Vintage Engine Compartment Photo Of The First Production GT 500

What a find! Can't imagine the odds a picture of that area being so clear. That area looks dirty and beat up for a new car. I guess they were rough on it.

 

Very cool, Eric. I know how good it can feel when you find that one bit of information. That photo must have had great resolution for you to have scanned that bit and still make it readable! Can you post the entire photo?

 

Congratulations Eric,
I looked at my original factory issued 67 ad pamphlet in color,
The Road Cars, the one with the lime green car on the front page, and there is a red car inside. Color can be seen in the door opening and the car has a beautiful girl sitting in the drivers seat and it has standard front seats but deluxe door covers. The picture shows the lack of the metal pieces
in the seat covers and the lack of the fiber glass seat backs with the trim around the upper edges. Wonder if they changed the front seats for the
photo shoot or just removed the metal trim and back covers.
/Texas Swede

 

Eric - Thanks for posting..was this from the Popular Hot Rodding issue?

Unfortunately someone hasn't found the original negatives.... then we would really have some options Intereting enough is that in many other countries negatives from the 60's magazine shoots are still available for reprinting. Got a handful of reprints back in the 90's of some of the Trans Am coupes

Found a box of negatives and shots from the same magazine a few years back at a swap meet ... unfortunately they were all late 70's stuff

Pretty typical of preproduction shots for brochures and the like (remember all the odd stuff that ended up in the Mustang sales brochures?) Friend found a whole warehouse from the company that did the brochures and sales stuff for Ford in the 60's. He (a book writer) wanted to do something will all the original pictures. Only problem is that many of the pictures showed stuff that never ended up being done on the production cars publishing a bunch of pictures would have been a bit odd.

 

Where were those pictures from? I would love to see all of them....and do you have shock tower bolts facing the right direction?

 

Being "beat up" isn't unexpected for a car that got taken around/used allot. Often you can make out touch ups and repaints in some of the pictures that turn up


In any case good luck with you efforts... hope it bares fruit. Its amazing (considering the American to discard older stuff) that pictures like this and the others Petersen has recently released, are still around

 

Smart move, I'd do the same. Please share with us whatever you can. Thanks.

 

I have prints from the original negatives of all the outtake photos from the original 67 sales brouchure photo shoot!

Kenny

 

You are doing a great job, thanks. Don't give up looking.

If you (or anyone) runs across some pictures of 1968 Shelbys, especially the first four GOLD cars, let me know.

I suspect there are some, since the cars were built weeks before production started.

 

I've got the Sports Car Graphic magazine. The "other" car in the article was a white GT 350, an early model just like mine. I'm sure my car isn't the one in the write up, but, just so you all know this, there were 20 "early model" white GT 350's. One of those has hubcaps. So, there are 18 other possibilities as to what that car's number is. I have blown up the GT 350's photos, but, the numbers are beyond the photo outline.

And, there was about a 4-5 month lead time need to report on a car back then. Between photos, layout, editing. Since they used early 67 Shelbys built in October-November, this seems right to be a March 1967 issue.

 

Hi all on this subject.It is great to find stuff like this and we all enjoy seeing any history in picture form.Great job Eric! The White car in the same Sports Car Graphic article is most likely car # 0050 I have yet to prove it but more clues say it is.I am now extremely interested in the comments about the red car used in the brochure...a prototype but not assigned a serial number????? please fill us in.I would think it is a car with an interesting story to tell.