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Deals and Appeals => Parts For Sale => Topic started by: acman63 on December 19, 2019, 05:11:30 PM
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Ive been wrestling in my mind with this project and before I do it I want some input. Im helping out a guy with a wide headlight car and he has two front license plate bracket/nose supports that need repair and both are for center headlight cars. I had two original cars of each type to look at and the wide headlight version is different. His original is beyond repair BUT I found a rust pitted original off a wide headlight car in the rafters. I took it to my sheet metal fabricator thats made a bunch of concours stuff for me and he said sure, he can make it like the original. Heres my question . Theres a vendor that has made these but they arent very accurate and they retail for less than I will have to pay to get these made and I have to buy minimum of 10 parts to make it happenand I will still have to get them primered after I get them from him. If I make them Id probably be selling them at $195 to make it work. If anyone is interested please let me know.
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I will take one
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I'm confused on which version you are making-for outboard cars?
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Can you post a picture of what this part looks like? You've got me confused.
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Can you post a picture of what this part looks like? You've got me confused.
any different than your normal confused Doug? (-:
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Can you post a picture of what this part looks like? You've got me confused.
any different than your normal confused Doug? (-:
About average I suppose?
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In an effort to help Jim (Jim I'll delete this if you want) there was, as he has, stated some variations on this Shelby part:
As best as I've been able to tell;
There were two gauges of material used, initially heavy and then lighter.
Some with an “open” area in the license plate segment, some (most) “solid".
Some (early) had a hole in each of the tri-angular vertical end plates.
To my knowledge any will fit either the center or outboard grille light cars, it's
more an issue of which would a particular car have had.
Yet another '67 Shelby part variable with little, or no, time line of version
use/implementation.
On the good side they were all semi-gloss black!
Hope this helps with understanding (some?) of the variations.
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pretty much sums it up JD, subtle differences. If I make this it will be near exact to the two original wide headlight ones I have