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CSX-1776

Nano Banana 2 says
1st attempt - red white and blue 1966 shelby gt350 parked by reflecting pool
2nd attempt - 3 1966 shelby gt350 parked by reflecting pool red white blue
3rd attemot - 3 1966 shelby gt350 parked nose to tail by washington monument reflecting pool red white blue
4th - create image 1970 shelby with us flag paint scheme - interesting how AI labeled the parking spot, created the side stripe & hood lettering along with a license plate.
SKYNET is near.........

Does anyone know if it has the orig motor and vin# on the aprons ?     thanks matt 978-375-0014

It is odd there is no Howard letter shown nor mention of the engine serial # or if it's even a HiPo block. "The 289ci Windsor V8 was shared with K-code Mustangs" Cagey auction talk?
I wonder if the judging sheets are still around somewhere?

[produce turn-key replicas of vehicles that are at least 25 years old]

At the time this car was produced the laws were different. SA could not legally sell a completed running driving car as a 1965. Typically the cars were sold as rollers less running gear and delivered to the customer or a SA authorized assembler to finish. Today those rules have changed and SA can build 325 complete turn key cars per year. 

Under the FAST Act, "low-volume" manufacturers can bypass certain heavy Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) to produce turn-key replicas of vehicles that are at least 25 years old.
Volume Limit: Capped at 325 of these replica vehicles per calendar year nationwide.
Emissions: Manufacturers must use engines and emission controls that have a valid EPA Certificate of Conformity for that model year.
Labeling: Vehicles must wear a permanent label indicating the safety standards from which they are exempt and the year they replicate.

It's unusual that the MSO still exists. They are to be surrendered to DMV when the car is first registered. They are the birth certificate and the title replaces them. Or is NY a non title state that only issues registration for older model year cars?

I guess the feds have finally settled the "continuation" question. New Cobras are replicas.......

Sometimes they collect Yellow cars.....

Thats an odd statement, considering Ford did not install "Shelby" unique parts any other time....

To reduce costs, Ford began installing more of Shelby's unique components directly at the San Jose assembly line before the cars were shipped to LA for final finishing. For example, the 428 big-block engines for the GT500 and the special exhaust systems were built-in. However, the remaining interior, fiberglass, and specific trim components were still finished by hand at the Shelby Facility.

The build sheets show a conventional Mustang spring was used when building the car at the Ford assemblyline.  The Mustang springs were swapped out at AO Smith during conversion.

So despite all the bad mouthing of the Shelby American line being too inefficient and all Ford's efforts to speed up production their own Shelby Automotive wasted time and dollars by not installing them during the initial assembly.

Were these installed on the Ford assembly line? Or were they swapped when the cars were completed by AO Smith?

Ned you are presuming that the ownership of the "mystery car" does not pre-date both you and I.

I didn't think any Cobra has escaped Ned's little notepad he always carries around. His actual eyes on cars and the notes he's kept over the years have certainly added greatly to the history and provenance of these cars.

[Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords]

My east coast guess was right but the publisher was much smaller than I thought. Same photos = digging in the archives to create content at a lower cost.

Muscle Cars was published by Stephen Schneider at CSK Publishing. The magazine was sub-titled as "The World's Number One Muscle Car Magazine" and published in both Hackensack and Saddle Brook, New Jersey. It was launched with other competitor titles in the dedicated muscle car space between 1983 and 1988, all with muscle car profiles, restoration tips, technical information and in-depth reviews of reproduction parts.

The magazine started as part of the Schneider Performance Series. Seven issues were published in 1983 and 1984 that included Corvette Special, Pontiac Annual, Best of Vette and this title. The initial numbering used both volume and series numbering as well as quarter and year designations. After these first few issues, CSK dropped reference to the quarter and year starting in 1985 and only used a volume and issue numbering scheme which was interspersed and branded with Cars Illustrated.

In 1988, the publisher returned to more conventional patterns of numbering including use of the month and year designation. The "Schneider Performance Series" label on front covers was dropped in 1991.

CSK Publishing had numerous other titles in its portfolio including: Vette, High Performance Pontiac, High Performance Mopar, Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords, and, Bracket Racing USA. These titles were sold to the McMullen Argus Publishing division of Primedia in 1997.

Might be this guy - probably a spec writer who pens and then sends it off to various places for publication.
Peter James is a renowned international crime-thriller author (best known for the Roy Grace series) who doubles as a passionate automotive journalist and classic car racer. He writes engaging motoring features, reviews, and has famously documented the thrill and dangers of racing vintage vehicles.

The dragstrip is Englishtown in NJ and both cars are NJ - look at the NY published books - Automobile, Cars Illustrated even Car & Driver that had a strong east coast leaning. Popular Science & Popular Mechanix too but they were more about reviewing new stuff.

Not in the 50s when this was created. I was writing for Kit Car . . . . . . .

    I think you've drunk to much of the "Kool-Aid"! 

    Scott.

You lose a lot of timeline removing text. When I was at Kit Kar was the 80s. 

. . . . . . without playing pretend

    But actually, isn't that what every "kit" (re-creation, reproduction, reincarnation, replication, continuation, clone, copy, fake, etc.) car is about?   

    Scott.

Not in the 50s when this was created. This one does have some Pininfarina flavor but it's very much a homogenized euro look. In this era there were a lot of guys buying glass bodies to build sports racing cars for SCCA. 60s and 70s is when the cloning started. When I was writing for Kit Car we did a Cobra issue every year listing all the manufacturers. At that time 52 companies were making everything from bare body shells to completed rollers less engine/trans.

He should have left it alone - https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1960-byers-sr-100/

The Byers SR-100 is a highly sought-after 1950s American sports car kit. Designed by Jim Byers, it features a hand-laid fiberglass body built for a 100-inch wheelbase. Weighing just 125 lbs, the body was famously featured on the February 1957 cover of Road & Track, where publisher John Bond dubbed it "The World's Most Beautiful Sports Car".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FoBRNuP0f8

Maybe explain that it IS an American car that was built in California and was imported by an owner to Canada and is now merely returning to the US.
I ran into similar problems in CA when I tried to title the SHOGUN prototype that had gone to Canada. I even showed them the original shipping docs and which ship it arrived in CA on and the orig dealer paperwork when it was sold. It even had CA Bureau of Auto Repair certs for the engine swap. In the end CA was not budging so I took it to NV and titled it there. Now it's in Germany and you wouldn't believe the hoops they made that guy jump through.