FOUND 1965 Mustang K Code HOLY GRAIL

What is this famine? We ain't, uh, y'all ain't, uh, uh, y'all not, uh, politicking for, uh, Democrats, you know? That is awesome! Worldwide shipping is available on this cream puffer. What a great day to be alive. Once in a lifetime opportunity. Runs hard. Wow. Outstanding. Grab your cup of joe and let's go. Good morning. So, what time is it? It's like 5 something. I was here at 4.50, Alex was here at 4.55, and Zach came in late, but he brought Whataburger, so it's okay. So, we don't do this very often. Huh? We're gonna go rescue one of your absolute favorite cars. 65 Mustang. There you go. Not only that, it's a fastback. And not only that, it's around 1.3% of production, so what would that be? K-Code. There you go. K-Code Fastback. We'll go through the numbers, we'll talk about those today. Nobody definitively knows how many K-Codes were built. Uh, some of the top experts out there believe in 65 there's 2,500 to 3,000, uh, half, approximately half are GTs. So, let's cut that in half. And then Carroll Shelby, that's what he based his 65 Shelby on. He used about 550 of them. Between the 65 production years, carryover cars. So, bleeding all that down, about 700 cars. And most of those were raced, wrecked, or rusted. This one's not. It's a really good survivor looking car in the pictures. And I think it's a holy grail car. So, grab your cup of joe and let's go get a holy grail Mustang. Wow, what a great day it is to be alive. I cannot wait to ride my electric e-bike today. We're over here surveying one of our future projects. 11.4 acres. And what better to do it on than my X-Peak electric e-bike. Now, these are customizable with up to 75 different accessories. They are so much fun. Studies show that people with electric e-bikes ride much more than people with a regular bicycle. These can carry up to 450 pounds and go up to the Expedition model. That's insane. The range on this one is about 50 miles. And the range on the Expedition is up to 170 miles. 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Add a bike cover to your order and get it for free with code Dennis at checkout. Okay, it's now 1.30 in the afternoon. We left at 5 this morning. We did our 560 miles of diesel therapy. I hope it's worth it. I'm excited to see this K-Code Fastback. Poplarville, Mississippi. Beautiful. Good afternoon, sir. We did. Hi, Dennis Collins. Steve Evans. Nice to meet you. Zach on the camera. How's it going? Doing well. What a beautiful place. Unbelievable. Well, excellent. Glad to hear that. I got all the stuff. I'll give it to you. You can look at it. Yeah, I was curious what paperwork you had. Yes, right. I'll get it. Okay. So what's the first thing we'd like to see, Alex? Hi. I'm Glenn Bowling. Glenn Bowling? Yes. Alright, Dennis Collins. I've heard of you. Okay. I've heard of Bowling for a long time. Well, thank you for watching. Yep. This is Alex Bowling. Nice to meet you. And that's Zach on the camera. How's it going? Well, thanks for putting this deal together. This is when I bought it. Everything. Louisiana title. Did they tell you? Come in here and sit. I've got a table. Sure. Let's see if there's any history at all. Oh, yes, sir. There is. I've had this car 20-something years. The person you got it from did? No, I'd have. Oh, you've had it for over 20 years. I've put 6,000 miles on it since I had it. There's all of it. Okay. But we're getting to it, what I'm looking for. Okay. There we go. That starts it there. Okay. So when you got it, it was a 16,418 mile car. Very low. I think the lowest mileage one I've had was, I can't remember. Was that poppy red car was 11,000 or 17,000? It's got 23 on it now. 23 on it now. Early production. I think this car was in November. Original hypo motor. That's fantastic. All numbers match. Original carburetor. Original air cleaner. All original FOMO parts still in the car. Voltage regulator. Yellow top coil. Original glass. So in 2000, that's 16,418 miles. My wife bought me that car. There's a little story behind it. The day they delivered it, I didn't know I was getting it. The day they delivered it, my dad died. Oh, no. Heart attack, yes. I hear that. Now, this ---- happens. But we haven't done anything. About five or six years ago, a friend of mine redone that carburetor. But it just hadn't been run. Right. I cranked it up a couple weeks ago. This new fuel is just so bad for them. Like I say, that was from the owner I bought it from. Can you see the snubber on that picture? Yep. Rear diff looks right. Floors look great from here. We'll check on that. What I was excited about is when you sent me the door warranty tag, the first thing I looked at was the DSO. So this DSO is Phoenix, Arizona, which got me excited because the car should not have any rust in it. Right. The biggest thing that Alex and I battle on these cars is rust. Yeah. It's great paperwork. I'm glad you had no idea you had all this. Glenn sent me some good pictures of the car, but I didn't know if there's any backstory or history. That helps a lot. But we still got to check a few of the key numbers. Yeah. So can we do that? You're welcome. Okay. Crank it, run it, whatever. Y'all want a Coke or anything? I'm good, thank you. What is this famine? We ain't, y'all ain't, y'all not a politician for Democrats. I wish you'd have filmed that. Flashlight's in my bag. Did you bring one with you? We can go get one. So what I like about this car is it's not a GT. So about half of these were GTs. And when you narrow that down. But it's a high performance. It is K-Code Hypo car. Yes. So this was the basic car that Carroll Shelby started with to build his cars. So, I mean, it's a 271 and he bumped into a 306. Not a huge deal, but most of these cars, even though they weren't Shelby's, the base cars were raced. This car doesn't look like, I mean, we just started looking at it, but it doesn't look like it was ever raced. It hasn't been banged around. It's got the original number on it, which is fantastic. Of course, sport's nice. Original fender, because these are not re-popped. So this zone, this triangle right here, this is original fender. So it doesn't look like it's been hit in the front, which is great. Dual yellow top coil. Check the carburetor real quick. Code 20 on this head, so that works. You want to see a 19 or a 20? No, that's good, sir. I actually got matching 20s on the heads, Alex. A lot of times you'll see a 19 and a 20. That's good. So whenever they rebuilt the carburetor, they left off the tag, but it appears to be a 600 CFM Autolite. That's good. Intake is a C5A, so this, if you'll look at the date code, I think this is a November car. So it should be a C5, not a C4. Yeah, 05L. It is a November car, Alex, so we should be looking at C5 stuff. Okay. It is a Ragu Red car. It is a standard red interior. So Ragu Red's J. 25 is standard red interior. 05L is November 5th of 65. And this is what really got me excited, is this DSO 75 right here, Phoenix, Arizona. Now, most of these cars were 350 in ones, which is what Shelby ordered all his cars with. This is a Code 5 350 to 1 ratio car, and it is obviously a 4-speed. That's the only way that came. So what I really do like about this, Glenn, you sent me some good pictures, by the way, is I don't think this door jamb's been painted. No. It looks like the car had an exterior repaint. The bolts and stuff. But it doesn't look like the jambs were done, and I actually like that. And whoever did it did a good job. So that looks really good. That's a Rally Pack car, too. I didn't see that in the pictures. I like that. Alex's got a Rally Pack. That's good. The clock works, but it don't keep time. I sent it to the clock doc in Georgia years ago, and he fixed that. Got the right shifter, the right shifter knob. Got the right dual-point distributor. That's the right air cleaner, too. See how it's got the metal element on it? That's even a correct element. That's crazy. It's got the bigger balancer. So, so far, so good. Did you hear me? It's matching 20 heads. Most of the ones we've had have been like 19 or 20 heads wide. They have correct exhaust manifolds. They sure are. Now, here's the million-dollar question. Does it have the original motor? 70 out of the 2,000 that was matching. Got the original quarter drop-off over here. Original drop-off over here. Head and head quarters. Got the original sound deadening on there. Well, sir, I've got plenty of spares and plenty of jacks. Well, it just didn't. That is not a problem. 21,955 miles. So it's less than what I said. So check this out, Alex. This is what I was telling you a little bit earlier. So on the 64 1⁄2s, that says GEN. So I knew this was a mid-November car. It's going to be an alternator car. That's kind of a cool thing if you ever wonder where the cutoff date was, whether it was 64 1⁄2 or not. Did you find it? Well, I got some bad news for your wallet. Okay. It's numbers matching motor and trans. Fantastic. There's the motor number. You got that cleaned up quick. There's the trans number. So that's how we solved the whole mystery on the 67 Supercharged car. Yep. All right. Well, is it okay if we start it? Yes. He said it wasn't. We're probably going to have to cut it. It hasn't been cranked in probably about two or three weeks. You know how rare it is that we buy a car that runs? Really rare. So Steve is going to have stage fright. What do you think, Alex? Stage fright. I'm also thinking, these cars, you can't get a motor report for it because the documents are gone. So the majority of these cars, I don't know the percentage of black interior. So being red-red is unusual. That's the reason I like that. It's neat. Most of these are black interior cars. You know, we got to pump it up. Alex, you ready? In a couple of weeks. Is he in the way? He's got stage fright. Crank it. All right. Back in clockwork for it. Look at his smile. It's so rare that we buy something that runs. I'm going to go grab it when we get back. So these cars were all manual steering. You could not get power steering. So that's a quick ratio gearbox, which is what you want if you're on the racetrack. So it's a 16 to 1 box. So there's a special box. It's great. This car is a really good car on the track. You can get out there and run hard. Not so great in town with no power steering. Well, sir, how about I pay you what you're asking? Is that a deal? Yes. I'll give you a 1,000-mile car with one repaint. That is really awesome. When this goes on the air, you're not going to tell them what a dumbass I was for giving this car away, huh? No, sir. I stepped up. He knows. I paid fair money for it. Oh, yeah. No, I'm kidding. No, so on a car like this, if you try to steal it, you're not going to get it. Well, he helped me a lot. He don't tell them what they... Yeah, it's never on camera what we did for it. My wife. No, never, ever, ever. The only thing that might shock you a little bit when you see this on the show is how rare that car actually is. Really? Yeah. The unfortunate thing is the records are all available for the 67 and up Mustangs. The 66 and down, they're not. But we do know there were 559,065. And we do know there were 2,500 K-Code Fastbacks. And we do know that half of those were based like this car. But we also know that Carroll Shelby took 559 of those, which means just in quick numbers, there's only about 700 of those cars. Well, then it's like the K. Is that a big deal? Yes, it is. Is that more horsepower? That's the highest horsepower engine you could get that year. The 289? Correct. Of the 289. Okay. It didn't have nothing to do with high performance. No, that is a high-performance motor. Yeah. Yeah, so this is the car that Carroll Shelby based his Shelbys on. So he actually took that motor and did the intake, carburetor, exhaust and bumped it up to 306. I got you. But it's just very unusual to find one that still has the original motor in it also. Very unusual. It was going to be very unusual. If y'all said that thing was changed, it ain't been changed, you know. And you read what the guy sent me. Well, when Alex went down there to clean it, it hadn't been cleaned. So I don't think it's been checked, at least not in forever. I didn't check it. That's why it had that spray out, the cleaner spray. I didn't check it. It is the original transmission. I looked in the back. I mean, the chances of that not being the original rear end is zero. But it's got the correct 9 engine and the right day code. Really neat car. It drives good. You just said it there. Well, I can't wait to drive it. We'll take it on a real proper test drive when we get it back. All right. And throw that on the show. Right, Zach? Oh, yeah. He likes that. Okay, well. All right. We are going to head to somewhere close to Lexington and visit the cowboy. Pleasure meeting you. Yes, sir. Thank you. What a stud car. Man, what a cool car. What's up, Sean? This is rad. Oh, yeah? You didn't go on this episode. No. I am amazed by the color. 65 K code, red on red. Wow. This is not the secretary car. Oh, I love this car. So tell me about it. So we found this one in Mississippi a couple hours south of JD. Really? And this is one of the cleanest cars we've ever found. No rust anywhere. But all I had to do was get the correct hoses, some belts, paint up the motor, detail it. So this is a survivor? Survivor. No way. With some paint blends here and there, but no rust and the chassis is beautiful. This is amazing. Yeah. Absolutely amazing. It looks orange, but I know it's red. I can't remember the color. There were three different reds that year. I think this is probably the best because it definitely looks orange. Yeah. I've already put 30 miles on it. It's fun to drive. I bet. 4-speed? Yeah. Well, let's hop in. Let's go. I'm so stoked. This is a time capsule. Original interior. Original carpet. Original chassis. Suspension, except for it's had shocks, but that's it. Wow. I got to say, out of all the cars that we've had, this has got to be probably one of the top five. Yeah, this is my favorite car. Next to a 65 Chevy, which this is almost a 65 Chevy. You can drive this. Smooth. Power steering. Power brakes. Disc brakes. Nope. Actually, manual brakes and manual steering, but since it's a K code, it's got the quick ratio steering box. But I love these cars. No options. Space interior. Yeah, but it feels like it has every option. It's right there. The extra pedal. The only option it needs. 4-speed. I'd try to buy it from Dennis, but you know how he is. Yeah, you'd have to sell your first born. I know. And even then, you'd still owe him cash. Yeah. But I get to drive it for free, so I guess. Well, there you go. It's a win-win. Win-win. Wow. We're going over railroad tracks and didn't feel anything. 270 horsepower. But it feels like more. A lot more. I guess that's back when the actual horsepower was actual horsepower. The cars are light. Yeah. I did put fresh tires with white letters. I wasn't seeing the white headliner, but it fits. I've seen a cassette. But the original radio is in the back. Good times. It is definitely good times. Hit it! What a stud car. Well, let's see if we can talk Dennis into keeping this one. Let's go do it. This one belongs in the stable. Absolutely. Let's go see JD. Where are we, cowboy? You are at Kudzu Bluff. Welcome to Kudzu Bluff. I'm so glad you all came. Made a trip up here to Poplarville, Mississippi. Found you a Holy Grail car. And come up to see us here at our wonderful little hunting camp we've got here called Kudzu Bluff. And I'm excited. I've been wanting Zach to come up here. I've been wanting you to come up here. And Alex actually come in. Alex is a car guy more than a hunting guy. So we're fixing to eat us some dinner and break bread with friends. We've got Steaks. My lovely wife Brandy here. Brandy passed. JD passed. They invited us to filets. Nothing better than one of my best friends in the world cooking me a filet. Or actually twice. Well, it's a team effort. Which one's meaty and which one's rare? Oh, yeah. We had a little thermometer. Yeah, let's go ahead and show you how that works. Brandy. Come here and watch it. Be a little patient. And we have asparagus. Baked potatoes with all the fixings over here. Broccoli. Mushrooms. And garlic bread. And if you don't get full enough, well, too bad. There's enough here to make a fat man happy and that's all that matters. JD, are you happy? Yeah, I'm very happy. Absolute masterpiece. It's going to be the best Mississippi bite ever. Right in the middle. Perfect medium rare. Way to go, cowboy. Oh, unbelievable. There's the meat and potatoes. The Mississippi. JD passed and Brandy passed. We left at 5 a.m. this morning. It's 7 p.m. now. I starved these two boy boys. It is fantastic. Thank you, sweetie. Love seeing you. Love seeing you, cowboy. You bet. You ready to eat, Zach? Let's eat. Let her rip. I was just coming along here with my skid steer. As you can see, it's a concave part of the ground. It had been undercut. The machine fell. The ground collapsed underneath me. I fell out there about 40 feet out there. Hit that tree and went 210 feet to the bottom of that hill. In a skid steer? In a skid steer. How much does a skid steer weigh? About 6,000, 7,000 pounds. I had a mulching head on the front of it, so 10,000, 11,000 pounds. No seat belt on. Safety first. Lucky I'm alive. But I turned around and climbed back up this hill to get out. We did it. I can't believe it. 400. It was a good run. Yeah. What are we going to do now? Actually, I don't know. I've been asked that many times. I have no idea what we're going to do now. I think we just need a break. I think so. Thank you for all your effort. We are done. 400. We did it.