The Beginning

The vehicle started it's life in the San Jose Ford assembly plant back in early 1967. The car was ordered and delivered to a local dealer in L.A. California. Unfortunately the customer decided to purchase a new Dodge instead and with that, the new Mustang awaited a new home.

A few months later the car was purchased from a good friend of mine's parents. They bought the car on the spot and drove it for many months. One day the husbands wife told her husband that she would rather have a RED Mustang instead of the Frosted Turquoise that it came as from the factory/dealer. The husband, being the great person he was told his wife, no problem. The car was delivered to a Ford dealer to repaint the car from Frosted Turquoise (B paint code) to Ford's Candy Apple Red (T paint code). When the car was inspected after its repaint, the husband was very unhappy with the results of this respray and to make the customer happy, the dealer didn't charge the husband for the work. The husband then told the dealer that he was not going to let the paint employees attempt another try and that day, he drove the car back home.

The car drove all over California with the family, drove both kids to school and even into the later years when the son, my good friend, would take over driving the car to college and later on.