[DON S.]

Regarding GT40s either owned by or otherwise associated with Georges Filipinetti and his race team, maybe there was some kind of curse on them? Consider this: (1) the first GT40 that ran under Filipinetti livery (at Le Mans 1965), #P1005, was destroyed in a fire in the mid-1970s; (2) the road GT40 that was Filipinetti's personal car, #P1033, was burned out in 1970; (3) Filipinetti team car #P1040 (my car) was significantly singed at Monza 1967; and (4) GT40 #P1042, which ran under joint Filipinetti and Brescia Corse banners at Le Mans '67, was heavily damaged by fire in 1968 or '69. The only Filipinetti GT40 that did not get lit up was team car #P1039. So, of the five GT40s associated with Filipinetti, four wound up being barbecued. YIKES! That's some record!