Sleeping Beauty wakes up

[shelbydoug]

Paint is a strange medium. You can do everything right and it fails. All you can do is go through the procedure again.

Personally I'd feel better if there was a hardener used with it but that stuff fails too...and when it does, it's harder to get off.

I have no recommendations for you. Go the Gaines route. It's the best procedure. If it doesn't work, then...

[427heaven]

Slow and steady wins the race... Most of the time probably not , but it does help get a very long project together. Thanks to all with the interior advice, it is making progress. Driving the car without interior sounds like sitting in a tin can with a rocket attached. One day hopefully sooner than later it will be completed.

[FL SAAC]

Slow and steady wins the race... Most of the time probably not , but it does help get a very long project together. Thanks to all with the interior advice, it is making progress. Driving the car without interior sounds like sitting in a tin can with a rocket attached. One day hopefully sooner than later it will be completed.

+ 1 you can do it !

[427heaven]

Anthony-Keith... Thank you for posting the article about the SUPER SNAKE it allows me to compare the original car to mine which seems to have most similarities covered. I got the top end speed figured out, I need to be around 177 mph flat out, but do we know the quarter mile time slips?

[427heaven]

Anyone know what the Super Snakes quarter mile time slips were ?

[Side-Oilers]

With or without the super-tall rear axle ratio?
(I don't know either...)

[427heaven]

One of the most iconic SHELBYS of all time and no one knows what it ran at the strip? It seems to be shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly was changed to run top end speed tests vs drag strip numbers. Really would like to know, might try to best... its best numbers.

[Side-Oilers]

I wouldn't be surprised if they never ran it for time at a drag strip.  When developing a top speed car, there's often little concern for a 0-60 or 1/4 mile time.

[Richstang]

There's a rumor the "Super Snake's" first two owners drag raced it in Texas.

It may have had the name 'EL JEFE' painted on the side in red

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Side-Oilers]

I was thinking about the initial development by Shelby. Not the car's afterlife. But that would count too!
Thanks Rich,
Van

[shelbydoug]

One of the most iconic SHELBYS of all time and no one knows what it ran at the strip? It seems to be shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly was changed to run top end speed tests vs drag strip numbers. Really would like to know, might try to best... its best numbers.

It's no faster then a stock GT500 before they popped in the 2.75's. After that you had to push start it.

[427heaven]

One of the most iconic SHELBYS of all time and no one knows what it ran at the strip? It seems to be shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly was changed to run top end speed tests vs drag strip numbers. Really would like to know, might try to best... its best numbers.

It's no faster then a stock GT500 before they popped in the 2.75's. After that you had to push start it.

Maybe just a little bit faster?...

[shelbydoug]

One of the most iconic SHELBYS of all time and no one knows what it ran at the strip? It seems to be shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly was changed to run top end speed tests vs drag strip numbers. Really would like to know, might try to best... its best numbers.

It's no faster then a stock GT500 before they popped in the 2.75's. After that you had to push start it.

Maybe just a little bit faster?...

OK, but just a LITTLE faster. 

[427heaven]

My upholstery is finally going in and I need to find the correct seat belt bolts. What type of finish did these have ,gold iridate, chrome, zinc plated? I take it the shoulder belts need longer bolts for the roll bar? I have boxes of stuff to pilfer thru, thanks again for the assist.

[Bob Gaines]

My upholstery is finally going in and I need to find the correct seat belt bolts. What type of finish did these have ,gold iridate, chrome, zinc plated? I take it the shoulder belts need longer bolts for the roll bar? I have boxes of stuff to pilfer thru, thanks again for the assist.

The seat bolts finish is called zinc dichromate.  It comes out gold in color. Be careful installing the rollbar bolt to the headliner //roof structure . If you use one too long it will pit a dent in your roof. FYI that bolt gets a silver washer underneath so as to keep the bolt head from digging into the rubber covering of the roll bar.