Posts by BoS_old

  • driveshaft paint

    Hi,

    I painted my drive shaft on 5S275 with three

    different colored rings, light blue,

    dark blue and black. This was after looking at

    5R104 that was restored by? in the early

    90's. There was an article with many pictures in

    Mustang Monthly showing this car.

    Is it the wrong colors for a San Jose built early May

    65 HiPo (Shelby), I don't know but I'll leave these

    on for now until somebody can prove they are wrong.

    /Bo

  • 65-66 K engine value

    Hi,

    I'll say the carb, if the date code is correct,

    is worth about $500-600. If it is 593, it would have come off

    a 66 Shelby. It would be too late for a 65 Shelby. My friend has 6S923 and the carb is dated 581, i.e. First week of Aug.1965.

    /Bo

  • What is considered the 3rd week of Oct 1965

    Talk about a "Just In-Time Supply Chain already

    in 1965. Shelby 5S275's engine block casted 4/23,

    engine assembled in Cleveland on 5/3, sent to San Jose

    to be meeting up with the rest of the car, driven off the line,

    shipped to L.A. and arrive there at 5/13. Could be like this:

    5/3- engine ready

    5/4- shipped by train to San Jose

    5/7 or 8- arriving at San Jose

    5/10- car complete and ready to go.

    5/11- shipped to L.A.

    5/13- arrive at L.A.

    Very tight but possible. As said above, I am very impressed by their Supply Chain.

    /Bo

  • What is considered the 3rd week of Oct 1965

    My experience, which isn't that great on ownership of

    HiPo engines, is the opposite to yours. My 65 Shelby %275 has the

    original stamped block, the 66 Shelby #923 that I used to co-own has

    original stamped block, the engine in my 67 Shelby (not-original)

    has a stamped block (August 64) and a 67 HiPo engine I used to own had a stamped block as well. The 65 and 66 Shelbys were very visable

    without any cleaning necessary while the other two took some real

    work to make visable. Those two were found in Sweden and had been

    used in winter times which made the surface rust quite deep.

    In fact, many years ago here in Texas I was looking at a 65 GT HiPo

    coupe and couldn't find the vin on the block and passed on the car

    for $9500. The guy that bought it took off the paint and the vin was there.

    /Bo

  • What is considered the 3rd week of Oct 1965

    Hi,

    My original engine block cast date is 5D23 and my

    engine assembly date is 5E3, i.e. 10 days later.

    Car arrived at Shelby on 5/13 another 10 days later

    than the engine assembly date. Car is 5S275.

    As you can see a very tight time line. Engine shipped from

    Cleveland to San Jose and put in the car and shipped from San

    Jose to L.A. All in just 10 days. Maybe they flew the

    engines to San Jose. My 513 carb is not the original to my car.

    As regards your time line, I think you have done a terrific

    job to identify the most probable block cast date and assembly

    date. However, I believe it could even be a bit closer to the

    5L10 date than almost a month earlier 5K11.

    Are we sure that the engines were assembled at the Cleveland

    plant or were the blocks just casted there? Personally, I haven't seen any documents saying neither nor.

    It's a very interesting subject and I am as crazy as you are

    on date codes. Have created a spread sheet with all dates

    that relates to my car and it's various parts, sheet metal and

    others.

    Good luck with your continued research.

    /Bo

  • What is considered the 3rd week of Oct 1965

    The problem I have is the reference in your poll email between

    the assembly date of the engine and the Holley carb date.

    "This relates to the code on my 715 carb, built 3rd week of Oct or 5O3, thus my engine assembly date would have to be 3rd or 4th or 5th week of Oct."

    To my knowledge, there is no correlation between the two.

    Can your carb date be original to your car, absolutely.

    /Bo

  • What is considered the 3rd week of Oct 1965

    Hi,

    Don't understand your comment on the assembly

    date of the engine. The engine was assembled

    shipped to and installed at San Jose with an Autolite

    carb and then Shelby replaced them with a Holley for the

    4-speed cars (also automatics through car #799) at his L.A.

    plant. This means that the date code on a Holley can be

    whatever date earlier than the car was reworked at Shelby.

    For example, 6S923 was produced at Shelby in Feb 1966,

    engine assembly date is Jan 6, 1966 but the original Holley

    carb is dated 581, i.e. first week of Aug 1965.

    /Bo

  • 65 HiPo Equalizer Bar

    Hi guys,

    Have a qustion for you, as regards the original 65 HiPo

    Equalizer Bar:

    On which side of the pipe is the down pointing bracket

    (connecting the rod to the shift fork) welded, towards the front

    or towards the rear when mounted?

    My friend's car has it welded towards the rear and my

    NOS Ford replacement bar has it welded towards the front when mounted. Looked at different vendors repos and they are different as well, some welded towards the front and others welded towards the rear. Thanks for your help.

    /Bo

  • Radiator casting info?

    Hi again,

    This is a very interesting subject. Yesterday I saw two different

    San Jose radiators C4ZE, W-MO, both dated 5 65, one having a Y2 and the other G2. Both are for manual transmissions.

    To me this must mean there is a difference to the cars these were

    originally installed on. Why the difference otherwise?

    I know the G2 are used on 65 Shelbys. Have seen original 1965 pictures of cars and cars with radiators marked G2 dated 2 65, 3 65, 4 65, and 5 65. Never seen an original 65 Shelby radiator with these

    dates marked Y2 though.

    Comments,

    Thanks,

    /Bo

  • Underside color

    Hi Jeff,

    My 67 Shelby is 67402F7A01317, outboard lights with

    a Z marking on the plate. Original dealer was Stockton

    Quincy Ford Inc.in Westwood, Los Angeles.

    I was there (35 year anniversary of the Mustang)

    with those guys. Drove up from Texas.

    /Bo