Back to my reply number 8 - "Group 1" shows that both deluxe and standard consoles would be the same color. However. I remember an article in a Mustang magazine that "production problems" with 65-66 consoles prompted black ones to be installed instead of colored ones. I don't know where, when or how long this "may" have occurred. (Plus, dealers installed what they had, irrespective of color.)
Jim
There was a fair amount of discussion at the time that article was printed. Since we now still don't have the production data for 65-66 we can't be certain as to what cars did or did not come from the factory with consoles and which ones may have had the dealership add them to other cars to make a sale. Would not that I do have examples of deluxe/pony interior 65's with and without consoles but of course I don't have original window stickers to go with these and tell us when they were installed
Jeff?s picture number two shows a black console on a car with white interior and black carpet. Granted it?s not deluxe interior. I just wanna make sure I?m not trying to create a car that didn?t exist. All the TMI references on 65 white shows it to be off-white.
Console likely was installed IMHO by the dealer who typically only stocked the black bases in 65-66. Same reasoning goes for the deluxe/pony interior cars we find with consoles without the woodgrain. Someone likely wasn't willing to wait possibly weeks for the three or four needed panels to be ordered and shipped so they took what was on the shelf/in stock
Still looking through pictures and some door tags. Did not usually take pictures of tags since often they were missing and I used the body to organize and label things. Since deluxe interiors were only available during a short period and often to people who were watching the dollars not many out there originally. Plenty made/converted in the 80-90's
