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Pantera? Mine looks just like that one, but I was at an All-Italian car show in Alameda Sunday (so I missed the wreck). Here is an article on GT/110: https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2016/12/08/the-strange-sad-tale-of-big-ed-fords-most-unloved-gt40-roadster Although I have no tolerance for...

[ sorry, the forum software flipped those last two pics sideways (apparently it can’t cope with portrait-style pics). Anyway, this is a fairly convincing display that purports to tell the history of the car, never mind the fact that conventional wisdom says the car was scrapped and buried...

All, I was at Sears Point this past weekend for the CSRG vintage races and there was a car circulating around (rather slowly, if I’m honest) which fully purported to be the Sebring-winning Mk II roadster:

Believe it or not, my first car was a 1972 De Tomaso Pantera, #3960, that I still own today. I worked for years while putting myself through college to save up enough money to buy a very tired, beat-up example, which I bought in October 1989. At the time, I didn’t have a driver’s license and...

With the 24 Hours now postponed until September, will the Classic be in October?

It’s easy to ask the owners: https://revsinstitute.org/the-collection/1966-ford-gt40/ The REVS institute is set up specifically to share knowledge about cars generally. They will undoubtedly be more than happy to share info about a car they actually own....

Sears Point is, by far, the most challenging road course in the USA. Every corner is late apex, many are off camber, some are blind. It’s safer than it used to be but they made the front straight much more dangerous and narrow for some odd reason. Notice how Alex is short-shifting...

Yes they are RCR. Apparently for simplicity and ease of maintenance (which is to say, no maintenance) they are powered by Chevy LS engines, not Fords. A friend in France is hoping to buy one of the standard-spec cars, as they are worth substantially less than a GT40 powered by a proper Ford...

Somewhere somebody posted pics of the RCR GT40 camera cars with their dramatically extended wheelbase, but for the life of me I can’t find it. Can somebody give direction to that post please? Thanks!

Remember that in the ZF both 4th and 5th are overdrive, normally .84 and .705. So “4.22” gearbox final drove doesn’t really behave like a traditional car with such a low (numerically high) rear end ratio. With 15-inch wheels and 295/50 tires, you will turn about 3000 rpm at 70 mph. That’s...

FWIW Wilwood has a great brake torque/temperature graph available for each of their pad compounds. In my Pantera I wanted a single pad that would be suitable for street use, yet effective at the kind of moderate-to-severe track day use I would give it. In the end I settled on the BP-20 due to...

This is a fantastic thread, and I love D-types almost as much as GT40s. But since it’s an RCR car, why not put it in the dedicated RCR forum, along with the other oh-so-cool products Fran makes?

I think oil temp sender is usually in the oil pan. Pressure sensor can be on the left front of the block, next to the oil filter. Some Ford Engines have provisions for locating the sender at the top of the block at the rear, behind the intake, but I don’t know if Windsors allow that.

That’s just a plastic plug to fill the hole, I think. I suspect (but don’t know for a fact) that the hole is a pipe thread, same as the one used for the side filler, and the drain plug? The original GT 40/Mangusta vent fitting thing is a rather tall,elaborate-looking affair. I don’t know if...

STOP SHOUTING AT EVERYBODY!!!