SAAC Forum

AOSmith won the design of the year award with the 69 Shelby design and the award was at the unveiling of the 69 black vert gt500 at mcacn show and the trophy ended up staying with the black gt500 vert after some $ was exchanged!!

Been talking to William Deary (the carroll collection) about his black gt40 the hero car from ford vs Ferrari movie and he is bringing it to our show with some of the movie items for display so that should be really cool along with the other gt40s coming!!

After I send u my new 70 Shelby hood stripe 4 piece layout. I sent first set to bob Wilson as he is painting a 70 hood next week for  a Shelby coming to our show.   I will be painting 2 70 Shelby hoods later this month.

See the gap spacing between 1 and 5  then look at 1 and 6 those #s are tight together  so  its 1 5/16''  NOT 15/16''  Now read the description wrote to left of drawing and u can see the 2 measurement mistakes and this is why so many repainted cars have the 15/16'' front stripe mistake.

No 69 shelbys or cougars built in NJ plant 48 code group was for only 69 Dearborn shelbys

Just looked at page 1286  97 registry  hood stripes drawing and I see now why restorers are getting front hood stripe width wrong as the description to the left of drawing says leading edge of hood stripe is  15/16'' wide then both stripes are 21  3/16''   so both those measurements are wrong as they should be 1 5/16''      and 21  13/16''    so drawing is correct (if u read it correctly)  but description is wrong.

Gary when u bring your 70 Shelby to our 50th 1970 Shelby boss show u can look at 2 70 unrestored gt500s a 7000 and 500 mile original shelbys.  The hood stripes are 5 1/4''     11"       16 1/4''      11"       5  1/4" rear  and  1  5/16"    21 13/16''    1 5/16''  front in the registry book drawing. But most repainted 70 shelbys I see are wrong on the front width they paint stripe 15/16''  of which they are reading the drawing wrong  just look at spacing in drawing as the is a small gap between the 1 and 5  so its 1 5/16'' not 15/16".  I had 70 original paint car owners measure the gap and my notes always read between 1 1/4'' and 1 1/2''  BUT NEVER under 1 1/4''.  I am sure after a while Larry  L. could just guess at the widths.

Larry was a valuable resourse for kk history and a real car guy as he always setup at Carlisle and drove his old dark reddish panel truck to show and setup selling old parts. He had some items from kk plant after it shut down years ago and recently his son was selling out stuff from his storage place and randy s just bought the boss 429 hood scoop mould top section.

Just got back from  ford Carlisle and passed out a few flyers and spread the word around carlisle about our fall event and got some east coast interest even thou fall Carlisle is same week but Hershey is cancelled. Fall Carlisle goes on all week so car guys can still go to fall Carlisle mid week and make it to our show on Saturday. Less than 2 weeks before deadline and show is filling up but still have a few rooms left so don't WAIT till its to LATE!!!

I recently color matched the unique 69 Shelby grey grill paint from a nos (leftover from the aosmith plant) stoneguard that was damaged but never installed and it isn't the 1970 dark argent grey instead its a previous ford color we found in color charts from the paint shop. I will be selling some cans shortly along with my 70 Shelby hood stripe 4 part stencil kit copy from an nos stencil out of the KK plant. The stoneguard ,grill, headlight rings were painted somehow not attached to fenders then after fenders were mounted and lined up the hheadlights and buckets and wire were installed then front splashshields and metal braces that bolt to fender wishbones. Then the stoneguard and grill were lined up and 6  bolts installed and then headlight rings install last with 6 black oxide screws. Every original paint car I inspected had paint scratch marks left in grey painted area above headlight buckets top side from when grill was installed after the headlight buckets were painted grey. There are oblong holes in grill top bar and headlight buckets for adjustments after fenders were installed so grey paint had to be under stoneguard and top grill bar areas otherwise different color would show up in the gaps after grill and stoneguard adjustments.

14 bare metal circles total unless cougar depending on plant in Dearborn and SJ  12 if MT

Pete is correct rear screens are bonded on same reddish brown sealant like 68 KR ram air chamber that was added to 68 Shelby  hood.

This car was bought out of TN by KG a local guy here years ago before john bought it.

Who can id the guys standing behind the R in that photo? The car really sounded good and woke everybody up when it fired up. Much  smaller amount of people in that room compared to last year SJ sale.  At least u could see the whole cars all the time on stage compared to the Mecum bullett sale. All of Johns collection did well especially the memorabilia.

All good points but also all the paperwork on 70 shelbys were updated or changed and all glovebox papers were changed to 70 along with 2 decal changes tire and dash manual choke decal on gt500s and dual point distributors on gt500 4-speeds & all 70 changes were done at fords Kar Kraft plant before jan 1 1970 to get around the new 70 models locking ignition law.