I presume outside of the regular assembly line.
Paul's book says "the first 50 to 100 GT/CS Mustangs required hand assembly of the specialty fiberlglass".
So, the first 50 to 100 cars were hand assembled according to the new book. That is a huge range. And the first book claimed that the cars on the stage at the debut all had “hand made” scripts on the rear quarters. Just in time for the debut. The GT/CS Mustang was not really endorsed by the SoCal dealers until the last part of January, but cars built at the end of January have a “California Special” option on their Marti report. Ok, I got it.....
So cars could be or were ordered from Ford with a check mark on a “California Special” option on an order sheet? So prior to the debut, a GT/CS could be ordered? Or did the dealers make these orders? Or who?
So again, the Marti report with a “California Special” option is without a doubt definitive proof, of a true GT/CS. That is correct! But again the book falls short on whether some early cars were bucked, staged, and “hand assembled” into GT/CS cars, but the Marti report would not confirm that.... They were already ordered and assembled on the line without being ordered as a GT/CS. The mystery continues and is not solved by the new book.
I feel that some of the earliest cars with all the GT/CS option on them, were not clones or dealer assembled. They were early cars already at the end of the line and converted as “hand built” cars into GT/CS cars by Ford. Not sure if my car or Janice Brulc’s car are two of them or not. They were built within two days of each other and have the original Ford GT/CS fiber glass on them. Both delivered to Seattle area DSO’s
The mystery continues. But there may be other cars besides these that are not verified by Marti, but were “hand assembled” prior to the debut.
Rob
