Restoration of the CJ Pony Parts Shelby display car is happening.

[deathsled]

I hope this isn't a repost as I conducted a reasonable search to avoid duplicity.

[deathsled]

Here is part two posted on YouTube four hours ago.

[Coralsnake]

My advice: Use English grammar correctly. Use NOS parts when available, this car deserves it.

I'm not an English grammar teacher, but I agree with the commenters.

He is entertaining.

[CharlesTurner]

Seems like a good metal guy, certainly has been there/done that.  Instead of going the full repro parts route, he could set a good example and show how to repair the car with original sheet metal from a SJ parts coupe/NOS pieces.  Done like that, nobody could knock him for the work.

[J_Speegle]

Agree, excellent car to use a rust free donor car for from the same time period at San Jose. Real time saver also as far as the thousands of little correct parts, hardware, bolts and so much more you don't even think of at the beginning 

We will know more after this one gets stripped  so we can see what may be solid to hang the other panels on.

[2008 GT-C]

I had the opportunity to see this car in person at a car show CJ Pony parts had years ago. Always wondered what was going to happen to this car. Shame someone used it for target practice. Thank you for sharing I might not have come across this myself.

[jimhyc]

Seems like a good metal guy, certainly has been there/done that.  Instead of going the full repro parts route, he could set a good example and show how to repair the car with original sheet metal from a SJ parts coupe/NOS pieces.  Done like that, nobody could knock him for the work.

Seeing that the car/restoraration is a marketing tool for a major Mustang parts company I bet they will use as much replacement parts as possible to showcase what they have to offer. Where most owners would go with original or NOS when possible.

[hertzz350]

Does any one know the shelby#?

[S8MS-01904]

Boy, that car is rough...

Wound it be a bad idea to cut at the A-pillers and slide in a dynacorn body? Asking for a friend.  I think fabb'n the unique areas can be done to a fresh tub.

[Bill Collins]

Does any one know the shelby#?

6S936. Local car from new, sold at Francis For Fords. I originally encountered it in the driveway of a house next to a truck stop just north of Harrisburg in Clarks Ferry, PA, probably in the 1980's or 90's. Repeated attempts to contact the owner were unsuccessful and the car eventually disappeared.

Fast forward to around 2001, when I received a call from Crede Stammel, the "C" in CJ Pony, inquiring about a value for a rough '66 GT350. From his description, I deduced it was the same car. A farmer in the area had acquired it and installed a 6 cylinder engine / automatic transmission and was using it as a field car. When he decided to sell it, he contacted CJ's as they were a known entity in the area for Mustang parts.

CJ's bought it and I expressed interest in purchasing it from them, but they decided to remove the 6 automatic and put the body "as found" into their showroom as an attraction. I saw it there in 2002 and took the attached photos. I recall Creed telling me the original aluminum T10 was still with it but the engine was long gone.

In February of 2003, Carroll Shelby made a personal appearance at the Atlantic City Classic Car Event in New Jersey. CJ's was a vendor there at the time, as was I and we were set up adjacent to each other. They took 6S936 to the event to show it to Shelby and have him autograph it. He got quite a hoot out of the fact that it had survived in such a condition. I have photos of him signing the roof, which I will attach to another post.

The back story on 936 as I recall is that it was a drag car for a while, hence the "Midnite Confession" lettering. The name likely comes from a 1968 hit song by the Grass Roots. At some point the owner reportedly became entangled in a three way love affair. The jilted party shotgunned the car and set fire to it. It was in this condition that I first saw it, sitting in that driveway with the windows blown out and the interior full of leaves.

You can't make this stuff up....

[Bill Collins]

Shelby autographing 6S936 at the Atlantic City Classic Car Event on February 23, 2003. I am set up with the white KR next to the CJ Pony booth in the last photo.

[deathsled]

I had the opportunity to see this car in person at a car show CJ Pony parts had years ago. Always wondered what was going to happen to this car. Shame someone used it for target practice. Thank you for sharing I might not have come across this myself.

Most welcome.

[deathsled]

Shelby autographing 6S936 at the Atlantic City Classic Car Event on February 23, 2003. I am set up with the white KR next to the CJ Pony booth in the last photo.

Great photos all of them. Thanks for posting.

[NC TRACKRAT]

Bill Collins and I remember CJ's when they were operating out of a shed and a barn just outside of Harrisburg back in the late '80's early '90's. These were the days before AMK so I used to go out and pick through nuts, bolts and small hardware to clean up and refinish. Ah, "the good old days".

[Bill Collins]

Bill Collins and I remember CJ's when they were operating out of a shed and a barn just outside of Harrisburg back in the late '80's early '90's. These were the days before AMK so I used to go out and pick through nuts, bolts and small hardware to clean up and refinish. Ah, "the good old days".

Indeed. CJ Pony Parts was originally not far from their present location on a farmette owned, as I recall, by Jay Zeigler's family. They had a small Mustang salvage yard behind the main house. When they built the first modern building in 1999 along US Route 22 east of Harrisburg, there was a substantial salvage yard out back. They eventually stopped selling used parts and the yard was closed and cleared out.