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Did any SAI sign have  "Genuine Parts & Accessories"  on it?

Me thinks not.

Quote from: owenkelley on March 13, 2021, 10:17:05 AM
Kathie Wiggins Molland in a '66 GT350H that her father rented for her. She was a model from the Minneapolis area who ended up marrying British musician Joey Molland of the band Badfinger. She passed away back in 2009.

Cool gal in a cool car.   I always loved Badfinger.   In fact, I played "Baby Blue" today in my car. 

Really sad what happened to the band members, though.

Never heard the Eddie Paul connection with this movie (not to say he wasn't involved)  but he did do several TV cars, over the years.

We used to go to his shop, in the '80s, to get a magazine project car painted, and to see what he had in the works.

Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on March 09, 2021, 07:52:15 PM
Here is one Vern has from HP Motors. Different font. The CS Shelby logo at the top doesn't look right. Who ever heard of a card without a phone number? CS would have probably had 2 cards one with the general office phone number for the masses and one with his office phone number or private number for people like the Deuce or his minions.

At least the phony card has Carroll spelled correctly.

Quote from: 68stangcjfb on March 09, 2021, 01:51:11 PM
Would that mean those cars with the 2 barrel were the base 260 164 horsepower engine of the time that was being used in other Fords? If so, I know the cars are light as feathers and they got a dual exhaust system but really, how fast were they? CSX2000 being painted different colors and given to different magazines for road testing obviously had a 289 hipo in it?

Carroll let me drive CSX2000, back in 1999, for Motor Trend's 50th Anniversary special issue.  It smoked quite a bit when you were into the throttle, but still ran strong. 

I certainly didn't want to beat on it, but I'd say it felt as powerful as other early (unmodified) ones I've driven. 

That first photo is especially bad-azz!

^^^Agreed. I think every 1960s-70s GM car I've ever owned (sorry ) had a glove box lock keyed the same as the trunk.

Quote from: 2112 on March 07, 2021, 12:12:33 AM
Van, I believe you. There were a few gems.

And I love '56 birds.

Only pix of my '57 Bird I can find right now.  I miss it.

Notice that the air scoop is functional.

Michael,

I agree that most of the '50s cars were still pretty archaic.

But, I had a sweet low mile original '57 T-Bird E-model (twin-fours...270 hp) with a three-speed manual.  Surprised me at how well it drove, how powerful it was, and how much fun it was. 

I owned an all-stock '60 Vette (twin-fours 270 hp) at the same time as the T-Bird, and the 'Bird was a bit quicker out of the hole and up to around 60 mph, even though the Vette had 3.73 gears and a 4-speed. 

On the highway, and in ride quality, the 'Bird was far more civilized to drive.  Went around corners pretty well, too.

My original 11,000 mile '62 T-Bird drove nicer, and was equally as luxurious, as an 18,000 original-mile '61 Cadillac I also owned.  Ford had it goin' on!

Of course, the GM class of '63: Vette, Riviera, Grand Prix, and others, evened the playing field.

Quote from: Drew Pojedinec on March 06, 2021, 06:46:27 PM

Quote from: shelbydoug on March 06, 2021, 03:38:52 PM
What's great about Holleys is that there is such a variety and you can keep trying different combo until you find the right one. What you like someone else may not.

Mind you, I am coming from a vastly different place compared to most.
I find the "wheel of carbs" to be annoying.  There is a specific reason one works better than another.
I would rather change bleeds and make the fuel curve appropriate for my usage.  The 650 double pumper mentioned, it seems like the right choice.  Only negative is the majority of them have a tiny PVCR and oversized jets as they were meant for racing.  For street car usage you will juggle between having a fat cruise and being underfueled at wide open throttle.  The only solution is to drill PVCR's and jetting down, of course this brings us back to just make the carb work for your setup in which case who cares what you started with?
The only benefit of swapping to another carb would be that it being a generic vs a valuable original, you could molest it sufficiently to work perfectly in all conditions.

I simply like the 715cfm as the venturi to throttle bore size is very favorable in regard to optimal tube.  (optimal tube being 30 degree inlet, 7 degree outlet, vena contracta being a specified fraction of the outlet).
All of this said, there is a very specific reason that Ford used the 1 5/16, 1 3/8 venturi, 1 11/16 bore combo on so many carbs.
C3-B, CU/CV, BC/BD, 3259, etc.  It simply works very well.  Not big enough?  run two of them.

Bob's 715 probably would have run like poop as delivered to me.
Idle feed is massive, carb was hand made into a double pumper, the details of such are very fascinating to be honest.  Someone tossed a newly minted baseplate on it, which aside from hanging the throttle open, it defeated the purpose of the original modifications.
I'll put it back to stock specs and it should run just fine as is.

of course I could be wrong..... 

I had a bad case of vena contracta one time after I went swimming in the Arctic Ocean.

We might want to prepare ourselves for an April Fool's posting by our friend in Sharon, CT, saying that the Registry was mailed out months ago.

And, if you didn't receive yours, to call Howard Pardee and complain loudly and often.

Quote from: Coralsnake on March 03, 2021, 01:37:40 PM
Just an observation

Mr Kansas posted, then didnt come back to the forum to refute any of the challenges to his version of events

or explain why 1888 does not match the Morrison car build or its original configuration

I watched a documentary on Netflix last night "Made You Look."  It's about the $80 million in forged paintings sold thru a noted NYC gallery.

The paintings had all kinds of supposed provenance, documents, appraisals, and professional inspections from some of the top art museums, and all were determined to be authentic (and amazingly previously unknown) works. 

All were sold to the gallery by an anonymous "Mister X" . Really, that's the guy's name used.  An intermediary broker (a woman no one in the art world had ever heard of) did the face-to-face deals with the gallery.

The gallery contracted with Sotheby's, who then auctioned most of these, at $millions each.

Many of the top art collectors excitedly bought them. Some others went on-display at art museums.

But, these paintings were eventually found out to ALL be forgeries, painted in 2000 and later.  The FBI got involved.

The Chinese guy who painted them all could be a master-painter himself, but he got involved with the scam, and that's that.

How does this apply to Shelbys and other collectible cars?  Hmmmmmm.

Pookie's dad?   He probably has the same number of teeth.

Quote from: Coralsnake on March 01, 2021, 01:37:52 PM
I think you are talking about the non "special paint colors"

They were Royal Maroon, Brittany Blue and Meadowlark Yellow .

I will post more on serial numbers/bodystyles this afternoon


http://www.thecoralsnake.com/PAINT.HTML

http://www.thecoralsnake.com/SPECIALS.HTML

They should've named it Meadowlark Lemon.

"Power is sent to the rear wheels."  Dang, I wanted one of the front-drive '66s.

BaT's copy writers need to know more about the cars they're transcribing from the owner's description.  And more about cars in general.   


PS: Cool looking Shelby! Love the black and gold.