Prodigy. IMHO Jamie thats not strictly true .This is a bit of a deviation from the thread BUT....
I'm building one to race and expect to be able to race it two to three times a month on average during the racing season from August through to May.If you haven't already, maybe you should look at joining one of the car clubs in your area that caters for those that want to race. If you've got a car of any sort you can race even if you are too young to hold a road license. There is plenty of opportunity for anyone with a GT40 to race in New Zealand to the extent that some weekends you would have to decide which meeting you preferred to attend. We are very fortunate in this part of the world to have realistic administators so that ownership and enjoyment of vintage and classic cars on our public roads is not subject to the restrictions and beaurocracy that prevails in many places overseas and as far as racing goes if your car complies with basic safety requirements there are heaps of opportunities to race anything. Not only race meetings but also hillclimbs, sprints, bent sprints. If it is road registered then also there are tarmac rallys (and gravel of course) plus the likes of the Dunlop Targa New Zealand run over a week and involving around 1000 km of full bore closed road special stages. Plus several other shorter Targa events. A GT40 would be awesome in these. Get involved in a club. If you haven't got a car the clubs always welcome people to help on the day with running the meetings particularly at club level. Over a period of time you will meet many wonderful people, make great friends and rub shoulders with the rich and famous.
I think you will find if you care to do a bit of research that this country far from being a "crap hole" in any respects is actually one of the best countries to live in and if you're into motorsport it's a hell of a lot more enjoyable, affordable and less beaurocratic here than many other places. Ask some of the guys overseas how much it costs to hire their local track for a day. I can hire my local track(3.3km FIA approved international track) for $90 per day unlimitted testing all day. Race meeting entry fees are around $70 for a one day meeting for usually four six lap races plus practice and qualifing. For an International Classic Race meeting at my local track entry fees are $200 for 2 days free practice followed by 2 days of qualifying and racing. This is the premiere clascic meeting of the year in NZ and traditionally has entrants bring their cars from Aussie, Hong Kong, Great Brittan, Canada and the States and they come out year after year after year bringing cars ranging from several F5000's from England to a pretty 1950's european Formula 750 from the States plus numerous Lotus Elans, Porsches, TVR's etc from the other countries. They come out here and they keep coming out here because they know that NZ is a great place to be involved in motorsport.
