Alan Man GT40 for sale
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Terry Oxandale
Skinny Man
So, what is the hump in the nostril designed to cover? A spare?
Exactly. As they went to wider wheels the nostril panel had to be bulged to accomodate the spare wheel demanded to be carried by the FIA regs of the time.
AMGT-2 is my favourite GT40 because of the spec run by Paul Hawkins in his day. A true lean, mean, race machine!
AMGT-2 is my favourite GT40 because of the spec run by Paul Hawkins in his day. A true lean, mean, race machine!
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I can promise you AMGT-2 is and always has been right hand drive. I have spent alot of time with this car before the GT40 world lost a great guy in Jack Launtz. Most of his cars are now for sale including this car at 3m. USD. This is a well known and highly successfull racing history GT40.
Jay, I went to Copley Motorcars only to find out, the car is not there. Copley is not that far from me, so I thought I could just drop in and see the car. Where is it? Too bad the salesman doesn't know much about that GT. If you are selling a car for three million, you should know every nut and bolt about the car IMHO. In this economy, It will be interesting to see the final selling price.
Tony,
I wouldn't mind a copy of Fortification 80. How do I get it?
One of the reasons AMGT-2 is my favourite is that according to John Allen it ran a Hewland when raced by Paul Hawkins. I have exchanged PMs with Jack Launtz earlier this year and he said he was unaware of that, and that he was going to check into it.
Certainly Paul Hawkins mechanic at the time would know for sure, and it would be something that would be nice to have confirmed or otherwise.
Is it possible to contact him to check, or maybe see some photos under the rear clip during his time.....?
There is also some discussion of the car in this thread
http://www.gt40s.com/forum/original-gt40s/24815-original-mkii-ex-alan-mann.html
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I spent alot of time going over this car for Jack and maing him a list of parts that were not correct on this car from its last 2 owners and took alot of pics. I saw no signs of a hewland ever being in the car from any modifications. I thought hewlands were left hand shift and I am sure if thats the case the shift linkage would have needed alot of help getting there. I know that when Stauffer owned it there was never a sign of anything like that. I also know old race car mechanics get older stories confused alot. I would sooner think the hewland was in Allan Manns lola or some other car.
I emailed Copley and suggested they might consider posting the car on gt40s.com along with supplementary information. Here's the nice response received yesterday:
hi mr. beer:
thanks much for the e-mail regarding AM GT40/2. it is a wonderful example that is fully documented as i'm sure you've seen in the shelby registry. it is also documented by marque expert ronnie spain and i've a personal letter to the owner from mr. spain. both sources confirm AMGT-2's fabulous race history. the car has been with the same owner in his private collection since the 1980s and both he and the GT40 are well known here in the states. sadly, he has passed away recently and my dear colleague is handling the sale of his important cars for the estate. pricing is $3,000,000.00. i hope this information helps. please feel free to call or e-mail to chat further. and thanks for the gt40s.com tip.
best regards,
stuart carpenter
www.copleymotorcars.com
37 chestnut street
needham, massachusetts 02492 USA
tel. 781.444.4646
fax. 781.444.4406
hi mr. beer:
thanks much for the e-mail regarding AM GT40/2. it is a wonderful example that is fully documented as i'm sure you've seen in the shelby registry. it is also documented by marque expert ronnie spain and i've a personal letter to the owner from mr. spain. both sources confirm AMGT-2's fabulous race history. the car has been with the same owner in his private collection since the 1980s and both he and the GT40 are well known here in the states. sadly, he has passed away recently and my dear colleague is handling the sale of his important cars for the estate. pricing is $3,000,000.00. i hope this information helps. please feel free to call or e-mail to chat further. and thanks for the gt40s.com tip.
best regards,
stuart carpenter
www.copleymotorcars.com
37 chestnut street
needham, massachusetts 02492 USA
tel. 781.444.4646
fax. 781.444.4406
That's right. John Allen is an authority who is often quoted for veracity of GT40 info. He must have had some reason to state Hawkins used a Hewland. In fact he attributed the fact that it was so successful to the fact that it could easily be regeared to suit each individual circuit.
Of course when Paul sold the car he may well have kept the LG600 and refitted the original ZF....
I'm not sure how much you'd have to change in the back of a GT40 to fit the Hewland. Not much I would suspect...
Having just completed my car which has a Hewland (VGC) I can confirm that they will fit !
I think the LG & the DG are slightly shorter than the VGC so I dont see that as a reason to doubt the possibility. I would say that we were oblidged to create a custom bellhousing that minimised the overall lenght of the engine / tranaxle assembly. We also had to move the engine as far foreword as possible which ment some fairly extensive engineering to relocate the water pump & alternator
I did some research a while ago and the only reference I could find was a comment in the Trevor Legate book and an article sourced from wikipedia. Given the unreliability of the transaxles at Lemans you could be forgiven for questioning why they didnt make more use of the Hewland ?
I have nicknamed my VGC "Mike" after Mike Tyson. If you are anything less than really agressive with the shift it will bite you, if however you use maximum attitude it is like a knife through butter.
Regards
Iain
I think the LG & the DG are slightly shorter than the VGC so I dont see that as a reason to doubt the possibility. I would say that we were oblidged to create a custom bellhousing that minimised the overall lenght of the engine / tranaxle assembly. We also had to move the engine as far foreword as possible which ment some fairly extensive engineering to relocate the water pump & alternator
I did some research a while ago and the only reference I could find was a comment in the Trevor Legate book and an article sourced from wikipedia. Given the unreliability of the transaxles at Lemans you could be forgiven for questioning why they didnt make more use of the Hewland ?
I have nicknamed my VGC "Mike" after Mike Tyson. If you are anything less than really agressive with the shift it will bite you, if however you use maximum attitude it is like a knife through butter.
Regards
Iain
Fitting a hewland in a RF could be vastly different than fitting it in an original GT40. The shift linkage would not mate up to a ZF without modifaction. The crossmember would not bolt up. The drive axles would have to be compltely remodeled. Lower bellhousing mounts would not match up. Speedo and or original oil pumps would have to be scrapped. Jeff Sime worked on this car at Stauffers and he never saw any evidence of a non stock transaxle in it and Jack was a historian of this car after he got it and he never heard anything about a hewland. It could have been done for a short period of time but I can't see any evidence of it.
The ZFs were pretty reliable by this time and went on to win a couple more 24 hour races in 68-69. I seem to remember hewlands being heavier than a ZF and I do know Paul Hawkins was into weight savings as much as Allan Mann was those days.
The ZFs were pretty reliable by this time and went on to win a couple more 24 hour races in 68-69. I seem to remember hewlands being heavier than a ZF and I do know Paul Hawkins was into weight savings as much as Allan Mann was those days.
But I do have small block ford - hewland bellhousings if anybody needs one.
Yes it will fit any 6-bolt small block ford. They are cast in the original patterns from All American Racers
