1965-1968 Mustang Fender Running Horse Study:

This page was created in an effort to clarify the various running horse fender emblem designs used on 65-68 Mustangs.  There were several revisions of the running horses, and superseded part numbers, which do nothing but confuse us.

As of now, this is just a start.  I'll add to this as I find out more information.

For 64.5-66 Mustangs, the running horse fender emblems were used on all Mustangs except GT's.  On 64.5-66 Mustangs, the running horse fender emblems came from the factory with thin attaching pins.  The attaching pin on the tail of the horse is centered in the tail.  Barrel nuts are used to attach the emblems and are included in the original service part boxes.

On 67-68 Mustangs, the running horse fender emblems were used on all Mustangs except GT's.  In '67, 289 Mustangs had a special running horse with '289' added to the top and 390 Mustangs had a special running horse with '390' added to the top.  In '67, the same '289' and '390' was used and additionally, a '302' running horse came about when the J code was added as an RPO.  For '67 and '68, the only Mustangs that came with a plain, no CID designation, running horse fender emblem would have been 6 cylinder cars.

First Issue:

The features of this emblem are:

• Thin pins, tail pin in center
• FoMoCo script with C4ZB-16C228-B, and 'LH', '30571-H2'
• Translucent red and blue, slightly dark
• Detail in Horse face, indentation for eyes, mouth, lines in mane

Second Issue:

The features of this emblem are:

• Thin pins, tail pin in center

• FoMoCo script

                    LH: Casting number - C4ZB-16C228-B  'LH' '30571-H2'

                           Part number - C5ZZ-16228-A

                    RH: Casting number - C4ZB-16C229-B  'LH' '30570-H1'  'X' right below top pin

                           Part number - C5ZZ-16229-A

• Translucent red and blue

• Lacks detail in Horse like first issue.  No indentation for eyes.  Does have indentation for mouth but no mane lines

Third Issue:

The third issue is the most commonly found NOS service replacement emblem.  The features of this emblem are:

• Thick pins, attaching parts are small speed nuts instead of barrel clips

• Tail pin is located more to the beginning of the tail, not centered

• There are rubber inserts on each pin

• FoMoCo in block letters

                    LH: Casting number - C8ZB-16C228-C  '34443' 'LH' 'CAV 1', Manufacturer insignia on bottom

                           Part number - C5ZZ-16229-B

                    RH: Casting number - C8ZB-16C229-C  '34444' RH'  'CAV 1' Manufacturer insignia on bottom

                           Part number - C5ZZ-16228-D

• Red and Blue paint are somewhat translucent, but not like earlier issue, more light.

• Lacks detail in Horse, appears identical to Second Issue detail.

Necessary to complete information:

• Obtain sampling of pictures of original factory installed fender emblems

• Determine why the part ordering number for the RH emblem went from -A to -D suffix with no apparent change.