That plate was attached to what's considered to be "Mustang No. 1" Ser. 5F08F00001
and while on display at selected Ford dealers in North America, it was mistakenly sold at a St. John's Newfoundland Ford dealer to A Capt Stanley Tucker, an Airline Pilot in NFLD. He drove it for 2-3 yrs while Ford desperately tried to retrieve it form Capt Tucker. He liked it and wanted to keep it.
But Ford really wanted that car back, and finally made a deal to trade him a new car with selected options (can't remember all the details) but it made for a interesting story.
I believe the Ford dealer in Newfoundland was Parsons Ford and they are still in business to this day.
Things were slack back then. Anyway that car with that plate is in the Dearborn museum. I made myself a copy of 3-664 NFLD and Labrador and that is the one photographed at the start of this little story. I had that plate on my own '65 Fastback for many years.
Most vintage Mustang owners are quite familiar with this story and it always fascinated me as NFLD is such an out of the way place (near my home province)
and knowing how laid back most Newfoundlanders are I could see all this happening
very easily.
