S/C Fuel Filler fasteners

[Sal Gerace]

Rich please don't stop the knowledge train! If if was not for the few of you guys on this forum we would never know what is right (if there is a right or wrong) or wrong or still sketchy. I along with many others here look forward to these discussions. We may never get these cars 100% right but a lot of the enjoyment is the research. I want you guys to know that I did not bait you with this topic, although it looks that way. I only spoke to Mike minutes after my initial posting on the topic. But I am leaning to the ss hex bolts!

[richsd]

Originally Posted by Sal Gerace

Rich please don't stop the knowledge train! If if was not for the few of you guys on this forum we would never know what is right (if there is a right or wrong) or wrong or still sketchy. I along with many others here look forward to these discussions. We may never get these cars 100% right but a lot of the enjoyment is the research. I want you guys to know that I did not bait you with this topic, although it looks that way. I only spoke to Mike minutes after my initial posting on the topic. But I am leaning to the ss hex bolts!

No as I said in my first post, this is a great question. I said that because it is a topic that I have presonally struggled with because of the various info on the subject. I still think it is a great question.

Ron, you are very right that not all these guys have a good memory. Actually probably all of them have very less than a good memory and why would they even have cared to note little details on these items back in 1966. Pictures are very helpful and my guy has a ton. Maybe sometime he will let me scan some of them and post. Very good discussion. The only thing that ticked me off is a suggestion of "imagining". I don't take my time here to post imaginations and if that is what they are taken for then I will stop wasting my time.

A side note on Mike McClusky. Great guy and definitely does great work however some of the things Mike does with cars have actually helped to create the redefined perspective of the Cobra instead of the original version of what the car was in the 60s. The more times the incorrect part is used on a replica or restoration the more people will begin to accept it as original. What then happens is that people start to look at correct originals and think they have the wrong parts on them. I know a number of owners of very correct originals and this is a frustration that they frequently have. Mike has been mentioned as contributing to this. I am sure that part of this situation is part availability so I certainly don't think tis is anything intentional.