Getting Ready For Right Hand Drive – A Small Update

So last week I said things were starting to move along and the car was going in for it’s right hand drive conversion. News just in is that the body kit has almost been removed so she can go in for her conversion. (Read more…)

May Project Update – Right Hand Drive Conversion Imminent

Just a short update as to what is happening now with my car. Things are starting to happen again and hopefully will have a major update soon.

We’ve had a chat to the conversion guys this past week and the good news is they think they can fit in my old girl in the next few weeks and we could have the dash done fairly soon. (Read more…)

Bosch Xenon projector headlights arrive

They’ve arrived! The Bosch Xenon projector headlights with D2S bulbs are here, along with the ballasts and wiring harness.

They look fantastic however I have found some issues I’m a little worried about. I couldn’t get them on camera but you can tell the resin used to seal up the casing produced some kind of (Read more…)

Fitting the Shelby rear taillights!

The Shelby taillights have been fitted and the side exhaust tips are being worked on. It’s coming down to the little odds and end with the whole kit fitting.

Well after a very demoralising weekend having been told the bill for the body work, fitting the kit and labour I’ve finally feeling a bit better after getting some more photos! No matter how much this project is costing me all my worries and fears dissipate when i see the old girl taking shape.

Firstly we’ve encountered some (Read more…)

Major update – PIAA lights installed, Front nose, Fuel filler!

Ok so it’s a pretty big update here as I have made one in a while. Firstly the rear panel is now glued in place and almost ready for the rear lights setup to start being installed, thankfully we haven’t had too many troubles with the back.

The fuel filler tube is now finished and also ready to start going in. You can see we have added a steel breather tube whereas a lot of others use a rubber breather. I think it works better this way.

Read on for the pics

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Front end tease!

Ok I only have one updated picture for the moment, but the hood is fitting damn fine now. We are going back to the tail light panel for the rest of this week. We still need to do a few things to the nose but it is looking very good and as you can see the gaps are looking almost perfect.

Hopefully this weekend we’ll pull her out of the shed for some full body shots! Stay tuned.

Lining up the Hood and grilles – More drama!

Well we’ve had a lot of issues with the hood and it’s beginning to become a major headache. It seems the front nose is not square to start with and being perfectionists we’d like to get it straight on. But as you can see from the above image she’s beginning to come together!

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Fabrication of functional brake vents

So as you all know the car is going to have functional upper scoops and lower scoops. Early on the scoops were functional but as costs got higher and higher they had to cut back and in 1967 the lower brake cooling vents were not functional as Carrol Shelby said on TLC’s “Rides”

In 65′ everything was functional……air scoops, all that stuff was functional. 66′ semi functional. 67′ and 8, not so functional anymore.

I’m doing it a bit differently and opening them up, not that they will need cooling though!

Anyway we’ve made some progress and here are two pictures showing the tub cut through the side and into the wheel arch from the inside.

Glueing the upper scoops – More progress!

Good news! The upper scoops are now glued into place. We’ve opened them up and had them glued into their final location. They’re looking great.

The other two photos are of the front end where we’re still working on making it all fit up nicely. Another issue we’re having is deciding how to fit the front grille. I’m told there are several ways that can be used to fit this but i still need to investigate. For now here are the update pictures, enjoy.