robert campbell
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All,
I have a question that has been bugging me for quite some time. Black out blinker hoods on 1968 GT/CS and any 1968 Mustang with a blinker hood.
The registrar’s first book mentions the color code Y5 as the code for Anniversary Gold paint vice the color code “Y” for Sunlit Gold. I think the 5 could mean something else, although his first book goes into great detail about “Anniversary Gold” GT/CS cars that were send to DSO 74. This has led me down the path to the origin of my Gold Nugget Special (GNS). This may be an error in his first book.
From my research of GNS cars they all carry the DSO 741111 and the color-code Y5. The 5 added to the color code Y means blackout hood. I have numerous ads that I got from 1968 Seattle Times micro fish trying to figure my car out, and all the 1968 Ford ads say that the GNS Mustangs were Sunlit Gold. The GNS option included the blackout blinker hood, black vinyl top, GT “C” stripe, and a special plaque on the dash with the owner’s name. Only 525 were made according to the ads of the day. I have seem a few original GNS cars and they all carry the code Y5.
Here is the question. Many of you must have a GT/CS with a "original" blackout blinker hood. If you have a white car with an original blackout hood is the code M for white, or is it M5? Is the five added to any car of any paint to denote the blackout hood? Does your Marti say "M5" also? My door plate was gone.
I researched even into the 1969 era and the Mach I cars had a 5 attached to their paint code if they got the blackout hood.
Rob
I have a question that has been bugging me for quite some time. Black out blinker hoods on 1968 GT/CS and any 1968 Mustang with a blinker hood.
The registrar’s first book mentions the color code Y5 as the code for Anniversary Gold paint vice the color code “Y” for Sunlit Gold. I think the 5 could mean something else, although his first book goes into great detail about “Anniversary Gold” GT/CS cars that were send to DSO 74. This has led me down the path to the origin of my Gold Nugget Special (GNS). This may be an error in his first book.
From my research of GNS cars they all carry the DSO 741111 and the color-code Y5. The 5 added to the color code Y means blackout hood. I have numerous ads that I got from 1968 Seattle Times micro fish trying to figure my car out, and all the 1968 Ford ads say that the GNS Mustangs were Sunlit Gold. The GNS option included the blackout blinker hood, black vinyl top, GT “C” stripe, and a special plaque on the dash with the owner’s name. Only 525 were made according to the ads of the day. I have seem a few original GNS cars and they all carry the code Y5.
Here is the question. Many of you must have a GT/CS with a "original" blackout blinker hood. If you have a white car with an original blackout hood is the code M for white, or is it M5? Is the five added to any car of any paint to denote the blackout hood? Does your Marti say "M5" also? My door plate was gone.
I researched even into the 1969 era and the Mach I cars had a 5 attached to their paint code if they got the blackout hood.
Rob