Shelby Gt500

rusty428cj

10 Year Member
Sep 29, 2007
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Port Richey Fl
I have known the owner of this Shelby for a long time and he has talked about having us restore it for years. He has owned the car for over twenty years and it was painted before he bought it. It looks great from a distance but it's a real Shelby and it is time for a restoration.

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The first thing we did was scrape the paint off with a razor blade

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All the floor pans look good except the drivers side and it had been replaced a long time ago

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thats cool. for those that do not believe how bad the real thing fit here is the proof.
though it looks like a lot of it could have been adjusted for a better fit that is the normal for these cars. the couple i worked on,the metal tail panel was cut out with what looked like an air chisel and the coil of metal left by the bit was still there attached to the tail panel and the top and bottom cut ran past the side cuts.
the end cap holes in the quarters were drilled over sized and so were the upper side scoop mounting holes. i have some pics of a factory super charged 67 taken apart if i can find them.
 
I decided to send the body out to get sandblasted.

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When it came back there was a lot of clean up to do. Vacuum, use the air blower, vacuum, flip it over and do it all over again a few times.

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i would like to find a way to vibrate them when they are upside down .i gently hit the door jambs with a rubber hammer and that makes a lot of the sand fall in the roof ,then i vacuum and spin and vacuum and spin and blow it out and vacuum and spin:drool:
 
I'm way behind in updates so now I will get into some of the harder work

The first thing we did was start removing the old patch and left front floor pan

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Behind the roll bar the floor pan had a little rust. We did not want to take out the roll bar so we patched it

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New floor pan and toe board installed

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Rear floor patch

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Before the seat riser was installed it was epoxy primed

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Welds ground down

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