Recent content by S Salasek

The thief had a long list of charges from the last month including using a stolen credit card multiple times. He is still in our local county jail with a 10000 dollar bail. Along with hastily painting the car flat black and sanding the new yellow paint job with 120 grit paper all of the...

I will try to keep this short and interesting. My CAV was built in late 2000 in Blue as one of the 17 cars built by CAV for GTD and came to New York to someone who had planned on being a dealer for these cars. Fran Kress ended up with it in 2004 with a 289 and Getrag but had never quite been...

Just received the door pockets that were not on the car when it was rescued from the thief Extremely happy because they are no longer available from CAV in this configuration. They went back to the garage where the car received it's black paint job and found everything that was still missing...

Rod, Running a simple drivetrain of a 68 289 block with iron heads and a Holley carb with a Getrag 5 speed trans. Drivetrain was not touched while the car was being "borrowed". I have written about my adventure with this under this thread but it hasn't shown up yet. Would love to see your McLaren.

Things that I have learned during this stolen car adventure be very cautious about where you choose to store your car. I will now store in a gated storage facility where a card is required to gain entry Be cautious about underinsuring your car. You know what it would cost to replace it...

This CAV was built in late 2000 and came to New York from the factory painted blue. Purchased it from Fran Kress in 2004 which was set up with a 68 289 and Getrag 5 speed but was never quite finished. I was able to set it up for both street use and Shelby club racing for Road America at...

If anyone has any interest in the details of this story indicate that in this thread and I will fill you in since I am the owner of this early CAV.

Are you interested in selling any parts from this chassis? I have an early CAV like yours.

I am an early CAV owner Serial number CAV001025-0428-B-L-AU assembled by Jean Fourie My understanding according to Andre 40 is there were 17 cars built as space frame cars before they switched to the semi monocoque. Help with parts sourcing would be much appreciated. Steve Salasek...

The Au on the tag shows that the car was built with the intention of receiving an Audi Transaxle. It was a very interesting read from Andre 40 about the early CAV. Thank you to whoever brought that info to light. Stay in touch. Steve

I bought my car partially completed but on a bill of sale only back in 2004. didn't have any trouble getting it titled as a 1966 CAV GT 40 here in Iowa. It took me about 2 months of weekends to complete. Someone had installed small block Ford and Audi transaxle at some point. I was told it...

Contact me if you have any more questions on this car. I have a CAV that is tagged the same as yours built in late 2000 or early 2001. No support from anyone I can find. I hope Jean Fourie will correspond with you as I also have questions on parts that were sourced on these early cars...

Bill, It was great to meet you and I'm so glad you were able to get your car there even with the problems you were dealing with . We were right behind you and Simon on our high speed touring laps Sunday morning. What a thrill to be at speed with another GT 40 replica. First time for me. I...

Johan, I was able to do 3.00 min. lap times at Road America 2 years ago on street tires. That was rather spririted driving to me with lap speed average of about 72 mph. I think we could all scare ourselves a little running 3.15 to 3.20 lap times being along side each other. I would be...

Jack, You are a class act. Great of you to have done this. I will try to return the favor in some way. Steve