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I'm taping the car to sand/prime/paint the wheel wells and a part of the underbody.

Is this part outlined in bright green supposed to be matte black or Candy Apple Red?

If it's supposed to be red, where does the line between black and red occur?  There isn't an obvious point for the transition otherwise.

Thanks!

Here's a few pictures of the GT500 I'm putting back together.  The original thread (my first) is https://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=20212.0

Sorry for being out of touch, a house full of COVID and travel took all my time.

Please let me know what else you'd like to see!

Hi everyone - we inherited a 1969 Shelby GT500 with the 428.

The car has been partially restored and partially disassembled. The body is repainted, no rust, a few places that show raw metal and a few finished panels that have to be attached. The interior is disassembled, but we have all the parts (allegedly . . .)

Missing: radiator, exhaust from the manifold to the Shelby rear box/pipes, plus probably 1,001 little things that have been lost or didn't make the transition.

We have an older auto-body specialist who has worked on the car and will help assemble those parts, but I'm looking for information on the mechanics and wiring. I might be a slightly average DIY mechanic with modern cars (mostly foreign) but my uncle schooled me when I was a kid hanging out in his garage with American cars in the 70's, so I do have some faint memories of doing that.

I never thought I'd touch another distributor cap in my life!

I know where to go for VW/Audi information, and I'm looking for the same type of community and manuals for the Shelby.

Haynes? The reviews of recent copies of the books are pretty lukewarm. Car clubs? Online forums?

The car is garaged, safe, and I have plenty of time. I"m sure I could figure it out as I went along (as my uncle used to say, "nuts are nuts and bolts are bolts and they only screw together one way" - and then he'd laugh his ass off at me trying to put something back together.)

Thanks to anyone who weighs in!

EDIT: We are located in New England.