Digger
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- Mar 24, 2003
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A couple of weeks ago I bought me another project which is a 1965 mustang coupe. I got the car for $1,800 because it was a 6 cylinder car, but I guess the owner didn't realize the C in the VIN# indicated it was originally a V8 289 v2. The car runs and drives but I want to put a 289 V8 back in it so I put an ad in Craig's List looking for a 289. I get a call from a 70 year old guy who tells me he has a few and one is a 1966 289 271 HP HiPo(high performance) and one is a 1965 289 with only 65,000 miles when he took it out. I told him I was interested in the *cough* HiPo if it was the real deal and the 65,000 mile one. We agreed on $600 for both. He also tells me he has an aluminum 4 barrel intake manifold that says FORD on it and the numbers C9OX that he thinks came off the HiPo.
I sent my nephew to pick them up and told him what to look for to verify it was a real HiPo which was very unlikely. HiPo 289's are very rare and worth a lot of money so people are known to try and fake them. My nephew calls me up and tells me he can't tell if it's the HiPo or not but that the guy has come down to $200 for both motors. He also said there was a nice looking 3rd motor there also, so I told him to offer the guy $400 for all 3 motors and the manifold. He agreed on $500 for it all. I was taking a chance but I knew if the HiPo was real I was getting the deal of a lifetime, and the aluminum manifold was worth a fair amount on it's own. I see one on Ebay for $900 right now.
Anyway, my nephew gets them home and I start checking the numbers and setup of the "HiPo" and everything matches to be the real deal. I posted some pictures on a Mustang forum asking to verify if it was the real deal and one guys response was "Out of all the pictures people have posted on this forum thinking they had a real HiPo, this is the first real HiPo I've seen posted." So now what to do? Do I rebuild it and put it in my new 1965 mustang project? I've been told I could sell it for enough money to buy a brand new motor and have it put in with what I could get for my HiPo as is.
Here is my new project
I sent my nephew to pick them up and told him what to look for to verify it was a real HiPo which was very unlikely. HiPo 289's are very rare and worth a lot of money so people are known to try and fake them. My nephew calls me up and tells me he can't tell if it's the HiPo or not but that the guy has come down to $200 for both motors. He also said there was a nice looking 3rd motor there also, so I told him to offer the guy $400 for all 3 motors and the manifold. He agreed on $500 for it all. I was taking a chance but I knew if the HiPo was real I was getting the deal of a lifetime, and the aluminum manifold was worth a fair amount on it's own. I see one on Ebay for $900 right now.
Anyway, my nephew gets them home and I start checking the numbers and setup of the "HiPo" and everything matches to be the real deal. I posted some pictures on a Mustang forum asking to verify if it was the real deal and one guys response was "Out of all the pictures people have posted on this forum thinking they had a real HiPo, this is the first real HiPo I've seen posted." So now what to do? Do I rebuild it and put it in my new 1965 mustang project? I've been told I could sell it for enough money to buy a brand new motor and have it put in with what I could get for my HiPo as is.
Here is my new project
