Talk about cool! This 1965 Mustang has been a race car since day one, and it wasn’t just some flim-flam stocker with a little 289. Instead it was a beastly A/FX machine sporting one of the original Ford SOHC 427 engines, which it still does today! According to the seller, the car was built in 1965-1966 and ran in the NHRA’s division 5 regularly until 1971. Amazingly, this car has the the original SOHC engine in it that occupied the engine bay when the car was first built although it now displaces 482ci.
Neat period stuff that is still present includes the Mark Williams axles from 1965, the original roll cage, the crude rear suspension with traction bars and clamped rear springs, the metal flake steering wheel, and the unobtanium Halibrand wheels on the corners.
The SOHC engines, when working right, were every bit the match for Chrysler Hemis and whatever else lined up next to them in the other lane. A/FX was one of the classes that helped birth the Funny Car as we know it today and this Mustang would have been on the bleeding edge back in 1965. The seller claims the car ran a best of 9.97/137mph and it weighs in at 3,150lbs. That’s hauling ass today. Back in the mid 1960s, it was mind numbing for something with doors to be doing that.
The car can be bought outright for $75,000. That’s big money, but this is a totally bitchin’ car!
(1965 SOHC-Powered A/FX Mustang)
That is Cool with a capital “C”!
I don’t buy it. It looks far too much like a well done fake. He better have some good photographic eveidence to go with it. Otherwise you have to take him on his word.
If that’s a true Ford 427 A/FX Mustang,Holman&Moody got the nod from Ford as the builder. I would think an original Ford Mustang 427sohc A/FX put together by Holman/Moody would fetch a lot more than 75K.If it is the real deal, it wouldn’t take much to prove it.
Strange looking steering column. The more I look at the car the more i think it’s the real deal, minus the paint/graphics.