good luck fellas! It always seems to be the finishing up that takes the longest

 

Brushed wheels, not painted Ahh I see where that's going now. I thought they were painted silver. Brushed metal

 

Looking Good!

KC

 

Once the car is back from Sema and everythings settled down, we'll be doing multiple photo shoots for the site with the car.

here's the blurb Brad sent out today in press release.

Project T-67, our latest project car, will debut at SEMA (November 3-6) in the TMI/Vizualogic booth (10503) in the Las Vegas Convention Center's North Hall. Owned by John "390 4spd" Loper and built in conjunction with "SVO Paul's" SVP Unlimited and TheMustangSource.com, the custom 1967 Mustang convertible is a beautiful yet menacing cruiser featuring classic Shelby styling cues blanketed in Indigo Ink Pearl with white Super Snake-style stripes, powered by a supercharged 4.6L DOHC V8 SVT Cobra "Terminator" engine delivering in excess of 400 horsepower and riding on a Griggs Racing Watts Link suspension. The combination of classic Mustang styling and modern technology is further evidenced by the interior, furnished by TMI Classic Automotive Interiors and featuring Auto Meter gauges. The car rolls on custom 18" BOZE Alloys wheels, behind which lies a set of 14" Baer brakes with six-piston calipers, also finished in Indigo Ink Pearl, on all four corners. The Mustang's classic exhaust note is enhanced by a custom-fabricated Magnaflow exhaust system. Visit TheMustangSource.com to follow the car's build from start to finish.

 

I read the whole thread from start to finnish...wow I could only imagine the look on everyones face when the soda blasting showed the true condition of the origional car and the where do we go from here, I'm sure everyones hearts must have sank at that point. But with pride, determination and help from TMS look what it has become! The car has turned into a true work of art!.
Congratulations on a job well done!! I can 't wait to see more picks of the finnished product!

 

I just finished reading this whole thread, as building a 67/68 Shelby clone has always been one of my dreams. As you all have said, Im in the same boat, I would love to own an original 68 Shelby, but will never be able to afford one, and if I had one, you cant really drive one around town and not worry about acidents. So a Shelby clone, or "Tribute" as many now call them makes sense.

Looking at this build and the unknown rust factor, it seams to me, if you would have been building a fastback or Dynacon made a convertable body, wouldn't the Dynacon body have been the cheaper, faster way to start? This is basicly a classic body with all new, modern parts. Which makes me realize the CDC FlashBack cars, although expensive, in the 120$K range, are probably not far from what you could spend if you bought a Daynacon body, a rust bucket doner for parts,and built your own.

Another thing, I thought Dyancon only made the whole bodies, I didnt know they made all those individual replacement parts. Most awsome build, makes me want one soo badly....

 

A dynacorn body would have been better to start with if they made a convertible...but they only make the fastback so we had no choice.

 

Paul drop me a line when you're ready to tackle another project!

 

updates? those photo shoot pics? After SEMA.... news of this car died

 

We are still working....we changed the interior blue to a darker shade. The upholstery guy got fired for screwing up the carpet and top prior to SEMA. New upholstery guy sourced and the carpet is done and the top is right now. The Rollbar was left at SEMA to travel to CA to be set up for custom wrapping and has just recently returned.

The recently was displayed at the World of Wheels in Birmingham. Lots of positive feedback and some people have contacted me telling me it was the best looking car there.

The console is also off getting some changes made to it and we are continuing to finish the little details up. I'll try to get some more pics up soon

 

Nice can't wait to hear more and see soem pics Paul

 

I'd love to hear some driving impressions as well.

 

Wow just read 13 pages of thread and I am speechless!, good work!

 

Fantastic job, a true work of art. I'm starting a 68 Shelby build myself, gess I'll will start up a thread & post some pics. What type of fuel tank did you use.

 

Thanks, just prepare yourself for a LOT of work with the fiberglass parts. We used a Fuel Safe Fuel cell in the car.

We have changed the interior color to a darker blue and are addressing the smaller details. We had to go back and address the headlight mounting brackets...the ones we got left a LOT to be desired and were not only not solid enough that they wouldn't vibrate but they didn't fit properly so we went back and made new brackets that would do the job properly. There isn't a single part that we have used to create the Shelby image that did not require work and that goes right down to the emblems. The fiberglass had to be the worst as far as needing work and we bought the best that was available for the project.

We continue to tie things up and have gone back to work on a few things that we were not completely happy with....hopefully very soon we will get it out for some driving impressions .

 

Updates Please!!!

 

Any more pics yet?

 

New Pics

 

Did you drive it yet? What did you think? Have you gotten to drive it hard? Inquiring minds want to know (especially before I plunk down $10k for a griggs suspension).