robroe wrote:WHEN IT WAS SOLD IN 1997 IS WAS SOLD AS A FENDER CLASSIC SERIES MUSTANG.
QUIT FUCKING IGNORING WHAT I AM TELLING YOU, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND, JUST ACCEPT WHAT I SAY, AND YOU MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING.
1969 RI'S CAME OUT IN 2002. they came in sonic blue/brown tort and puke whiteyellow/brown tort. the 90's mustangs came in olympic white / redtort and sonic blue/redtort
by your logic every american strat made after the american factory shut down for 2 years in the 80's is a reissue. if thats the case fine. stick by your guns, but if you don't think that every american strat made after the factory shut down for 2 years in the 80's is a reissue
Rob, your assessment of the relative neck thicknesses of the various years of the Mustangs was spot on. Again, that was very helpful to me, and I thank you for posting that information. However, may I respectfully point out (with a full realization of my status as a noob on this forum...
) that the CURRENT Mustangs that are officially sold in the USA by Fender are ALSO part of the Fender Classic Series:
Classic Series '65 Mustang®
However, as you suggest, the current model clearly spells out that it is a " '65 Mustang " where the earlier versions didn't specify a model year in the sales ads / Fender USA marketing literature. Contrary to what you said (above) about the " '69 reissues " not being released until 2002, this was the case as late as 2005 - I confirmed that by looking up the Mustang in a 2005 edition of Fender Frontline I happen to have here in the studio. As with the models from the 1990s, it says "Classic Series" and does not specify a specific year that it is emulating / "reissuing". You can either take my word for that, or if you're still skeptical, I can take a few digital snapshots of the Fender Frontline catalog and post them.
However, setting that aside, there is some discrepancy between what Fender USA and Fender Japan does in terms of the naming and marketing of these guitars. For that, I do have an illustration - Here's a picture of my '94 MIJ neck's heel:
Note that it is stamped "MG-69" - which is the code they use in Japan to identify
1969 Mustang reissue necks. So while Fender USA wasn't marketing them as " '69 Reissues ", they were intended to be such by Fender Japan. Fender Japan still uses similar codes on their current production Mustangs - including the models that Fender USA imports to the USA as " Classic Series '65 Mustangs ".
Here's a picture from a current Ebay auction for a '65 reissue neck that shows the "MG-65" model code:
So you see, there is some legitimate reason for people to believe they are, and for them to refer to these guitars as " '69 Mustang reissues".
Now my theory - and again, this is ONLY a theory - is that Fender USA didn't feel the 90s - mid 2000's era Mustangs were close enough to the original 1969 era guitars to warrant being called a " Classic Series '69 Mustang " in the USA. For whatever reason, Fender Japan felt OK with calling them that in Japan, where they are
still available and are
still marketed as '69 Mustangs; which a quick look around on the Gakki and Ishibashi websites will confirm for anyone who cares to check.
I'm sorry to be so detailed in my reply, but IMO, you're not 100% on the mark with your comments either, and in my experience, whenever people resort to SHOUTING things like "STFU AND LISTEN TO ME", it tends to stifle discussion and discourse, not encourage it.
Again, I realize I'm a noob here, but IMO, you'd be more successful at getting people to give credence to your knowledge and points if you were a bit less overblown in your responses when they dared to disagree with you. And dare I add, you might occasionally learn something yourself.
