Thanks Bob, good info as always. On the later closed emission cars, were the caps always originally chromed or were some painted black? Thanks, Dave bgaines@kc.rr.com wrote: >Dave all 65 and 66 Shelby's came with the closed emmision cap.The 67 GT350 >Shelby'came with ether the open emmission type on non smog cars (like 67 >GT500 intake filler tube) or the closed emmission type for smog cars. The >FOMOCO in block letters was a later 67 style . It was used on later >67,68,69/70 Shelby's .The assembly line 65/66 Shelby cars used the FOMOCO >in script only. It is too bad they don't repop the FOMOCO in sript and oval >because the ones you talk about are nice. >Original Message: >----------------- >From: Dave McDonald dmgt350@aol.com >Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:12:32 -0700 >To: ShelbyMustang@carmemories.com >Subject: 65-66 GT350 Breather Caps > > >The list has been pretty slow lately so here's a picky question I've >been curious about. I know all 65 and most 66 GT350's came with the >"California" breather with the oval FoMoCo stamp on the top. I have >seen a few late 66's with a rectangular FoMoCo stamp. There is a >current repop with the rectangular stamp but I don't think it has the >spot weld "dimples" like originals have. To my knowledge there isn't a >repop with the oval script. > >Any 66 owners out there with original caps that have the rectangular >FoMoCo stamp? I'm trying to figure out if these were original on 66's >and if so about where in the production sequence they showed up. > >Thanks, >Dave McDonald >6S1757 > >
