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Deals and Appeals => Parts For Sale => Topic started by: Mike James on August 25, 2019, 02:45:02 PM

Title: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Mike James on August 25, 2019, 02:45:02 PM
Bought these at a swap meet in Phoenix.  Have been sitting in my garage for about a year.  They have Shelby numbers on them.
$350 with shipping. Would look great in a cobra kit car or on your S code mustang.  We all know these aren't right for a GT500.
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Bob Gaines on August 25, 2019, 03:12:45 PM
If they were black wrinkle paint finished they would be more correct for a 68 GT500 or KR.
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Side-Oilers on August 25, 2019, 07:19:08 PM
The ones shown above are very similar to the ones on my KR when I bought it in 1982.  (Yes, I realize the finish isn't correct...thanks to Mr. Gaines and others.)

I've posted about these previously, but here they are again. 

Note the different font for the same S7MS6582 part number (my covers compared to Mike James') and its orientation in relation to the mold marks.

Thoughts?



Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Mike James on August 25, 2019, 07:35:11 PM
Weren't these catalog purchased in the 1970s? 
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Side-Oilers on August 25, 2019, 07:36:59 PM
I don't know.   Are yours polished or chromed?  Mine are chromed.
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Mike James on August 25, 2019, 07:37:28 PM
Chromed
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Side-Oilers on August 25, 2019, 07:39:45 PM
The black paint on mine is glossy.  Also, mine have two holes drilled on the top pad for spark plug wire separators.

Might just have been a matter of a different date/run of manufacture at the valve cover factory.
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Mike James on August 25, 2019, 07:47:12 PM
My paint is a tad less glossy than yours if I was guessing and there are no holes for the spark plug separators
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Mike James on August 26, 2019, 10:58:01 PM
lowered to $300 with shipping because I need to clean my garage out!
Title: Re: Lemans Valve Covers - FROM THE 70s?
Post by: Mike James on August 29, 2019, 12:58:23 PM
Reverse Auction.  Reduced to $250 with shipping.  That is as low as I will go.