1966 GT350 values, in the market

Re: '66 GT350 values, in the market

if you find a rust free (structural rust that is) '66 GT-350 driver for under $125K, then buy it and enjoy. What are the particulars of the deal you are involved in? Post the Shelby serial number too, many of the serial numbers are familiar to the regulars on this forum. We might have info you need.

Z. Ray
6s1117

 

Re: Any info on sfm6s724?

Do you have the latest SAAC registry? THe info listed for #724 is more or less consistent with what you have provided.

Last owner listed was Gordon Sheppard. He purchased it in '85, after finding it sitting in a field since 1976. Not a barn as you were told.

You mentioned it has had no significant rust repairs. I would be skeptical on that subject. After 11 years in a field (or barn) there would be some rust issues.

Perhaps the repairs were very skillfully done.

The only other issue that comes to mind would be the non original drivetrain (engine). That would bring the value down some.


Z. Ray
6s1117

 

Re: '66 GT350 values, in the market

Tough question.
I would be pretty happy to pay $100k for that based on your info.
Maybe I'm nuts.
MC

 

1965 Gt350

Can anyone tell me who the original owner of 5S228 was and where is was sold?

 

5S228 was delivered without Le Mans stripes and
was equipped with steel wheels from the factory.
Car was received at Shelby American on 5/7/65.
Work started the same day 5/7/65 and was finished
on 5/17/65. Shipped to Adamson Ford, Inc. in
Birmingham, AL on 6/4/65.
No owners listed in the registry, sorry.
Texas Swede

 

When I bought the car in North Texas back in 66 or 67, it had 1,100 miles on it. I heard a Navy/Marine chopper pilot had bought the car and left it with his mother while he was overseas (assume Nam). She traded the car in on a new Pontiac or Buick and I found it on their used car lot with 1,100 miles on it. Car had Military insigna on rear windor. Research shows it belonged to Marine Heavy Helicipter Squadrion 264 (HMM-264). I have obtained the squadron insigna and its a perfect match for the insigna thats still on the rear window to this date. Its 800 miles from the original dealership to North Texas. That means he bought it and drove the 800 miles and off to war. His mother drove it the extra 300 miles to keep it running while he was away. Car indeed did not have the Lemans stripes. I remember it having hubcaps when it was on the lot. Dealership obviously did not know what they had - nor did I. Anyway, I have had that car ever since then. Although it hasn't been driven in almost 30 years, it makes your heart pound when the LeMans cam rattles the fenders. Oh yea, it holds 50PSI at idle. Have Crager 5 spokes on it now, but still no stripes.

5S228

 

Now that you've told us...be sure to share the detail with the SAAC registrar:

http://www.saac.com/worldRegistry/1965shelby.html

Contact info at the bottom of that page.

 

Thanks, just did the post.

MT 5S228

 

Back to 6S724, I inherited a set of Mustang Monthlys from the late 1970-early 1980's and in on of the opening section of one of them was a picture, if I remember of 724, look his last name up in the registry, he bought two of them on the same farm, at the same time, both '66 GT350's sitting outside, I sent the blown up picture to Howard Pardee,who did not have it in his file. It was not a pretty site, but at least they were "saved". I would contact the person who found them out in the field, better to hear the history and what the car was like at that time than who you may be talking to today about it.

 

I don`t think a non -original engine hurts a GT-350 that much as long as it is a hipo, it`s not like we do not know what engine it came out with like a Chevrolet, I have had several 66 Shelbys over the years and not many of them had a serial number on the side of the block, and a lot of cars the that do have been stamped which is not hard to do. IF YOU DO NOT BUY A 65 OR 66 SHELBY BECAUSE YOU THINK IT DOES NOT HAVE THE ORIGINAL ENGINE, YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE, BECAUSE THE ENGINES ARE A LOT EASIER TO FIND THAN A GOOD CAR. I would take a good car with the wrong engine anyday over a bad car with a correct engine.

 

define bad car. many things can be fixed to make a car "good". One thing that comes to mind that can't be "fixed", is to transform a non-original engine into the engine that sat in the engine bay the day it was delivered. There are plenty of cars for sale out there that still have original "everything". They just cost more. If that's what you want, keep looking.


Z. Ray

 

Gee, let me see, spend some cash for a early Shelby with a run of the mill 289/302 with a cam or spend some serious cash for the real deal. If you are happy with a car thats "close", fine. But if you want the real deal, wait for it. You get what you pay for.

5S228 = matching number car

 

A Shelby I knew of long ago had the original engine grenade and it was long gone in the 70s. That car is now concours correct, changed hands several times and was advertised in Hemmings years later with the "real deal" matching number engine. Its now cream of the crop.