I have '67 GT500 #906 and it has the 2 piece nose. SA build date of 1/30/1967.
That's great...Thank you! I'll add it to the list.
The 1/30/67 date is listed as the San Jose build date in the registry with the SA completion dated as 3/1/67
Interesting, #875 was built on 2/1/67 in SJ and completed at SAI on 4/6/67 and it has a single piece nose.
Completion date is a clue. You don't know at what station of conversion the car was at that kept it from being finished. In this case it may have been something else that caused a delay which by the time the issue was resolved SA was not using the two piece nose anymore.
With the last two cars added the date range has widened much further than I expected. We're seeing about 9 1/2 weeks from SJ Builds to SA completions.
Roughly 649 Shelby's were built at SJ from 12/27/66 - 1/31/67
Shelby completed roughly 486 cars from 1/6/67 - 3/3/67
Certainly the number of cars with the 2pc nose will be much smaller than either of the above numbers, but how much smaller is the question.
As Bob mentioned, it's possible the March built cars were sitting for a bit before completion.
The majority of cars listed were completed in January so I'd
speculate were looking at about 250-350 cars with the 2 pc nose.