LE MANS CLASSIC

[roy snook]

I would like to know if any 40 owners will be going to the september 21-22 meeting at Le Mans.
I will be taking my car along with 4 other cars from the Enthusiasts Club and would be good to meet up with other owners

[roy snook]

STOP PRESS
O'REILLYS CARAVAN CAFE just inside the circuit-no signs-Luxury Toilet and non-stop jokes

[IAN UK]

Roy
Can I just bring to your attention that the cafe you refer to happens to be our accomodation for the week, the luxury toilet you mention is for residents ONLY and the guest toilet is a bucket and chucket job.
Club Members are most welcome to drop in for a drink or two or fve or six (If you can stand the humour). I have sent out invitations to my friends... yours has just gone in the BIN
All the Best
Ian [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[josvdp]

OK so who went - who saw what - who did what - I saw one red replica in Le Mans Saturday night and two by the circuit on Sunday evening - in the paddock was one unused real one - someone else crashed out in practise and there were four or five others racing - chassis numbers ? - anyone desperate to know - fab weekend

[roy snook]

I was there with my Essex Wire liveried car and managed to do a full lap of the circuit along with 5 other members of the Enthusiasts Club, absolutely awsome, we had allocated parking in the Espace clubs area, this has to be the best classic event so far.
also took the cars to the Hotel De France for a photo shoot- the pictures of the drivers and cars is a must see.

[IAN UK]

Big thank you to Roy Snook for organizing the track advents at Le-Mans and all his hard work in getting us into places that we could not have access to on our own as individuals.
Proberly the most photographed cars of the weekend where the six Forty's parked up in the Espace Area.
Weather was as good as June, O'Reilly's cafe was kept busy cooking crepes late into the night until the chef was to drunk to stand, roll on 2004.
Photo's will follow so that you all can see what you missed !!!
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[Brian Magee]

May I add my thanks to Roy for all he did to organise the Hants and Berks region of the GT40 Enthusiasts Clubs presence at the Classic Le Mans and the club display in the centre of the circuit.

The lap round the circuit was awesome especially blasting up the start/finish straight passed a packed grandstand. It all got a bit hairy braking at the end of the Malsanne straight with so many cars of different power and braking capabilities on the circuit at once, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

My wife Pam said she considered giving up her seat to Eric Smith our Chairman, but that only lasted about a nanosecond, she hasn't stopped talking about it since.

Roll on 2004.

Brian.

Le Mans Classique was the best event never seen before. My brother and i didn't slept for 36 hours. A great moment in a man's life,
it is good to dream ....

[josvdp]

Allegedly Europsort have an hour of highlights at 5 pm UK time tonight Wednesday repeated at 930 am tomorrow

[norman falkiner]

I drove down from paris for a look on the saturday, saw a GT40 returning on a trailer looking the worst for wear, also saw two GT40's in the parking area outside the circuit. One was in Gulf colours and one was red if I recall correctly. Saw the dusk/night race where the GT40 ran away from the rest ...big time. D type Jag driven by Win Percy also ran away with his class. Went to take some photos of the Gt40's in the pits only to have the battery give up. so I only have some superb memories of the above event. just good to have been there. Regards Norman

[josvdp]

I think the two cars outside the circuit were replicas and the broken one was probably no 60 / group 5 / Nahum / Switzerland who rubbished his body in practise

[norman falkiner]

Never for one moment did I think they were originals,but the walk around the pits was really a once in a lifetime experience.The range of exotic machinery there was fabulous. Regards

[europad]

I have just discovered this forum dedicated to my favorite car. I have been to Le Mans Classic and have built a page on my website concerning the GT40s presents there. Sorry the text is in french but there are pictures :-)) Here is the address http://perso.club-internet.fr/dherre...sic02_gt40.htm
I am not a GT40 replica specialist, so I suppose that the replicas which were at Le Mans were GTDs except perhaps the white one with orange sill stripes. Is this correct? I would be pleased to have precisions from the owners of these cars. Thanks in advance.
This event is really the best seen in France since a lot of years.
Daniel

[Brian Magee]

Hi Daniel
Here is the information that you requested

Red car - Tornado owned by Ian OReilly (Perrys on this site.) Finished in 2000.

Blue car - GTD owned by Dave Champ. First year on the road.

White/Red stripe - GTD owned by Roy Snook. Finished in 2001. Second visit to Le Mans.

White/Blue stripes - GTD owned by Brian Magee. Finished in 2000. Third visit to Le Mans.

Dark Blue - GTD owned by John Edwards. Finished in about 1985. Numerous visits to Le Mans.

White/Orange sill stripes - KVA owned by Tony Jasper. Only covered about 100 miles before going to Le Mans!

The only problems we had on the trip was a blown ignition coil on Tony's car and blocked jets on John's car.
The lap of the circuit was awesome, if it had been two laps I think some cars would have returned, less some of their paintwork!
Roll on 2004.

Brian.

[roy snook]

The Le Mans Classic event is scheduled to be shown on Eurosport on 26/11/02 at 23.45 and repeated on 28/11/02 at 12.30 (believed French Time).
Also have confirmation that the event WILL run in 2004 - in either july or september-TBC

[josvdp]

lets hope Eurosport are telling the truth this time - in fact lets hope whoever confirmed 2004 is telling the truth too as I'd heard via one of the sponsors that it was less rather than more likely - sadly - I know the suggestion was to move it to July as well

[Chris E]

If the event isn't confirmed for 2004 I reccon Roy will organise it himself!!