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Ron Earp · 04-27-06, 12:08 PM

I don't think it would work. I had a couple of people contact me, nice people, who inquired along those lines - that is, to get the parts and try and service the debts. But, it'd simply take far too long to pull off and the new owners would work for free for many years. The debt is too high.

Some of these prospective owners thought there were a lot of RF cars out there to which they could sell parts. When the reality of it is there are probably not nearly as many as we were led to believe. If you were to read the forum from say 2003 to mid-2005, you'd almost think there were 100s of these cars in existance since that is about all you read about. Now with the information I posted above and some others undoubtedly knew, there might be less than 50-60 of these cars worldwide. Net result, not much in the way of a parts business.

There is nothing wrong with the car, in my opinion. Surely someone could get the bits and start producing GT40s for the Australian market, but as Pete says is there enough business for that? I thought there was, but, on the other hand, why was Robert so keen to get into NA/Europe - maybe not enough buyers in OZ?

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Ron Earp Ron Earp Site Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,891 Rep Power: 54	Re: RF Update 4/24/06 I don't think it would work. I had a couple of people contact me, nice people, who inquired along those lines - that is, to get the parts and try and service the debts. But, it'd simply take far too long to pull off and the new owners would work for free for many years. The debt is too high. Some of these prospective owners thought there were a lot of RF cars out there to which they could sell parts. When the reality of it is there are probably not nearly as many as we were led to believe. If you were to read the forum from say 2003 to mid-2005, you'd almost think there were 100s of these cars in existance since that is about all you read about. Now with the information I posted above and some others undoubtedly knew, there might be less than 50-60 of these cars worldwide. Net result, not much in the way of a parts business. There is nothing wrong with the car, in my opinion. Surely someone could get the bits and start producing GT40s for the Australian market, but as Pete says is there enough business for that? I thought there was, but, on the other hand, why was Robert so keen to get into NA/Europe - maybe not enough buyers in OZ?