So... but it's not rusty is it? Is it rusty? You didn't
really just say that, did you ? I got a message about an old Shelby for sale. Not really a barn find.
Maintained for years by one owner. i thought if i could get these people a
fair price and get somebody their dream car. Could be a Hollywood ending. Jeff? Oh my god...
oh!! This is Jeff's dream car. He's been wanting a Shelby 30-40 years. This baby boomer is not
a collector and needs help to set a fair price. Shelby restorer Jeff Yergovich will do that.
But it's got the correct hood. It's got the correct plenum. I got it in 1983. We decided.
Right? Hello, how are you? Good, how are you? And we're getting older and it's just time. Our
kids aren't interested in them. Jeff and Lezlee arrive to buy a Shelby. They meet Curtis and Kate.
Our grandchildren are too little to be interested. Hello, I'm Lezlee. Very nice to meet you. Good
to see you guys. Will this old Shelby start and run? I like it here. It's very nice.... That's
all right... I'm Lezlee , very nice to meet you. Jeff Krueger. Nice to meet you, Kate. How
are you? I'm good. And I'm Jeff Yergovich. I recognize the face. From our '67 Shelby
barn find video. You know my phone's still ringing off the hook after 10 million views.
The buyer paid Jeff's appraisal of this '67. Will our buyer do that? With this '68? I mean I'm still not wanting to get rid of it, but I'm getting rid of it same for Curtis. He's gonna sell. Bought his classic muscle
car in '79, but first the Shelby and what so many people are after - a driver meaning you
don't have to pay for a restored show car. Acapulco Blue, one of the most popular
colors. A GT-500 KR. Did you hear that 4-speed? Ram air hood scoop. I'm about ready to cry. I'm not kidding you. I want it to go to somebody who who knows
what it is, number one, but most of all enjoys it and doesn't stick it in a showroom
somewhere. This is incredible. Incredible? What about the combat veteran, double lung
transplant ,weak, he said he couldn't afford a restoration and you replied, "who said i was gonna
charge you?" He could find Mustang parts on his computer so that was the trade out. Your motto for
this build - Friends Prevail. Buy this, restore your own fastback, a Shelby.We'd like to see that
dream come true for you or anybody else with a heart that big. Were you watching him when that
car came out of the garage? Yes, I was like this is the best car he's ever seen. This is his dream
car, and I could see it on his face, and it gave me the chills and goosebumps to see him so happy
to finally see the car that is his dream car. He deserves it. He's a good husband-
Car wife - He's a good man. Good life. Yeah, my saying is Car Life, Car Wife. Test drives are certainly not the norm anymore, but
everybody seemed to be getting along really well. What could go wrong? Yeah, but I do have
to say you have to put your seat belt on. I, uh, it's a .... DId you need some help? I'll tell you ,you
know it's always fun with the five points. So, and that clutch yeah it's that 4-speed .
There's a bushing up under the dash that's bad or completely worn out. These should sit about like
this. Which is why as you age - yeah yeah that that knee feels so good on things huh yeah wow I love
the tilt steering. This button here is for the tilt-away steering wheel and it's broken off - That
makes the steering wheel fly. It's a tilt fly-away wheel. This is the tilt and it will flip to the side
when you open the door. This is the hose for the tilt steering wheel and it's a, it's a gennie
hose. Obviously the vacuum lines on this car are not hooked up properly. This is not even
hooked up to anything. It's just there for looks. We can have our drive together. Wow I'm driving the
KR 500. Here we go. So when you re-did the motor? It was just kind of getting a little tired... leaking
kind of? It was it was kind of a little tired. A friend of ours has... an auto machine shop. Now
if you wreck it you're still buying it. Kind of like that. Kind of like the department store you break it
you buy it. You break it you buy it. You break it you buy it. Not a moment too soon. This is real!! It gets into - Brake fade, hold on baby. Yep you're always doing it. Whoo, okay, it died on me, that's why
it had brake fade. Okay what are we doing here So it stopped? Yeah I lost brakes I mean - let me make sure real quick. Yeah, absolutely. Got brakes? Whoo, uh. It's ... Let's check
the reservoir. Let's let's Let's gingerly go back. How about that? You
okay with that? Yeah I'm good with that... okay. We lost brakes, scared the __ out of me. What are
you doing under there? I'm trying to see if there's a bunch of brake fluid under there.
You tell Jerry you change the brakes on this car? I'll take his heart rate right now. What do you think, Kate? Oh man. Needless to say, we came up to the stop sign at the end of the road
and uh whoa there was nothing there so yowie. So, one, two test. Are we live? The Shelby
maestro. Can you hear me? Downstage right center. At R&A Motorsports, Jeff restores Shelby's. Put
a mic in his hands? "You know it's all it's like," and he becomes a lounge act. The first time I...
You're the camera man, you're supposed to be on top of this Okay Jeff, take it away. So, anyway so yeah
I look at the car and have the car tell me the story and then sometimes I feel bad for
people, but it is what it is when I see it so. Everybody can watch and ask questions. This part
right here doesn't match. It's not laid up. You mean your originals were laid up? These were, these
were to be all smooth. I want the person to know what they're getting, and I want to know what I have
so I'm glad Jeff came out. That's really handy . First is this a Shelby ? Well looking at the
VIN tag that's up here. We do have a real VIN tag for a Shelby. This would be the Ford
number and then the consecutive production number for the Shelby. We need to check the
door tag and see if that matches the vehicle And in this case it looks like somebody's
added an overlay on here that has the Shelby VIN number on it for some reason.
Of course, we'd already verified identity with a Marti Report. Kevin Marti licenses the Ford
database showing the complete makeup of the car. There's another I.D. tag to this car that goes right
here where this screw hole is. It's called the buck tag and cars that came out of the Metuchen plant
all had the buck tag. Well there's a screw hole for it that's - it actually had a phillips-headed screw
that held it down. It's a metal tag about so big. Somebody's taken it off. It's probably sitting
in the top of somebody's toolbox when they fixed the car. So what's a KR? A GT-500 with a 428 Cobra
Jet. When Ford brought out their 428 Cobra Jet in the spring of 1968 in the GT Mustang, Shelby
got this engine too and upgraded the name to King of the Road, in fastback and convertible. And
every one had a roll bar. KR's have the air -the the ram air for the air cleaner but it's obviously
somebody's cut it off and the rivets are gone off of it, called daisy rivets. It's like a red special
sealer that glued the plenum down to the bottom of the hood and somebody's just put in there
what they could to hold it because the rivets aren't holding it. It's had locking hood pins
put on it, so somebody's taken off the original zeus clip they call that, that held the
original style hood pin. Grille looks original. It's definitely an air conditioning car, and
this has probably not been out because it's the hood. The horns disconnected here, which
is uh not a big deal, may or may not work. A/C condenser is leaking a little bit. You can
see oil on the front of it the front end. Fiberglass is missing - it's missing two pieces
right here. There's a tab on this fiberglass that sticks down and there's a metal piece that comes out
to here that supports this to keep it from cracking and bouncing. Should be one on both sides. Those are
both missing. Fiberglass on the bottom side of the - what we call the "letter panel" is smooth, which it
should be. The headlight buckets I can see in here are both smooth, both sides. The lower valance though,
the part that's below the bumper we call that, uh, so this and this are the
same part. It's been replaced. Should be a little clip right here in the
center of this. As seen on this restored '68. It connects these two moldings - it's missing. The
other Jeff asked about the bumper. It's missing the side brackets, and those are actually pretty
important brackets because when you're driving see how this flops? It will literally loosen
the bumpers and they'll fall off eventually. That's an original Lucas fog light. It says England
at the bottom. If you notice on the other one, it's been replaced. It does not say England on
the bottom of it. This is a later style. Notice the lines in the glass are different than
the lines in the glass on the other side. This particular headlight - the right
headlight - this is a General Electric headlight. Uh, the plant that these cars came
out of was supplied by Tonsil. And it should have a TS and a circle down here
with a FoMoCo script in the light that would be an original headlight. We can check and look
on the left side and see if it's correct or not. This side's a Westinghouse, so it's been replaced.
So, out of the four headlights in the front of it we've got one original. Jeff knows a lot more than
i do about these cars. Curtis was taking no offense. It's good that people that buy it know
what they're getting and I want to be sure they understand and I understand. You
know we sell it that this is what the car is, so. When - when we sell the car - and Kate had the same
great attitude - we want somebody to be happy with what they buy. We bought it not knowing anything
about it just, just it was a fun car. We don't know what's original, we don't know what's not. And I
don't want somebody to buy this and get it home and go, "oh well wait this is not original. Oh and
that's not original and that's not the way it was," and then they're not happy then I feel bad
and I'm not happy. And so I want somebody to buy this that sees it as it is, knows about
it and takes it as it is. There was a rubber piece - a flap that was on top of the radiator
support and they were installed two or three different ways. A lot of times they stapled
them on here and you can see the staple holes. This one's stapled on this restored KR.
The radiator has definitely been replaced. Uh, it should have part numbers on the side of it
here. The fan shroud is original but it's been broken really bad at some point. You can see where
it's got a fiberglass repair on the top of it and I would assume it's probably fiberglass repaired
on the bottom - was probably broken in half at one time Air conditioner's got some nice
original parts. The lines are original. Coming through the front, it is missing a foam
seal is what it is on the radiator support. The air conditioning compressor has been replaced.
It's missing the tag. On a KR it had a special air conditioning compressor which carried a
special ZX part number and so did the clutch itself. It had a special number. Taking a
close look at some of the smog stuff. The hoses and the clamps are not correct. This is
this is an original KR what we call a snorkel. It's missing what they call the S-tube that comes
down in the Heat Shield that goes down across the exhaust manifold. But this is KR only - Worth
about a thousand dollars - where the S-tube and heat shield or Cobra Jet so a lot of Cobra Jets. S-
tube 300 ($) heat shield 600 ($). We're going to take the air cleaner lid off and take a peek. Carburetor
is a '69 carburetor for a manual transmission. These carburetors were unique for the KR. This
would be - let's see this would be a 9510-AA. Two to three grand and very hard to find Valve
covers actually should have you black wrinkle paint with the tops being shiny. Somebody's
pulled these off and polished them. Smog pulley is not the correct pulley. The pump is correct.
Should be a clip right here holding this linkage on because if not it just falls off like this
when you're driving. Turn that off for a minute. Tire blow out? Apparently Jeff found some damage. And a guy who
bought this Shelby for his son for graduation present -and his son - Kate had already explained
when we all first walked in the garage, Proceeded to get like just about every ticket you could get
and smacked it into a tree and did all kinds of fun things with it, and he decided it was time
to go, and I bought it for what did we decide? It was like 8 thousand dollars. Been damaged in the front
here. It's showing signs of it. This fender's been replaced with an aftermarket fender and
there's damage to the the hood hinge apron underneath the hood hinge. I think that's our
front end damage because our core support's good. Yeah - okay but but I think it might have got
hit in the wheel. We're gonna take a look at the outside here a little bit. We're going to start -
like the back side of the hood would normally have a black what they call blackout stripe inside of
this area right here, stops reflection coming into the driver and the passenger. Car's obviously been
repainted and the stripes not been put back on it. The cowl itself as I look across that there's a
dent here and then there's some damage to the fins. That's a fairly easy fix with
a hook. Side here has got some, a little bit of chipping and damage in here. I'm
going to assume that's from the aftermarket fender not being able to fit correctly and maybe
also a worn-out door hinge. This is a '69 snake. In '68 and a half the KR's had a very unique
snake that looked like a piece of jewelry. This snake should be in front of the Cobra Jet here -
should be sitting to that direction and not to the back side, so it's just a mis-position of that.
Yeah, this this would be set up correctly where the Cobra Jet sits inside the snake. On a KR these
letters are not as bold as what you see here. We have a little bit of bubbling rust showing on the
door panel, the outer skin part. the inner structure is fine, but as I go down the side of it, also I
noticed not only are we missing two screws on the side scoop, but the side scoop is an
aftermarket replacement scoop because of the style of the fiberglass inside. So this scoop has been
damaged and knocked off and it's been replaced with an aftermarket one. The upper scoop as you can
see inside it. It's a real smooth surface and this is the original side scoop up above here. And the
antenna is not correct. It should have a a standard antenna on the back of it. It's been bumped in the
rear. It's missing the rear bumper guards uh You can see the bumpers up against the fiberglass
taillight panel. The gas lid - looking at this hits on the bumper a little bit. It's just the
position of the bumper. The bezels and the lenses all look correct although both of the lenses are
have been off, and the way i know that if you look where it says FoMoCo it's upside down. The wheels
are just an aftermarket wheel - it's not -these cars all came with 15x6 steel wheels and hubcaps. You
can just tell by looking at the paint that it's had a complete paint job put on it at
some point in its life. You can look and see the paint overspray on weatherstrips, and this
weatherstrip's an original. It's hard as a rock. You know the side scoops they're smooth fiberglass.
That's original. This is an original scoop It's missing a couple screws holding it
on. Looks like somebody had it off when the car got painted. Wheel opening moldings are
correct for the car but they've been off. What are you looking for Jeff? A couple
things - if it's a real 4-speed car it'll have the shock tower bracket, which i can see right
across here, which has staggered rear shocks on a 4-speed car. The right shock is in front of the
rear axle. The left shock is behind the rear axle . Here's your axle - there's a shock - it's behind. The
rear quarters have been replaced on the passenger side. Where are the spot welds? Can you point them
out? That rough stuff up there? No, go down the quarter. Okay. Up where it's not undercoated. Up in here. Look
here - see, look down the quarter panel up, up down in here and you can see where the spot welds are -
on the rusty spots you'll see little spots on it. This might make it easier for you here. Tell you what,
here's a seam right here. It runs down here. Yeah. That's where this quarter's been replaced -and up
here it's had a little patch put right here on the wheel house. Gas tanks, every one i've seen that's
like this it's a painted gas tank -last couple months and then they rust out again. And the mat's
gone. Trunk has had some paintwork done on it. These caps right here should be black with the
sealer there and then the body color on the actual rear body panel itself. It's been
hit right here in the rear right about here now it doesn't show so much on the bumper but
inside nothing severe but these cars were not built like a tank so it didn't take much when
somebody ran into them to cause a little damage. So we've got some rust pitting going on on all the
handles in the chrome. It's chrome, it's all rust- pitted. The mirror is missing the knob on it here.
Looking at the carpet I can tell just by flipping that back up and looking at the stitching
that this car still has the original carpet. Seats? These are you know, this car's been
sitting here in the winter. It's showing some mold and stuff on the seats. It's mold, This
is what this is. This is mold down here. You see it? Seat belts still to be, appear to be original
with the the tags are all still the Shelby tags on them. Fold down rear seat appears to all
be there. Somebody's added an overhead console to this. We've had some visitors up in
the attic. These visitors may travel. Looking at the interior everything appears to
be original. It's not really been torn apart. It's an air conditioning car, so it's here
the gauges all appear to be correct with 140 MPH speedometer - 89,508 - to the 8000 rpm tach. The radio
itself is missing two of the rear knobs behind. The shifter is correct, but we're missing
the chrome ring that went around the console. The shift plates typical to a KR. Here's the
broken knob off of, off of - the mirror . All the dash pieces are original, again we're
missing that trim piece around the button on the glove box. To access the pit to look
under the Shelby, Curtis had to move his 1969 Mustang Mach 1. I fixed it up over the summer
'79 and started driving it to college. Yeah I saw it at that body shop and said yeah i gotta
have that, and when they said it was 600 dollars I said okay Oh, you're too far forward This flexible snake camera was to help us find
matching engine numbers. There's numbers on the engine. There's numbers on the on the transmission.
Both of them? Both of them, in '68. And if you remember when we did the 67, the serial number was right
here on the bottom of the transmission where we could take a great picture of it. In
'68 they put the serial number on the top, top ear of the transmission.And we can't get
in there far enough to see if it's up there. Not with a mirror and not with this scope with
a camera on the end. This won't go to the top of the transmission. It's got to turn straight down.
There's not enough room between the tunnel and here to turn it straight down to look. A lot
of times they're out where you can see them, but i've seen them scattered throughout on top
of the transmission. And the matching numbers on the engine? On a Cobra Jet car, it's going to be on
the back of the left head. But, if the motor's been rebuilt and they put the heads left to right,
which they can do, it'll be on the right front of the head - behind the smog pump. It's not there? We
can't find it on either side. As we looked earlier above we knew that there was some kind of damage
to the left front suspension. This rod is replaced with a later version of a strut rod. In '68, the
strut rods not only had a locking nut on the outer part here, they also had a safety lock nut like the
right side, which this is correct for a '68. A KR has a couple unique things that are KR only. One of them being that this particular bracket is the sway bar mount bracket. It has a curved piece
on each end of it, which indicates that it's a Competition Suspension car. All the cars with
Competition Suspension car had that little leg that hung out to keep that bushing from coming out, but
on a KR they added a flat plate between the frame and the bracket in between, and that's unique to
a KR. This car has an oil cooler on it. KR's did with air. This is a unique bracket for the oil
cooler it goes on the oil adapter plate first. Then, this has an oil line going out to the oil
cooler up front by the bumper and returning back here, and the oil filter hangs down a little bit
lower. Because the oil filter hung down a little bit lower, Ford used a Fram air oil filter on them
that was a little bit shorter so it didn't hang down and catch things on the road. It's got
some repairs to the right torque box where it's had some plates welded in here. See
the big hole in the back of the torque box there where there's nothing there? Uh huh. That's gone.
That's what somebody did not put in the car when it came time to fix it. Is that
a hole in the floorboard there? Yes, a hole in the floorboard. There's also another big hole right here in
the floorboard. This is gone. This is all gone. So, but it's not rusty. Is it? It's not rusty? You didn't
really just say that did you? i would call that a rust hole what do you think, Jerry?
Yeah, but the floorboard doesn't need replaced right or does it? Parts of it do. You know
the muffler is rusty. It needs to be replaced, And then above the rear axle up
here, can you see that over there? There is a spot where there's two holes up in the
floor. That's what I thought. Yeah okay that's where the air shock lines went up into the trunk so you
could air the rear shocks up. Now it doesn't have air shocks in it anymore and the holes are still
there. Rear end - It's a 9-inch original and looking at the tag, which i've looked at, which is right here, it
has a C8ZX on it, which is correct for this vehicle. All right let's see what you see. i wiped
it off with my gloves. Okay. The rear springs have been replaced. And normally on a
spring this would come straight out. These have a curve upward. So the original leaf
springs are unique to the car with a part number because the car had Competition Suspension. That's
a key piece for a Shelby to have. When you guys sat right there and said 'oh my god we did the springs
we had no idea.' Uh huh. We didn't know because when we bought it, it sat funny. It's supposed to sit funny! Well, I
knew it was, but it was uncomfortable driving I'm shorter, so when I sit in that front seat and it's
sitting like this? I can't see out of it. You know, and I can't drive it and I'm driving, it you know -
I'm driving it, it's a - There's a picture... I got to be able to see. If you're 5'5" and you're sitting in
that seat you can't you can't see over the hood. It's the Competition Suspension.
Whereby the car sits lower in the back. I had no idea that some of the things that we
did even detracted from the value of this car because to me it was never a collector car it was
a fun car. The problem with me telling you what I think it's worth today is kind of moot because
there's always, there's always somebody out there that don't care and they'll just go overpay for
it. Oh, I found the car I'll go give whatever. Guys like him he's he wants to keep this car. This is
the dream car, this is the car we've always wanted. t needs about thirty, thirty five thousand dollars worth of
sheet metal work. Every KR I go look at the snorkels gone off the air cleaner and this one's
got it. The starter delay that it's missing it's like a piece that makes it a KR. Half of the
starter delay sticks out inside the neck of this hangs out over the starter solenoid and half of
it sticks in the nose of the air cleaner snorkel It's $2200 for a starter delay - wow - and
it's not there you know so a guy that doesn't know a lot that goes oh you know it
looks like a really good deal and then you start going and start adding the parts up and all of a
sudden you're 20 to 30 grand in parts and 30 grand in sheet metal work now you've done the sheet metal
work you got to paint it again and paint's not cheap. That's kind of my evaluation. I believe the car is somewhere between 68 to 72. No this is why we didn't go to the auction We've
wanted to know you know exactly what it was. What could that car do at auction? I'm saying 68 to 72 and you
take it to an auction and it brings 70. Now they're going to take 10% of that. What I meant was you
know the people that were going to do it they knew nothing and I was afraid that it would go and
it wasn't what we thought. And once again we, we, I don't we don't we don't want it for cheap, we want to, we're
here because we we think this is the fair way to do things. You know it's, everybody knows exactly
what we're getting into, as we talked earlier. There's you know I don't call you six months
from now ago and go, did you realize the quarters... Okay my name is Blue. Our business enterprise,
our LLC, is Beautiful & Blue Enterprises. And my wedding ring is a blue
sapphire. And we just bought a blue KR for 68,000 plus -"when I'm done with the car I will pay for you to fly into wherever that's at. At that time if that's New Braunfels or Lubbock, Texas, and you can come for the grand unveiling. So, I'll sweeten the deal." I'm okay with that. Are you? I'm okay with that. And what happened with the Mach
1? Curtis did want to sell it. You have a forty six thousand dollar offer on your
'69 at this second in time. Do we need to, uh, give you hugs ? I don't want to make a decision right now, but. Sleep on it for? it's been a big day it's been a
little emotional. It's been a big day. You going to open it up
for me. Let's see how fun it is. Smog system removed. Here's one stock with
smog equipped with various speed parts. This is a Restomod. You've got the MSD coil Blaster.
You have the MSD distributor, aluminum Edelbrock intake. Valve covers look correct for the
vehicle, shaker hood scoop assembly on it. Replacement tag here probably because it's a color
change car. Again, this '69 made them at the Metuchen assembly plant, 02 is '69 fastback Mach 1, "R" meaning
that it is a shaker hood scoop car. This door's had a lot of work to it. It's got a lot of bondo in it.
There's no seams or anything down here where you can see where the skin wraps around, so could have
been that it had rust and it's gotten fixed up. Vehicle typically on a Mach 1 you would have
a side stripe that would run from down here all the way down the side of the vehicle and
say Mach 1 right here. If you could pick one thing - "I love this?" I always like this '69 body style,
just like the way it looks Yeah, i didn't like the '70s because they lost those
four lights - lost the four lights- and it lost the scoop on the back - scoop yeah - even on a
Restomod you'd like to see that the pinch welds down here at the very bottom are painted
black - gives the car a little bit more depth. There was a guy that re-did the body and did the
paint. I did the interior and then put it all back together and that's what we have. You know I love
how, you know the shaker shakes in these cars. You like see that move when you stomp on it.? Yes
it's uh got uh replacement seats in it. This is stamped on a machine to look like
ComfortWeave, but it doesn't breathe. It's got one of the newer aftermarket rim blow steering
wheels. This steering wheel is when you push this rubber insert here in the middle, the horns honk . It's got a new replacement horn pad on it. I
used to go out when I was kid and chase Camaros. I like that exhaust. Yeah, I love it. Back
looks good - got the typical little twice pipes I call them that is typical of a '69 Mach 1. Typical
knob here that's a '68, early '69 style knob. This is a deluxe interior car but this should have
chrome rings around the seat belt and not black Trunk looks nice, presentable. It's
got a rubber style mat. It's all painted up. It has no fold down seat. Eventually ,
everything changes and things go so you know. I've been friends with this guy for 41
years. Final price to Jeff's friend next day - $48,000 you
