Ford Mustang The First Generation, The Early Years Podcast
Patina Over Perfection, Jon Davis and His 1965 Mustang Pony
March 27, 202630 min · 5,807 words
Show notes
Today's guest is Jon Davis -- he can trace his Mustang roots back to the original owner. How cool would it be if we all could step into that time machine? Jon, welcome to Ford Mustang, The Early Years Podcast. Quick recap: In this episode of the Ford Mustang: The Early Years Podcast, host Doug interviewed John Davis about his 1965 Ford Mustang, which John purchased in 2011 from its third owner.
Highlighted moments
You pop the hood, and you can look right down into the ground on the thing. You can see everything, every little bit of it. You can practically sit in it or stand right up in the bay.
“it has a 64 1⁄2 hood. It has 64 1⁄2 parts on her. Even though it was built – assembled in August of that year, I actually was kind of surprised looking at that stuff.”
“I hit the axle to the exhaust and dented it, you know, a bit, just rocketing it. It's not – it's not my vehicle yet, and I'm just kind of bad about it.”
“I love the reckless build of it with cotter pins and all, you know, that you're like, everything's held together with cotter pins, like on the clutch mechanism.”
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