Not a Clone

 Here's the thing. When I bought the 65 Mustang it had some Shelby GT-350-like modifications. First off, it's Wimbledon White and it has a blue rally stripe along the rocker panel. More subtle, it has Koni shocks, a Monte Carlo bar, and Shelby underrider traction bars. It has a Holley 1810-4 carb on a stock cast iron intake manifold.  Along the way I've added a new SS Tubes fuel line that is bent for the GT-350 fuel feed. That means that it's set up for the LeMans bowl Holley 3259-1 carb on a hi rise manifold. 

On the 2026 Irrigation Festival week car show I was walking with my friends Scott, Chuck and Mike and we met someont they knew with a 64 1/2 Mustang convertible, Chris. He mentioned that he had a Shelby manifold that he didn't need and would anybody need it?  Well, yes, I said, and we agreed to meet the next day. So the next day we met and I made a new friend who gave me the manifold, just like that! Mustang people are the best!

The other half of this story is with the Mopar people, specifically, my dear departed brother. He had been building carburetors for years out of his tiny house. And when he died I helped put his house in order, in a very big way. I loved him dearly and would have done anything to help but one of the things was coming into possession of his 1966 Plymouth Valient Signet Commando. Now this Valiant I have known since he bought it in 1967. He drag raced it with the original 273 V-8 Commando engine and 4 speed and then with a 340 with W2 heads and automatic. This car has seen it all but amazingly, the whole time it wore all of its original trim and interior - all of it. So some time back in the early 90's he put the car back into street trim and used a 360 crate motor that allowed him to run original LA series engine parts - to make it look like an original 273.  One of the things he did was to run a Holley carb with LeMans bowls to keep the height low so that he could run the original, Chrome, 10-inch air cleaner. Pure 273, just like factory original. Only 360. So this carb was a Chevy big block dual-carb 4160 with no choke (like the back carb of a dual carb set-up) that was specially set-up for an Edelbrock manifold.  He had converted it to run a secondary metering block so that the LeMans bowls and transfer tube would fit. But it had 700 CFM venturis and 






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