Slabside Clock question

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by barry950

We have an original 289 Cobra and the clock and the wiring loom were from a '63 Fairlane

I will suggest that your car has been repaired with Fairlane pieces somewhere back in time. Ford spent a lot of effort to deal with the warrantee issues of early Cobras and many revisions that occurred with the order starting at CSX2201 were aimed at ending those problems.


The 1962 Ford Galaxie clock used as a starting place was sold as a dealer installed set up as C2AZ-15A000-A ELECTRIC CLOCK KIT, which is not a Fairlane anything.

Cobra chassis wiring harnesses for cars with Ford electric system and SW gauges are quite a bit different than 1963 Fairlanes as new cars. The stock harnesses (there are multiple sections) have Ford part numbers unique to those Cobras and the two main sections had FoMoCo® part number labels on them. Like many Cobra unique parts on that series of cars the part numbers started off with unusual X(plus one of three other letters) prefixes and not the C3OE prefix 1963 Fairlane parts. Example: The harness section for the front of the Cobra that plugs into the rear firewall connectors is FoMoCo XB-954434. A few low mile original owner cars still have their paper tags intact. People have been using pieces of Fairlane harnesses to repair Cobras since the 1960s, probably because they were easy to get. (I found parts of a cut up and spliced in 1964 Falcon harness in a Cobra once.) I laid out an original harness set from a low mile wrecked Cobra we were repairing next to a Fairlane harness set. I consulted a Ford wiring supplier that had original drawing information. After it was determined that lots of work would be required to modify a Fairlane harness to exactly match a Cobra the manufacturer made a new harness from NOS components for the project.