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I thought there was a Turquoise car?

Not in 1967.
There might have been consideration of #0176 originaly as shipped in a Clearwater Aqua, but, it was painted in Lime Gold for the brochure in September 1966. That car was not ordered as a Shelby, just completed that way for PR use.

And last but not least, we have only the GT500 paint colors

From the SRG (1967 - Shelby Research Group):

First, a pie chart to show how all the paint colors are divided up.

In the past the criuse was the day before the show (Saturday)
Moving it to another weekend, a few weeks later, could result in losing more attendees of the cruise, or the show.
In that case, I would probably only drive out there for the show, but I may not be typical.

Here is another Yamaha 180 and '67 Shelby ad, same couple...note the upper scoop light on the car

Yes, that's the other one with a '67 Shelby

The photo may have been taken at LAX...
It looks like other '67s in the picture with much of the background cleared out for the ad copy.

Quote from: Richstang on January 19, 2023, 02:24:29 PM

Quote from: imming1965 on January 19, 2023, 12:17:47 PM

car build date is actually 4/12/67 and not march as I stated, I was mistaken that scheduled date was 3/20/67, sorry for confusion...

The car 'Imming1965' is working on was built at SJ 4/12/67    and completed by SAI 5/19/67


R

thanks Rich for the clarification, I often wondered that...
     With all the variations of tail light panels and trim bezels and inner brackets, did any car with the raised panel come with stud version of trim ring? Or is that the same time they started using screw on type trim bezels? Because what I am seeing/working with, I cant make these stud version work with raised panel and shallow inner brackets that are supposed to be correct with raised panel.

It might be helpful to hear from others, but...

The survivor #0772 shows no trim screws with a flat tail light panel
The survivor #2310 shows the trim srcews with a raised tail light panel.

#0032 parts (photo from NVSAAC site, from many years ago, show the studs.
As an early SAI completed car it likely had a flat tail light panel.

Thanks Jeff,
Specifying the pinstripes were painted on and listed on the Marti reports was helpful. Thanks for the photos too!
My previous replay should have stated that detail, but I did not think about it long enough.

I have seen the pinstripes noted on Marti reports.
Usually they are white or black, but on rare occasions I’ve seen painted stripes noted as red.

Quote from: Richstang on January 07, 2023, 01:42:40 PM

Did the California Special come with stripe colors other than white or black from the Ford factory?

White, black, red and a medium blue according to the Paul's book

Off the subject a little not sure of the available stripes for High Country or the Gold Nugget specials - the Calif Special's cousins that year and car production plant

Sometimes the Calif Specials were also ordered with the painted stripes on the side above the stick on ones. Those colors are coded into the information Kevin Marti has access to. Would expect that those stripes matched the original color of the stick on decal Calif Special stripes. They did on the ones I've owned that had the painted stripe option

Quote from: Richstang on January 07, 2023, 01:42:40 PM

How do we know if an owner changed the stripe color (from say white to black or visa versa)
Any paint / stripe color list info out there?

Might be called out/listed on the buildsheet. Haven't done a survey on the coding in the odd numbered boxes and compared them to the know original stripe color.

Thanks for the details Jeff.  The painted stripes are new to me. I've only heard about the stick on tape.
I have seen the white, black, and red striped HCS cars but never blue stripes.


CalSpecial68
I have been to the California Special website many times over the years and never saw a list for the paint with factoy stripe colors listed.
Recently there was a rare Pebble Biege CS with red stripes. that started me looking closer.