67 Shelby GT 500 Super Snake Tribute-New to PT! [Archive]

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-01-2008, 03:01 PM

I've been lurking for a while but thought I'd say Hi! I purchased a 67 Mustang S code GT 390 Fastback Automatic a few years ago and am finally progressing on a tribute to the one-off Shelby GT 500 Super Snake. Total Control front and rear Suspension, Wilwood brakes and an Aluminium Shelby block 427 with a Tremec TKO 600 5sp. Here's what I started with... Very solid body California car (supposedly once owned by Rock Hudson though I have nothing to prove it at this point)

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-01-2008, 03:12 PM

I had Danbury Competition engines build the engine. Nothing too extravagant but good reliable and torquey engine at 500 hp.

fast Ed

03-01-2008, 11:03 PM

Welcome, from another Ford guy (we need more of them here, too many GM people). :poke: :razz:

cheers
Ed N.

kmcanally

03-02-2008, 04:45 AM

Welcome...theres more Ford guys here than you might think, but we are still waaaaay outnumbered. Nice project...I look forward to see it progress. What color are you going to paint it? stripes?

BossaNova

03-02-2008, 05:54 AM

I had Danbury Competition engines build the engine. Nothing too extravagant but good reliable and torquey engine at 500 hp.

Yeah. I see what you mean. Just your average all aluminum 500 h.p. engine.:rotfl:
That engines beautiful man!
-Mark

NOT A TA

03-02-2008, 06:36 AM

Welcome! Great project you've got there. Some of us are disguised as GM guys, I've got a 66 Stang project that I need to get back to. I'm living in Oxford now just Southeast of Danbury.

sunkistcamaro

03-02-2008, 06:10 PM

Welcome to the site Gary!
Great looking ride, keep us posted on your progress.

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-03-2008, 01:36 PM

I plan on painting it Nightmist Blue with a wide white Super snake stripe and with the boarder stripes. Heres some of the picks. The car had tons of undercoating underneath and in the trunk.

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-03-2008, 01:46 PM

More... We needed to put a patch in the drivers floor, repair one torque box and remove a small bit of rust on the left quarter.

Wildthing

03-03-2008, 02:20 PM

Hi. I jst purchased a 68 Fastback that I am tearing down at the moment. I was looking at your pictures and wondering what you used to get the undercoating off?

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-03-2008, 02:21 PM

A couple small issues with the body. In the battery tray area theres a slight wrinkle, right quarter and I'm replacing the drivers door due to a good shot to the front edge and a bunch of pin hole sized holes

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-03-2008, 02:27 PM

To remove the undercoating, heatlamps and a scraper

I also have aquestion for the computer type guys here.... P-T has a limit on the attachments I can put on so I had to delete some of my previous pictures to add these... What gives??? how can I add more with out having to delete the prior ones???

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-03-2008, 02:47 PM

Never mind I found the answer...Money!

Wildthing

03-03-2008, 08:24 PM

What did you use to remove the paint?

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-04-2008, 09:33 AM

By the way thanks everyone for the kind words and warm welcome!

I am in awe of the work I see being performed on this board, by the many do-it-yourselfers. Im in the car business but I myself am not doing the restoration. That credit goes out to East End Restorations on L I. N.Y. which is basicly a high end Shelby restorer (a friend of my brothers who also has a 68 GT 390 Fastback restored by him). E.E.R. welcomed the change of pace to do the Resto-mod. I actually purchased this car through him with the plan to do the work. So far I'm very pleased with how the cars comming along.

Wildthing, My car was sent out and media blasted

6fastback7

03-04-2008, 10:52 AM

nice solid car to work with! I have a 67 fastback in Nightmist Blue..good color choice..dark blue looks good on these bodys. Any ideas yet on wheels?

Wildthing

03-04-2008, 11:12 AM

The car looks great. I can't get over how amazingly clean the metal looks and how :spank2: the entire car is down to metal at the start. Nice base to start with.

I had the same rust through problem on the sheetmetal under the battery tray as well (yours is bent as well). Just busted the spot welds this weekend and am preparing to install the new panel.

Any idea what media it was blasted with?

705.0Merc

03-05-2008, 09:10 PM

That will be a fun car!

96Z28SS

03-05-2008, 11:14 PM

Not sure if you know this but the owner of the one off mustang supersnake is on this board.

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 02:21 PM

Not sure if you know this but the owner of the one off mustang supersnake is on this board.

No I wasn't aware of that...

Wildthing, MY car was media blasted with baking soda...

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 02:55 PM

OK..So I have ante'd up for a paid subsctiption, resized the pics and am reposting

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 03:08 PM

More....

nicks67camaro

03-06-2008, 03:11 PM

Do you go to Marcus Dairy?

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 03:25 PM

Again...some More.... To pretty much where we are at this point...

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 03:30 PM

nice solid car to work with! I have a 67 fastback in Nightmist Blue..good color choice..dark blue looks good on these bodys. Any ideas yet on wheels?

I chose Vintage wheel works V40's and painted the centers Nightmist blue. I'll be adding the flat stainless caps as well

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 03:37 PM

Do you go to Marcus Dairy?

Yes I do for the car shows and occasionally Sundays I have a Harley as well...(for Sale)...

nicks67camaro

03-06-2008, 03:38 PM

Yes I do for the car shows and occasionally Sundays I have a Harley as well...(for Sale)...

The car shows are pretty good some times but super sundy (which I thought they stopped) used to pull huge crowds.

nicks67camaro

03-06-2008, 03:39 PM

BTW great looking build.....

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 03:41 PM

THey do have get togethers each sunday. And 2 or 3 larger shows but nothing like the ones Don Clady used to put on...THey were quite huge

SUPERSTITIOUS

03-06-2008, 03:41 PM

Thanks Nick!

96Z28SS

03-06-2008, 03:58 PM

http://www.supersnake.org/

Yeah this is his website. It was on ebay a couple of months ago.

SUPERSTITIOUS

04-30-2008, 03:35 PM

Some pics with paint...

6fastback7

04-30-2008, 04:56 PM

lookin good...where did you purchase the TCP suspension from? I about to buy either this or the Global West kit

PleaseNoSteve

05-01-2008, 04:17 AM

Looks good blue

SUPERSTITIOUS

05-01-2008, 05:42 AM

I purchased the Total Control products, Willwood Brakes and guages and a bunch of misc. stuff thru Julio At JME Enterprises. One of the fellows that work with him I believe origionaly engineered the TCP suspension prior to Chris Alston Chassis works taking over.

SUPERSTITIOUS

11-05-2008, 04:58 PM

Hay...Some updates to bring the thread back to life...
Updates...

SUPERSTITIOUS

11-29-2008, 01:35 PM

Somehow all my attachments got poofed...Anyone have any idea as to why this happened?

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-01-2008, 04:35 PM

There back!
Here's a couple more for ya...

Rybar

12-01-2008, 04:45 PM

Killer Mustang, really like the color combo you chose. Please keep us updated with lots of pics.

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-02-2008, 02:38 PM

Thanks Rybar...Thats an absolutly stunning RS you have there!

1971CHEVELLE

12-02-2008, 02:51 PM

Welcome to the site:)
Sounds like you got great car there like the color combo

GHOSTDANCER

12-03-2008, 08:36 AM

Great looking build :kewlpics::cheers:

wicked68

12-03-2008, 01:26 PM

what engine / tranny are you putting in it?

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-04-2008, 02:51 PM

wicked68
I have an aluminum shelby FE block 427 with a keisler/tremec tko 600

wicked68

12-04-2008, 04:20 PM

wicked68
I have an aluminum shelby FE block 427 with a keisler/tremec tko 600

what all have you done to it and what hp do you think it will make?

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-06-2008, 12:05 PM

Dyno'd 2 pulls
490 HP 501 ft-lbs torque on mufflers and open carbs(no stacks) I didnt want to go too crazy, just reliable

craigs73

12-06-2008, 01:18 PM

sorry if you already posted this but what color is that is a awsome color

Ron S

12-06-2008, 02:14 PM

Beautiful car,its funny how the gt500 fiberglass really changes the look of the car.Minor changes really clean up an already cool body style.Ron

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-06-2008, 02:46 PM

Color is Nightmist blue with Wimbledon White stripes

craigs73

12-07-2008, 06:50 AM

what brand paint is it

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-08-2008, 07:27 AM

Spies Hecker, one of my friends looked up the color in his R+N Diamont paint database which has tons of old color formulas, sprayed me a sample and had Spies Hecker come up with a Nissan Maxima 89-91 vintage paint formula to match.

CarlC

12-08-2008, 08:37 AM

That is a really nice build Gary. It should be a lot of fun to drive.

Seems this has turned into a project thread. Would you like me to move it to Project Updates? There's a lot more traffic there.

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-08-2008, 12:55 PM

Thanks Carlc Yes please move this thread if you would. I wasn't sure how to have that happen. Thanks again!

vanzuuk1

12-08-2008, 05:40 PM

Hey i am just over in westchester, say hello sometime.

SUPERSTITIOUS

12-09-2008, 07:54 AM

Hey vanzuuk1! Where in Westchester are you located?

SUPERSTITIOUS

01-30-2009, 11:59 AM

Bringing my thread up to date with a few more pics...Front end on...

icebird84

01-30-2009, 12:07 PM

very nice
https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=28069&d=1233345106

GT500KR_Vert

01-30-2009, 06:50 PM

Nice, I've been trying to get mine to that point for 4 years.

SUPERSTITIOUS

01-31-2009, 03:00 PM

icebird84, Howd you get my picture to post so large?

icebird84

01-31-2009, 03:19 PM

icebird84, Howd you get my picture to post so large?

I open your Attach picture and copy it´s link https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=28069&d=1233345106

and insert image and past link and ok

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/01/help1-1.jpg

https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=28069&d=1233345106

SUPERSTITIOUS

02-07-2009, 03:35 PM

I had sent some pics to photobucket and tried copyng the links to the pics but I was told it was an invalid url?

454bug

02-07-2009, 08:48 PM

I had sent some pics to photobucket and tried copyng the links to the pics but I was told it was an invalid url?

Hey Gary,

When you load the pictures on to Photobucket, there are 4 files listed under each picture. Go to the last one listed as, "IMG code". Click on it with your right mouse button and select "copy". Then go to your "pro-touring" post and click your right mouse button again where you want to insert the picture and click on "paste".

Now your pictures will be full size.

Try it out. You will like it a lot better with the larger picture posts. I know we will!! :)

By the way... awesome build!! :1st: The '67-'68 Shelby Mustangs (and clones) are one of my all time favorite cars...

Here's a video of my college buddy's (J. Bittle of JBA Racing in San Diego, Ca.) first love, he has owned the car for 31 years... It's a REAL 1967 Shelby GT500 with a "Tunnel-Port" 427 in it... (Actually, it now has a Shelby 482 cubic inch Aluminum short block in it... but it still has the Tunnel-Port heads on it.)

FvkGVcKJwFI

SUPERSTITIOUS

02-09-2009, 08:58 AM

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/02/M137-1.jpg:
I get it just put the link in the text box...I was trying to upload the url into the manage attachments upload url box...

SUPERSTITIOUS

02-09-2009, 09:01 AM

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/02/M138-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/02/M140-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/02/M142-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/02/M143-1.jpgCool!

SUPERSTITIOUS

02-09-2009, 09:06 AM

Cool!https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/02/M131Medium-1.jpg

SUPERSTITIOUS

07-18-2009, 11:59 AM

Its been a while and my project is nearing the end!!!

BossaNova

07-18-2009, 12:38 PM

Awesome build with awesome results.
Love the wheels!

SUPERSTITIOUS

07-18-2009, 01:03 PM

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M165-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M169-1.jpg
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SUPERSTITIOUS

07-18-2009, 01:12 PM

Its been a while and I forgot how to post large shots... Here ya go.... Im outa space in my attachment file so Im posting this way
Thanks BossaNova!

SatisTraction

07-18-2009, 01:22 PM

hit enter after each pic and it will work much better

SUPERSTITIOUS

07-18-2009, 01:26 PM

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M167-1.jpg
I see otherwise they dont stack...ooops! Thanks for the tip.... all fixed

SUPERSTITIOUS

07-18-2009, 01:39 PM

The exhaust I just had done.
I want to say thanks to United Exhaust in Pt Jefferson Station NY for the time and effort in my nice mandrel bent system!
Next set up the suspension make sure no cleareance issues then I'll ceramic coat the exhaust...
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M157-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M159-1.jpg
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M160-1.jpg
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https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/07/M164-1.jpg

SUPERSTITIOUS

07-18-2009, 01:48 PM

Dont worry, Now the exhaust is in, I'll perminantly locate the fuel lines, ebrake etc.
I do need to cover the opening in the lakewood bellhousing. Any ideas?

69TAPoser

07-18-2009, 03:29 PM

Dont worry, Now the exhaust is in, I'll perminantly locate the fuel lines, ebrake etc.
I do need to cover the opening in the lakewood bellhousing. Any ideas?

Wow. :1st:

As for the bellhousing, I also have a hydraulic clutch and I just used the stock clutch fork gasket:

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif

Phil