75 owners, let's discuss...

Okay my 75 Grabber has a build date of 6/24/75 Kansas City built it has
cat convertor
new style steering wheel
frosted cross hair lights
100mph speedo
dura spark
three speed on the floor
front discs
no seat belt interlock
heavy duty suspension
dual inlet front bumper
Ford letters on trunk only

Hope this helps

Mike

 

i know the 74 i tore apart today was a 120

 

Thanks Mike!
Good stuff.

What jumps out at me on yours is the letters only on the trunk.
Wonder if that was a KC thing?

With the later build date, the cat, steering wheel, lack of interlock all seem in place.
I just wonder about the speedo thing again... other than the hood letters of course.

 

Are they clear or amber frosted?

Also, looks like crosshairs are going to be on all of the 75s...

 

They didn't make them in Buffalo, if the second digit in the serial number is an "X" it's from St.Thomas shipped through Buffalo.

 

i think the 100mph speedo was for the grabber, the rest is similar to my 75, same month build date, but mine is St. Thomas

 

but why are some amber and some are clear??? this is the question thats been buggin me

maybe its a early75 vs a late75 difference???

 

Maybe they didn't put the F O R D on the hood on Grabbers...

Maybe it clashed with the Grabber hood treatment?

 

I dunno.
That bugs me too.

But didn't Tim say that his early car had amber frosted?
If so, it doesn't fit because my car has clear frosted.

What did your's have again, Eddie?

 

oh yeah very good point, with the grabber striping they may have just left it off

 

mine are clear...clear frosted whatever

 

You never know.
The way an assembly line works, while the regular hoods were getting their letters, maybe the Grabbers were getting their striping... Then when the work was done, they put the hoods all back on the assembly line, rather than send the Grabbers back to lettering.

Or

The lettering could have interfered with the tools or machines used to install the striping.

 

well this disproves that statment

 

Okay, let's think about this.

State laws about lights vary some.
Not much, but some.
That is why some 67-68 Shelbys have inboard high beams while others destined for certain states had outboard high beams.
The car was designed with the high beams inboard.
However, it the car was being shipped to a state that didn't allow it, they had to fit the car with outboards.

I know this is a sorta extreme example, but it might fit.

If the car was intended for a certain district, maybe it got ambers.
They seem less plentiful to me.
I might stand to reason that some states didn't allow amber bulbs in clear housings. Maybe they required the housings actually be amber, so when the bulb was replaced, it would still be amber.
We all know you can put a clear bulb in a clear housing, and it technically is no longer legal in most places. If a state required amber lenses, it would stop any chance of such mismatching of parts.

 

Is it just me, or do the turn signals in the outboard Shelby look amber?
The ones on the inboard car are clear, no question.