometer. After a brief search to find out what all the codes meant, I realized that surprisingly little is known or published about these documents. So I decided I'd try to attempt to decode it myself. This blog is a journal of that research.
All discussions below currently pertain to only 1966 Mustangs.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Warranty Plant Code

The 3rd box from the left on the top line is the Warranty Plant Code. This is the same as the "Body" code on the door's warranty plate. An "A" designation indicates the standard interior, while a "B" indicates the Interior Decor Group's deluxe interior (commonly referred to as the Pony Interior).
The production statistics indicated here are one of the few surviving records of the pre-1967 era. Little else is known at this point about how many cars came with a certain color, interior, or option.


 WARRANTY PLANT CODE
65A
Coupe, Standard Interior      
422,416 units
65B
Coupe, Deluxe Interior      
55,938 units
65C
Coupe, Bench Seat    
21,397 units
76A
Convertible, Standard Interior   
56,409 units
76B
Convertible, Deluxe Interior 
12,520 units
76C
Convertible, Bench Seat  
3,190 units
63A
2+2 Fastback, Standard Interior   
27,809 units
63B
2+2 Fastback, Deluxe Interior  
7,889 units

Total
607,568 units

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