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06-28-04, 03:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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Rep Power: 5  | Still amazing how low a GT40 is compared with other cars.
It still amazes me how low a gt40 is compared to other cars on the road - after driving one it makes even most sportscars seem like double decker buses with such high Centre of gravities. It would be interesting to see of any modern manufacterers introduce a sportscar with such a low roofline to lower the centre of gravity further - the new GT is something like 44 inches which is too high in MHO ;-) just look how low my gt is compared to this van which has a lowering kit on!! | 
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06-30-04, 03:36 PM
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Damn I made the post but didn't put the pic in with it :-) - heres a picture. | |
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06-30-04, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004 GT40: So Cal
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the picture that really puts it in perspective for me was the one where the car was next to the crotch rocket...lower than a motorcycle.
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06-30-04, 06:25 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004 GT40: So Cal
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I lifted out of the Off Topic section regarding Triumphs | |
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07-02-04, 12:29 AM
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| | petek A Tenth
Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: KCMO GT40: Not yet...
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Hershal's sitting next to a van at the Fling... | |
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07-02-04, 02:38 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Magazine Editor (finance magazine) and Freelance Writer (classic car articles) GT40: Robin Hood Country, England
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This is the photo that did it for me - Michael Hipperson's GT40 1005 from the early 1970s. Cheers - Rob  | |
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07-02-04, 04:32 AM
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| | simonjrwinter serial GT40 owner 
Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Essex, UK GT40: GTD
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Rep Power: 24 | Re: Still amazing how low a GT40 is compared with other cars
Amazing isn't it....I've got one in the garage, but I still love to look at pictures of the flaming things.
I would guess in the US it must be even more pronounced with all those SUV's out there.
I was at a garage just after I bought mine, when the guy in front decided to reverse without looking down, just back. In my panic I couldn't find the horn button so just revved the engine a couple of times...that stopped him! | |
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07-02-04, 10:08 AM
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| | MK -IV J6 10 tenths
Join Date: Mar 2002 GT40: NYC,USA
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J6 on the road | |
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11-24-05, 12:51 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Yep even the Vette doesnt compare | |
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11-25-05, 10:00 AM
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| | CCX33911 10 tenths
Join Date: Dec 2001 GT40: Virginia
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Or this shot.  | |
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11-25-05, 11:52 AM
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| | huntsen 5 Tenths
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: High Wycombe, U GT40: Factory-built G
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Rep Power: 11 | Re: Still amazing how low a GT40 is compared with other cars.
How about this, then? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banana.gif[/img] | |
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11-25-05, 12:27 PM
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| | SPHameka A Tenth
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Texas coast GT40: RF GT40 #81
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How would you like to get run over by this road locomotive. | |
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11-25-05, 03:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003 GT40: Milwaukee
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Rep Power: 7 | Re: Still amazing how low a GT40 is compared with other cars.
How about compared to a new GT | |
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11-25-05, 03:16 PM
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| | CCX33911 10 tenths
Join Date: Dec 2001 GT40: Virginia
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Howard Jones sent me Ford GT vs. GT40 pics shown HERE | |
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11-25-05, 04:48 PM
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| | Alain V 2 Tenths
Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Kansas (middle of nowhere) GT40: sold them both!
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MY Daughter came to work with me on Wednesday. She had the day off because of the holiday.
In the afternoon, I took her for a quick ride in the GT40NA.
Her words were somethig like: "I feel like such a midget in this car",,
Of course, here in Kansas, every other vehicle on the road is a pick up truck or SUV, so it is kind of "creepy" to be blasting around with a GT40.
You have to really watch out for people when driving one on the street.
Either they don't see you at all until they about run you over,,,,,,or they do see you and forget to pay attention to what else they are doing. | |
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11-25-05, 08:57 PM
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| | roaldin 5 Tenths 
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia GT40: RF
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My contribution | |
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11-26-05, 12:40 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003 GT40: Monterey, Ca. USA
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Heres mine | |
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11-26-05, 09:18 AM
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| | b6gt40 2 Tenths
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL
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I don't have a picture, but...
I took my wife for a ride and while sitting at a stoplight she looked out her side window, under a semi-trailer stopped next to us and could see the driver of the minivan on the other side! Her comment was "That's just wrong!....your car (GT40) looks like a matchbox car on the street." | |
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11-26-05, 03:01 PM
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| | Doc Watson 5 Tenths
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Devon, UK GT40: Replica Mk I
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Tell me about it! I'm 6'2" and had to have a photo taken of this one.... it was taken at the Exeter kit car show and is Mark Sibley's (and it for sale btw) love that new rear chassis Mark.
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12-17-05, 11:35 PM
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charliebsa, where did you get the decals from? (They are decals, right?) | |
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