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Topic: How to spot a real Shelby
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-26-1999 12:18 PM
   
George, since you are our resident Shelby expert, could you give us a few pointers on how to spot a real Shelby from a fake one? Thanks!------------------
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 26513
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 11-26-1999 08:20 PM
I'll leave it up to George to go into detail, but the only sure fire way that I know of is to check with SAAC. They put out the registry and and have all of the cars documented.  Alex------------------
Alex Denysenko Co-Administrator and Moderator
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georgeb
Gearhead Posts: 927
From: Solomons, MD, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 11-29-1999 10:05 AM
Alex is right. SAAC has the Ford VINs that correspond to the Shelby VINs. Of course, to see the Ford VIN you'd have to either take off the SHELBY VIN plate (rivets) or lift the passenger's side fender to read it on that side. Of course, that's not really conclusive as the VIN panels from a wrecked Shelby may have been spliced into the panels on a donor car (I've seen one that was obvious, and suspected another). SAAC will only verify that a Ford VIN equates to a Shelby VIN.Ownership history is a little shaky, too; most of the time it's incomplete, and even if it isn't, trying to reach a person that owned the car 30 years ago may be a little difficult unless you're a close personal friend of Dionne Warwick's and can use the psychic hot line. IF the car is in the SAAC registry, and IF you can trace back at least three owners (preferably back to when prices hadn't gone way up), and IF all the Shelby equipment installed is correct (manifold, carburetor, headers, traction bars, instruments, etc.)
a car is probably genuine. Key word is "probably"; caveat emptor. Also note that
Carroll has "signed" some clones that were very nicely done (according to one publication). For '67s, if the fibreglass hood and trunk fit really well they have either been reworked, replaced, or the car is a clone; original '67 panels were pretty poorly made and didn't fit very well. '67s also had a rather distinctive wood rimmed steering wheel; but some of these are available from wrecked cars and clone builders snap them up for $1,500 to $2,000. Also, Carroll didn't run an extremely tight ship at Shelby American, sometimes methods varied in minor ways, and records weren't strictly kept. A "for instance" of this is that '67 Shelbys used mechanical oil pressure gauges with spaghetti tubing; the tubing was sometimes routed through the firewall sharing an existing grommet, and sometimes a separate hole was drilled to accommodate it. [This message has been edited by georgeb (edited 11-29-99).]
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BmxKris
Gearhead Posts: 182
From: St. Louis Mo Usa
Registered: Nov 99
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posted 02-17-2000 09:30 PM
My sisters friends dad has a 65 shelby rent-a-racer sit out next to there barn rotting away and he wont even take offer's.Its under a tarp but has a rust spot on the side in the door. Its black with gold stripes. A sad story if you ask me.
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k_mesaros
Gearhead Posts: 94
From: Lakewood, WA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-03-2000 10:28 PM
GT-350H just sitting in the grass beside a barn???? Say it aint so!
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AKBOSSMAN
Gearhead Posts: 2940
From: WASILLA , AK USA M&M #743 MCA #40857
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 04-26-2002 03:04 PM
quote:
Originally posted by BmxKris:
[B]My sisters friends dad has a 65 shelby rent-a-racer sit out next to there barn rotting away ........B]
Weren't they '66s?
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 43792
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 04-26-2002 04:31 PM
Yes, the Hertz cars were '66. ------------------
'70 Mustang Mach 1 M code 351C 4V/FMX/3.25 open
'72 Mustang Sprint Coupe 351C 4V/FMX/4.30 Trac Lok
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Journeyman Posts: 31
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Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 05-22-2002 02:51 PM
For 67's, most of the stuff is available repro. The one part that is not is the little snubbers in the front of the rear springs behind the spring eye. These were a C7ZX # and most cloners forget about them. Also the rear end case says "SPEC" in a little pad unique and hard to find. The rear tail light panel is stamped with the logo "Cal Automotive" if you look hard enough. The 8 grand tach has that pink resistor wire (as did other 8 G tach cars) and that damn Bakelight junction block on the inner fender next to the battery. There were 3 different steering wheels that all look alike, and the same with the lower scoops.
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TomP
Gearhead Posts: 5822
From: Delta BC Canada
Registered: Dec 99
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posted 05-23-2002 12:43 AM
These snubbers? 
Were they some sort of traction device? Where did they snub on?
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Journeyman Posts: 31
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Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 05-25-2002 12:10 PM
Hi Tom, they were nothing more than upper A-frame stops. They are mounted to the floorpan and contact the spring as the leafs deflect upward (right behind the eye). Anti wind up, or hopper stoppers, or whatever name you want to chose, they worked in conjunction with the pinion snubber. Lots cheaper than either the under/over rides I'm sure. The only cost would have been in the casting (not much there either).
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mellowyellow
Gearhead Posts: 6805
From: So. Fl.
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-25-2002 07:05 PM
I posted last week about a 66 "Hertz" car that had been clipped. Done neatly with very good metal work, a 6 cyl clip all the way back to forward of the dual exhaust hanger brackets and body reinforcement behind rear seat.Roof probably spliced at pillar. THE SHELBY TAG ON THE DRIVER APRON IS LISTED IN THE REGISTRY. What gave it away, Tiny little di*gleberrys on the core support underneath where 6 cyl rubber strip staples filled in, 2 holes on firewall indicating 6 cyl gas pedal. And, with the owner present, tag removed showing a T engine code. No tag at all on driver door. All engine externals were correct but internally no solid lifters and a telltale C-8 casting No. on block. Supposedly, the car had been badly wrecked and buyer was told it had been in an accident. What No. is on title is unknown. It was apparently orig only from that splice back.
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 26513
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-23-2002 12:33 AM
Early Hertz cars were left over 65's that were re-titled as 66's. There are not many left, but they can spotted rather easily as they are black and gold and have no quarter windows. ------------------
Alex Denysenko
Co-Administrator and Moderator/ non 65-66 Mustang owner sensitivity co-ordinator NHRA/IHRA/SRA member
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