Golden Wonder

John Maunder got his 1965 Mustang 2+2 fastback almost by chance. “When I was 15 my eldest brother Tom had a friend in San Francisco with this Mustang sat in his garage,” remembers John. “I made a deal with Tom; if I helped to get it running he’d give me the Mustang on my 16th birthday. The car had been sitting for a while so we put in oil and a new battery then drove it home. My brother used it for a year then, when I passed my driving test in 1974, it became mine. I had a lot of fun - one time I had 13 people in it, including several cheerleaders lying in the rear…” Back then, John’s Mustang wasn’t considered a classic. “It was just another used car and I drove it throughout high school. It needed TLC, but I never did anything to the bodywork, just the mechanical things it required.”

Mechanical things were certainly required.