Good day Gents
This is where the rubber meets the road. Yes, this is where it all begins and I trust will end with an end product that will look good, pay tribute to a legend and satisfy this 60 yr old need that I have had (to scratchbuild a car) never in the 60yrs did I imagine that it would be a GT40.
I bought the shell (as a reject body) from Jordi Reddy at CAV in Cape Town. I need to thank Jordi for letting me have the body for the equivalent of 2,720 US Dollars (glass incl).
For the folk out there who have not read my intro, I'm one of those old school hard headed guys that likes to "do it myself". I need to refit the engines to my '61 4dr Corvair and same with my '65 Monza Coupe, before I can setup a jig table to build the GT40 chassis. So I might be a bit quiet in posting for a while, I also have a lot on my fork at work at the moment.
However, I would like to thank all of you who have answered my questions and queries, my first look at the GT40 was no less than 4months ago so I have a lot to learn. Having spent many many hours reading the technical sections I know there is a lot of information out there, if I ask what appears to be stupid questions its not for a lack of searching but more a matter of not being able to find what I'm looking for. I respectfully ask that you bear with me. A very big thank you to every single one of you out there that has contributed to this forum, it is steeped with invaluable information and I look forward to earning a place in this awesome community of GT40 enthusiasts.
Kind regards
Henty
This is where the rubber meets the road. Yes, this is where it all begins and I trust will end with an end product that will look good, pay tribute to a legend and satisfy this 60 yr old need that I have had (to scratchbuild a car) never in the 60yrs did I imagine that it would be a GT40.
I bought the shell (as a reject body) from Jordi Reddy at CAV in Cape Town. I need to thank Jordi for letting me have the body for the equivalent of 2,720 US Dollars (glass incl).
For the folk out there who have not read my intro, I'm one of those old school hard headed guys that likes to "do it myself". I need to refit the engines to my '61 4dr Corvair and same with my '65 Monza Coupe, before I can setup a jig table to build the GT40 chassis. So I might be a bit quiet in posting for a while, I also have a lot on my fork at work at the moment.
However, I would like to thank all of you who have answered my questions and queries, my first look at the GT40 was no less than 4months ago so I have a lot to learn. Having spent many many hours reading the technical sections I know there is a lot of information out there, if I ask what appears to be stupid questions its not for a lack of searching but more a matter of not being able to find what I'm looking for. I respectfully ask that you bear with me. A very big thank you to every single one of you out there that has contributed to this forum, it is steeped with invaluable information and I look forward to earning a place in this awesome community of GT40 enthusiasts.
Kind regards
Henty