Correct Bolt and hardware finish

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by Mj_72

Thanks for the replies and invested concern. You wont hear “ Yesterday after the ninth hole we swapped the gulf clubs for body hammers and went about trying to reshape the tail lights and I think we got them squared away!” As some other member stated I am just an enthusiast with a friend who has some special cars. This is just curiosity and bench talk that includes cobras in general. We look at pictures, compare chassis numbers and their restorations, and who is doing what on theirs. Its also interesting to see about all the fakes, counterfeits, scams, and who screwed who. I never knew their could be such goin on with just under 1000 cars. I have found that very interesting. Thanks to you guys we are learning quite alot. GT40 knowledge and mustangs as well are part of our discovery and bench talk, but I leave those questions to those forums specifically. I enjoy learning, being well informed, and being able to help others. Rest assured that no-one other than a top professional would do any work to the car or any of the other cars in the collection. I will be sure to frame each post with “Research only, no cobras will be harmed with info given in this post.”Thanks guys!

Back to the discovery, if we may. I see that 2196 was restored up in Ontario. In the photos of the resto the bolts on that car appear to be restored in Zinc as they are very shiny compared to the flat gray cad I see on the originals. I know the car is very special piece, but im curious as to why they went with the zinc finish and not something more original? Edit: I see now that it was a test car and not a production car, not sure if that would make a difference in the fasteners used.

Cad plating is very hard to get done today and small batch is even worse. The waste disposal cost is 90% of the job costs I am told by a plater. You cannot open a cad plating plant in the US that can operate at a profit now.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

Cad plating is very hard to get done today and small batch is even worse. The waste disposal cost is 90% of the job costs I am told by a plater. You cannot open a cad plating plant in the US that can operate at a profit now.

California is pretty much putting plating out of business. This is just the latest

https://calmatters.org/environment/2...e-plating-ban/

A friend of mine in Colorado did antique restorations on things like old cash registers and he had a plating business. Man those chemicals were nasty. He passed away a few years ago but I think his garage might have qualified as a EPA super site.