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Hello Pierre-Louis , Glad to see you approve this livery choice ....Close to yours, if I remember ...We can now thinck to organize a South France Gulf GT40 meeting ! About spot lights, I fitted them under the bottom covers, but the older rectangular design, with the associated turn...

New update on the build ... First, I wish a Happy New year to all forumers .... Secondly, I finally decided to go to the 1075/N° 6 livery , and allready ordered the decals kit from Racelinedigital ! Sorry to add a new unit to this overcrowded liveries family, but this is my only GT40 ...

Hello Andy , To your question about rear hubs and ball joints rods : REAR HUBS : Donnor is Audi A6 ; One Audi ref is 4D0407615F , but there are others .... The main features are : 5 holes , 82 mm OD ball bearing ( ie VKBA 1356 from SKF) , 38 splines which fits with several VAG CV...

Hello Serge , Glad to see that the pictures files are now managed by the forum .... Absolutly impressive views with the big rims ...But the more impressive is to know that this build is absolutly identical to original, including genuine parts... Keep the good work ... René

Hello Pierre-Louis , Thank you for these Gulf liveries data which I include in the options to go for .... To be "Gulf N° 6" or not, that is the question ! Hopefully, I have a few weeks to make the final decision, until I achieve the "primer" operation ... Hope to see you in Nice when you...

Hello Mic, It is nice effectively to have the car moving and to drive it, even at low speed for the time being ... For the livery, I get family and friends pressure to go for the Gulf colours...Number 6 of course , in order to be ahead of the Porsche 908 on Le Mans finish line ! More...

Hello Terry, It looks I am now in the painting process which is not my cup of tea ! I hope I will be able to follow your tray for this step ... For the time being, I started with a polyester primer application, but I plan to have the final color made by my mate Mark who is a really...

Hello Luan, Welcome to the GT40s;com builders forum .... and thank you for your interest on my project . No problem to use my plans for your project ; in fact I have several requests in the same direction but I had to postpone the answers until I recollect all my data and set up the right...

Thank you Randy; all the job is not yet made , but as you probably experimented before me, I feel much more confortable than 4 years ago at the very begining of the build ! Bonjour Serge ; désolé de n'avoir pu me libérer pour te voir au rassemblement ECM ...mais je prévois de passer en...

Thanck you for your comments ..... Brett, no offense for the missed beer ....; but you are now committed for next year! Nick , I hope also to meet you one day and and exchange on our projects; By the way, did you found a solution on the angled clevis question ?

After the fisrt driving test, the main achievement these last weeks was to find and adequate trailer for moving the car on adapted test areas ... Of course, it is not yet registered , and will not be for ...some time ! ( French regulations ....) . So I decided to purchase a dedicated trailer...

Thank you Pierre-Louis ( You are welcome of course to meet and see the build when you want ...), Michel, Paul, Nick , for your comments . Michel, I have to apologize as I really missed to congratulate you for your "magnifique" , historic level Porsche 908 ! And it is amazing to see that you...

Great step these last days on my project ! We put the car on the garage floor, pulled it outside and made the first driving test ! After 4 years of welding , machining, assembly etc ...in the "dark" garage , it is really enjoying to have it outside in the sun! This very first test was made...

Perfect Brett, Have a good trip , nice holidays, and see you soon .. René

Hello Elliot , Bormes les Mimosas is approx 150 km from my place, near Nice ...So no major problem to meet when your are there during next weeks and you will be wellcome to see my project ; please send me your mail contact via forum message and we will arrange something ; I have also interest...

Hello Markus, I when on your "Markus GT40" forum, and I discovered that your scratchbuild project is in very good shape ! And I am happy to see that you could make good utilisation of some of the design informations I sent you .... As I understand, you are starting an homologation...

Hello Brett, nice to inform me you will be in Cogolin this summer ...;we will arrange a "pression" of course , but not sure I will be able to come yet with the GT 40 in Cogolin ! Just drop me the info when you will be there .... Hi Markus, well seen for the CV joint ! They are absolutely...

Hello, It is time to make an update on the project after some monthes of silence on the forum .... I am presently a young retired .... but I obviously did not found more time to dedicate to the forum ; matter of personnal organisation of course ! Hopefully, I worked effectively on the...

Thanck you , Pierre Louis ...In fact I did not selected the knock-off wheels option , from a mixt of several parameters : *Budget ... *Unsprung weight;( Adapters to add) *Safety ...Better to have 5 bolts instead of only one; but I admit this is very subjective! I will install dummies...

I was not very active on the forum these last monthes ... But it should be easier in some weeks , as I am in close discussion with my boss for end of career retirement! The main progress point on the buid is that I ordered and received the wheels from Team III in US /Ca , managed by Scott and...