#PAINTCODE 1967 MUSTANG DRIVER#
#PAINTCODE 1967 MUSTANG MANUAL#

The color code can be located in the driver side door jamb. To insure a proper match, you’ll need to know your vehicle’s color code so you can find it on the chart below. You can always call up a Ford dealer and give them your VIN, they should be able to tell you your factory paint color code. AutomotiveTouchup paint products are custom mixed to perfectly match the color of your 1967 Ford Mustang using a basecoat/clearcoat system just like factory specs. If you do not see a sticker here, there is a slight chance it will be found under the hood, but more often than not it means your sticker has either been removed or your vehicle has been re-painted. With the door open the sticker will be in plain sight, you should not need to remove any trim pieces.

It can be found on the driver’s door jamb either on the “B” pillar or on the edge of the door. The location of the paint/trim sticker is almost always in the exact same area. We do not have a list of the coinciding names for the colors – but if you are at least able to match the numbers when purchasing a part you will take the guess work out of trying to match colors.īelow I have listed a few examples of Ford cars and trucks we have in inventory. This is a general guide of where to locate the paint and trim codes for your Ford. Here at East Coast Auto Salvage we will always make the effort to help our customers get the right part they need and will provide paint and interior trim codes whenever possible. Of course you can paint body parts to match your car, but we know it saves you time and money if you can find a replacement part already painted the right color. (What I will be telling you also applies to many Lincoln, Mercury and possibly a few other vehicles built by the Ford motor company as well) You might be surprised just how many color variations were used by Ford. Turner has found evidence of gray primer past January 1965.When we sell body parts and interior parts we always recommend to our customers that they match the paint or trim codes off of their vehicle to the codes from our vehicle. I’m not sure however, when the color of the primer sealer was changed, but Mr. In 1966, the year I’m currently dealing with here in my blog, the door tag once again returned to the black background, and it signified the Acrylic Enamel. After 12/28/64, Ford made the switch to M32J Acrylic Enamel, and changed the door tag to a gray background to signify the different paint (Marti’s Tagbook pg. It’s my understanding that the “first” Mustangs were painted with M30J (Non acrylic) Enamel, and this is indicated by the black background on the door tag. It was determined that the gray didn’t provide for the proper adhesion with the lighter colors of the new formula acrylic enamel paints due to an ultra-violet sunlight interaction.

Fria explains that the gray primer sealer was changed to red oxide after a “number of early cars” were built. There was no mention of when the interior paint was applied. It was discontinued soon after initial use in favor of an epoxy red oxide), lastly the exterior body color. 152 he describes the paint process beginning with the engine compartment’s black paint, then a light gray body primer (which was only used on the very, very early and pre-production cars. It conflicts however, with the description of the 1965 Dearborn process that Bob Fria gives in his book Mustang Genesis. This chronology was taken from Charles Turner’s comments at the Paint Sequence thread on the HiPo site: 1966 FORD MUSTANG ONLY 85,365 ORIGINAL MILES 1 OF 1 SPECIAL PAINT CODE FAMILY OWNED ALL IT LIFE SELLING NO RESERVE THIS MUSTANG IS CURRENTLY LOCATED IN. This blog is a journal of that research.Īll discussions below currently pertain to only 1966 Mustangs. So I decided I’d try to attempt to decode it myself. After a brief search to find out what all the codes meant, I realized that surprisingly little is known or published about these documents. I found it wrapped around the wiring harness behind the speedometer.

And after reading an article in the archives of the Mustang Times by Jim Smart, went looking for the Broadcast (Build) Sheet.

#PAINTCODE 1967 MUSTANG MANUAL#

In June 2010, I found out it was a Sprint 200, Package A, 3-speed manual transmission. 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. 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. Shortly after, he purchased a second six-cylinder convertible and sold the pictured one to my wife’s cousin, Ronnie. The Mustang pictured below (bottom) was first purchased by my father-in-law, Buddy, in 1986, in Connecticut.

Paintcode 1967 mustang