Scott8950

Nice job

Wow that looks like it just came straight outta the barn! Very convincing and nice job.

Your attention to detail is very impressive and your fabrication skills are also impressive. I don't always comment but I enjoy following along. Nice job as usual ?

Nice job

I was gonna say exactly that but you beat me to it.

I was a street racer back in the 90s (not to this caliber) and a unprepped track vs a asphalt road is not as different as you might think especially after rubber is put down. I've seen texas guys run Oklahoma on bad roads and I've see Texas battle Nola on bad roads and put up a good fight. Honestly I don't think Birdman is the same since he had that bad crash.

Glad to see you back on this. Some really nice work on this.

Very cool

It was a good race it does seem a little odd to me that one of the top teams in America with heavy hitters on the no prep scene couldn't get down that road.

Monza does good on that concrete road but struggles with asphalt. Ryan is the king of the 405 now he has mastered tuning his car. Yep I think that is Lutz crashing the 57 next week.

I strongly believe that's the reason for the entire front being cut off the car. Seems someone didn't want this car ever being identified. Here's the thing that seems a little odd in 68/69 a 67 gt 350 was not a big money collector car. Could have been someone bought this car as a wreck and stole another car to swap vins? No one knows for sure but I'd almost bet those vin tags are on a car somewhere today.

You are correct, I live in Georgia and tampering with a vin # is a felony crime. Most salvage yards in my area want a title with anything being sold for scrap.

It's a real Shelby no doubt. I'm hoping someone comes forward to tell the cars story.

I'd get it running and leave it as is for shows. I would like to know what Dennis Collins paid for it ?

They have proven it is a shelby or the remains of one anyway. Someone probably has a high dollar fake GT 350 in their collection sporting this cars vin tags.

It's possible this car was wrecked early in It's life and someone used the vin tags for a clone.

That's Tommy Lee Byrd he lives about 20 minutes from me, him and his dad have some very cool cars.

Was there a FF/X class? I have searched high and low for that class in IHRA and AHRA with no luck.

Looks amazing

I like #2

I believe they said it's a fiberglass front end.

The first thing is lack of rubber under the car, they said it has none and that's pretty much impossible even if you clean it. It really doesn't fit any class but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been raced at some local track just for fun. The lack of any lettering or stickers. I do think someone was building the car and for some reason stopped. I absolutely love the car it is probably one of the coolest drag cars I've seen in awhile.

My guess is the shell possibly is the missing car #1444 but I seriously doubt it was ever raced. It is a cool piece for shows.