Topic: Mustang de Mexico

[carm]

My buddy has come across a 65 Mustang coupe from Mexico. it has a ser: no starting with 5Mex07,  the plate says ARMADO EN MEXICO. It also Tbird tail lights, a GT gas cap and an electric sunroof.
I assume that this car was built in the USA and exported to Mexico.
I found out about a certain Signor Eduardo Velazquez who had a 65 coupe with a trade mark sunroof. Does anybody know about this car?
To my knowledge Mustangs were not built in Mexico.

[J_Speegle]

have seen and have pictures of some of the Mexican assembled/built Mustangs. Sounds like that one was modified by later owners - that would not be a big surprise. Cars were assembled in Mexico and often  equipped with some local parts. In later years you will find differences in some stamped panels and other bolt on parts. Guess in order to help the Mexican economy. That sort of thing is done all over the world.

Only 65 example I have comes from a restored example that was shown years ago. Paperwork shows a VIN in a similar format to the ones used that year at US plants 5MEX07C followed by the sequential 6 digit number. Hand full of options, heater delete of course and all of the price of just over $60,000 peso's. Hand on some odd/specially modified bumpers

[carm]

Here are some pictures of the car. Seems to have an angle iron welded over the engine bay pinch weld and export brace. It has what looks like a Nardi steering wheel and a decent red interior.

[carm]

Notice the sunroof

[carm]

Red interior and specific Mexican body and motor serial number.

[carm]

Mexican registration called the car type a hardtop. But then use 2P to identify 2D. ( 2 porte instead of 2 doors). Just saying.

[carm]

I looked up “Armando en Mexico”, it translate as “armed in Mexico”. I thought it may of meant assembled. But the word to assembled in Spanish is reunido meaning reunite. Can somebody help us with that?

[carm]

Mexico City had a Ford plant called “ la Villa”.

[Scode67FB]

"Armado en Mexico" does mean "assembled in Mexico" The "2P" stands for "dos" (2) "puertas" (doors).

[carm]

have seen and have pictures of some of the Mexican assembled/built Mustangs. Sounds like that one was modified by later owners - that would not be a big surprise. Cars were assembled in Mexico and often  equipped with some local parts. In later years you will find differences in some stamped panels and other bolt on parts. Guess in order to help the Mexican economy. That sort of thing is done all over the world.

Only 65 example I have comes from a restored example that was shown years ago. Paperwork shows a VIN in a similar format to the ones used that year at US plants 5MEX07C followed by the sequential 6 digit number. Hand full of options, heater delete of course and all of the price of just over $60,000 peso's. Hand on some odd/specially modified bumpers

I'm trying to get a better understanding of where and how these cars were manufactured.
 If Mexico had their own Ford plants, do we know that these cars were assembled in Mexico with imported American sheet metal or did they stamp their own?? Since they have a Mexican serial number can we still expect to find the standard vin also?

[J_Speegle]

Mexico City had a Ford plant called “ la Villa”.

May depend on what year your researching. Found posted that the Fox bodied Mustangs are reported to have been assembled in Cuatitlan Izcalli, Mexico.

David Hammar use to have a Mexican Mustang Registry in the early days of the internet but like many old sites its gone and I don't know that anyone picked up the information, data base and so on after.

Here is an archive version of his old site

http://web.archive.org/web/20120429224004/http://www.hammar.dyndns.org/~mexmust/index.html



Found this new attempt at a registry following in one of the internet searches I did. Looks like they are off to a good start on a difficult (to collect data on and few remaining cars) task

https://mexicanmustangregistry.com/


What was supplied by US plants and what was supplied locally likely differed year to year. If I recall correctly engines for the early cars were US while later 60's examples used engine blocks cast in Mexico. Not sure how long that lasted

[rocket289k]

Wayback Machine has an archive of that website

http://web.archive.org/web/20120302194317/http://www.hammar.dyndns.org/~mexmust/doortags.htm

Ron

[carm]

Yes those sites are very helpful, thanks guys.

This car was built in the US ( vin tag indicates -5A-, being 65 model and the A indicates built in America.  Built for export to Mexico.
All these cars received export braces, thus the name “export brace”. It also has an angle iron welded to the cowl where the brace attaches. Similar to what is found on the 65 Shelby only the holes for the bolt would not be equally spaced like they would be on the 65 Shelby. Have seen the angle iron on one other 65 Blue Mustang de Me ico.

[J_Speegle]

Yes those sites are very helpful, thanks guys.

This car was built in the US ( vin tag indicates -5A-, being 65 model and the A indicates built in America.  Built for export to Mexico.
All these cars received export braces, thus the name “export brace”. It also has an angle iron welded to the cowl where the brace attaches. Similar to what is found on the 65 Shelby only the holes for the bolt would not be equally spaced like they would be on the 65 Shelby............

The "angle iron" was part of the export package and required/added for the export brace attachment and done by Ford. Same practice done on other exports that year and the holes were redrilled to match the equally spaced export braces that were part of the export and Shelby package in 65-66. Believe you will find that there was only one design for export braces for Mustangs & Shelby's originally in 65 & 66.

Picture of the blue car that was around a few years back



Took an export brace off of a 6 cylinder export car years ago in a yard - had the cowl bracing as expected. Also found on on an export falcon - those are difficult to find. Only one I ever did.