1967 GT500 427 Drag car (1 of 1)

This car was built for a friend of Caroll Shelby, Clint Lunham, he was a banker in San Francisco at the time. clint wanted to drag race and asked shelby to build him a car.

Shelby wrote how he wanted the car built and what modifications. the engine was a Cobra S.C. lightweight 427; aluminum heads, water pump, balancer, Holman Moody 2x4 intake custom headers and exhaust system, heavy duty radiator, no p.s. cobra oil cooler, remote oil filter, C-6 modified by D and H hydro, 3000rpm stall converter, Ddetroit locker 411s, under ride traction bars,shock towers were cut just above a-frames and plated up to the top to make room for spark plug access and headers. the rear wheel wells lips were cut off, raised and spread a little over an inch and welded back on, still looks like a factory opening just bigger.
http://www.highdefforum.com/car-forum/115098-muscle-cars-1962-1972-a-142.html
http://saacforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=tpjv54n98tg05s7obr0hfd7m04&topic=1385.180

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a GT 350 that was stolen and stripped, but not until after cool adventures

Fidel Kunz was a painter back in 1967,  a few miles north of the border town Porthill, Idaho.

Fidel's local Ford dealer didn't have any Shelbys in stock and wouldn't take Fidel's requests for one seriously. Fidel was fed up. One day he walked into the showroom with the required amount of money to buy a Shelby. The dealer saw all that cash in Fidel's hand and changed his mind

Fidel immediately set about racing his new car as well as using it as a daily driver, the GT-350 carried Fidel to his various job sites during the week. It was on the job that the car caught the attention of a young kid. The kid wanted a ride, and Fidel obliged. The young kid was wowed and became a racer in his teens. He later switched to engine building. One of his engines won the Indy 500 years later.

Before he knew it, the whole experience came to an abrupt end in the early 1970s when the car was stolen because the GT-350 had extensive engine work done and was known in the area. The thieves couldn't sell the car without attracting attention, so they pulled the engine to sell it out of town. The body of the car was abandoned in bushes, destroyed. Sadly, the car had to be written off.

http://www.oneownercollectorcar.com/index.php/cars/goneforever/82-1967-ford-mustang-shelby-gt-350-fidel-kunz

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the only quandry was, single? Or dual? carbs

http://www.highdefforum.com/car-forum/115098-muscle-cars-1962-1972-a-140.html

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Shelby Series One are getting auctioned for about the same as they cost new, with only 400 miles on them, 2 recently were at Barrett Jackson

one was optioned with an additional 60 thousand dollars of stuff, and given to the 1998 Playmate of the Year by Playboy. Only sold for 126,000
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1999-SHELBY-SERIES-1-2-DOOR-CONVERTIBLE-81850

Only sold for 121,000, and was the only pearl white with blue stripes, an Italian leather interior upgrade and extra carbon-fiber.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1999-SHELBY-SERIES-1-CONVERTIBLE-195714

I looked at a couple others, google will tell you about all the SS Ones that have been auctioned at Barrett Jackson, and they all have very little mileage, were all made in 1998, all 249 of them, and now they sell for about what they did new.

That means not enjoying them was a mistake, they simply took up garage space without being enjoyed, or appreciating in value. 

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Carroll Shelby in the pits at Sebring 1965

https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/qh738xk0202

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not all parts were created equal, some were made with Shelby part numbers, and would be worth a lot of money today... here are some in the back of a truck at a track in 1963

https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/dw305wr5410

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the start of the GT 350s getting delivered

http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=27706.15

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Daytona Coupes CSX2287 (#2) and CSX2286 (#1) at LAX, leaving the Shelby American facility

http://saacforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=02lcaiedigm4l798kh37hh1772&topic=27706.180

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New 427 Cobras waiting for Halibrand wheels at the LAX Shelby American facility. Photo from the George Watters Collection

one is being unloaded from the plane, with the top down

 The GT-40 program had priority for the wheels so the Cobras had to wait for Halibrand to get caught up.

These are Street versions without the Semi/Competition version's sidepipes, hood scoop and roll bar. These cars are also awaiting their chrome bumpers.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/

Ken Miles giving Mort Sahl a ride in a narrow-hip 427 street car at LAX

and google says the image can be found somewhere at http://saacforum.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=27706.0

Steve let me know source of the photo is  http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=27706.195  but it doesn't say a thing about the status of the cars, 

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Shelby at the track

http://gwadagone.fotki.com/trans-am-racing1966/?view=roll#618

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1967, Dick Thompson driving for team Shelby. Carroll is looking dressed to the 9s, but check out the rest of the details in the pits... like the tank level indicator hose

I may be wrong, but it looks look a welder with Oxy/Acetylene tanks, a floor jack, one pit crew member with an air impact wrench, and 3 guys loading fuel into the trunk gas cap filler.

I think it's a classy look to have the fuel barrels in the car colors too.

This was at Lime Rock according to the gallery of photos it's mixed in with

http://gwadagone.fotki.com/trans-am-racing1966/?view=roll#206

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some smart spectator got Shelby's autograph on a race flyer

http://gwadagone.fotki.com/trans-am-racing1966/?view=roll#248

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