[Malcolm]

Clearly there is a big bias to GT40s and replicas here. And it is easy to see why. But Charles and I have been having this discussion for a while now off the forum and we still haven't got any closer to an answer.

From my perspective a 40 on the road is really dangerous as it is so competant and fast and the traffic round here is ludicrously heavy. You are forever on the brakes pulling up and there is no flow to a drive out and about. But that is not the cars fault. Put me on a race track and I feel so much safer. Others I know are the complete opposite. But now I have my Prosport, the 40 on a track is a barge by comparison. But my GTD 40 still gives me a great experience, the noise, the smells, the view out the windscreen. And that is a replica. It can still beat up many a more modern supercar in lap times. I have been fortunate enough to have been in original cars too and that experience is as above but even more so, if you get my drift. The Prosport gives as good in all these regards, just in a totally different way. It just doesn't have the history or following.

But to try and choose one car to do all things is so difficult. You can't have a Lola T70, P4, 917 as a car you can just jump in and drive to a trackday and back home again afterwards as Charles does in his 40. And you can't just grab an everyday road car and track it all the time.

The nearest you can get to this eternal compromise is a Porsche GT3. But some trackdays are getting to be Porsche GT3 benefit gigs. Fab cars and do the business every time day in and day out. But a bit dull in the soul department compared to a 40.

I have known a number of GTD owners who have sold their 40 and bought other exotica. Only one has not looked back and wished he still had his GTD. I count myself lucky that I do not need to sell my car even if I chose to not use it all the time. Right now I enjoy my Prosport a lot and it is taking me to higher planes in my driving. Long may that continue, but then I guess I will have to start a thread "Where do you go from a Prosport?" Group C?