Hi Jim. that's a relief, I thought for a while they might have been too far gone. Incredible that Mark Donohue and Paul Hawkins sat in them while racing at Le Mans. They should complement the Mike Salmon 1967 Le Mans steering wheel nicely. I should take this opportunity to clarify a question people have been asking i.e. "is this GT40P/1001 or GT40P/1042?". It's neither, although the tub has been reconstructed using original blueprints, the rusty remains being welded/bolted to period/original chassis parts (photos of the gearbox crossmember, for instance, coming soon). The VIN is "P/1042", but there is probably only a tenuous link to the Scuderia Filipinetti GT40 crashed recently in the States and, according to Ronnie Spain, now residing with "Anon of Switzerland". I think the link comes via Jean Blaton, the Belgium racing driver of the 1960-80s, who owned 1042 when painted yellow. I'm sure Ronnie could clarify the Blaton point, as I might have got it wrong and there "might" allegedly have been a couple of 1042s back in 2003, when the last edition of his book was published. I hope it's sufficient to say that "for legal reasons" my car is not GT40P/1042, but a mongrel of pedigree parts. Indeed, in order to distinguish the two, I intend to have the car painted white with three dark green stripes and gold wheels, as per the GT40P/1001 (Bernhard White) colour scheme in 1967, not red/white as per the Filipinetti GT40. I have also concentrated on the racing history of the bodywork from GT40P/1001,as that is the major single period/original unit used in this reconstruction. However, a "spooky" coincidence is that according to Mathwall's records, the short motor actually came from GT40P/1042, hence the circle is somewhat closer to being a complete 360 degrees... Andrew