Steve,
I show 6S552 as black and 6S522 as the red 4 speed. Can you verify this?
Thanks,
Dennis
Looked up car 6S522 through the 1976 1965-1966 GT350 Registry,1987 Registry, 2011 Registry and the 2019 Registry and found a conflict on the color in the 2011 registry it states" "original color not documented but a prior believed it to be red." In the 2019 Registry it states " "original color not documented but believed to be black." Looked back in the "1965-1966 GT350 Registry from June 1976 and no colors are noted and the 1987 Registry says "The original color is unconfirmed, but thought to be blue." All of the registries from 1987 on show this car to be a 4 speed.
its now possible that 6S522 was not actually Red as the first confirmed Red car I can find in the registry is 6S613 and does not seem logical that they would have painted one car Red in a batch of Black cars and the first Red Hertz car is VIN 6S829 has several Red cars around that VIN (Red non Hertz cars)
6S552 shows in all registries as "color unconfirmed but believe to be black" all registries show this car to be a 4 speed
This is an interesting subject as there seems to be some many variations, but there does appear that cars were produced in similar batches , a run of Black 4 speeds, a run of Blue automatics, a run of Red cars, etc. I really wish that they would have kept much better records but the great thing about SAAC is that we have a lot of information that is shared to help get a clearer picture of what was going on in that 5 year run of Shelby American in that time period 1962-67. What a great piece of automotive history
As for the stripes vs. no stripes, I defer to the experts as my information is based on conversations with a guy who worked at Hertz's faculty at DC's National Airport in 1966. he also identified my car as being rented at National Airport by having a interior rear view mirror painted "red". He had an explanation that this was to identify the airport it came from, DC National, Friendship (Baltimore) or Dulles
So much more to learn