Per the Shelby American Auto Club registry it was generally the early ‘67 cars that received the steel framed fiberglass hoods, the majority of ‘67’s used a full fiberglass hood. There are actually a bunch of pictures on the BAT post that show the underneath of the hood. And lots of detailed pictures of the other parts. And the full fiberglass hoods used a steel insert where the hood latch goes, which is visible. I agree that the quality of the original ‘67 fiberglass parts wasn’t great, but there are often many details and construction differences between the original parts and the reproductions, for someone restoring a real ‘67 Shelby, especially one where the details matter and they’re maybe going to competitively show, there will probably be a price premium for original parts, even if they’re poor quality and needing repairs. For someone building a replica they don’t need that level of detail. There were lots of running changes to the parts on the ‘67 Shelby’s made over the course of production, so assuming these parts all came from one vehicle they may only all be “correct” for a particular time in the production year, which could limit the value, but for someone with a project car that was built in that period of time, and needs most of those pieces the value to them could skyrocket. It will be interesting to see what they bring.
