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Old 06-09-08, 10:50 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

The number 1149 was assigned by the Safir guys who are also the folks who have the original body molds (from which my car's body was made) and the rights to the GT40 shape etc etc. Lots of people claim these rights; Safir are the only folks that stepped up and paid good money for it and all the parts and tooling. No one else did that.

The tooling is not composed of dies. It is a set of molds that the original bodies were made in. The molds required resurfacing and a lot of reconditioning, but they are the molds that FAV used in the 60s to build the cars back then. They were also used by JW Automotive and were used to build the Mark V cars as well.

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