Introduced  in 1964 - Essentially a Duo Sonic with a Dynamic Fender Vibrato.

1966 Fender Mustang.

Offset asymmetrical double cutaway solid body. This 12 1/4 inch "student" guitar weighs 7.40 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24.00 inches. Solid alder 'slab' body and one-piece maple neck. Veneer rosewood fret-board with 22 original medium-thin frets and pearloid dot position markers. Fender 'transitional' headstock logo with "Fender" in gold with black trim, followed by "Mustang" in black and "Pat  2,741,146    2,960,900   3,143,028   3,241,418  Des 169,062   204,098" and "offset/contour/body" at ball end of headstock. Individual Fender "F" style tuning gears with octagonal white plastic buttons. Four-bolt Fender "F" neck plate with serial number "154625" stamped between the top two screws. Two black bakelite, slant mounted gray-bottom single-coil pickups with outputs of 5.99k and 6.15k. The neck pickup has "8-29-66  16" written in pencil on the underside and the bridge pickup has "9-9-66  BG" also in pencil. Three-layer plastic (pearloid/black/white) pickguard with 12 screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus two three-way pickup selector switches. Black plastic control knobs with seven sides and white line markers. Fender Mustang Bridge with six adjustable saddles. Fender 'Dynamic Vibrato' tailpiece. The neck is stamped "16 JUN 66B", the potentiometers are stamped "304 6618" (Stackpole, May 1966). The Daphne Blue color is fresh and bright. There is some very light finish checking and there are a few small and insignificant surface marks on the back and sides of the body. This great little guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition and is complete with it's original tremolo arm. Housed in the original Fender gray hardshell case with black imitation leather ends and orange plush lining (9.00).

The Fender Mustang was introduced in August 1964 before the sale of Fender Electric Instruments to CBS. The idea was to create a mid-line model between the student grade DuoSonic, and the professional Telecaster. The Mustang was a very popular model, and was made until 1981. Originally designed with a 22.5 inch scale guitar, the Mustang is almost always found with a 24.25 inch scale. Early models had a slab alder body, but it was given the patented Fender contour body in early 1969.