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Yeah thats been over 20 years now the ford 100 years show a great historic event not to be missed as its the only car event my dad ever went to with me and my brother pat who helps me restore cars and dad wanted to see the event but really wanted to see the henry ford muesum and greenfield village and the ford assembly plant tour ford did as part of the 100 year events.  The 2 orange 70 scj 4-speed verts are identical cars with same options consecutive serial # 2655-2656 and are ford executives shelbys built together but they changed the color combo coral/white and grabber orange/black and they both have original drivetrains with about the same mileage and being assigned to ford executives they had an easy early life.

Compred just checked 3177 is car billups had out of OK sold to ken falk  sorry  i thought u were talking about falks  70 coral scj 4-speed vert thats 1707. Yeah Ken falks just trying to show me up having identical twins both same 70 cars vert and fastback haha so i guess i need to buy phil q. 500 mile  70 fastback so i got identical twins both 70 coral gt500s scj 4 speeds with white interior and same options so i can keep up with him ya think?

Gary there probly is less than 10 known 70 coral scj 4 speed fastbacks that survived. I keep track of the scj verts and there is 1 coral 69 scj vert and its a 4 speed in the LA shelby muesum and 2 70 coral scj 4 speeds verts mine with white interior and falks with black and only 1 coral automatic and its a 70 also just bought from OO at KC mecum and mason jones bought it so 4 total coral scj verts were made and all of them still exist. It is no surprize to me that most of 43  69-70 gt500 drag pack verts still exist and i got records of all of them in order 24 - 4-speeds and 19 - auto total and the reason i think most still exist is they were expensive rare unique cars so even if wrecked they were fixed and not sent to the crusher. Just look at how many cuda and challenger hemi or 6 packs verts still exist most of them because they were expensive rare cars that got fixed not crushed.

Compred  falks car ken bramlets old car is 1707 and i went to kansas back 35 years ago or so to buy that car but couldnt document if it was an original big suspension f-60-15 car as this was before shelby paperwork was found back in mid 90s so i told ken about it and he bought it and did a driver resto then sold it to build  a new house and we tracked down the old owner in IL and he had a boss 429 also he was driving at that time.  My car is 2655 and it was found in NC also in an old cotton gin barn just north east of charlotte also.

Yep that car and another with black interior same combo came from same NJ area recently restored by bob wilson so thats 3 70 coral dragpacks  4 speed shelby fastbacks that exist good looking kool cars.

Interesting kool car find so now i wonder if aosmith peeled off dash mach1 decal and added shelby gt500 decal as that would have been easy instead of removing rh dash the replace the chrome  mach 1 plaque with a shelby plaque?  Or did the mach1 plaque get forgotton to remove then replaced at KK plant if an inspector seen the mistake or maybe the dealer corrected it.  My coral scj 4 speed vert was also sold at same FL  luke bolton ford dealer a kool pair of shelbys sold at same dealer and both 70  KK  late big suspension cars. Red 70 scj what part of the usa is shelby in now would make a kool photo?

Phil that boss 429 cougar shirt is a rare collectors item u know!!

Wow thats the perfect setup 4 speed and all with complete smog thats the same as 68  428 cj.

2 -  67 - gt500s  at GAA only real shelbys at that auction  yet none at big Fl mecum auction out of 36 shelbys and only 1 at BJ  last month kinda odd !!

They were called suicide knobs as we had them on our old tractors down on the farm.

Same both years the woodgrain may have changed as the wood started out lite then went dark after fall of 68 deluxe interior cars were made as there is a black standard interior version also and a cougar wood xr7 burl type wood also.  Cant tell by your pic if its lite or dark need better closeup pic.

There is no exact pattern of sticker placement since different shifts, inspectors, type of car ,options , running changes ,etc The only one that seems the same is the P in the door jamb above interior light switch button.  I have seen an E on late 69 before on top lh shock tower but more common on a 70. The WW is very rarely used from what i seen and was told it meant Wind Water test and it wasnt done on all cars. Its too bad Jeff Speegle didnt live in Detroit as he would have wore out several cameras by now and wore out them  dearborn assembly line workers  asking ?s back in the day HAHA. I meet alot of ford workers on many detroit trips buying parts ,swap meets ,dearborn garage sales ,etc but but many parts guys wouldnt tell u there parts sources honey holes. I went on different assembly line tours 5 times and last  ford one was at ford 100th celebration as ford had buses going to plant tours from show. I talked to ford guys that get together a certain day of the month in detroit area and have a reunion and discuss the good ole days but that was before covid so dont know if them meeting still are going on but i would have loved to go to one and ask ?s but thats an 8 hour drive for me.

I would have thought all cars had the tiedown hooks installed on assembly line pete or how would they know which cars were going to be transported on rail truck or boat was that on any  assembly line coded on paperwork as  i dont know and never heard that discussed before?  I would think the tiedown hooks would be installed on rear frame rails before exhaust was installed on the assembly line especially on the dual exhaust cars as its hard to install the long dual exhaust hooks after the rear tailpipes are in place especially on the left side rear its a tight area to work since the gas tank is offset to the left its hard to install the 2 long bolts and nuts on top of frame rails as its a very busy area to work around the tailpipes rear chrome tips and clamps rear hangers and leaf spring shackles all in the way. I been collecting original rear tiedown hooks for last 40 years and found many in old ford dealerships junkyards etc and have more rh sides than lh side since rh side is much easy to remove and have found cars that the lh wasnt removed as it was to much trouble to remove hook after dual exhaust was installed. Just look at the distance between rear gas tank area and lh frame rail vs rh frame rail.

Just looked at an nos 69 cj dated carb here and lever looks like it  could be dark phosphate finish either way not an easy fix after the whole shaft assembly has been replated.

Gary on your carb the inner throttle shaft lever that  controls the front bowl vent was originally black oxide  or some blackish finish. Most restorers miss that detail as when u replate the whole throttle shaft assembly everything gets goldish plated since these levers were all pressed in together after they were plated separately when carb was first assembled new.  I always paint the inner lever black again after the throttle shaft is replated to try and get that original finish look again to be concours correct or some kind of dark finish black oxide or whatever. I have some new holley throttle shafts here that i bought years ago and they are made just like the originals with correct finishes on the levers and they were like $75.00 so if u want to be 100% concours correct this is the only way it can be done unless Drew P. knows of a better way to get that original finish on the throttle shaft levers?