Recent content by ERIK

Re: GT40 1079 an 1005 Total Destruction Hi Rob, I appreciate your message, Bob and Willy's memories mean nothing to these replica builders and I don't think it means much more to the current owners that are trying to give new histories to their cars.The problem is that at each race they make...

GT40 1079 an 1005 Total Destruction Lynn and Hipperson, just in few words : Total destruction means total reconstruction to have "another" car. Total reconstruction means 100 % replica. The one who own these cars cannot claim their originality. They are only "1005 replica" and "1079 replica"...

Re: Total destruction Ben, you should have seen the car in the 80s ! It would be a 10 pages list ! This is another example of the many replicas existing. 1005 definitely died in Walther's '74 garage burn, and 1079 at the Hunaudières corner in 68. As I said, their fates were sailed. What...

Re: GT40 1079 Total Destruction Rob and other persons, I personnaly saw the car in the 80s and it was really far from being a GT40. Franco didn't completed the car, one of his workers made it and used the Peugeot 4 cyl. engine. The current owner spent in the last years a lot of money/time to...

Re: Total destruction Yes Rob, GT40 1079 the car that Sbarro "rebuilt" ... in 3 different cars !!!!! and the one fitted in the 80's with Peugeot 505 Turbo race engine was entered at Le Mans this year. Sbarro is so magic. The picture is taken at the Hunaudieres corner were Mairesse lost the...

Total destruction Let's guess ...

Humm.... deadly idiot !

Hello there ! First post ... with an interesting picture from a car which was supposed to have his fate been sailed. Bsrgs