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Nice !

Hi Dynomax,
I happen to be working on my 65 Fastback and this part of my car is wide open, so I took the opportunity for some photos and measurements. I don't think it would be too hard to fabricate this bracket. I'd tackle this with a piece of 11-gauge steel, a jigsaw, vice, drill, ball peen hammer and some files to smooth it out.

The floor area where the bracket is welded slopes back from level at 8-degrees. The wall behind slopes back at 19 degrees. I created a 3-view dimension drawing for the passenger side bracket. The driver side is the reverse.

I suspect it would be pretty easy to find someone who can weld a bit better than was done on my car.

I don't know if you will find this useful, but it kept me entertained for an hour or so. Smooth roads!

Your effort to help is a excellent example of what this forum is all about. Good karma to you. 

A BIG +1

Merry Christmas to everyone and their families.

Wedgeman;
thanks  I have been working in Seattle since the end of august and really like the sunny days and relatively mild temperatures. A lot different from the constant rain and wind I was told to pack for and expect.  I have got to admit its a friendly city. Seems like Subarus are the choice of the under 30 crowd.   

Nothing like the sound of a GT350 289 with side exiting exhaust. Anyone know where Ep (episode ?) 1 & 2 are?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SuXmAOR4a0

My condolences to his family. Sounds like he was a very talented person and Shelby gearhead.
I used to live in El Segundo and saw a similar sign a few blocks from Main St. I think it was the same place. I never stopped as I drove by to work.

Time lapse makes it look easy and fast. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVtrnxx3rTE

Love these vintage videos where the cars are speeding on a tires with a contact patch of a dollar bill and 10" of clearance under the chassis.  thanks for posting.

Another story that reminds us that cars have been and will always be an important part of our life stories.

http://digg.com/video/kids-buy-back-mustang-for-dad
or
http://digg.com/video/kids-buy-back-mustang-for-dad

Ahhh - Blue Dots 
Thanks for posting

Please send my congratulations to Paul ! This is one bruddah that I would love to talk story.
Wishing we all can be this healthy and positive at 100!

Mark;
thanks for posting your restoration pictures and keeping us arm chair restorers wanting more.
And those header pictures are fantastic  haha

You might be the spark that lights this young guys enthusiasm for everything automotive. Most of all our GT350's. Maybe you can get him to join SAAC     Guys his age in our club maybe rarer than finding an NOS date code correct Blue Dot. 

Also great that they appreciated your ride and had vague familiarity as to what it is.  Obviously they researched the competition.

Even though I know what the response will be, I show the millennials i work with a picture (they don't have the patience to look at more than one) of a 1965 GT350 and many say that "My grandpa had a one". When I try to explain that back in the day, car makes had different performance versions, their eyes glaze over and start to look at their iPhones. This is what to expect from a guy born in 1992 (yipes ! haha) in a time when there are not Prius GT's or 'R' models,