Hersh,
Thanks very much for the kind words. As you will no doubt understand, there is a lot left to do yet that the pictures don't show.
On the wheels: I started attending the 24 Hours of Daytona around 1968 and at that time all of the top end sports cars and many of the racers were running this style of BBS wheels. Many of them at that time were anodized gold as you may recall. Anyway it was in that period of 68-70 that I came to favor the BBS style. So when it came time to build the GT40, I put on the wheels that I liked and had wanted on a car for all these years. As it turns out, the center section of these Compomotive 3 piece wheels is powder coated. At some point in the future, when the wheels start to get chipped and a little worse for wear, I may powder coat them with an anodized blue color to match the car. Then again, I may do them in the gold that I admired back in "the day."
Bye the way, early on, I was very confused by the many Ford GT entries because none of them looked alike and I couldn't figure out what a Ford GT actually was for quite a while. The programs did not list whether they were MK Is, Mk IIs or Mk IVs. I did figure it out finally, but by then the story in endurance racing was the battle between the Porsche 917s and the Ferrari 512s. But the Fords obviously made quite an impression on me.
Lynn