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#1
For Sale:
Complete 65/66 Upper Rear Interior Panels, from the belt line up. Chrome on the vent panels are very good, not perfect but very good. All in Palomino (sp?). These can be painted any interior color as the are very light in color.
All these are original FoMoCo pieces with the following numbers:
Passenger side vent panel, C5ZB 6331002 DW
Passenger side rear corner, C5ZB 6331112 BW
Back panel, (above trap door) C5ZB 63424A68 GW
Driver side rear corner, C5ZB 6331113 BW (chipped corner will not show once installed see pic)
Driver side vent panel, C5ZB 6331003 DW
Interior ceiling panels 3 piece (metal, no numbers)

PRICE REDUCTION! $250.00 shipped to the lower 48

$400.00 shipping included anywhere lower 48 states only, via UPS
See pics. PayPal preferred.

Thank you,
~Earl j
#2
Hello folks,

I'm re-posting this as my original post had the wrong information. Thanks Cory and Dave.
Back to my early start of spring cleaning.

Original S2MS 9424-A Intake Manifold
These were found on the Later 66 GT350's where the lower corner of the A of COBRA next to the distributor was modified or ground for clearance.
Offenhauser stamped on the underside
Heat shield in place
I believe the original carb studs (I could be wrong)
No stripped holes, no repairs, no helicoils, water corrosion is minimal
No modifications no porting
All mounting surfaces are good.

$1500.00 plus UPS Shipping whatever that is.

Cheers,
~Earl J


#3
Parts For Sale / Autolite BF42 Star spark plugs box of 10
February 05, 2023, 11:58:34 PM
Autolite BF42 Star spark plugs box of 10 new in the box.

$100.00 plus postage.

Cheers,
~Earl J
#4
Parts For Sale / Lakewood scatter shield
February 05, 2023, 11:54:33 PM
This Lakewood scatter shield I had fitted/trimmed and clearanced for a set of headers. It had been cad plated silver.
You can see where it mated to the block on the block plate. I had it trimmed very close in the starter area.
There is an extra set of holes for a T5 transmission if you choose. I used it with a top loader.

$250.00 plus UPS shipping

Cheers,
~Earl J
#5
Parts For Sale / 64-66 OEM Mustang Sun Visors Black
February 05, 2023, 11:43:14 PM
Someone was asking for these I think not too long ago.
Anyway, no hardware.
One has a little hole/tear/chip see pic
Can use a good cleaning, good for a driver.

$40.00 + postage.

Cheers
~Earl J
#6
Here are three (3) 65 GT350 steering wheel center caps, all reproductions, used and with patina.
Left to right.
Aluminum one I got from Cobra Automotive, middle one is used, right one is cracked chipped and a bit rough.
All 3 $75.00 +USPS shipping

Cheers,
~Earl J
#7
This is a Crane Solid Roller Billet cam, Crower solid roller lifters and hardened pushrods. The cam is from Crane's Compucam series. This is a used setup I got from Curt Vogt at Cobra Automotive. He mentioned that it was removed from a street driven car. Cam spec sheet is included. New this sells for over $800+
A lot of life still with this set-up

$250.00 plus shipping

Cheers,
~Earl J

#8
Parts For Sale / Bud Moore Shock Tower spacers
February 05, 2023, 10:53:54 PM
Okay, this is not a Shelby part. Instead of putting spacers under the mount of the top of the front shock. Most folks think this is to prevent the shock from bottoming out because the upper A arms were lowered. WRONG
It places the piston on the shaft towards the center of the piston travel. Race tracks are smooth. The piston is NOT going to bottom out! This was a Bud Moore piece.
I have two (2) sizes/thickness' for sale
1/4" $75.00 pair
Or
3/8" $75.00 pair

Once they are painted they disappear when mounted

Cheers,
~Earl J
#9
Parts For Sale / LeMans Cam C7FE used
February 05, 2023, 10:40:45 PM
This LeMans cam I got from Randy Gillis aka gt350hr a while back. It is used and useable but the pin for the encentric has been shortened a bit. It can be replaced.
Use an electric fuel pump instead of a mechanical one.

$150.00 plus the UPS or USPS ride again whatever that is.

Cheers,
~Earl J
#10
I think I can get away with this. This timing cover came to me as NOS never been mounted, NO WITNESS MARKS on the crankshaft seal hole/area. bolt head surfaces, water passage surfaces etc. BUT, I did have my machinist plug the big Oil fill/breather hole. I also had the little breather passage notch welded and milled closed. He also milled the waterpump surface flat as with a new EdelBrock waterpump (#2241?). It also comes with a new but painted dipstick tube I got from Jim Cowles (RIP).
I was going to use this on my engine build but the new M-6010 BOSS302 block takes a different timing cover!!! Ack!
So, here it is. Still no crank seal installed.

The modifications to the timing cover can be reversed. Remove the plug and add a notch to the mounting surface.

What you see is what you get.

$500.00 plus UPS shipping whatever that is to your zip code.

Cheers,
~Earl J
#11
Hello All,

I don't know if you guys have seen this, up for auction is CSX2427 Factory built Stage III Dragon Snake. Not mine (I wish). It just came across my news feed. Lemme see if this link works. If not I'll redo it.

https://flip.it/hm2XU2

I thought it was interesting.

Cheers,
~Earl J

#12
Hello guys,

I'm looking for either an MSD #8483 289-302 Tach Drive Distributor or Ford Motorsport's version M-12127-304A Tach driven distributor (it's actually built by MSD, I believe). Needs to be whole/complete (no missing parts) and working. From early to mid 1980's time frame.
It's for the 8.2" deck height block or the standard 289/302/Boss302 etc.
if you've got one kicking around, I'd love to take it off you hands. It's for a special winter project of mine.
It looks like this (see pic).

Thanks in advance.
Cheers
~Earl J
#13
Okay,
I'd typically have the shop do suspension/steering work, but because I'm not presently home in California and the car is in New York I decided to do a number of projects like replace the steering box with the correct HCC AX that Jim Cowles (RIP) rebuilt for me.

So, I've since pulled the engine/trans etc and I'm now to the point of separating the steering arm from the center link. If I used a pickle fork (ball joint separator) I'll ruin the rubber seal. Are there replacement seals? I've screwed on a nut onto the threads and attempted to hit it with a hammer and not damage the threads. Maybe I'm not hitting it hard enough?
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
~Earl J

#14
First off, I don't care for the term "Barn Find" it's so over used. Anyway being and staying in our Northern NY home due to COVID I've been skiing quite a bit. One of my retired (75yo) skiing buddy/friends said his neighbor has a Shelby body he wants to get rid of, knowing I was into these things. I asked what year. He didn't know. He had his neighbor call me. It turns out someone who owed him money gave him the car. He himself didn't know what year it was thinking maybe 67-69? He's not a car guy. Just told it was a Shelby. Came out of the persons garage that owed money into his garage/barn sat in his garage for 10+ years. Getting his property ready to sell so he can move to Florida. He wants this gone.

My friend Jerry and I stopped by his garage to take a quick look last week Thursday on our way back from Gore Mountain. The neighbor wasn't home but we looked anyway. I'm not a 68 guy. This is more a Pete Disher, Bob Gaines, Special Ed or shelbydoug expertise. I took a few pics in the short time I was there. There was too much stuff on the car to look for a VIN stamping under the hood. But the body pieces were definitely 68.
I'm heading there tomorrow to uncover it or at least look under the hood. There is no motor, trans, interior is disassembled (mess). I was told it rolls.
Here's my question. If there is no tag, are the inner fenders stamped like the 65/66 cars? I have the current registries to the early cars but not the later 68-70 cars. What will I see or look for on a 68?

I asked the owner over the phone when we spoke last week if there was a tag on the driver side inner fender. He said there was but the previous owner sold it. (?!!!) I thought how is that possible?

This county of New York are predominantly farmers, dairy farmers and Amish.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
~Earl J


#15
Okay fellas,
Here's my plan for the upcoming winter project. I'm re-doing (or at least attempting to) doing this engine I built 2 1/2 years ago. This 326 stroker Boss block, Webered motor.
The current cam that's in it is a solid lifter flat tappet (0.517 IN, 0.536 EX @valves and 239 IN, 249 EX duration @ .050" and 112 lobe separation. Replacing it with Crane Cams " COMPUCAM HI-ROLLER" series 0.534 IN 0.534 EX @valves and 234 IN, 244 EX duration @.050" and again 112 degrees lobe separation.
It's just a bit more, not too radically different, profile wise but yet streetable So I'm told. It's a solid roller billet cam.
So...to retain the "look" I'm after with the stock HiPo distributor. I need a bronze gear change.
Question is who has one or makes one for this application? This is probably a "Randy gt350hr" question, but I thought to post it.
Thanks,
~Earl J
#16
I thought I'd seen everything I could possibly see this past week on the Monterey Peninsula car wise. On the way home my sister called and said stop by if I had time. So I did and decided to kill several hours having bailed out of Monterey before the traffic got real ugly. We chatted talked cars etc. She asked me if I wanted to go to the Burlingame Street Fair. Sure why not.
Four bands, great food, lots of fair stuff... okay
On the way back to the car I see this:

Made my day

Cheers
~Earl J
#17
Up For Auction / MECUM Auction cars in Monterey 8/15
August 16, 2019, 10:51:48 AM
I went with friends to the MECUM auction on Thursday to check out the cars they had. I was pleasantly surprised to see several Cobras one was the metallic pink CobraSnake, also Drew Serbs or at least last I knew was Drew's CSX3016, the 65 Prototype GT40 roadster, S5148 and a very nice Dr blue 67 GT500. Check out the pics. Enjoy

(I can only post four(4) images at a time....so

Cheers,
~Earl J
#18
This is another post I'll attempt to re-create after it was lost in the crash of SAAC Forum 1.0

As most of you guys know this was the car previously purchased, restored and raced by Rick Kopec after he (if I remember correctly) Rick was tipped off that this car was in Canada in the early 80's. I'm sure he or someone can fill in the blanks. Anyway, Rick vintage raced it since the late 80's. Rick Kopec ended up selling it to Marty Beaulieu.

At the time when I photographed 5R098 (Nov 2012), it was in the building of one of our NorCal SAAC meeting events, I was VP of NorCal at the time. Marty B was attending as was Drew Serb who brought CSX3022 (I'll post CSX3022 separately). Marty opened up 5R098 for everyone to take a peek.

Enjoy the pics.

Cheers,
~Earl J
#19
As a  preface, I've been meaning to post this since mid-August between SAAC 43 and the Rolex Reunion down Laguna Seca this past summer. I promised Vern I would. Here it is mid November. I also wanted to confirm a few more details with Tom C. without further delay . Oh, by the way this will be an ongoing update on CSX2079.




Well, first off CSX2079 I believe is the 5th original 289 (CSX2074 being the last 260 car). I've been working with Tom C. and 2079 off and on for the past 4-5 years now. We've been going at it in a very casual way.  Tom C. has owned  CSX2079 since 1974. He's a long time NorCal SAAC and Cobra Club member from the 70's. I only work on it when I'm home - here in California and when our schedules allow, hence the slow progress.

Unfortunately, the information (for 2079) which was submitted to Ned Scudder for the Cobra Registry  in the late 80's/early 90's prior to the '97 Registry is inaccurate; and was not submitted by this owner. Whomever submitted the Registry information during that time period is a mystery. In the meantime 2079 stayed as the same vehicle since the early '80s, and Tom C. made a conscious decision not to bring his car to club events.

Fast forward to 2013. I was Vice President of NorCal SAAC at the time and during our holiday party that year, Tom C. walked up to me and said he was referred to me by Mike Camicia. He introduced himself and asked me if I would consider looking at the Webers on his 289 Cobra. The Webers in the car needed some attention. My first thought was; I thought I knew a good 85-90% of our region members, NorCal had 500+ members at the time and secondly a club member walks up and says he has an original 1963 Shelby Cobra. I'm like...Ooookay... tell me more.

As it turns out, we coordinated a date to view his car. This was the first time I'd seen CSX2079 in person. Quite a unique car. This started as a red exterior/black interior slab side cobra (now British Racing Green, vintage photos looks almost black) that had been modified in the late 1960's by the previous owner. In trying to understand what the previous owner  (Marty N.) had envisioned, Marty described it to Tom C. this way: (quote) "I wanted a serious roadster" (see vintage photos), and a serious roadster it had become.

First off, the front and rear wheel wells were flared (nicely, but not stock) to accommodate large Good Year Blue Streaks. This was the first thing I noticed. Next were the gorgeous polished alloy Borrani wire wheels with knock offs. I then noticed the bumpers and nose guard and emblem holes had been closed for a super clean 60's look. They were hanging on the garage wall. Lastly these unique side vents in the front fenders were added behind the front wheels, certainly not the stock louvers. (early cars had no vents at all) My first thought, "what the heck are those?" but they do grow on you after a while in a good way.

Okay, the interior is pretty Spartan: bare aluminum interior panels are painted an unusual light green shade. I immediately thought of that military green paint they used to paint the interior of USAF fighter planes,  some kind of oxide protecting paint. In addition to overuse of this dark grey indoor/outdoor carpeting under the wheel wells to prevent rock chips. This car was never driven in the rain. This carpet had also been applied to the interior foot box, floors and transmission tunnel sides. It was even used under the front and rear fenders flares for rock protection.


Tom rarely drove and brought 2079 out. Of the few times, which took some convincing, the late Lewis Downs recommended Tom bringing it to a few club events. This was in the early 1980's. Since then life continued on with married life,  career, kids, college and so on. CSX2079 sat dormant until Tom and I crossed paths.

To be continued...

Cheers,
~Earl J


p.s. I was informed, these two vintage photos were taken by Lynn Park back in 1974 when he came up from southern California to see 2079. These shots were taken on Marty N.'s front lawn.
#20
In my attempts in resurrecting, re-doing  or re-creating some of the old posts I started before, here goes... with an updated twist.

Note* John A the present owner of 5R002 has since restored 5R002 the factory race car to its former glory to the days of its first outing at Green Valley, Texas 1965 and after SAAC 35.

I had the opportunity to take photos of 5R002 early Friday morning with very few people around on the first real day of SAAC 35. We had first crack at it and I had never seen 5R002 up close. I was tooling around looking at all the displays with my friend Daryl and on occasion with Diana, Dominic, Brian and the late Kenny Beers (RIP). Ron Richards was running all around the paddock in a golf cart.

Anyway, back to 5R002. This is how I know and remember 002 after it was found. Enjoy the pics.

Cheers,
~Earl J