Another GT-500 (67) question.

[Mr427]

Surprises all the way on this intake issue. I thought it was the other way around. Shelby American produced the cars with single four barrels, but the 2x4 option was a very popular over-the-counter item, which many owners installed on a variety of Fords during the mid-to late sixties on their FE´s. But this may be a fluke. I just know that this particular car had a 428PI intake with either a C6AE or C7AE casting nr. when it came into this area in 1972. So, what WAS the factory setup on these cars as they rolled out of the hangar? Shelby may have done it one way, but Ford did it another way. Only the first 100 GT-500´s in the ´67 run were acutally BUILT in LA. Ford took over the assembly of the Shelby items long before the mid-point, because of semantic problems and other between Mr. Shelby himelf and Ford´s staff, according to Wallace Wyss´s book "Shelby Wildlife".

Now as for the exhaust manifolds, what type were they? Were they the same as on a GT-390 in a Farilane- Cyclone, with dual bolt patterns or were they the log type??