Where are the Gulf GT 40's ??
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Rob Walton owns 1075 See: http://www.saac.com/images/stories/articles/news/mixedmsg/shortmem/p1075.jpg
Jim
Jim
You would have to define Gulf Cars. 1049 is in the Collier Museum. 1074 was owned by Bernie Carl in Washington DC last I knew, 1075 is Rob Waltons in Nevada, 1076 is owned by Harry Yeaggy in Ohio and 1084 is Sir Anthony Bamfords in the UK
May I ask is this current or prior to the apparent sale from Hamilton's last year ?
Jim Rosenthal
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Most likely place to see one would be on the race track at Laguna Seca, which is where they were in 2003. Neither 1074 nor 1075 are in museums, they are in private collections and don't appear too often. You are better off trying to get a look at some of the GT40s that are in museum collections that are open to the public: the Simeone collection, the Shelby American museum in Colorado. I don't know if Miles Collier's collection is open to the public, but he has some original GT40s from the 60s race era. You should look in the SAAC registry which is the best and most complete list of the cars and who owns them.
1075 was recently at Laguna Seco for the Historics...I spend some time up close admiring it...
what serial number is this one that was at Road America for the reunion? was it originally a gulf car?
well I just answered my own questions by looking at the pic I have of the serial number plate - 1086
what serial number is this one that was at Road America for the reunion? was it originally a gulf car?
well I just answered my own questions by looking at the pic I have of the serial number plate - 1086
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Jack Houpe
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Mike, I got to see 1075 up close back in the early 90s. At that time I had no idea what history was behind it, I wish now I could go back in time and ask for a ride. Rob has a wealth of knowledge of historic cars and is one hell of a driver and just a down to earth guy.
It is 1086 that was first owned by Peter DeSilva. It has some "Gulf" features but was never a Gulf team car in fact the chassis was not finished until the early 1980s.
Has a Boss 302 in it. At RA the car had a throttle cable issue that Randall worked on with a little help from me (well, I pushed the pedal down while he lubed the cable)
Strange to find that question, where can you see the 1075?
2 years in a row (2010, 2011) I have seen it at Wengler Racing here in Luxembourg during the Luxembourg AutoFestival. It was almost unprotected and I still can not believe that they showed it like this. (I was very worried when kids were playing just next to it).
P.S.: Since this is the official Ford importer and a respected house for race preparation, I do not expect them to lie on the genuineness of the car.
Anybody has a reference on the price this car went last sale, I seem to remember that it broke all records since it was a GT40 and won Le Mans in '68 and '69.
2 years in a row (2010, 2011) I have seen it at Wengler Racing here in Luxembourg during the Luxembourg AutoFestival. It was almost unprotected and I still can not believe that they showed it like this. (I was very worried when kids were playing just next to it).
P.S.: Since this is the official Ford importer and a respected house for race preparation, I do not expect them to lie on the genuineness of the car.
Anybody has a reference on the price this car went last sale, I seem to remember that it broke all records since it was a GT40 and won Le Mans in '68 and '69.
I'm pretty certain that is a Roaring Forties replica. P1075 is virtually unrestored and has never had a Ford badge on the nose. Also the roof line extending over the door shows it is a replica.
Dont think thats it. 1075 had different door handles, although they may have changed the doors.
A replica would explain how they put it in the open like that (they should have mentioned it to my feeling, certainly at an importer).
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