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CAV built a handful of roadsters. Fran Kress had an ERA roadster which is now owned by a Pantera buddy of mine in Holland; Fran replaced it with an identical-looking Superformance (the #54 car above) if my memory is correct? I wouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel. If you want a roadster, there...

Ron is a professional Pantera mechanic. He is a good guy to ask if you want to find a good car. I am a professional Pantera dork (see me on Jay Leno’s Garage) and am also a good guy to ask if you want to find a good car. Julian Kift is also well-versed in these things. If anybody has a hankering...

Answer: no, there was not. You are most likely confused and thinking of the very famous Sunoco Ferrari 512M: Most Sunoco cars were GM-powered, i.e. Trans-Am Camaros, and Lola T70 Spyders. The original Gulf colors were not the light blue and orange that we are so familiar with. Gulf Oil’s...

At the risk of offending people here, allow me to suggest the rational alternative: Pantera. It offers a fantastic mid-engine chassis, Ford V8 power, incredible styling AND a shocking level of practicality, to include two relatively huge luggage compartments. A GT40 is a wonderful thing...

I believe the silver car is a Gelscoe or SPF FIA-spec replica?

I don’t know what the SPF solution is, but what about drilling a hole through the bar and the arm and securing with a roll pin or a bolt?

Of whatever was wrong! A master caution light is tied in to a separate warning light panel. Any time a monitored system has an issue, such as brake fluid volume level, water or oil temperature, oil pressure, tire pressure, etc. etc. etc. it would illuminate a specific warning light and also the...

With respect to the multiple pushrod failures—it is almost the height of insanity to believe that multiple failures in a single motor of parts that are produced and used by the thousands elsewhere with no problems are indicative of a defective product. There is something fundamentally wrong...

Wow Rob, that’s a tremendous accomplishment! You drove right past my house on the way up and back as you know. Next time you think you are heading up this way please let me know and stop by. We would love to see you again! Will you be in Monterey (our usual rendezvous spot) next month...

I chose to build a 331 stroker for my GT350 clone using a new Ford Boss 302 block and AFR heads. I felt it represented the best compromise between the free-revving nature of an original-displacement engine and the torque of a big stroker.....

Scott, Just to add to the confusion, the 1968 and 1969 Gulf rear clips were very different from each other, and they continually underwent modifications throughout each season including having aluminum spats fitted! If you look carefully at period photos of the various cars in the many books...

Uh...no. P/1080 was never a Mirage. It was built as a Gulf-spec widebody car from new. P/1074 was originally a 1967 Mirage with a Mirage serial number, which had a completely different body from the GT40, but then it was rebuilt and rebodied and renumbered by JWA as a Gulf-spec car for...

Robert, Here is a link to a 2007 post here on this same subject. It shows an ERA with the optional Gulf front and rear flares. http://www.gt40s.com/forum/213057-post8.html I had the good fortune to spent the better part of an afternoon looking at P/1080 (factory Gulf spec car) and a...

Do you think they will fix the front end? Every ‘widebody’ SPF car I’ve seen had a wide tail but narrow front? Contrast them with ERA wide body cars, and the original wide body cars, to see what I mean.....

So, what’s the question then?

Anybody have a line on which and how many original GT40s (or cars pretending to be original) will be racing this year? Will there be a paddock for GT40 street cars? Hope to see some of you there! :thumbsup:

Thankfully just a minor shunt! Looks like a Gelscoe car, no?

SPF Mk II on Petrolicious Fantastic car, fantastic video! :thumbsup:

And it’s a Super Prius 1-2...:laugh: I missed the last few hours of the race, waking up just before the finish. When I went to bed the #8 Alonso car was well in arrears but this morning they are atop the podium. Did the team tactically make ‘mistakes’ to earn penalties for the #7 car to allow...

Ya think?