First, just to get it out of the way. I'm guessing you took that picture of your new door tag a while back. That or you forgot to install all the door hardware
I understand what everyone is saying and it makes complete sense to me. I know it?s hard to come into a concourse forum after taking a K code and making it a replica R model. I spent a lot of time making it competition correct to the best of my ability. The thought was to finish it off by making the markings look as legit as possible. I never do anything for anyone else except for myself. The car was not built for concourse shows as it?s a fake, but the goal was to make it a damn good fake. Thank you all for the advise.
First for those reading. Can't think of many of any typical "inspection" marks on a 65 Shelby except for a likely inspector number on the third member and possibly a number on the carb, battery decal and the head, Rest of the markings would be assemblers and identification.
How far have you gone with your copy? Do the rear springs have the correct stampings and is the carb a 715? Which time period did you duplicate since there are a number of differences.
Just like the member the other day that was building a copy of a 70 Shelby some of the markings are already posted in discussions of original cars and those that are restoring the same. I invite you do do a few searches to find those. Again not sure how far you plan on going as there are markings applied to the bare steel the cars were build from them painted over. On a full a concours restoration this along with others are often duplicated. You find discussions of the San Jose practice of applying the fender location numbers.
For some parts like the carb you need to make individual stamps for each set of numbers and or letters. Don't recall right this moment how many for a 65 Shelby but some have eight or so different ones.
There is an example of an original 65 Shelby, GT and K code rear spring markings that was posted in a 64 Dearborn discussion thread.
For front springs they were red striped for 65 with the same suspension package. You do have the possible but not typical over/under white spray strip but that does not have to be applied since I'm guessing they didn't have it and they aren't original front springs.
You might want to also search for a driveline thread. There has been one within the last month where one member offered what they had read somewhere else on the markings.
Allot of information here since we opened the doors. Just have to dedicate some time to see if the subject has been covered and covered well
We don't typically share allot of paint marks details on the public sections of the forum since they can be so specific to particular cars, plants and time period at the same time we've delved into the subjects slightly or on an individual part basis in the past. We've found so many will take the easy route and borrow marks not typically found on their type of car thinking, "no one will be able to tell" so that is the major reason IMHO that we don't often provide a whole list plus assembling a list like that takes many hours of research and organization
