Doyle Marshall's 1965 Ford Mustang
Gearhead enjoys piecing cars back together.
“It doesn’t matter if you are 16, 22, 40, 82 or 90. Everybody loves a Ford Mustang.”
That is just one of the many observations Doyle Marshall has made regarding Americans and their love of automobiles. Doyle knows a thing or two about cars. He serves as co-chair of the New Braunfels Area Car Club Swap Meet and as a one of the directors of the club, which has been around for more than 30 years.
Doyle found his 1965 Ford Mustang in 1981. It was the first car he restored.
“There were tons of them at the time,” he said. “Parts were inexpensive. You could still find parts at the Ford dealership.”
The Mustang was the everyman’s sports car. The cars could be found for a base price of under $2,500 in 1965, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association.
When Doyle found his in a yard, it was wrecked on one side. He drug it home on a trailer and got to work.
He took it apart and carefully resurrected it, including the original signature Silver Smoke Gray exterior color and black interior.
‘It is a three speed standard, with a six cylinder engine,” Doyle explained.
It was the precursor to the muscle cars, when V8 engines were added for souped-up versions of the Mustang and when Pontiac GTOs were having their heyday.
Doyle’s Mustang also has the factory-added air conditioning.
“If you chose the air conditioning, the parts would be placed in the trunk of the car and sent to the dealership. The dealership would then install the air conditioning,” Doyle explained.
