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I am at work so I don't have my GT40 records but from memory 1034 was originally bought by a Mr Fielding who was the Chairman of the company that made dynos used to test the GT40's. A guy in the UK , Paul Weldon I think bought it and raced it. It was sold to a Sydney based guy who then sold it to George Parlby also of Sydney. It was originally a road car painted green but I beleive that Parlby painted it in Gulf colours. Its original motor was a 289 with webers and a ZF and Borrani wheels
It was later sold to someone in America and eventually ended up back in England at the Silverstone auction in 2000 and was bought by David Bowden from Queensland. Long time racing legend Kevin Bartlett is a friend of David,s and usually drives it.
My race mechanic, Kerry O'Brien who works on my GT40 told me that he did work on it back when Parlby owned it - he rebuilt the gearbox and fabricated new exhausts in Parlby's garage under his house because Parlby did not want to let the car out of his sight. He had 3 phase power put on and provided everything so that Kerry could do the job.
Its obviouis that it has a different manifold and carb set up but it could easlily be one of David's other motors from his array of historic Mustangs and Falcon GT's.