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I don't have any issue with the story but having it being owned by the "studio" may suggest that it was more like a "loaner" to whoever wanted to use it.

There are more then a few celebrity Shelbys and it is as difficult to tie "Cosby's Cobra" to him since they were never owned directly by the stars.

There are a few others that I can think of in the same catagory. Most owned by one of their agencies. Amongst them are Howard Duff, Buster Crab and Rick Nelson.

Converting the original ford ignition to the MSD can be tricky.

The Ford is actually a 6 volt system. The wire that supplies power to the system is connected to the ignition switch which is 12 volts. But it is connected to a pink resistance wire that reduces that voltage. It will be 9 volts cranking but is actually a 6 volt supply running.

The MSD will actually run if connected to that resistance wire but it will cause it to fail within almost a predictable period of time.

IF you want to run the MSD, then you need to run a new 12v wire from the ignition switch.

Without actually seeing your set up, by the failure description of yours, I would expect to find that it runs off the original pink resistance wire.


I prefer the points system. I don't put on enough mileage to make it a burden to run it. Frankly, I think that the Ford dual points gives equal voltage to the plugs as any aftermarket system does.


You are going to need to source a "yellow top" Ford coil to use with your new Ford distributor.

Inquire with RaceTec. I am quite sure that they can make one matching replacement piston for you.

Yes but "outsiders" consider those details so esoteric that they question our rational.

Yes but they are wrong    shelbydoug
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You will never convince "them".

I don't find comfort in any of that. I think of it this way, artists of various methods have internal visions of beauty.

They attempt to share that vision with others. Others that can't see or feel it but in fact lack the capacity or the ability to feel it or understand.

When I can't make my "friend" understand the thought, the vision or the feeling, I take it personally as my failure having difficulty accepting that it is just I who have the ability to stretch abstractly the concept of beauty, fairness or even justice.

Apparently it is as possible as explaining sight to a person born blind? But I don't accept a concept that I am the only one with the ability to understand. My nature is to continue to try.


I remember a quote from Kopec. "We always knew that these cars were somehow special. We just didn't realize how much", or something to that effect. I wonder is that just an abstract ability since it applies to so much else.

I'm not sayin'nothin' but this is very suspicious. Did we cross a DEFCON number on the Doomsday Clock?

That is very interesting Richard.  Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. Psychology is a soft almost psuedo-science to some degree.  But there are patterns and I agree that focus on the collector car hobby is for those of a high level of conscientiousness. It also staves off dementia and possibly Alzheimer's.

It's actually quite the opposite from what I have found on the subject.  The minutia of details help keep the mind sharp.

Hum. Interesting perspective. I was thinking that maybe it is a large contributing factor to dementia?

Yes but "outsiders" consider those details so esoteric that they question our rational.

That is very interesting Richard.  Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. Psychology is a soft almost psuedo-science to some degree.  But there are patterns and I agree that focus on the collector car hobby is for those of a high level of conscientiousness. It also staves off dementia and possibly Alzheimer's.

Hum. Interesting perspective. I was thinking that maybe it is a large contributing factor to dementia?

The person or persons who wrote that obviously haven't been around us when we are bickering. It reminds me of the phrase "stable genius". 

These comments are getting stupid.

Some more then others. I try to keep mine at least on a 51/49 basis. Sometimes that works.

Who really knows what makes people "believe"? Faith can be unreasonable and totally illogical.

This reminds me of "Peter Pan" and if we all clap together we can save Tinker Bell? Yikes.

As far as what is possible, "Commander Spok was always fond of saying...there are always possibilities". 

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  Occams Razor applies here, it takes mental gymnastics to come up with alternate explanations...
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Occams Razor is a "principle that states the simplest explanation with the fewest assumptions should be preferred between competing hypotheses".

The simplest answer is that after 54 years, if the car has not emerged (in some recognizable form), it likely no longer exists.


In 1970, a used USEABLE '67 GT500 probably had a resale value of around $2,500. How much repair costs would it have had if it was "undriveable" after it hit a telephone pole?

PROBABLY much more then the 50% or better of it's value is a good assumption. That is an "insurance total".


Additionally, as the public revelation of the ownership of the car showed, Morrison didn't own it, he only drove it on occasion.

Would that have created a high desire for the car then?



The reference in classified ads published by Wolff may or may not indicate his actual possession of the car. There are now and there were then, too many "wheeler dealers". Not to disparage Wolff's reputation, but what exactly was his reputation? Was it a "reliable as bedrock" one? Was it what would be the reliability of the "typical" 'used car salesman'?




Insurance company procedure then would have "totaled" the car and paid a settlement to the "management company" that owned the title. It then would have gone through the standard auctioning procedure. As a Mustang previously owned by "some unknown Corporation".
Hardly anything to draw attention to it.



Occam's Razor "theory", then and now, would tend to indicate, if it still exists, show me. Everything else is just "Conspiracy Theory".

Well here is story three.

He was wasted. He crashed the car. Abandoned it on the street and reported it stolen.

That was the "first" one that I heard of somewhere around 40 years ago.

That was the last time that he crashed it. There were more times.

...something about driving it flat out up a dead end street until he ran out of street...

 

The car was purchased new from Wolff?

Who is Ray Wolff?

From my strange Brain..................... If Someone has the actual VIN Number, enough money and time, they could easily do some thing like a "Re-Body" Restoration of JM's Shelby.  You can find most, if not all of the needed used parts to turn a very good used 1967 Mustang Body (the right Body) into a 1967 Shelby GT 500.  Cut out the VIN's and weld the space sup and restamp with the new VIN.  once totally completed, age it and place it in a drafty dusty old Barn out in the middle of no where long enough to get it coated with a lot of Dust, wait for the right people at SAAC to die off and then "FIND IT".

...and then wait for the "right sucker"?