I think the price is determined by how many person want them. Are they just photocopies? As for Homolagation the original requirement was 100. Since there were only twelve Prototypes and the papers mentioned GT/101-GT40P/1001 wheres the fifty? The name GT40 was mentioned on the official docuements for the last Prototype GT/112. It would be GT/101-GT40P/1038 for fifty for Group 4. There is a written inclusion of 1st February 1966 but these would leave the run short since it only went up to P/1036. P/1037 was despatched on 1st March 1966. Maybe they counted chassis? And the last of the run P/1038 was despatched on 1st April 1966 Perhaps they should of waited for 1969 when they only needed 25!! I have seen twenty five Ferrari 512s and of course the same amount of Porsche 917 lined up for this.
Regards Allan
Hello Allan,
Good points, as usual.
What I have is fairly modern photocopies of an original genuine document.
(As I said the handwriting & position of the round stamps is identical on mine to the ebay listing)
The ebay listing however has embossed stamps & I'm personally quite prepared to accept that it is from the 1960s.
Other questions could be, how did the RAC produce it/them? & how many copies did the RAC make?
Would the RAC have printed an individual copy & manually signed and filled in all the handwritten bits every time someone needed a copy?
I doubt it, I would of though they printed a batch, which would then just need to be embossed with the stamp on every page? I bet someone else on here would know.
I know the partial pictures are quite hard to see on ebay, for reference it states-
{The manufacturing of the model described in this recognition form started on 1st January 1965 and the minimum production of 50 identical cars, in accordance with the specifications of this form was reached on 31st December, 1965}
The way the form is filled in is a bit unclear,
{Recognition is valid from, GT40/101 GT40P/1000 (handwritten 1st Feb '66)}
{List, 14/2 }
So that's FROM chassis 101 onwards & chassis 1000 onwards, that's pretty clear.
As to the addition of the handwritten 1st Feb '66, does this mean they counted cars up to this date? rather than 31st Dec.
List 14/2, anyone got a copy of that ? !!
As Allan rightly says you still struggle to get 50 cars!
It is highly likely (in my opinion at least) that GT101 & its prototype siblings became 'GT40/101' to 'GT40/112' on paper to boost the number of cars available to homologate. The fact that some or most were built before 1965 would be glossed over.
As for the cars being an identical 50, no way! but the application was clearly accepted & thus homologated in to appendix J of the FIA.
This is hardly unique in the murky world of homologation, just about every manufacturer has done similar things, (at least the target of 50 GT40s was eventually surpassed!)
All the best, Steve
ps. Allan, this again proves Goodwood were a year early !!