Well the original one is gone but Over the winter i will try to bring back the thread .
Quote from: gt350shelb on January 20, 2018, 08:09:49 AM
Well the original one is gone but Over the winter i will try to bring back the thread .
Excellent, thanks :)
Photo from 1968 when car was new !
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this year barn find condition pre GT 350 TOUR
http://web.archive.org/web/20150320163031/http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=2521.0
Quote from: gt350shelb on January 20, 2018, 08:30:43 PM
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Thank you for this link. I was amazed it worked. It gives me hope others will be able to do the same.
Jim
Quote from: Bill on January 20, 2018, 08:31:35 PM
Quote from: gt350shelb on January 20, 2018, 08:30:43 PM
http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=2521.0
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Make sure you click on the entire link he provided. The old SAAC forum is KaPut. But that entire link is to an Web Archive for the topic.
Sir, I have 00214 with many early year similarities! I am surprised though that yours is not a dual serial number car, mine is. Quite a coincidence if they cut off the 2x numbers between our two cars!
Quote from: Rich_G_SC on January 28, 2018, 01:42:29 PM
Sir, I have 00214 with many early year similarities! I am surprised though that yours is not a dual serial number car, mine is. Quite a coincidence if they cut off the 2x numbers between our two cars!
well welcome to the forum / where are you from ?
Hi,
Pleased to hear from you. I'm in Columbia, SC. #214 lived in Worcester, VT with my uncle from the early 70's until he passed and gifted to me in 2009. I always loved the car and first drove it back in the 90's. He drove the car regularly in good weather - it is a driver not a show car. He called it his "50 foot car" - it looks great from 50 feet away!
I believe he was the second owner. Originally sold in Concord, NH.
Here is my tag:
I dont believe cars were built in strict numerical order. While the dual serial number cars were likely built before the single serial numbers, I can show you much higher numbers that are in fact, dual serial numbers....from memory they stretch into the 600s...I dont think they did dual serial numbers, stopped and then restarted the practice.
http://www.thecoralsnake.com/dualserial
Here is a bit of trivia, they actually used two Shelby (Snake) VIN tags on a few cars. One under the hood and one in place of the warranty plate on the back of the door. That is pretty rare, so it didnt last long...
Quote from: Rich_G_SC on February 13, 2018, 08:51:01 PM
Hi,
Pleased to hear from you. I'm in Columbia, SC. #214 lived in Worcester, VT with my uncle from the early 70's until he passed and gifted to me in 2009. I always loved the car and first drove it back in the 90's. He drove the car regularly in good weather - it is a driver not a show car. He called it his "50 foot car" - it looks great from 50 feet away!
I believe he was the second owner. Originally sold in Concord, NH.
Here is my tag:
you will want to contact kevin marti for the order/ invoice for your car , mine had 2 one a dual number car and one not .
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I will load some more later this afternoon....let's re-start the 212 detail thread! Wahoooooooo
It was a very good thread on the old site. Lots of details in there.
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More as time permits...
Ok a little history on 00212 ..... Original owner had car from 68 till about 71- 72 he drove it from Clifton NJ to JFK airport in NYC where he worked . He shared many stories of being pulled over by NYPD who would be patrolling late nights when parkways were less congested ..... while he was making it his personal challenged to get home faster every night . circa 1971 the car was involved in a front end collision /it was repaired but never to the original owners liking . Soon after he sold car to 2nd owner from park ridge nj . this owner put hardly any miles on the car over 16 years of ownership. (less than 2000miles) he had the entire car painted to freshen it up.
I became the caretaker of this 68 GT 350 in 1987 . back then it had 52k miles and had only 2 previous owners.
Car was sold thru Dockery Ford Morristown nj 1968 GT350 4 speed 3.89 open rear / non a/c non /tilt Wimbledon white, black interior fastback
The car was my daily driver, in the 1st year of ownership I quickly added another 50k miles to the odometer.
And it was driven ........ in the rain / snow / ice storms /and some sunny days too!
When the car was in my hands in the early years it was only 5 miles from where the original owner lived . It was 20 years before I knew who that was. (thanks to Vinny) . Also increasing the odds that I had seen the car as a child.
I and the Shelby began a whirlwind tour of the north east in the early years . I moved from northern NJ to New Hampshire then back to NJ then up to Danbury CT about 1999 I moved back to nj and the car was partially disassembled then . It sat waiting to repainted for about another 10 years .
disclaimers and variations in some of the photos will be noted thru this process.
I added factory a/c to the car in the 90s so some of the photos show the car with a/c (this is not original to the car ) it is now back to a non a/c car :) late 1980s the original engine burned a piston and was pulled from car and set aside . A Rebuilt 65 289 non hipo was put in ......and a wide variety of intakes have been tested on that .060 over 65 block . 4bbl steel/ 4bbl alum / 2x4 cobra / 3x2 manifold now running an alum ford lettered cobra type manifold . with a c6fe 2x4 trans am intake waiting for the new engine :)
Transmission and driveline are all factory installed parts still in the car .
The Interior is completely stock and original with the exception being the Recaro seats that have been in the car since shortly after I bought it .
The body is original sheetmetal with the exception of both front fenders that were replaced with ford ones in about 1998. the originals were too far gone to even consider saving . floor pans were repaired about 1994
The Fiber glass.........
The front Lower valance is original to the car and is a early production hand laid type of fiber glass I think I have only seen 3 or 4 of these
the rest of glass is original assembly line parts
I do not know if the headlight buckets are the originals to the car from ao smith , due to the early body repairs they may have been replace at that point with ford parts . I'm very confident that every other fiberglass part is original.
I Hope everyone chimes in like the original post it is the collective knowledge and supporting photos from other shelbys that help answer the questions that will come up in the process. If you add photos from your car to this thread be sure to add the car number to the post .
OK I will get to digging thru the archive and get this ball rolling again .
Since Coralsnake started with some engine photos I will dig for the date code photos 1st
engine assembly date
engine casting
back of intake fittings
block vin location
vin
smog
block side
intake date
front
left front
Quote from: Rich_G_SC on February 13, 2018, 08:51:01 PM
Hi,
Pleased to hear from you. I'm in Columbia, SC. #214 lived in Worcester, VT with my uncle from the early 70's until he passed and gifted to me in 2009. I always loved the car and first drove it back in the 90's. He drove the car regularly in good weather - it is a driver not a show car. He called it his "50 foot car" - it looks great from 50 feet away!
I believe he was the second owner. Originally sold in Concord, NH.
Here is my tag:(http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=35.0;attach=2087;image)
and the 00212 tag
rt frt
starter solenoid
rt export
rt frt top
lf top
screws for hood seal not staples
left side export
washer hoses left side has one type of hardware right side is different
future plans ;D
how the factory glued the trunk mat :)
early style front valance mounting
front lower valance
the bolts used to mount early front valance are the same as waterpump bolts from a 200 cid engine with TR head markings
hand laid front valance has no lip on bottom edge / like the later press mold type
This is all that is left of the build sheet that was taped to left rear pillar / they mounted the trim bracket right over it a corner and the tape is all that is left .
rear brake hose part number
july 67 date codes
trunk decals
trunk lip detail
trunk
trunk
console gauges
trunk
trunk
trunk
spare
trunk
tach
don't mind the red silicone but the rest is real and untouched
top loader
top loader details
trans details
trans
spec diff
This is likely the first week of my ownership of 00212
rear frame details
rear
fuel tank
31 spline axle
tail light duct tape cover
ford s abundance of glue in trunk
rear lower valance
air cleaner
heater box
radio
nos hub cap
smog pump
smog hoses
this is how you know the car is yours the floor plugs are stamped on my 1 st birthday
This was back when I wet sanded the bad paint job off to reclaim the original paint..... It was going well to get car back to original paint . then I discovered they had stripped the roof . and plan b was invoked
smog
smog
notice the right side hardware on cowl is one type and the left side attaching is different
This is a section of the original floor from around seat belt mountings / the Pink color is what the entire floor looked like the darker red is a later paint job and not factory.
more views
rear axle tag
This is not original to the car but looks to be an NOS rear valance that is galvanized/ there has been some debate over these ...... in a past forum . I have seen front and rear nj built mustangs with galvanized panels .
the buck tag
Here is the door tag info that was missing / door tag had been lost prior to my ownership .........but a previous owner wrote the info inside the shop manual that came with the car.
carb tag info
I have not tried this flasher to see if it helps sequential lights but it is nos
original oil pressure sender with nut on top unlike later ones with post for wire terminal
reason #1 why you could not get a/c and 3.89 gears
smog bracket
how can you tell this is early build rad clamp?
location of the buck tag screw
rad cap
master cylinder cap
left rocker
lf rocker
trim
anti rattle pad under folddown panel
a little graffiti from the assembly line !
under fold down
roll bar to roof bolt
under seat
rear ash tray
inside ash tray
radio antenna hole plug
seat belt tag
rear seat trim
rad support plug
delux rear seat trim emblems
this shows what appears to be bare metal under buck tag area
one of the other unexplained items
hand made lower valance
center
center
Quote from: gt350shelb on February 23, 2018, 10:30:28 PM
hand made lower valance
00212
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and now another version of the hand laid fiberglass valance
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(https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/3903f9b5-eee5-4ce4-b2fc-6ad2bf4756a4.jpg?class=display)
(https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/e0300742-1b51-4ee1-8ed0-e0f7da79c4b7.jpg?class=display) early square block mounting bolts
(https://sharedalbums.b-cdn.net/e79b318d-6e5e-4dc0-b20c-0d3a27b4d849.jpg?class=display)
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Has anyone come up with source for the center console clip?