Pedal Assembly Originality

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by 1795

Dan,

That would make sense as it is pretty hard to heel-toe with the stock pedals.

Jim

Stock cast aluminum throttle pedals will break fairly easily and are not easy to repair so they don't instantly break again. Custom steel replacements in works racers ended that problem.

Hard stops were something added to chassis in the USA at some point in time and I believe that was good for carburetor throttle shafts and cast aluminum throttle pedals. I have not narrowed down when stops were added but they were standard by CSX2201 the best I can tell. CSX2190 is the earliest unrestored except body color repainting car I have recorded with the Shelby American stop installed. The fact that all chassis CSX2126 through CSX2158 except a few were intended or destined to be completed to variable specifications for various purposes confounds originality questions for that entire chassis number range. Post production (post sale to a customer) modifications to cars from there through CSX2188 confound originality questions on those cars.

Original Shelby American throttle pedal stop from a car with red carpet. The carpet fragment shown got wrapped around the threads and ripped from the car's foot box carpeting during removal.



Same stop assembly with the carpet removed.



Believe or not I have come across several late Cobras with the stop completely removed or cut off with a hack saw. It just so happened that those cars also had broken throttle pedals, damaged throttle linkage systems, and or damaged carburetor throttle shafts. I can not rationalize in any way removing or cutting off the stops.