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Terrible news but hope all things will improve. He and his family are in out thoughts and prayers

There is no records as to which cars got which hoods in 66 as has been mentioned. Also over the years a fair number of original hoods have been replaced by the hoods that were put in the body panel replacement system that were installed cars due to things like accidents. Determining of a hood could be original to a specific car takes a little bit of investigation and even then you can't be certain all the time and that is not even considering the reproductions out there. Subject has come up on this site and others many times

Examples of a couple

https://www.saac.com/forum/index.php?topic=25070.msg186143#msg186143

https://www.saac.com/forum/index.php?topic=15223.msg124540#msg124540

Looking good Mark.  The goal is to make the car look and feel IMO like a new one and not a life size model of the car. If that takes place they tend to look like carbon copies of each other. Kind of like capturing magic in a bottle but it can and has been done by some. 

You've gone to a lot of effort and its great to see that you're following through with the plan.

Follow up. Here is a close up of an original. Appears there as some small differences.

Hope it helps

Yes for a non-AC car it would have a square top. In your picture the plug below that appears to be domed in my picture. Will have to take a look at my pictures to see if that detail matches

Sorry don't have one to measure the threads at the moment

Waiting will also give you the opportunity, if you choose, to restore this detail by following how Shelby did it with the oversprays and other little details that you won't get typically painted before the car is fully assembled.  Of course most painters will see this as being "messy" or some other negative remark but your likely not buildign a World of Wheels car in the end. Same thing for the Lemans stripes 


Just a thought if your going to fully restore the car

Brian thanks for taking the time and effort to post these as well as the others you have over the years.

Jeff, what do the numbers and letters  translate to? I had assumed that the hd on mine meant heavy duty.

Looking at Gabriel shock through the years I believe it breaks down to

T7HD

T=Plant (P was another plant used in the mid 60s located in the US) T was located in Canada

7=Production year with no identifier for the decade

H=Month

D=Week

Numbers are the same except for yours is T7MC and mine is T7HD.

     ROY

Those are the date the shock was made and the plant that made produced them

.... Also is it possible to cut up a wrecked fender and surgically remove the nut and then possibly reuse? I might explore this too. Thank you for your help.

Cory

Think the challenge (not impossible just something else to overcome) would be mounting/attaching it to the fender since it would have been expanded the first time it was installed so it would be wider than opening in the original fender but the hole in the receiving fender would have to be larger to accept and in turn not hold the insert as it originally was designed to.

Some additional pictures since we have them

Ignore the throttle spring modification 





A restored example

Not sure if someone has removed and or repaired the other changes/modifications such as the radiator support and all of the supporting braces for the roll bar  but for some possible buyers these can all add up. For others its likely going to be just what they are looking for. Just be a informed buyer so there are no surprises.

Don't believe I've ever seen pictures of the bottom side to see what else it could tell us and I don't think I've seen the car in person. 

Had to look at where this car was likely built. Won't you know

"Located in: Loxahatchee, Florida, United States"

My car did not have a metal trap door when I bought it.  I recently started looking to get a replacement and have ran into an issue.

Might help to know what car you are working on or when the car was really completed at Dearborn. May make a difference or not in the answer. We will never know with out that detail if there was some small change. Since this a a common Mustang also detail their are your fair share of examples when you include those cars in the research. This practice saved Ford money since they only had to stock red and charcoal trap doors, upper trim and corner pieces. Not sure which of these were painted at the car plant though possibly so.

It has not been unusual when the cars were repainted or "restored" for owners to change these panels to white since many people like that better or they were copying a different years white interior details - happens way more than it should IMHO. And for sure we can find really pretty "restored" examples on the web and in magazines with the panels painted white also because of this    You may also see on white interior fastbacks where they added or that is the only thing made by the suppliers, the read stripe added to the back section of the bucket seat like you do on Black interior fastbacks with that interior.

I have white interior. The three surrounding pieces are white as well.  Yet everything I am reading says that these, as well as the trap door, should all be black, not white.

The pieces in my car are molded white, they are not painted.  They have ford part numbers on them.

They were all molded out of the same material so they will all have that off white material. Even the charcoal painted ones will have the same finish on the back side visible (originally) from the trunk side looking forward.  Same engineer numbers also.

Was there an option to have a white trap door and surround? 

No - no option to choose the factory colors of the panels on 69 sportroofs with fold down in a sportroof/fastback


Here are some pictures from unrestored examples









Picture #1 and #4 though they look very close to one another they are different cars.

Haven't heard any history of if these were placed in the cars when they left SA or if they were placed in the cars after sale at a dealership. Ford owners manual and other parts of the manuals were handled in the fashion.   Distribution would be very different, as far as version, if the later was typical

Since some of the manuals (High performance, Safety and so on)  were handled later I wonder if that affected the Shelby specific manual.