FUBAR. You got that right Bill. COPD is my millstone...
You have a fascinating history mate :thumbsup:
I am guessing here Bill, but it might be Long Bay in the Hauraki Gulf, some pics here to help jog the memory... I'm from down south bottom of the South Island, only been to Auckland once, no real desire to go back!
You should be, Maori names are another language. Yes, if you can call 30 acres a farm, nice and peaceful for when things get stressfull in the w/shop, I only have to walk a 100 yards and the shop is out of sight! Younger brother still has the family farm, I always had the mechanical twist from early teens, probably earlier when I think about it. Worked in an outfit importing V8 stuff ex USA thru seventies and got a crash course on Shelby/Boss stuff etc as my boss was then a Ford guy, he got his arm twisted by some USA folk to run chevvies, I built his first Chev & then pulled the pin to work on my own, have to do most stuff yourself in this neck o the woods and ended up doing all stuff, jet boats, dirt track cars plus road & rally race cars, been interesting to say the least, still got some customer stuff to finish, then make some real progress on all the projects I have started.
You keep it up my friend - you're doing fine...:thumbsup:
See ya,NZ..Be well,Colonel.
does anybody know whatever became of #p1007.White w/blue livery?#15&45 FIA&SCCA ?
That patch would have been on LHS over that LH tank filler port, at Le Mans only the RHS filler was used as tanks had a crossover pipe fitted. The Blue Stripes etc would have been a dark blue, not like the colours on pic above which was taken last year. From what I can research car had 289 while raced in early years and I would suggest that it has one again now for originality as the 427 was fitted at a point in time where originality was not a factor plus its possible that it did not have the matching T44 along with all the other pieces to make it a MKII clone.. Car is at 'Museum of Loheac', pics taken from a French website with info about that car... to find the website I just typed in [ GT40P-1007 ] on uncle google!
Gimme 24 hrs & I will check out name of that guy wanting to do GT40/Cobra/Daytona replicas, rings bell in the grey matter....IIRC he got the Daytona done, not sure about the GT40, think he found a Daytona undergoing restoration or repair that he was able to take a 'splash' off.
There was a guy in the 60,s,70,s in Jersey that had three Daytona,s all fresh from the track.Cobra,s,not Ferrari,s.I was trying to talk him out of one.I went there one afternoon and the place was empty.DEA,FBI,ABC,DDT,They all shows up to get this guy.Turns out he was a BIG time smuggler and money launderer for his Colombian friends.Never found out what happened to the cars and didn't want to ask.
Palermo,Marzigliano,Calabrese,I just can't remember.He had a great big pool and his cousin Nino lived behind him and I think worked for him.