Restoration progress

[mikeh350]

Beautiful! Love the green and no stripes.

[J_Speegle]

Thanks for sharing. Your doing lots of detail work - nice job. The blue marking on the rear housing is a really odd one. Don't recall ever seeing that one before but this is a good time to remind other 66 owners/builders to not blindly copy details from other cars since there is always the chance that your car didn't get that detail or yours was built at a different time period than what you saw on someone else's restoration.

Keep up the nice work and the level of detail.

[davez]

Thanks Jeff
Those markings are a blue /green teal color on top as well as underneath of the axle tube same side

[J_Speegle]

Thanks Jeff
Those markings are a blue /green teal color on top as well as underneath of the axle tube same side

Thanks - just odd. Have not seen a similar one on any Ford car so don't know when or where they came from Sterling plant, San Jose or

Others built around the same period didn't have those but will keep an eye out anyway. Expect, if you show it, for some questions, so bring your pictures

[shelbymann1970]

Thanks Jeff
Those markings are a blue /green teal color on top as well as underneath of the axle tube same side

Thanks - just odd. Have not seen a similar one on any Ford car so don't know when or where they came from Sterling plant, San Jose or

Others built around the same period didn't have those but will keep an eye out anyway. Expect, if you show it, for some questions, so bring your pictures

Jeff were engine bays or outer fender aprons  primered in red in 1966 at San Jose? How about Dearborn cars from 65-70?

[J_Speegle]

Jeff were engine bays or outer fender aprons  primered in red in 1966 at San Jose? How about Dearborn cars from 65-70?

They typically had some red oxide applied as a base coat but often not every surface was covered with a nice coat of paint nor was there allot of effort to get into every pocket and corner. Examples - lip or shadow below the cowl to firewall pinch weld, the surface of the radiator support fully or the shadow/pockets under the front most hood bumpers/hood pin brackets welded to the radiator support. Appear to have been no effort to get any of the grey primer on the area, only maybe some overspray in some area closer to the cowl area since it would not be needed. Of course there was red oxide applied from below which would catch some or all of the outer frame surfaces, other pockets and brackets from that angle and the front cross member and some of the lower front facing radiator support.

And finally there was the attempt and hope that almost all (except the downward facing surfaces) would be covered with the black engine compartment paint application as the final stage in the process

Without going into everything and taking the discussion off thread I would share that Dearborn was similar though different in some details

[cob4ra]

Thank you for sharing this fantastic restoration process, details and the ivy green with no stripes is beautiful. I'm representing 6S852 which was the same paint configuration as yours here. that is now Wimbledon white with guardsman blue stripes.. , it will be going on bring a trailer in the next few days. A friend of Carroll Shelby's purchased it, and it still has its black and gold California plates. it will be listed under Johnnydarkgt350 private seller and listed as 1966 Shelby GT350. Of course, always appreciating any comments and thoughts on it when it goes live..  keep up the good work. Love it.

[davez]

cleaning up the original leaf springs and front coils. Rear leafs have yellow and green stripes, coils have reddish brown and white stripes

[J_Speegle]

Thanks for sharing with everyone. Interesting that yours had the extra white (for those thinking of copying the posted markings) stripe on the front coil springs. We sometimes refer to that as the over/under marking. As we understand that and have been told that indicated that the springs were slightly off the correct rating so they marked those so that a pair could be matched up and installed on the same car without any negative affects.

[greekz]

Looking good Dave.  Your car is 7 away from mine.  We have many similar markings.

Greek

[CSX4781]

Dave,
   Very cool, did you have to do an intermediate scrubbing or did the springs clean up that well just by one soaking?

Dave

[davez]

24 hour soak in evaporust. Had to be careful when hosing them off to not blast the paint stripes off. 

[J_Speegle]

24 hour soak in evaporust. Had to be careful when hosing them off to not blast the paint stripes off.

Haven't had any problem with 24 hrs and removal of paint markings but others report they have for some reasons. Not sure why the difference. I don't heat the both or do any thing special.

[davez]

some markings on my calipers. I believe the yellow is original not sure about the white sprayed on the other side. Don't believe they have ever been rebuilt