Still waiting for final restoration in the garage
The special speedo disk shows only 2 digit numbers with a x10km/h ration - a very unique item in a Mustang. Note the original Ford part-no. that the owner took from the back of the disk.
Chrome yellow stripes on dark green make an agressive appearance
All pictures courtesy Gordon
The original owner preferred an aggressive colour scheme
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 A Rare Garage Find
Gordon W.I. McMillan from Scotland was reading my Shelby Europe stuff on this site and remembered the special Claude Dubois tag on his car. So he sent in these nice pics of his treasure. Let's hear what he has to report on his special G.T.350:
"The car is in dry storage right at the back of my garage so
good images are impossible. The car is 67200F5AXXXX and still has the
correct Ford VIN on the underside of the gearbox. I have the original
door kick plates with 'Claude Dubois' on them, but the car was of course made in LA
and probably one of the last '67s made at the airport facility before
production was switched. When I bought it, the original Dark Moss green
had been oversprayed metallic and I drove it for years until I retired it
and had it restored, then stored it.
Compared with a standard car, it had:
- Dubois plates on the doors,
- Speedometer converter on the firewall to gear up the speedo drive for
the 280 KMPH speedometer,
- floor mounted fire extinguisher
- Detroit locker rear end
I think it was delivered to Dubois so late that they decided to make it
look like a '68 for sales purposes, so the leading edge of the hood had
SHELBY lettering. The small block Hi-Po engine is not numbered so has
been swapped out, but it is a Hi-Po and as received had 2" exhaust valves.
In fact the exhaust and inlet valve ports overlapped. When I had the
engine rebuilt I got the rebuilder to fit a pair of similar heads with
marginally smaller exhaust valves as the originals had marked the top of
the pistons when fully open.
I don't know all the history of it - it originally had several Belgian
stickers on the screen (which I removed) and came into the Uk around 1972
and passed through the hands of John S. It still has the 1972
London registration. Currenly it is back pretty much to original, with an MPH speedometer and the original colour, but with chrome yellow stripes and a green carpeted interior. The outside was tidied up a little by deleting some of the badges and painting parts like the back up
light housings and bumpers to match the bodywork.
Unfortunately the original speedo disk has disappeared, but Gordon had taken pictures of it.
"When I got the car the speedometer did not work. The speedo drive cable
came to a Kienzle gearbox on the firewall, and a shorter cable took it
into the main speedo, which was marked in KPH up to 280. I tried and
tried to get replacement cable and adapters but eventually had to paint
over the numbers on the speedo face and re-letter it to match the actual
road speeds. I was never happy with that and I think the speedo went back
to the US as part exchange for an ordinary speedo which is fitted now.
However, before I painted over it I photocopied the face, and wrote the
part number in the small section for the milometer, and I have attached a
rather poor scan of the photocopy. I had occasion to send that to SAAC
when they wanted to find the highest road speed indicated on a standard
Shelby too and they published it. You can see from the part number that
it is a standard 67 Ford part although it's liable to be a very small
quantity production.Gordon
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