8T02R203160-02423 on BaT

[SHELB66]

I would like to get all the people who said "drive it like it is" together.

Let them sit in that car for about an hour and see if they change their minds

I just could not drive that car with that rusty dash staring at me.  The outside rust I can live with but I need some comfort & enjoyment while driving.

Craig R.

[shelbymann1970]

. . . . . there a lot of people still eating crayons

    I think I remember it was only certain colors that prove bad for you? 

    Scott.

well those posters were eating the bad colored ones. I cringe at many of the comments and so many idiotic comments turned yellow tell me the amount of " cheerleaders" on BAT are out of control. I cannot tell you how many hours I have invested in learning the nuances of 68 Shelbys or how much time Pete has spent  graciously educating me and then seeing a bunch of idiots making  stupid comments they know nothing about. The dumbing of America via social media. Has anyone even determine if that was indeed the original engine in the car? How Dennis pried it from the engine shop owner who said many years ago he wouldn't sell it? Wouldn't that fall in with a DC Collins coffee walk episode nicely?

[Special Ed]

All i can say is WOW!!  I would like to hire the guy who said that car can be restored for $25-30,000  as i see over $15,000 just in parts missing then a total restore.

[Coralsnake]

The dash doesn't bother me so much....

Could you drive it with that headliner knowing there is a large mouse hole by the sun visor and those rodents were (are?) living in there, peeing, fornicating, dying and God knows what else for decades? Not what I want over my head and inches from my mouth.

Seems to be a lot of people that think you can just wipe off the seat and shampoo the rugs.

Good to go.

But, if you say anything like that you're a hateful person that thinks every car should have original fan belts.

Crayon eaters...wait until the temperature goes up and it dries out. You literally just bought the most expensive 1968 Shelby project car ever, best of luck

[shelbymann1970]

The dash doesn't bother me so much....

Could you drive it with that headliner knowing there is a large mouse hole by the sun visor and those rodents were (are?) living in there, peeing, fornicating, dying and God knows what else for decades? Not what I want over my head and inches from my mouth.

Seems to be a lot of people that think you can just wipe off the seat and shampoo the rugs.

Good to go.

But, if you say anything like that you're a hateful person that thinks every car should have original fan belts.

Crayon eaters...wait until the temperature goes up and it dries out. You literally bought the most expensive 1968 Shelby project car, best of luck

well said.

[Grumpy]

All i can say is WOW!!  I would like to hire the guy who said that car can be restored for $25-30,000  as i see over $15,000 just in parts missing then a total restore.

Ed.. that was me being sarcastic 

[pbf777]

. . . . . there a lot of people still eating crayons

    I think I remember it was only certain colors that prove bad for you? 

    Scott.

I cringe at many of the comments and so many idiotic comments turned yellow tell me the amount of " cheerleaders" on BAT are out of control. . . . . and then seeing a bunch of idiots making  stupid comments they know nothing about. [It's] the dumbing of America via social media.

    I agree completely, and this is where B.A.T. should be concentrating their efforts on bettering the site, this rather than jumping in with the idiots (of course, might they be any wiser?  ), or choosing to follow a path that presents the apparent short-sighted profits of today in trade for legitimacy and stature in the future which would aid in assuring prominence and long-term profitability in the future.   

Has anyone even determine if that was indeed the original engine in the car? How Dennis pried it from the engine shop owner who said many years ago he wouldn't sell it? Wouldn't that fall in with a DC Collins coffee walk episode nicely?

    As having been it the business for quite a period of time, I can state that such scenarios, that as having been presented, rarely will one have the opportunity to come across.  As first, most "shops" don't appreciate the item as a rarity, collectable or with any ideals of coveting it, it's "just another job", and generally needs to be turned in order to reap the benefits of having let it in the door and having invested labor and capital in it in the first place.  If the customer fails to participate in a timely manor, generally the shop will levy a lien on the goods and then pawn them on the first interested party that they encounter.  And this is more often the story that accompanies abandoned restoration projects where "the engine was lost at the machine shop long ago".   

    So is it possible that the shop just hung on to the stuff for-ever?  Yes, it does happen, but in a similar scenario, if I were considering a car where the engine had been abandoned at a shop a significant period of time ago, yeah I'd follow up to see if it were "possible", that the shop "might" still have it, but I sure have to label the chances as quite the "longshot"!   

    But yeah, it makes for more fodder, in the process of creating a great tale!   

    Scott.