SAAC Forum

I joined the forum to learn more about my Shelby and Shelby's in general.  It's nice to have a go-to site for maybe getting a question answered, learn something new, or contribute something that might be of interest to others.  I personally place little credence in post counts.  They are just numbers and are only an indication of member activity, both useful and useless.  I can live with or without them as I am able to navigate the site and extract the information that I'm in search of without being distracted by non-contributory posts.  Just my thoughts on the matter.

Craig R.

Most definitely!!

Craig R.

My Hertz now has all new brake components from front to rear excluding rear drums and backing plates (thank goodness!).  All is good and I'm back on the road again.  I almost forgot how fun it is to drive this car!  Time to move on to the next item on the "66 Hertz" list.  Thanks again for everyone's assistance.  I know that more questions will be coming!

Craig R. 

I like them all but "The Sting" and "The Color of Money" come to mind as favorites.  As previously mentioned "The Verdict" and "Nobody's Fool" are right up there also.

Craig R.

Thanks, Bob!  My goal at this point is to replace the "definitely not correct" carb with a "semi correct" '67 carb in hopes that driveability will be acceptable without making carb changes other than the typical adjustments.  The '67 carb was purchased at a very good price and that's how I wound up with it.  My car will always be a driver and hopefully a "good looker" too.  It currently still has some incorrect items which I am slowly replacing with correct and semi correct items such as a repo hipo fan that replaced the incorrect flex fan that was on there when I purchased it.  That fan just had to go!  I don't have to have an original fan but do scour the parts at the swap meets always on the lookout for hipo parts mixed in with the "regular" parts.  Information from this forum has helped to make identification of such parts much easier.  If something shows up, I'll be ready!

Craig R.

I realize this is an old topic but when I purchased my '66 Hertz back in 2004 it came with one of these Holley carbs (C60F version 3530).  I believe they originally came with an automatic choke but this one has a manual choke linkage.  Choke cable was not hooked up probably because the butterfly is missing!  Carb works fine after some initial warmup.  A carb swap for a more correct Autolite is coming up.  Just got the brakes finished.

Craig R.

I'm just sorry that they discontinued Reminisce magazine.  I loved taking that monthly trip back to "the good ole days".

Craig R.

Back in the early 80's I owned a '67 Shelby GT500 (#2410) that was lime gold.  It was an automatic w/o AC in need of restoration.  I sold it around 1985 to help us purchase our current home.  I noticed it in an ad somewhere a few years later.  It was fully restored and painted black.  I don't have the full Shelby number handy but it originally sold out of S&C Ford in San Francisco so it was probably a thermactor car.

Craig R.