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    dodmort

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    old to Shelby
    have 67 500 serial number 167
    since 1969

    hello folks.
     
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    Re: new to site

    Welcome Dodmort...Congrats on owning that 67 for so long. What color ?
     
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    thanks
    dont know why it took me so long to get here.
    it is lime gold . 5 spoke wheels with one original speedway and 5 spoke in the trunk. Lights in scoops.
    guess i would call it a survivor .
     
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    Re: new to site

    Post pix!

    Love the survivors!

    Mike
     
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    i need to look around and see where i have a picture.
    too many computers.
    has to be on one of these things....will work on it.
    know it is my desk top at work wallpaper .
    but
    you know work and personal hard to get permission to do things.
     
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    Hello,

    I assume that you know your car is the 3rd production GT 500 built. That is pretty neat to have owned the car since 1969. I hope that you still drive it and enjoy it. Post some pictures when you can.

    Best regards,
    Eric
     
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    when i rgeistered it with SAAC back in 1984. and then tried to sit down and go thru that book.
    seems like i came up with #12.
    i am the 2nd owner and spent a lot of time with the first owner.
    sadly he discarded a few items on the car that i wish he had not in that he had tried to make the car something else.
    i am missing the original bezel for the hung oil/amp gages and the lenses for the scoop lights.
    i know he ordered a 66 gt white 350.
    waited a long time. i think this car was delivered in nov. dec 66 as to what he said.
    this is what showed up. not what he wanted.
    he kept it a few years then traded it in on a chevy.
    i walked up on it the very next morning a Sr in Military school out here.
    paid 2200.00 for it.
    lot of $ in 1969
     
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    ps
    scared to drive it.
    have been for a few years.
    peopel dont watch out for you
    it leads a very good life. goes to shows in a very protedted enviornment.

    new pictures have been posted in in last trophy win back in Oct. last nite

    google

    "rtrd"
    20th aniversary.

    only Shelby in the gallery.
     
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    Hello,

    If I am not mistaken, your car is the 5th GT 500 built; but it is the 3rd production GT 500 built. My wife and I own the first production GT 500, it is serial number 0100. The next two GT 500s are serial number 0131 which was the prototype coupe and serial number 0139 which was the prototype convertible. The next production GT 500 is serial number 0164 and then comes your production GT 500 at serial number 0167. Take a look at the registry and let me know if you agree.

    Take care of that car and enjoy it.

    Best regards,
    Eric
     
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    i need a new registry
    i "loaned" mine out some years ago to a guy who was trying to flip these cars for income.
    he is still in town but has seemed to gone underground.
    need to just cough up the cash and buy a new one.
    never kept up my SAAC memebrship since not much goes on in NM area with them and cant get away for any time to get to any meets or shows.
    if i cant do shows on weekends and then back to town i am kind of out of the loop.
    but
    see retirement soon and have the gear to get around to these
    meets and shows. hope i can do it in the future
     
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    Eric
    our cars are so very smiliar.
    will try to post pics this evening on mine.
    I notice no stripes on yours and mine had none.
     
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    Re: new to site

    I believe only #544 had factory stripes over the top of the car. However many have added them over the years.
     
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    Dodmort:

    Nice looking car...........does it have it's original paint. It looks like it from the picture?

    Eric:

    I have had the issue of Sports Car Graphic with your car in it for many years. I am curious, what happened to the A/C set up on the car??

    Kenny :thumbup:
     
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    Here's some info for you. The scoop light lenses are still available at some truck stops, and also at a Napa store -in the Balkamp catalog.
    Also, since you have #0167, and it had the scoop light this means that I've been wrong about the car numbers around when they stopped installing them. Must be #0161-0165 that does not have them, and #0166-0170 does have them. After that, the installation got spotty.
    Look us up under the "1967 Production changes" thread for a list we're putting together about all the changes during the 1967 production year.
     
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    Kenny,

    All of the under hood A/C stuff was missing when I bought the car in 1979. All of the interior A/C pieces are still on the car. The guy that owned the car back in 1972 told me years ago that the underhood A/C stuff was missing when he owned the car.

    My car remained assigned to the Shelby Engineering Department until at least 1/24/1969; at which time it is listed as having a 1X4V 428 engine. Since the car had a 2X4V 390 GT engine in it as originally built and when it was tested by the magazines; it obviously had a least one and possibly more engine swaps done while assigned to the Engineering Department. So, after the magazine tests were done, my theory is that due to engine swaps and other things (?) being done to the car; the Engineering Department removed the A/C parts and elected to leave them off for ease of working on the car. I believe my theory is quite logical and probably what occured.

    Let me know your thoughts.

    Eric
     
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    Mr Mathews, the 67 registrar, told me they did leave off the A/C stuff on lil' Red (#0131) due to the engine experimentation that they were doing. So, probably the same with #0100.
     
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    could not stand the original paint.
    had to have it redone 12 yrs ago.

    here it is one paint job
     

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    Eric:

    Your theory has some merit, however do you know the previous ownership between 1969 up until '72? Perhaps one of them removed the A/C pieces and could possibly still have them? Hey you never know?

    Kenny
     
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    Kenny,

    The 1969 to 1972 time frame is a "black hole". I have no information regarding when and how (donated, given away, sold?) the car finally left the Shelby Engineering Department or how it was equipped at the time. But I am sticking with my theory about the A/C parts.

    For that matter, I do not know what the Engineering Department was doing with the car after the magazine tests were finished in late 1966 - early 1967 until sometime in 1969. My other theory is that during this time frame the car had all '68 fiberglass pieces installed on it. The guy who owned the car in 1972 told me years ago that the car was bodied as a '68 when he owned it. The guy that I bought the car from in 1979 said that it was bodied as a '68 when he bought it in 1977. He gave me a blurry picture of what the car looked like when he bought it. Reference the attached picture. Once again, my theory and I am sticking to it.

    Let me know your thoughts.

    Eric
     

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    Jerome,

    Sorry that we sort of hijacked your thread.

    I looked at the pictures of your car. The car looks pretty nice from what I can see in the pictures. You should be proud to own such an early GT 500.

    Best regards,
    Eric
     
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