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and under 500 smackers...

you score that? if so NICE

I did and it matches my jaguar...

you lucky son of a bitch...

I was surprised it didn't get higher...they usually go over 550...

pretty swweet man. she will love you long tine.

need side by side shot when you get it

Nice score, dude. My '69 RI was $450 a couple years back, and it was 11 years old.

apparently it is a 97-98 not an 85...as it is "crafted"

Great score dude! That's a hell of a deal and it looks like it's in great condition. I don't think that's a '65 reissue though cause it has contours, so it's probably a '69 RI. Unless the 80's CIJ reissues were supposed to be 65's because it says it was made in '85. I think those 80's ones are supposed to be sorta rare, I don't see them very often.

totally a 69

and totally missed that the first time around.

Yes. For the last time:

'65 RI:
- No contours
- white button F tuners
- pickguard/control plate gap
- better pickups


'69 RI:
- Contours
- standard Kluson/Pings
- shit pickups

Nice! I never new 69' RIs came in white, cool. Also it has the pickguard/control plate gap... weird. Its a HYBRID.

No gap here, son.


THAT, is a gap.

Mike wrote:Yes. For the last time:

'65 RI:
- No contours
- white button F tuners
- pickguard/control plate gap
- better pickups


'69 RI:
- Contours
- standard Kluson/Pings
- shit pickups

Well yea, I know that. The first thing I noticed right off the bat was the pickguard and the contours. So it's a '69, but I just didn't know if during the 80's when Fender japan was making the mustang reissues if they were calling them '65 reissues even though that wasn't right.

Ah fair enough, the gap isn't as big as a '65. Must just be a bad fit:

It's not an '85 either, the Serial number places it as a '98.

http://www.fender.com/support/japanese_instruments.php

If it was Made in Japan it would be an '85, but it's CIJ.

even if it was an 85, which its not, they weren't called re-issues back then. it was just called a mustang. just like the blue and white ones from the 90's that the kurdtz used. they were just called fender mustangs.

the "re-issue" part of the name didn't come until after the compstangs of 2000-2002 had thier run.

what you have there isn't a 69' reissue or a 65' re-issue. you have your self a 90's mustang. production in japan had been started in the late 80's on them and fender started importing them around 1993 and didn't stop the run of sonic blue / oly white until the comp stangs came out in 2000.


you got yourself a late model kurdtz.

It is interesting that it is white as opposed to poxy custard yellow like the '69s these days are.
Also the Tort looks great. Way better than the brown crap these days on the '69s, more like the red on the White '65RI.

the 90's mustangs came in sonic blue and oly white with red pickguards

the 69RI's came in sonic blue and puke yellow (vintage white) with brown pickguards