35th Anniv Japanese Export

dbdee

dbdee

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#1
This is a pic of my car at a recent classic show at Errol 2nd world war airfield in Perthshire,Scotland.
I've recently confirmed with Voorhees that it is indeed a Limited edition,35th Anniversary car #3387 of 4628 in 'Performance Red.
I got the car a few weeks ago locally to me in the Glasgow area but was unaware till now of it's rarity.
Car was a Dearborn product for the Japanese Market .It stayed in Japan till 2009 and imported to the U.K.
A couple of questions have arisen that although the car has all the original features (apart from the wheels and radio),it does not have the rear honeycomb panel. Does anyone know if some of these cars were built without that panel ? All the labelling is in Japanese of course as are all the documents. It has a Kms speedo.
It would be of interest to me to know of any other such cars in the UK.

My99Car.jpg


Dave...........
 

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dbdee said:
This is a pic of my car at a recent classic show at Errol 2nd world war airfield in Perthshire,Scotland.
I've recently confirmed with Voorhees that it is indeed a Limited edition,35th Anniversary car #3387 of 4628 in 'Performance Red.
I got the car a few weeks ago locally to me in the Glasgow area but was unaware till now of it's rarity.
Car was a Dearborn product for the Japanese Market .It stayed in Japan till 2009 and imported to the U.K.
A couple of questions have arisen that although the car has all the original features (apart from the wheels and radio),it does not have the rear honeycomb panel. Does anyone know if some of these cars were built without that panel ? All the labelling is in Japanese of course as are all the documents. It has a Kms speedo.
It would be of interest to me to know of any other such cars in the UK.

My99Car.jpg


Dave...........
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Dave,

Glad to see your car. There were some differences from the US version that I remember. The former 35th website owner at one time had the link to the Ford Japan website that had the specs and pics of the export version "Limited" GT. I do recall the spoiler is the standard GT spoiler, the lights below the 35th emblem are export items and if I remember the taillights have a yellow/amber lens in one part.
As for your question on the rear panel, I also beleive it was left off of exports.
If there are no mounting holes, it is correct.
Those elements alone make for quite an interesting "Limited Edition" GT.

Love the picture, but would love to see other angles.

Do you know what happend to the original rims? BTW, there seem to be some always listed on ebay, if you wanted to have some.

The mirrors are not stock(but they may be???), they should be like the ones on the other GT in the picture, but they are not bad at all.

Thanks!
-Jason
 
#3
This is amazing! I had no idea that Ford ever built any Mustangs with the purpose of exporting them.. It's also strang that these cars had the original spoiler and no honeycomb! What an extremely rare car we have here.. I love learning new stuff like this.
 
#4
Cheers,guys...........I'll take some more pics tomorrow of the rear and as Jason says it does have amber indicator lenses fitted. There are no mounting holes for the Honeycomb panel.
Unfortunately all the documentation is completely indecipherable as it is Japanese.I'll take some shots of that too Probably has the original owner's name and address in there.
I was told that the original wheels were discarded by the previous owner as they had badly corroded.He also said the original radio is gone too.
Any more info on The export models would be appreciated.:)
Now looking for an original radio.

Dave
 
#5
The radio should be an easy replacement and as for the wheels, I find it strange a low mileage car would have issues such as that.
I'd probably just get and aftermarket radio if it were me, the radio is not as important in my opinion.
 
#14
streuber said:
It's so cool to see differences in a car based on where it is sold. I have never seen a mustang taillight with the ember on it. So interesting.
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Really ?? Need to study more. My old 01 Cobra had Export taillights stock.

Look at the Aussie 02 Cobras !!


Nice EXPORT Stang U have !! Not many survive over there..............
 
#18
hi, mine is exactly the same !!! no i have a problem someone stole my drivers site mirror and now the problem begins, i can only get regular GT mirros but for the export LE the mirror seems like Ford used the one from a Cobra ?? does anyone know where i get the export mirror or is it really the Cobra mirror and i have to spend a couple more bugs for the Cobra mirror ???

thanks for advise
and sorry for my english
 
#20
Speaking of export mustangs... My wife just bought a 97 Purple GT. It is a Japan export that was brought back into the United States. Any clue on how rare this car in in the US??? It has Amber tail lights, side marker lights, flares, factory folding mirrors, tags are written in Japanese under hood and on the sun visor.
 
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