How many 69/70s actually did catch on fire?

DJames · Sep 1, 2007

Does anyone have a ball park number of how many of the 69/70 GT-500s caught on fire as a result of the fuel venting besides 0608? I'm also needing information about the research that resulted in recall U-05, which was the fix for the fuel vent problem.Possibly a link to a copy of the actual bulletin, with some discussion of why this was the fix that Ford arrived at(other than it was cheap and easy ). Where there earlier fixes tried that didn't work out? There are, for example, two different gas caps on the 69/70 cars. A vented type that they pulled off of the shelf, which was originally a 67 Galaxie gas cap and the non-vented type which has a part number of DOZA-9030-A, which is a 1970 part number. Odd for a car that was originally built as a 69 model car. Any help would be appreciated.

Coralsnake · Sep 1, 2007

There is a very good extensive article in one of the older Shelby American magazines. Not sure of the number, but that's a good place to start.

I can tell you my GT350 gets very grimmy back there.

67200F5A02206 · Sep 13, 2007

At a car show here in Houston a couple of years ago I ran into a guy who is the original owner of a 69 GT500 fastback. It was his second one because the first one he bought caught on fire a couple of times while he was on vacation in Mexico. He only owned it a couple of months before returning it to the dealer. The dealer took the car back and gave him another 69 GT500 in an even exchange.

His current car had the fix - a vent tube running into the passenger side trunk dropoff.

roddster · Sep 14, 2007

Way back, a fellow by the name of Geoff Hitchen used to sell a plate that was attached about the outlets on the 69/70's. It delected the exhaust out farther and kept the rear of his Shelby cleaner. It was just a flat piece of stainless or aluminum, about 2" out past the bumper. Look into it.

The was an article in a Shelby American about the fire cars, I believe it is between numbers 31 and 45 (ah, not cars, the numbers of the S/A article containing magazine)