I have a few questions about an R-code 1969 Mach1 that I have come to know of. But first the story of how I learned about this car and its unique story. I was at our local cruise in a few days ago with my 70 fastback when a lady came up and started asking me where and who did my restoration. I told her that I did all of my own restoration on all of my mustangs. She then asked me if I ever do restorations for others and I told her that I just do it for myself and was not generally interested in restoring other peoples cars. Then I asked her what she had and that is when she told me that she had three different collector cars. A 1967 Cougar, and two 1969 Mach1's. One of the Mach's was a red 351 car that is her daily driver and the other was a 428CJ car that was originally exported to Japan from Ford to be sold to a business man. ( now she has my attention ) The Japanese business man sold the car to a military servicemen stationed in Japan a couple years after he had it imported. The servicemen brought the car back with him when he came home. When he got home he painted the car white with black Stripes it was originally black Jade with white interior. He then sold the car to a teenage kid while living in Sierra Vista AZ. When the kid kept getting in trouble with the car his parents took the car and sold it at a local car auction in Tucson AZ. Which is where this lady purchased this car in 1980. She has owned all three cars for over thirty years and says she just loves these cars. Her plan is to do a full concourse restoration on the 428 Mach1 back to its original condition as it was when it was originally built and exported to Japan. She wants to do a driver quality rebuild on the red 351 Mach1 to include drivetrain rebuild and new paint and interior. She wants to do a driver quality rebuild on the 67 Cougar with some minor restomoding to include a stroked motor and mild performance upgrades. She stopped driving the 428 mach1 about two years ago when she smelt gasoline leaking and was afraid it might catch fire. The car has 132K kilometers on the metric speedometer which means it has about 75k original miles. The car has all of its original sheet metal and never been in an accident that I can tell ( no body filler anywhere ). The undercarriage is perfect with no rust what so ever anywhere. This is an absolutely solid original car that has had a color change on the exterior and interior. She had all the interior panels covered with a black tweed about 25 years ago.
Here is my questions
1. What do you feel the value of this car is given the export and history. In its current state and what the value of this car after a full restoration.
2. The deluxe Marti report shows the car was final assembled in Japan, want to know how much assembly they had to do.
3. Looking at the options list it shows left shift headlamps what is this option. Possibly something to do with left hand drive.
4. There is no door tag on the car is that because the Japan Motors tag in the engine compartment take the place of that.
Any help or info you can give me would be great. Here is some pics of the cars.
Here is my questions
1. What do you feel the value of this car is given the export and history. In its current state and what the value of this car after a full restoration.
2. The deluxe Marti report shows the car was final assembled in Japan, want to know how much assembly they had to do.
3. Looking at the options list it shows left shift headlamps what is this option. Possibly something to do with left hand drive.
4. There is no door tag on the car is that because the Japan Motors tag in the engine compartment take the place of that.
Any help or info you can give me would be great. Here is some pics of the cars.
and the interior was just ok. Nothing ripped or broken, just aging and dull. However, the engine was really nice and sounded great. Anyways, it was being sold for an asking of $27,500 with quite a bit of interest and prospects the gentleman was fielding questions from.
