If sales of the collector car emporium local to me are any indication, values of the GTs are very strong. They go quickly, and bring good money. But I'm sure being a SA-built car doesn't hurt, as well as the name.
Troy we had a 66 GT350 when I was a kid. I’m trying to remember the color of the stripe. I believe the color of the rocker stripe and over the top stripes were slightly different colors. The over the top stripe I think was Le Mans blue right?Overseeing the placement of the side stripes.
We did end up painting the side stripes. That wasn’t the original plan, but Pete disliked the side ones so much and he just started redesigning them. We thought about just doing tape, but in the end decided the only way to do it right was to paint them. He spent a lot of time redesigning the side stripes but I think he had a good time doing it.
Both stripes on mine are the same color. I can’t speak to the 66. Pete Brock was no longer with Shelby in 66. I think maybe the disparity in color may be because I believe they only painted the OTT stripes by 66 and just used tape on the sides and paint and tape probably never quite match up perfectly. The color though originally was Guardsman Blue which I don’t think was anything special other that it happened to be the blue they had on hand at the time. It became iconic based on the car that it went on. As for the paint on mine it is an Axalta/DuPont color #4483. Not sure Guardsman Blue is the official name of it, but it is the color Pete Brock picked for the OVC GT350 competition models and then used on my car as well as the two others done after it.
That’s it! That’s the name, yes the lower stripe on our 66 was tape and the OTT was painted.We did end up painting the side stripes. That wasn’t the original plan, but Pete disliked the side ones so much and he just started redesigning them. We thought about just doing tape, but in the end decided the only way to do it right was to paint them. He spent a lot of time redesigning the side stripes but I think he had a good time doing it.
This is the sketch he used to design it which is now hanging in my garage. He decided to throw the R in at the end which didn’t make the original sketch.
Both stripes on mine are the same color. I can’t speak to the 66. Pete Brock was no longer with Shelby in 66. I think maybe the disparity in color may be because I believe they only painted the OTT stripes by 66 and just used tape on the sides and paint and tape probably never quite match up perfectly. The color though originally was Guardsman Blue which I don’t think was anything special other that it happened to be the blue they had on hand at the time. It became iconic based on the car that it went on. As for the paint on mine it is an Axalta/DuPont color #4483. Not sure Guardsman Blue is the official name of it, but it is the color Pete Brock picked for the OVC GT350 competition models and then used on my car as well as the two others done after it.
While I will keep my car bone stock--I always felt the factory OTT stripes were too narrow. Wish Ford designers had thought so too. These cars look great.The three R’s that have been done are LR044, LR158, and LR191. LR158 is slightly different as he did a wider space between the OTT stripes (2 inches as was the original 1965) and did a Red R in the side stripes. LR044 and LR191 are identical.
- LR044 next to LR158 at the last Shelby Bash this past fall.
LR191
