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Mine which was added soon after purchase for the Mexican rally went down directly behind the bucket at about 4 o'clock looking down on it from the rear. Photo attached. The hose exited straight down from there in a crudely made hole. If you look closely at the photo of the tank installed, you can see the hose. My hose was just visible from the back of the car. It hung down about 1/4" but still stained the paint from the drip and fumes. The seals around the tank were very bad. I resealed it a couple of times and still could not get it. A previous owner opened up the skirts below the battery and on the left side to create better ventilation. For me, the secret was not to fill it more than about 1/2 way.

Won't be green in July!! 

Bob, I would be interested in it for the purposes of sending it to Springall. Please pm me with a price. Thanks

Top to bottom "height", outside diameter at the attachment upper point, outside diameter at the bottom of the skirt to confirm the taper or no taper, attachment bolt hole thread diameter and thread pitch, depth from the wheel attachment face to the nut interface. On the underside, depth from the bottom of the skirt to the top of the bolt holes, depth from the bottom of the skirt to the top of the spline retaining face. That should get a starting point. I believe, if they really can do it, they will eventually need an original part. We shall see. I will post up their response. Thanks for your help.

Yes, I am hoping they can as well. Springall is who I am working with on the 3 hole wheel. They have the original drawings of the Shelby 15" 3 hole wheel. Springall also made die cast hubs with raised letters as is shown in the photos of the original Shelby hub.

They say they can do it but I need get them more details or send them a real original hub to review. I do not have one so next best its to get them dimensions. If anyone has the original die cast chrome plated hub off the car and can assist with dimensions, I would appreciate it. This photo is of an original Lotus Europa hub made by Springall. So, I know they did it back in the day. Just do not know if they supplied any to Shelby.

Good grief, Randy. You have amazing historical detail. Thanks for that. You might have seen that I am pursuing the accurate reproduction of the 3 hole wheel and have located the original drawings. The current owner of the drawings is Mark Davies Racing who own the rights, drawings and all the tooling of the Springall company. He will be making a first article some time in Jan / Feb time frame.

He is also keen to manufacture the die cast hub. Apparently the aluminum "-A" hubs were manufactured by Covico but do we know if Covico manufactured the "-B" die cast hub? If not, who?

Bob, were the die case units on the 3 hole wheels? If so, is there a part number and availability somewhere? Thanks

Hello, J. I have a set of original 65 backing plates and 2 1/2" drums that I will not be using but I would not be able to part with them until later next Spring. FYI, I also have an original set of very well used SK part number full metallic shoes but am going to keep those. Let me know if you can wait that long and I will save them for you.

Sorry, did not see this post before I sent my reply to your earlier post. I just discovered today that the company I am working with may have the drawings for the original slotted wheels. I'll let you know as soon as I do. This story is unfolding quickly now.

Hello, Craig. Did you find a steering wheel? Do you know if yours was a slotted type wheel or with 3 holes in each spoke? If you can wait, I am on a quest to get some of the 3 hole (3 in each spoke) wheels made via the original drawings. I need one for 5S243. The first one may be ready by end of January. They have the original tooling, etc. I have a list of 18 people who want them. These never were made by Moto Lita and the wood will be laid up just like the originals and not like the current reproductions. Cost will be around $1000 plus shipping from the UK. I am not in the business so your order would be directed to the company. I am doing this for the love of this important discovery. If you are interested, let me know and I will keep you on the info list. Plus, when I am certain we have the right product, it will be well announced in this forum. Thanks

For those of you who have original 3 hole steering wheels, I need to know if the original wheels were varnished clear coat shiny or if they were oiled. I am getting very close to having an original wheel duplicated on the original tooling and from the original drawings. Please check your original wheels and see if there is evidence of varnish or if they were oiled?  More details will follow on the reproduction of the original wheel. Thanks

To anyone who has an original 3 hole 15" Shelby GT350 steering wheel please measure the thickness of the aluminum and post it for me? We are getting closer to a solution for a reproduction and I need to confirm the thickness. Because of the bends on the spokes, it seems to be best to measure at the attachment flange. I use tape on the jaws of the calipers and then reset the zero to avoid scratching the metal. FYI, the one I have in my hand from Rich Williams is 0.156" thick on average. Thanks

Sorry, not simple to do. The one on the top in both photos is the original wheel.

Update on the 3 hole steering wheel replication. Keep in mind that we have no interest in Moto Lita or in making a business out of these wheels. We only want one for ourselves and the rest will have to be purchased from Moto Lita direct. I have the original wheel in my hands now. We did not want to send it over the the UK and risk it, etc. Moto Lita asked us to fully document the wheel and send an engineering drawing which I am working on now. Of interest (to me, anyway) is the difference in the wood laminations on the reproduction slotted wheels made by Moto Lita more recently and supplied by a restoration house and directly from Moto Lita. On the newer wheels I have from them, the wood lamination goes front to back looking at the front of the wheel. However, the original 3 hole wheel I have in my hands has the laminations going side to side meaning you can see the grain facing you when you look at the front of the wheel. See the photos. Same thing on an original wheel photo supplied by Simon at Moto Lita. It would be interesting to see if the original slotted wheels have the same grain laminations. The 2 original wheels 3 hole wheels that I have some measurements on also have thinner aluminum than the later ones. The aluminum on the original wheel I have in my hands measures 0.155" thick whereas the later wheel measures 0.195" which is quite visible to the naked eye. The later wheels are also correspondingly heavier. My uneducated guess is the original wheels were made from mahogany. I wonder how these issues compare with the original slotted wheels?

Do we know who manufactured steering wheels for the 65 GT350's. Were they all from Moto Lita? Or??