Shelby Assembly Line

[AC Bill]

In the early years Shelby American put the Shelby package on the cars, with them all parked side by side in the shop. Later model years had them being built on this makeshift assembly line.

Ready to be delivered to the dealers.

Mustangs as they came from Ford, waiting for the Shelby enhancments to be bolted on. Cobra's nearly ready to be shipped to the Ford dealers.

 

[AC Bill]

Arriving from Ford for the Shelby Conversion.

After Shelby conversion completed.

Early years Shelby assembly shop.(pre assembly line)

 

[AC Bill]

The first cars were built in Shelby Americans original Venice California location, Apparently they were only there for only around 90 days, before moving to the the much larger airplane hangers at LAX.

The Cobra's at the Venice location.

Daytona Coupe Body buck. Peter Brock designed the Daytona body.

 

[AC Bill]

The pair of leased hangers at LAX that Shelby American moved production of the Mustang to as it quickly outgrew the Venice shop.

Shelby, as if there wasn't enough on his plate, engineered a Ford 260 V8 into a Sunbeam sports car, which actually worked quite well together. Like he had done with the AC Cars Ace, to the Cobra conversion, he proposed that they should be shipped to Shelby’s shop in California, for conversion to the Tiger.
The Rootes Group declined. Instead Jensen Motors was awarded the contract for assembling the cars and Shelby was paid a royalty for every Tiger sold. Imagine there could have been a "Shelby Tiger"

The Cobra, Mustang, and GT40 racing team cars were all worked on under one roof. Some of the Mustang R models became Trans-Am cars.

 

[Ohtobbad]

Totally cool, I bet they had no Idea the legends they were building.
SO very cool.

 

[Fun GT]

Yep I agree, friggin' cool for sure !!!