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Quote from: Sfm6sxxx on December 20, 2018, 01:30:29 AM
I believe he traded in 9 1966 Thunderbirds he had leftover from a failed promotion.
Quote from: Mark500 on December 20, 2018, 09:30:22 AMMaybe he opened the trunk and found something in it
Smoking Crack at that Price..
QuoteYes, yes it is easy for a third party to say. But it is so true.
..... that is easy for a third party to say.
Quote from: Sfm6sxxx on December 18, 2018, 01:19:08 PMAmen to that brother.
I would be more concerned with litigation arising from the use of a letter purportedly signed by CS as provenance given that he himself indicated it was a forgery. If that document is specious in nature, then there is nothing tying the car directly to CS as ever having used the car as a demo. It may have been sent to Shelby American , but that means very little. If there were ten cars as alleged, then I would think that there is a good possibility that Kevin Marti (they will always be Emminger reports to me) could pull the info based upon the destination (Shelby American). In addition, it is quite possible that they would be close in numerical VIN order to this one if they were all ordered the same way.
Coming from a family of attorneys, just sayin...................
Quote from: stephen_becker on December 18, 2018, 11:35:57 AMA buddy of yours maybe?
This is a perfect example of what I am talking about in the/my above post (see below)
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Re: 1966 Promotional Ford Shelby T-Bird
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2018, 11:55:58 PM »
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This auction is full of sh!t. I guarantee the only reason it's bid up to $155k is because there might be $200k of crack in the trunk.
Quote from: shelbydoug on December 18, 2018, 08:07:01 AMThis looks concourse.Quote from: 427heaven on December 17, 2018, 09:51:34 PM
The question needs to be asked how many miles are people willing to travel to these venues? It appears the old folks don't want to travel much more then 100-250 miles. That cuts out many from participating.
It's more an issue of how far do want to drive your old car? Just because we now have a higher number of cars in Florida because of retiree's, what makes you think 1) those folks will attend 2) they will bring their cars?
A Florida convention is just a roll of the dice. Is there a place they can park their walkers and is there a Shelby version that can be shown in Concourse?
Quote from: prototypefan on December 15, 2018, 09:19:52 AMCheck out these spot weld beauties on my car. Both the drivers and passenger inner fenders have the same spot welds. I had a look under the drivers and passenger fenders and could see the spot welds from the underside as well.
During assembly the front and rear aprons overlap onto the shock towers. On the flat horizontal area where the fenders bolt on you can see distinct spot welds.
These overlap areas are very prone to rust.
Lazy shops will hack out the rot and fill the hole with bondo or fiberglass.
Some will sandblast the area to remove the rot and fill with bondo or fiberglass
some will tack or weld in a single piece of metal and fill either side with bondo
proper repair requires cutting out the area and spot welding new metal in
It's one of the easiest areas to spot if a car has corrosion.......and more importantly the level of repair
The most ingenious repair I've seen as I live in a rust belt and most cars here have corrosion in that area was:
sandblasting out the corrosion being sure to get out the black corrosion ensuring it doesn't come back, tacking in a piece of metal in the center of the hole where two layers of metal once was and filling the area with bondo.......then as the bondo was setting.....take and HB pencil and press the eraser into the bondo that is still setting up which leaves a depression the same size as an original spot weld
bring a magnet or paint thickness guage to check the thickness of the paint in this area. Get on your knees and look above the front tires at the same area with a bright flashlight from below......rarely is the area fixed properly from the underside
Quote from: Coralsnake on December 14, 2018, 08:16:11 PMWhen you say "fake" can you elaborate "why" they are fake. I'm not great at knowing the differences between an original hubcap and the hubcaps on this car and I'm curious about the differences.
Someone is using fake 1968 hubcaps!
Quote from: prototypefan on December 15, 2018, 09:19:52 AMWow. That is an amazing description on what to look for in this area. I never knew any of this and I've once again learned something about my 68 GT500. I'm gonna head to the garage this weekend and check out this area on my car.
During assembly the front and rear aprons overlap onto the shock towers. On the flat horizontal area where the fenders bolt on you can see distinct spot welds.
These overlap areas are very prone to rust.
Lazy shops will hack out the rot and fill the hole with bondo or fiberglass.
Some will sandblast the area to remove the rot and fill with bondo or fiberglass
some will tack or weld in a single piece of metal and fill either side with bondo
proper repair requires cutting out the area and spot welding new metal in
It's one of the easiest areas to spot if a car has corrosion.......and more importantly the level of repair
The most ingenious repair I've seen as I live in a rust belt and most cars here have corrosion in that area was:
sandblasting out the corrosion being sure to get out the black corrosion ensuring it doesn't come back, tacking in a piece of metal in the center of the hole where two layers of metal once was and filling the area with bondo.......then as the bondo was setting.....take and HB pencil and press the eraser into the bondo that is still setting up which leaves a depression the same size as an original spot weld
bring a magnet or paint thickness guage to check the thickness of the paint in this area. Get on your knees and look above the front tires at the same area with a bright flashlight from below......rarely is the area fixed properly from the underside
Quote from: FL SAAC TONY on December 10, 2018, 08:43:05 AMSounds like a great idea to me. I personally would like to read more about vintage race cars.
+ 101Quote from: 427heaven on December 10, 2018, 08:38:40 AM
Or better yet maybe a Hot street car- Day 2 performance car- Drag car- Road racer- Vintage race car - modern anything race car. This way we would have a place to go and leave the others alone that have the correct paint drips, daubs, finishes, textures, etc. After all that's what these cars were intended to do in the first place.
