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That's not a MCA (Mustang Club of America) patch. Its a Mustang Council one. Now they reproduced the stickers/decals over the years. Nice and unusual find. Good luck with finding it a new home.

Yes Steve's efforts go back to possibly the late 70's. Though by the 80's he wasn't in the public eye as much as in the very early years. Looks like possibly of a little data mining opportunity to me.  Didn't realize he had relocated out of Portland to a bit more north and eastward based on the EBay ads.

Any Mustang front fender from a San Jose car will provide the same idea of what they did there around when you car was completed at SJ. Its typically between very little but not has heavy and the back east plant. Remember when reproducing the size, shape and pattern, the pattern from the inner fender panels and the back side of the fender need to match and make sense. On lighter sprayed cars often you will find an "attempt" to spray the area where the splash shields and fenders come together  while toward the middle of the bottom side of the fender the rear and forward inner panels applications are joined front and rear patterns. Can be more difficult to show in pictures and describe 3D areas. Also we can't tell you how your specific car was sprayed. A good reason to take and keep pictures unless the car has already been redone over the years.

Guess you missed this guide when you used the search feature. It might provide enough information for you  but if not we'll plan on covering more or other details you may have. Looks like pg 14-15 might help

67 San Jose Undercarriage Finishing - A Guide

May be able to show some examples for the same time period as your car.

Noticed that the car I asked about had the somewhat different Thermactor filter canister with the lid that include the long stove pipe sometimes found on other (without the elbow) Ford applications in 1966. I wonder, possible chance IMO, that the car I've looking for the VIN for was assembled in the same order group that I've found another with much of the original smog system on. If so then it might get us a bit closer since no one appears to have already has found or looked successfully for the VIN.

DO want to mention, before anyone runs down another rabbit hole that the stove pipe version of the top lid for the filter canister was not typical or what we have found on the majority of original cars and systems over the decades.

So the car picture below has been reported as being completed at San Jose on May 25th 1967   DSO Grp 89-2614. Sure all will notice that a number of hoses and other parts have been removed by the time this picture was taken.

Just as a note the car in the magazine picture and the one below do not appear to be the same one. So different features and options between the two.



Hunt continues 

Bob, Thanks for pointers.  I saw that tutorial and was indeed contemplating dissecting my originals to harvest the correct wiring. But I wasnt sure about the accuracy and finish quality of the chrome repo housings. 

Guessing the tutorial your referring to was this article. Doesn't seem like its been almost twenty years since we posted this but time does pass quickly. Glad it was of help and hope it will continue helping others as an option.

Back-up Light Restoration/Swap

162? What does it say on the shirt? That may narrow down the magazine it was in.

Popular Hot Rodding was the magazine

The number on the inner fender lip is a non-typical IMO San Jose marking not related to the conversion or work done at SA.

If your looking at the picture for clues it appears that this car was either built after second brake recall or went in for the campaign.

Dave likely knew this but asking the question now.  Does anyone know the Shelby VIN of the car used in the photo shoot for one of the 67 Popular Hot Rodding articles - picture below.This will save me time in doing an article on a related subject.  THANKS!

.............Appears well documented.
R.R.

Likely or possibly a collection of copies the owner got from Dave.

Thanks Ron. You've done a great job with the site and communications.

I thought later cars had hood latch?

Not just "later" cars the vast majority but that choice by the owner or builder is only one in a long list for this car in its current condition.

Is that the correct hood style for this car?

Style - Fiberglass with steel frame- Yes like majority of 66's.

This particular hood and details - No IMO based on the pictures unless there has been some filling that would not have been done originally.


Picture of bottom side of hood from ad

Is this a typo - SILVER   1967 GT500 - 67A02F2A01352

wouldn't it be 67402F2A01352

Thanks Charles will correct that in his post.

I thought they were going to call the div 2. premiere award a different name so as to not be the same as div 1 premiere name that is much harder award to get having to use all original and nos parts. Maybe call it primiere 2 award. 

Depends on the person representing or describing the award. Of course many will make the best of the situation no matter what.

Currently it's Division I Premiere and Division II Premiere. Just puts the overall class or division before you get to the level of award, in this discussion Premiere. 

We haven't figured out how to police owners or builders that choose to share or advertise only that their cars won a Gold or other award without including the overall division or even class, though plans are in the works to help with that at or during certain venues. More to follow on that at a later date.

Does anyone know what the filter Part# , Replacment or dimensions are used for an original filter canister?

A couple for the round "trash can" housing as shown in the original post and up to the right in one of the pictures below.

Here are two original hoses.  You can see the long full length hose "stripes" formed in the rubber that identified the supplier.