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The molds will sit outside and weather. In another 5 years they will end up in the trash. It's easy to create a hobby business making these parts. The most difficult/expensive part is generating the molds. It's not a lost art but very close to it. Someone needs to contact the owners of the molds and snap them up.
I have the molds for my 95 GT1/TA Mustang and get a couple calls a year to make someone a part. I sold all the ShoGun molds and chassis jig to Speedy Bill at Speedway Motors for his fiberglass museum.

In the other thread on FRP ( it seems to be locked/controlled) - There were two completely different process used to produce parts for cars. The low production pre 1968 Shelby American built cars got "hand laid" "wet" parts. There is an open one sided mold and that is sprayed with a gel coat to produce a smooth surface. On top of that glass mat is laid on by hand or sprayed on with what's called a chopper gun. With true hand laid cloth is placed over the mat and the surface is rolled to squeeze out the excess fiberglass resin. This results in an even thickness with minimal resin. The chopper gun method pulls fiberglass string off a roll into a gun where it's chopped up and sprayed out with the resin. This results in uneven surface and high resin content. Some places will add cloth over this but you don't end up with an even thickness. To make this mold you create a buck (what you want it to look like), wax it heavily, spray on tooling gelcoat (which is harder), and then lay on several coats of mat ending by creating a wood or steel stiffening framework to support the mold so the parts come out straight. Note: The original 66 side scoops used the same method as the 68 up cars.
In 1968 when Ford started building the cars with a Shelby Automotive nameplate they contracted AO Smith to manufacture and install the parts using what I'll call the Corvette method. The molds for this are very expensive. Made out of steel and 2 sided both the front and back surfaces have a mold. These are machined and polished to be as smooth as glass. Those molds are filled with a specific amount of for lack of a better description dry thermal plastic and fiberglass strands. The 2 halves are squeezed together and then baked which melts the plastic and produces a part that is very repeatable/accurate for mass production. If you had the original steel mold you could use them to produce a wet layup part but I'll wager those went into the Rouge furnaces in the late 70s.
The hood shown in the other thread would be assembled much like a steel hood with the outer skin and an inner structure glued together rather than with the edge folded over. There would be some steel either molded in or added for the hinge and latch bolts. The side scoops would be 1 piece with bosses for the fasteners molded in.

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The Lounge / Re: What do you miss from the 1960-70s ?
« on: February 27, 2024, 11:56:13 PM »
Hair - not the musical......

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CSX 3000 Series / Re: Right hand drive cobras
« on: February 27, 2024, 11:45:08 PM »
https://cobra-authority.com/1967-ac-cobra-427-cob6127/

Original AC Cobras w/ COB Build Codes
(COB6001–6062)

In 1963 to keep production focused on producing cars for Shelby American Inc., AC began to market and sell the Cobra in Europe. Advertisements from the time state that the Cobra was designed to meet the requirements of Shelby American Inc.

(COB 6101–6132)

AC Cars kept producing the coil-spring AC Roadster with narrow fenders and a small block Ford 289. It was built and sold in Europe until late 1969.

My neighbor up the street had a friend with a COB car. He converted it to LHD for the guy. I've got the original dash hanging on the garage wall.

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The Lounge / Re: Who is the BOSS ?
« on: February 27, 2024, 10:54:58 PM »
Fake news. All 'test' Boss 351s were ringers. NOT production cars.
It's the same with all the "new" cars. Magazines get test cars of new models 3-4 months before the public sees them so the articles show up at the same time as the debut.
Ford probably knew they would be pulling out of TransAm at the end of the 1970 season in late 67 when they only gave Shelby a contract to run until then. In total drag races 52 weeks a year far outpaced monthly TA race attendance and there were many people spending their own money running Mustangs so it's logical they'd pull their TA money. The Mustang was following the same path that Ford did to every car line - make it bigger, heavier, plusher and away from it's initial market - at least it started with 4 seats so it didn't suffer the same death as the 55-7 Tbird. AMC was the only factory willing to spend the money in 1971 and walked away with the championship.

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The Lounge / Re: New car lot opens in FL
« on: February 27, 2024, 10:23:38 PM »
Looks like a hotel limo type car.  Got washed out in a hurricane and buried.
Caption said Pontiac station wagon. Washed out in one storm brought back by the next?

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The Lounge / New car lot opens in FL
« on: February 27, 2024, 01:23:40 PM »
Specializing in beach finds - sorry no barns there.

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CSX 2000 Series / Re: 63 Cobra 289 HIPO
« on: February 24, 2024, 03:40:10 PM »
Dan, I guess I wasn't very clear in my question.  Let me restate: what was included in the cylinder block assembly?  I would assume that would be the block, main caps, and main cap bolts.
"assembly" would seem to answer your own question. It would be completely finished and ready to start down the line (or be shipped to a dealer as a part) to become a completed engine. Freeze plugs, cam bearings, all the little plugs that allowed machine work, main caps and bolts. I would assume that Ford's race teams such as SA, HM and others could get an unmachined completely bare block to complete some of their race engines. Even later Motorsport offered the NASCAR block with unfinished cylinders to the public allowing builders to control their final machining preferences.

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2006-up Shelby GT/GT-H / Re: John Cena drives a GTH through a glass wall
« on: February 22, 2024, 02:35:25 PM »
Found  ! but the custodian would like to remain awe-no-knee-mouse...
The car # should be known. We don't care which owner was stupid enough to provide the car.

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Up For Auction / Re: COBRA shift knob - What is it?
« on: February 22, 2024, 02:32:55 PM »
Probably a JC Whitney part

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The Lounge / Re: Does Farley have any toes left......
« on: February 22, 2024, 11:56:50 AM »
VW has the rights to the Scout name.  They are building a 2 billion dollar plant in SC to make the Scout again.  I read where they will be 100% EV.  Good Luck!
This is SoCal and I've yet to see a Hummer EV running around. If you go to Orange County you'll see half dozen Rivans and a few Fiskers. If they aren't buying Hummers they won't want a Scout.

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Here's another unique rear deck lid spoiler....shot after the 1966 Sebring 12-Hours with part of the damaged Comstock Racing GT40 as a souvenir.

 https://library.revsinstitute.org/12-hours-of-sebring/285044
Maryland Transporter license plate. 1966 owner built?
The Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency is seeking proposals for the development of the property at 139 N. Ridgewood Drive where the Nan-Ces-O-Wee Hotel was located.

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The Lounge / Does Farley have any toes left......
« on: February 21, 2024, 12:16:49 PM »
From shooting himself in the foot so many times?

Ford's top boss, CEO Jim Farley, said Thursday that the company will "think carefully" about where it builds future vehicles following the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

UAW reply
In a statement to The Associated Press, UAW President Shawn Fain argued that Ford should "find a CEO who's interested in the future of this country's auto industry."
"Maybe Ford doesn’t need to move factories to find the cheapest labor on Earth," he said. "Maybe it needs to recommit to American workers."

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1965 Bonneville - NSU Motorcycle powered set a record. Omicron #3 NSU streamliner, Wilhelm Herz, FIA International records, Bonneville 1965
No other shots of the spoilered Mustang I could find but AK Miller did run a Coupe Ford gave him - 289 with Hilborn injection. His Devin roadster in 1966 ran a 427 Ford and sported what are probably the fastest set of 66 GT350 10 spokes ever produced.

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2006-up Shelby GT/GT-H / Re: John Cena drives a GTH through a glass wall
« on: February 20, 2024, 07:44:44 PM »
A stunt with movie glass = zero damage. Now if he'd driven it through the garage wall and into the pool it might have an effect on value.

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