Dutch newbie

[Sandert]

Hi all,

My name is Sander. I'm a 34 years young car enthousiast from the Netherlands. I fell in love with the GT40 about 10 years ago through a picture. And still today I haven't seen a real one nor a replica in real life . Strangely I did own a GT once.. that's the Opel GT. It was the car that I fell in love with since I was at he age of twelve. As soon as I could afford it I bought a wrecked one from the states and rebuild it allmost from scratch. After two years of restoring and a year of driving it around I traded it for a TVR S1 with the ford 2.8 V6 cologne engine. Too bad I totaled the TVR a couple of months after I got it.
Around that time I was prepering for the Amsterdam Dakar challenge, A variant of the famous Paris-Dakar rally but mainly to raise funds for charity. The goal of this challenge was using a car that costs no more than euro 500,- prepare it for no more than euro 150,- and drive it from Amsterdam straight to Dakar in less than two weeks. The car used was a 1984 Renault 4 GTL. The car made it without any problems.
I dedicated a website to this www.dukesofthedesert.nl It is in Dutch, but for non Dutch speaking there's a lot of pictures that will tell the story.

As for the present time I own a 1972 TVR 1600M that I occasionally use for track days. The car has been stripped to make it lighter and a 2.0 litre ford engine with double weber sidedraft carbs. It's not a fast car to drive but still a lot of fun.

I registered to www.gt40s.com becouse I know I will own a GT40 (replica) at some point in my life. Not sure how, but it will be there. I will spend a lot of time reading the interesting threads on this forum which will help me decide in wich configuration my GT40 will end up at some day. There's no way I can come up with the money to buy a beautiful completely assembled GT40 from Superfrmance. So it will probably become a project. Luckyly I'm skilled enough to fullfill this dream.

I would like to get in contact with other Dutch GT40 owners and talk about their cars/projects.

Best regards,

Sander

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands

[domtoni]

Hi Sander,

Glad you joined, and welcome !!!

I lived in Breda 20 years ago !!

How Do !!! (an american spelling brabant)

Dom

[Sandert]

Originally Posted by domtoni

Hi Sander,

Glad you joined, and welcome !!!

I lived in Breda 20 years ago !!

How Do !!! (an american spelling brabant)

Dom

Hi Dom, Breda is a nice place to live. I will probably end up there at some point in my life.

Houdoe!

[frank beuker]

Hi Sander welcome to the forum
I'm not to far away from where you're living so you're welcome to come over
cheers
frank

[Molleur]

Sander, welcome to the forum. Please enjoy us here.

[Sandert]

Originally Posted by Frank Beuker

Hi Sander welcome to the forum
I'm not to far away from where you're living so you're welcome to come over
cheers
frank

That sounds nice Frank. Just let me know when you need a hand whilst working on your car. I'd love to help you out.

[Lucas van Altena]

Welcome Sander,

I live near Alkmaar, if you see and hear a gtd let me know?
If you want to see an original ford gt40, 22,23,25 may at zandvoort.(harc)
I think hans hugenholz will be there with blue gt40.

[Gsmits]

nice! another nederlander

welkom

groetjes uit Dordrecht

Gsmits

[Chris Headon]

Welcome Sander, hope you realise your dream it took me 40 years so never give up.