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Shelby Flying Cloud project

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Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Here's what I believe to be an early post war bike. Although it originally had a front loader headlight on it. Maybe prewar?

Still working on chainguard and crank. Wheels are modern with heavy duty spokes. The bars/stem and seat are not original to the bike.

Anyone seen a truss rod set up like this on a Shelby? Most seem to mount on the front but these were on it. They appear to be Shelby built and aren't bent or twisted.
 

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Great looking shelby. As far as the stem goes, i have 2 other Shelbys like yours, same stem, but your truss rod plate is wrong. Should be closer together at the top like mine.......

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Back to working on the Shelby Flying Cloud. Bent the truss rods back to fit a Shelby upper truss bracket. I suspect the previous owner had bent them to fit the other bracket. He was one of those collectors who changed things willy nilly, probably used whatever bracket he had. I couldn't find any evidence of Shelby using that bracket.
Chain is soaking and have to rebuild the hubs yet tonight. Hope to sell it this weekend.
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