All I am saying is that it is difficult enough to find people that are willing to give this kind of info because they don't want to get in the middle of it. It would be fairly simple to find someone and give them whatever compensation is reasonable to put your car on a lift or whatever it takes to examine the "hard to find" parts of your Shelby and verify. Then, if some of the orignal parts are gone do some searching like the rest of us would have to do to find them. You sound like you are quite "in the know" about Mustangs and Shelbys, I would think you would have some connections that could review your car? There has to be a person like Ed C. for Fords who can look at and verify your car. See, I would have had that done before purchase especially with a high dollar car such as this. But, that is me. Again, I just felt as though I should put in my .02 since I commented and thanked Les for the information. We were just talking about whether or not someone would come forward with this type of info given the opportunity, and this was an example where someone did. That is pretty rare. Most people would have let you continue on with your sale and never let you know. You would not have found out until the lawsuit for misrepresenting the car (and I honestly can tell that you had no intentions of doing that-- you just didn't know). Which, it sounds like you may be able to do from the previous owner?
That is all I'm saying. If you want to view the thread I am talking about, go here
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show.../page/1#170302