Topic: 67 Shelby Tail-light Wiring Questions

[midlife]

I have a customer who wants me to work on a 67 Shelby Tail-light harness.  He bought a 67 Cougar harness for me, but the Cougar uses sequentials and I believe the Shelby did not.  True?

He sent me pictures of another 67 Shelby, and the connectors to the bulbs appear to be 65/66 style slip-ons.  The 67 Cougar harness has standard 67/68 bulb housings.  Are the slip-ons part of the early 67 Shelby design?  True?

Did Shelby change to the more standard bulb socket configuration during the year?  True?

I've read that in 67, Shelby used the Cougar tail-harness, but from what I have discovered, it wasn't used "as-is".  Can anyone state what was done?

Thanks in advance.

[J_Speegle]

I have a customer who wants me to work on a 67 Shelby Tail-light harness.  He bought a 67 Cougar harness for me, but the Cougar uses sequentials and I believe the Shelby did not.  True?

Correct

He sent me pictures of another 67 Shelby, and the connectors to the bulbs appear to be 65/66 style slip-ons.  The 67 Cougar harness has standard 67/68 bulb housings.  Are the slip-ons part of the early 67 Shelby design?  True?

Did Shelby change to the more standard bulb socket configuration during the year?  True?

Believe that the bulbs and socket style stayed the same

Few pictures from an early TL version Sure Bob will be along soon to add to the details


Side by side comparison of the reproduction sockets (right) and originals (left) Believe they are the ones made by Alloy - Got this one from Pete Disher who is a dealer for Alloy

[midlife]

My goodness!  I sure hope those splices are not factory originals!

Thanks for the info.  It does appear that a section of the 67 Cougar harness was used, but probably re-wrapped, as the license plate and reverse light plugs are inside the Cougar harness loom.

[Bob Gaines]

The sockets are as Jeff posted. There were three type of the Shelby added on harnes's used . There was no cougar harness used. SA used the existing Mustang taillight harness and added his 3 bulb socket harness to the mustang harness by using butt connector of the exact type (clear with a blue line ) to each section. It used the green wire /black wire combination on both sides.There was no left and right harness. Early style is like what Jeff posted . Second in the series had a plastic sheath in three sections. and the third style was tape wrapped. It all depended on when the car was produced at SA . The harness was added with a butt connector at the place on each side where the mustang tail light came out of the braided harness. The butt connector at the Mustang harness was typically black electrical taped regardless of time built. 

[midlife]

Excellent.  I think I can work with this information.  Thank you.