Chuck McHose interview 1/12/2020 - '67 Shelby designer

[Coralsnake]

McHose had originally experimented with rear quarter glass and 1967 Fairlane taillights.

The best part of the McHose story is he was actually on loan from Ford/Detroit when he did all his work on the 1967s.

That kind of shoots another hole in that old story that the 1967s were the last "real" Shelbys. Actually, they were designed by Ford and Ford had control over the operation.

[2112]

Just imagine how different things could have been if they had bee given a straight and true car to create their buck 

[JD]

McHose had originally experimented with rear quarter glass and 1967 Fairlane taillights.

The best part of the McHose story is he was actually on loan from Ford/Detroit when he did all his work on the 1967s.

That kind of shoots another hole in that old story that the 1967s were the last "real" Shelbys. Actually, they were designed by Ford and Ford had control over the operation.

Not so sure about those thoughts...

In Cantwell's (with Kolasa) book "Shelby Mustang GT350 chapter 12 (in the Publishers Edition) page 143

"...To execute all the body-design changes, we requested the services of a stylist from Ford and were informed that a Charles McHose would arrive at he end of May to assist us. ..."

the list of changes to implement are outlined earlier in the chapter and it seems this was done as Shelby didn't have a stylist on staff and time was short.

Further on in the chapter multiple recollections are made that leave no doubt that Carroll Shelby was very involved in the look of the '67's...

"... then at one point as he (Shelby) was leaving to go to LeMans stated he didn't like the front end on the nearly completed front end and directed that the whole thing be stretched to make the car look longer, sleeker and faster..."

There are other statements of Shelby's overriding involvement in the '67's in the chapter as well.