« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2023, 12:01:44 PM »
I've seen a few 69-70 GT500's with "428 Cobra Jet" lettering on the valve covers. Did these come from the factory or where they after-market?
Some earlier 69 GT500's did most others didn't. My first experience with a Shelby was in 1969 when a family member bought a 69 GT500 . It had the snake covers . I thought that they all came that way until I started seeing other 69 Shelby's that didn't. Urban legend claimed that only super CJ's got them . That is not true. I have seen them on both . A friend ED Meyer has the most logical explanation in that every year Shelby 65,66,67 and 68 had special valve covers compared to regular Mustang's .The snake covers were meant to be that special Shelby valve cover for 1969 GT 500's . Early CJ's Mustangs had chrome valve covers so possibly when the finned aluminum valve covers started to be used the snake covers were seen as so close and what with costs it made the most sense moneywise to use the one finned style for all. A funny story is in mid 1970 I ordered a set of valve covers for my Mach I and when they came the snake covers where in the box. The part number ordered was for the typical finned covers my Ford parts dept guru Earl Blosser RIP told me . Ford had put the remaining snake covers in the Ford service parts system.
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