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Curious about the yellow Pinto in post #129...its hood is up...what's under there?
Exhaust looks stock.
Anyone know?

Didn't Carroll have a DC-3?

Yep. CA plates.   

6s174,
Exactly!  Or if you and two buddies want to meet for coffee?
How many old cars does it legally take to become a vintage car gathering?

Or, for that matter, what constitutes a car gathering?  Would it be OK with Malibu for 50 late-model Shelbys to show up?  Or Scions?

My Kirkham looks like a '65 Cobra, but is titled as a 2006.
What then? 
Who do the cops ticket?  Who gets to stay and have coffee?

Hmmmmm...

Shelby_0022,
Cool page of ads, thanks for posting.

Your GT350 was sure a better deal than a buying then-new Renault or Gremlin. I somehow doubt that their original owners are comparing stories today.

gt350cs,
I agree.

So many car owners (me included, on various cars) rushed to put those "cool new" personalized plates on their cars in the 1970s, when original plates were thought to just be old/ugly/boring. 

Fortunately, I was able to later re-register the originals on my KR, and it rolls that way today.

Original plates rule!

Cool shot.  Sweet car!!!

Thanks!  I'd bet that each of us has a unique story behind buying their first Shelby/Cobra. 

It's always fun to see vintage for sale ads for our cars. Here's a scan of the ad that I clipped out of the Los Angeles Times in 1982 about my KR.

(Yes, I know that there were no factory 427 KRs built.  But, in '82, such a car was still somewhat of an urban legend with the Shelby/Cobra guys I hung around with.) 

As a young guy with not much money, I had to beg and borrow most of the $$ to buy the KR.
My parents would have none of it, so major thanks to grandma for coming through with the last $1000 needed.  I paid her back by painting her house inside and out.
Not sure she appreciated the tire-smoking ride I gave her, but at least she didn't scream for me to slow down.

Let's see some more old ads!

Thanks!  Spent many a fun night out there.

68krrrr,
That's a cool photo of what looks to be Van Nuys Blvd.  I have seen it before, on the internet with a bunch of other "Cruising Van Nuys in the 1960s and '70s" photos.

The tip off for me that it's Van Nuys is the triple-head style of streetlights. As far as I know, Van Nuys and Hollywood Blvds were the only two streets in SoCal (in that era) with triple-head lights.  Probably installed as a supposed way to combat cruising.  (I can attest to how well that did not work.)

My buddies and I regularly cruised Van Nuys in the mid-late 1970s, but I can't remember when we were lucky enough to have two shapely blondes like those girls stop to admire our muscle cars.  Hmmm...maybe I needed a '67 Mustang GT.

Richstang,
I don't know if going sans bezels was a popular thing to do or not.  I don't recall ever seeing another one, in person.

I just like how it looks, and kept my car that way all these years.

Jguyer,

The taillight bezels were not on the car when I bought it, and I have purposely left it that way.
The PO felt (and I agree) that the car looks meaner without them.
To each his own, of course.

My car is Day 2 style, but with 90% original interior. I did remove the circa 1979 AM-FM/cassette deck and put back in a good ol' Philco AM. 
But, when I turned it on, where did all those great AM stations go?  Boss Radio 93 KHJ ruled SoCal in the 1960s-early 70s.  Now it's just static.   

I don't know who they are, but I think it proves that "size matters."

Only in my own mind...ha! 
I have huge respect for all those here with much more experience/knowledge than me.

I'm just an old car scribbler, like Kiwi. (I hired him, long ago. He was an awesome guy, in all the ways. Miss him!)