1967 Bruxelles Auto Salon - 1967 GT350

[TransamEd]

Buckling up in a 1967 Shelby GT350 (displayed by Claude Dubois) at the minute 4.50 in this video

https://www.sonuma.be/archive/salon-de-l_auto-1967

There are also videos of the following yeara shows on that site incl. the 1971 Shelby Europa GT500.
Travel back in time.

[BGlover67]

Great find!  Le Salon de l'auto is the Paris Auto Show, which took place in October of 1966. Nice GT40 and 1967 'Redlight' GT350. The other dash at 5:12 confused me at first, not sure what car that was from.

Rich, JD, what car number is this one?  I thought car no. 40, but it wasn't shipped to Switzerland until Feb '67.

[JD]

TransamEd & Brian, thanks for the heads-up.

at 4:39 looks like a standard Shelby dash but the horn button is missing, also no grille emblem and no hood seal.

at 5:10 a different dash - not the same car - maybe a Cougar??

at 5:20 left side of deck lid emblem "Shelby" looks like it's missing (?) and the gas emblem looks convex, not "flat".

Might be a dark moss green car? car #40 was White, will look in the registry but it could be an early '67 event, not late '66, so late Feb or March?  car #156 went to Claude but it's an auto and I think I see the 4-spd shift knob but that would be completed too late.  Still looking.

[gt350cs]

I show eight cars going to Ford of Belgium. The first two shipped from SAI on 12/16/66. They were:

#147 (Medium Metallic Gray) and #165 (Dark Moss Green).

Could this be #156?

[BGlover67]

The question is was this Le Salon de l'auto 1967?  If so, then the date was October of 1966.  It happens every year in October in Paris.

[JD]

Sorry Brian I obviously missed that, Oct '66 really does limit the cars that could have been there.

[Road Reptile]

Hi all,
With a quick check of the registry it appears this must have been a show during the 1967 season. No cars were completed and shipped to Belgium until after Mid December and later....
Really like the Ford G.T. and the go kart display--note the title says 1967-- My bet would be this is #0147 or #0156 and it is a spring 1967 event...we must be able to pin a date on this.
Thanks for putting it up!!
Regards R.R.

[JD]

Yes, I think the consensus is that it was #147 and the event was in early 1967.

[TransamEd]

The typo of the signboards points to Bruxelles as well...but this was indeed the 46th. Salon d'automobile, January 18-29th in Bruxelles. Sonoma.be is a belgium site, that covers the belgium Autosalon.

[BGlover67]

Yes, the video is confusing.  If you translate the statement, "Présentation des innovations automobiles au Salon de l'Auto 1967, comme le système anti-buée pour le pare-brise arrière, les triples essuie-glaces, les sièges en osier, ou les portières coulissantes...", it says:
"Presentation of automotive innovations at the 1967 Montreal Auto Show, such as the anti-fog system for the rear windshield, triple wipers, wicker seats, or sliding doors ..."

I thought it was the Paris Auto show, but I was wrong, but so is this statement about it being in Montreal.  In the opening seconds of the video you can see a 1967 fastback Corvette and in the distance you can clearly see the site of the Worlds Fair in Heysol in Belgium. 
No. 0147 would make the most sense.

[Richstang]

Our good friend from Germany (Szabo / Stephan) recently found more photos from the 1967 Brussels Auto Salon.
They appear to have been taken during set-up prior to the public opening.

Nice find Stephan!!! These need to be shared with everyone.

[honker]

Great images and research from Stephan & Rich !

Looks like an AC 428 'vert behind the Mustang ?

[propayne]

Definitely a Cougar dash shown at the 5:10 mark. Good catch JD

- Phillip

[Richstang]

I should add the date of the Brussels show was in JANUARY 1967 from the 18th through the 29th.

[Coralsnake]

He is mensch!