Elektrishun
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I thought that saying only applied to dueling with lightsabers?
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Show us your shops!
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Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
WooHooo, sign me up!
The first time he came out we had a bit of an argument where he pointed a bogus issue and suggested that I could 'help myself out of the problem'. After that I just kept booking inspections without changing anything. Each time he would come out and make the same suggestion while I played dumb. After about 5 or 6 times, a different inspector came and passed the work immediately. I never saw the guy again
Chip Maker
Super User
Hard to see the shop layout with the car in the way. She just came home from paint and I have to finish the assembly. Anyways the shop is a three car garage, under a three car garage so only a nine foot ceiling (upper garage is a ten foot ceiling). Hydronic floor heat with electric when needed. There is a gas line tee in the shop, but I've never needed more heat. 100 amp service, with a phase converter for the mill. I have four Kennedy toolboxes in an adjoining room with all my tools of the trade (retired diemaker).
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A Shelby Mustang eh...... I am truly jealous. Prolly the only car I would go out of my way today to own.....
I knew Carrol back in the day. I even sat up on the folded down convertible top beside him in a parade in SanAntonio. Quite the man.
Beautiful ‘68, personally I don’t care if it’s a tribute or genuine Shelby, it is the most beautiful Mustang ever made, my dream car for over 50 years.
My first car was a 65’ fastback, red, painted as a Shelby clone, stripes and all. In 1979 I was offered a very tired 68’ GT 500KR as a straight across trade, I didn’t go for it and have kicked myself ever since.
My first car was a 65’ fastback, red, painted as a Shelby clone, stripes and all. In 1979 I was offered a very tired 68’ GT 500KR as a straight across trade, I didn’t go for it and have kicked myself ever since.
Obviously distracted by the car, no comments about all the clear floor space.
Guilty as charged.
It's sorta like that model posted earlier. I don't remember seeing anything else in that photo.
Now, if there was a model on that Shelby......
slow-poke
Ultra Member
When I was about 14? in Winnipeg my buddies and I were on our 10 spd bikes and stopped at a Shell to air up a tire. Green 67 GT500 with Alberta plates parked besides garage. We asked about it and the gas station owner stated that some kids were driving it bumped the front light and said they were going to get something to eat and then fix it. They never came back. The owner put it in storage and it sat. 15 years later my buddy was looking for a vintage Mustang and his dad who also happened to also have a Shell station put the word out they were looking. Gets a call I have a green 67 GT500 with 13,000 miles, factory 428-8V and 4spd. We took a look and it was the same car untouched since that day it still had the broken headlight. Shell guy claimed after 10 years the "garage keepers act" makes him the owner. My buddy was worried that it might get claimed by insurance company if he tried to register it, so he passed and picked up a nice 65 Fastback.
slow-poke
Ultra Member
Who knows, that was a long time ago. It sure was neat seeing it the second time round. Pretty cool cars with the factory roll bar with aviation type safety harness, and the factory 2x4 barrel is not something you see very often. I raced a stock one with my 69 Mustang back in the day and it was fairly quick for a stock car. Those were fun days.Any chance it's still there?
I see a 67 sold for 800k in 2020, expensive, but not compared to the 1965 GT350 R that also sold that year for $3,850,000 that's about as rare as they get.
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Chip Maker
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Real deal. I bought it in '78 as a kid. I have the build sheet and Marti report. Factory air, tilt-away car. Gt 350. Lower stripes won't be put on until the paint is well cured. The motor is a 347 stroker built using a Mexican block and close ratio top-loader 4-speed. Old school iron heads ('69 351W 4V) with factory aluminum high rise and 600 double pumper. Hydraulic cam for spirited street and factory dual point with mechanical advance. Headers and h-pipe exhaust. Trying to maintain a relatively stock appearance for the purist in me.
