Ford Mustang 1967 Fastback 289

The 1967 Mustang’s first real redesign made the pony car longer, wider, and sharper-looking, with the fastback body style becoming the shape enthusiasts still chase today. A four-barrel 289 V8 could push a fastback through the quarter-mile in about 15.2 seconds. With 53,651 fastbacks built that year, clean original survivors are getting harder to find every season.

This 1967 Mustang Fastback 289 is beautiful with springtime yellow paint!

Spring-yellow paint has a way of making a car look harmless — cheerful, even. But underneath that sunny color, this particular 1967 Mustang Fastback is hiding a very different personality, one built around Ford’s first real redesign of the pony car. The ’67 model year changed more about the Mustang than most casual fans realize, and the fastback body style in particular became the shape enthusiasts still chase today. So what did Ford actually change under that new sheetmetal — and which engine did buyers really want?

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The Redesign Nobody Talks About

1967 marked the Mustang’s first significant restyle, and Ford used the opportunity to make the car noticeably longer and wider than the original 1965-66 body, complete with the scalloped rear tail scoops that are now considered a defining Mustang design cue. The wheelbase held steady at 108 inches, but the added width and length gave engineers room to fit bigger engines under the hood — a change that mattered more with each passing model year.

What 289 Actually Meant Under the Hood

The 289 badge could mean three very different cars depending on the carburetor and compression ratio. The base version made 200 horsepower with a two-barrel carb, a four-barrel bumped that to 225, and the high-performance "K-code" variant made a genuine 271 horsepower with 10.5:1 compression. A four-barrel 289 fastback like this one would have run roughly 15.2 seconds in the quarter-mile at 91 mph, hitting 60 mph in about 7.3 seconds — respectable numbers on a curb weight of around 2,637 pounds.

A Genuinely Common Survivor — For Now

Ford built 53,651 fastbacks in 1967, so surviving examples aren’t especially rare on paper. But clean, unmolested cars wearing factory colors like this springtime yellow paint are getting harder to find every year as more get resto-modded or parted out, which is steadily pushing well-preserved originals higher in collector interest.

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