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Are you looking for new undamaged or NOS parts?

I do have a couple of used slightly damaged
headlight buckets that might work for you. My letter panel is broken. My tail light panel is broken in half. Let me know. Maybe we can work something out.

Im guessing thats from when they murdered the bodyman

       

You mean that's not Factory original?

In summary of this discussion, it is not the swamp land that has the value but the licensed name that you add to it.

Uh huh...

I have some swamp land in Florida for sale if anyone is looking for a good ROI...

He should buy some to store his "Future big kash money kars !"

I believe he said he lives in Florida doesn't that make him a swamp land owner?

So A. O. Smith was the Ford S. V. T. of its times? ( asking for a friend  )

In reality that $7,000 plaque is a bargain

You got that right my brother!

And remember it's all about the C.S.M. #s baby

Future big kash money kars !

Boy do you need a remedial lesson. AO Smith was in no way a Ford engineering entity like Kar Kraft. They were a parts installer for low production cars.

You won't live long enough to see those CSM#s be of any bankable value. The only ones that have increased in value are the one off an prototypes. The driver production cars are still not selling for more than they did when new. With over 150,000 cars having the "Shelby" moniker since 2005 it will be a buyers market for at least the next 20 years.

I have some swamp land in Florida for sale if anyone is looking for a good ROI...   

the tide is high and I'm moving on

[There's also—wait for it— a numbered and Carroll-Shelby-signed commemorative plaque on the dash. Ooh. Aah. Sorry, just yawning.]

Ford Mustang Shelby GT Review
P.J. McCombs


Published:  November 26th, 2007

As automakers continue their relentless pursuit of refinement, there's precious little "magic" to be had behind the wheel of a new car. Sit down, and you instantly know where everything is and how to operate it. Start it up and drive and few sensations are overly vivid. In short, most new cars are about as surprising as a toaster. Ford's Mustang Shelby GT is the un-toaster. I recently braved the perils of California's Mojave Desert (e.g. bad road food) to sample the Shelby at the Willow Springs Raceway. The experience was not bland. On the contrary, it was, erm... memorable.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. The Shelby GT is a for-the-people version of 2006's Shelby GT-H, a special-edition 'Stang available only for rental through Hertz. The same upgrades apply: a one-and-a-half-inch drop, stouter springs, dampers and anti-roll bars, a front strut tower brace, and a freer-breathing intake and exhaust. There's also—wait for it— a numbered and Carroll-Shelby-signed commemorative plaque on the dash. Ooh. Aah. Sorry, just yawning.

Now, this may seem like the umpteenth special-edition 'Stang Ford has released to pump life into its retro pony's sales (Warriors in Pink Edition, anyone?). But the car's pert, chunky lines still draw stares. And while Shelby's visual additions put the "tack" in tack-ons (eighteen-inch imitation "mags," hood pins, billet grille, the usual suspects), they can be taken in good fun. Early in the day, journalists waited in line to drive this car. When's the last time someone got excited about a rental Ford?

I mentioned memorable sensations. The first arrives when you swing open the Shelby's heavy door and drop yourself into the dark, leather-trimmed interior. Half-filling your bunker-slit view is a hood scoop. Not a WRX-style mail slot, but the real dream-cruise deal, racing-striped and stamped into place with rivets. It's nonfunctional, of course.

At the base of the console sits another shameless, self-conscious grasp at the past: a cue-ball-topped Hurst short shifter. Try to grab a gear with this thing and it feels broken. Improbably high effort is required to scritch-scratch the lever through its tiny, gritty H-pattern, as if someone used sand as a lubricant. Stylistically, it gels seamlessly with the rest of the 'Stang's '60s-revival interior décor. And hey, at least the five-speed is a manual; the Hertz GT-H, as some may recall, was auto-only.

The salience of that last point becomes apparent upon turning the key. The noise that issues from the Shelby's exhausts is the stuff of teenage fantasies: dense, rumbly, woofly and loud. Spine tingles come standard. And with a manual at your disposal, this luscious soundtrack inspires all kinds of delightful antisocial behaviors, from unnecessary revving at a stop to unnecessary displays of WOT on the move.

According to Ford, the exhaust and intake combo are good for an extra 19 horses versus the standard Mustang GT, for a total of 319. That's more than enough for serious fun, especially since the 4.6-liter V8 pours on torque thickly and smoothly in the midrange (low-end grunt is surprisingly modest). Zero to 60mph runs take just about five seconds. But the Shelby's dynamics are, um, less than contemporary.

Readers who've driven the standard-issue 'Stang are doubtless already familiar with its light, numb steering, its proclivity to understeer and the general sense of squidge in its suspension. Truth is, the Shelby's starched suspenders don't improve matters much. Body motions are nicely taut, and its stride feels a bit more hunkered-down. But the Shelby still left my neurons reeling as its helm scribed gloopy, too-fast arcs into Willow Springs' sweeping high-speed corners.

And braking? Talk about "memorable." The middle pedal feels weaker than a wine spritzer and mushier than Mills & Boon. Worse, the Shelby GT evinces a spooky live-axle weave when you drop anchor at triple-digit speeds. Its rear end gets loose and queasy as the front end dives to sniff the pavement. I didn't notice any pucker marks on the seat cushion's leather upholstery. Must be tough stuff.

Okay, so the typical Shelby GT buyer isn't looking to run it around a track. More likely they'll use it to cruise the main drag, luring envious glances from other aging rodders. Or maybe they'll canter down a mountain road, reveling in the echo of its exhaust. Under such circumstances, I, too, would surely fall under the Shelby's spell.

But hey, that's easy to do while driving on someone else's dime. The MSRP for this nostalgic bit of blue-oval bluster? $36,970. Seriously. And all of the performance parts are, as they say, "also sold separately." Check 'em off in your Ford Racing catalog and you'll total $2,656. Budget a couple thousand more to have everything bolted onto your $25,840 Mustang GT.

Have you driven a $6,970 commemorative plaque lately? I told you it left an impression.

Is your "time out" over already?

 

...LOL

As an added bonus here's the video of the crash:

Nice video. Love those panoramic cameras.

I question why you would want a replica, when an original can be had for close to, if not the current price.

To each his own I guess.


Bill

I think it is part of the current phenomena in which people travel information wise? It can be seen in other subjects as well. I think that could be accurately called, pretty much documented right now?

Advertising people will talk about how you reach people to make your case.


There just are going to be people that deny reality as some kind of a conspiracy thing? The original cars in this case being the conspiracy and the copies somehow the genuine article? A kind of inverse Universe.

I agree that I would rather have an original, and I do.  But for example, the continuing line of "Elanors" constantly outsell original cars at the auctions. What's that about? That defies logic.

So philosophically it seems to be a valid observation that we are living in multi-dimensional existence simultaneously?


Falling back on earlier less complicated times, I refer to a lyric quote from the "Mashal Tucker Band", "heard it in a love song...can't be wrong!"

Some things you just can't figure, so don't waste your time on trying to. You can't fix it or maybe stated differently, "you can't fix stupid".

BINGO!

You just checked every box on my card.

Was the car recently restored? Who painted the car originally? They might have the formula used to mix the paint. Since car has been garaged/covered not a lot of fading. Matching should not be that complicated for a competent painter given the new spectrophotometers used to match paint.

As for the fender, based on the one picture it is absolutely repairable IMHO. I fixed worse than that when I was a body man. Trick will be to find someone who can massage the metal out. Most auto body repair theses days is R&R (remove/replace) with new cars. That is what they teach the new generation of "auto body technicians".

Chris

The car was painted over 20 years ago using an industrial/commercial paint system (DuPont Imron something not commonly used in the auto repair/refinish industry and then a Spies/Heckler system sprayed on top of that) according to the owner. If you think this color would be a easy match using a paint spectrometer your in for a hell of a surprise, it may get you half assed close to start with but anything more than that you would be damn lucky. I have seen this car in person, but not since this accident and the owner did contact me about this shortly there after.

Imron from 20 years ago, that would be a tough one. I was thinking it might have been a more recent.

Was the car recently restored? Who painted the car originally? They might have the formula used to mix the paint. Since car has been garaged/covered not a lot of fading. Matching should not be that complicated for a competent painter given the new spectrophotometers used to match paint.

As for the fender, based on the one picture it is absolutely repairable IMHO. I fixed worse than that when I was a body man. Trick will be to find someone who can massage the metal out. Most auto body repair theses days is R&R (remove/replace) with new cars. That is what they teach the new generation of "auto body technicians".

Chris

AMAZING

Congratulations

I really appreciate the "in progress" pictures, keep them coming.

68 KR one of the real ones!

This in the USA only or also available in Canada?


Thanks

Chris

Sadly looked at it on the rotisserie awaiting its turn in the paint booth. 

Those are my favourite type of pictures    Love seeing a work in progress. Keep you chin up it's worth it in the end.


If you need any assistenace with the smallest of details post a question in this section - Concours Talk


Start your own thread in  1969-1970 Shelby GT350/500   section and post more in progress pictures as you go.

Everybody here love to watch a car in progress, well almost everybody