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The Locking Picking Lawyer released his traditional April Fools video today on YouTube. (slightly NSFW for puns)

I found what looks like the perfect trailer for a GT40. It's light weight (~950 lbs) and the GVWR is about 6,600 lbs. It has a fiberglass top that tilts out of the way (no need for hatches for the door) and a tilt bed. But Racing Shuttle 3 trailer is made in the UK by Brian James Trailers...

GT109 won Best in Class for "Race Cars Post-War 1956-1965" at the 2024 Amelia Island Concours. https://entrant.hagerty.com/entries/public/ADQANwA1ADc=

If you live near the Mullin Motor Museum in Oxnard, CA (north west of Los Angeles), you have just a few more days to visit before the museum is closed and the cars are sold at auction. They have a large collection of Bugatti and other French cars. The museum is closing on February 10th...

Anyone want a backdrop for their GT40 Hot Wheel or Matchbox set? https://www.ebay.com/itm/354659933358

The game Assetto Corsa is on sale through the 4th at Steam. $8 for the base game and all(?) the additional tracks and cars (somewhere in there is a GT40 MK I). https://store.steampowered.com/app/244210/Assetto_Corsa/ I haven't yet tried it, but the game has good ratings. It'll run on a PC...

This weekend, a museum fired up a newly restored Fiat V24 aero engine for the first time. https://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-articles/awakening-of-the-myth-fiat-as-6-engine-of-macchi-castoldi-fame-roars-to-life.html "This massive, V-24 engine powered the legendary Macchi Castoldi M.C.72 seaplane...

Does anyone know where and when there will be a 2024 GT40 Reunion? My Google searches aren't showing anything useful. It's been nearly 30 years and I haven't been to a reunion with my car.

In the automotive world, occasionally there will be a situation where there are two cars with the same chassis numbers because the a damaged car was replaced instead of being repaired, but later the original car reemerges. This recently came to light in the fashion world when a jumper (sweater)...

https://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2023/08/30 Pluggers is an American comic strip where readers suggest ideas to the artist.

1030 is at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Maine for their Wings and Wheel show this weekend. And on display until Tuesday. If you're in the area, they have a good air show that starts around 1pm. If you come in an old car to show admission is free. (Sorry for late notice)

A Massive tragedy: 40,000 pounds of chocolate was lost in a truck fire in California. https://www.kcra.com/article/semi-truck-hauling-40k-pounds-of-chocolate-i-80-catches-fire-placer-county/44691219 Like the infamous driver in the song "30,000 Pounds of Bananas", it sounds like the truck...

The newspapers have obituaries for Léon Gautier, a French commando who survived the D-Day landing. What made me post here is that before the war, he was an apprentice coachbuilder in France and then in the UK. After the war he continued to work in the automotive industry in the UK, France, and...

Automobilia Ladenburg had an interesting photo of a GT40 from 1966 in today's auction. It sold for 1,700 Euros (well beyond the bid I submitted online). The registration number appears to belong to 1048. It did several races in Italy in 1966, so it's not surprising that Enzo Ferrari and Mauro...

https://www.greenwichconcours.com/event/schedule/75 "Join us for our inaugural Concours de Sport, featuring a highly curated selection of the epitome of automotive style, performance and innovation. Across 15 judged car classes, enjoy some of the world’s most exciting automobiles." 1030 will...

What do folks think of Haggerty's estimate of the current values of GT40s? https://insider.hagerty.com/trends/putting-a-value-to-the-ford-gt40/ Prototype $7.7 million Mk I $6.4 million Mk II $8.4 million Mk III $5.1 million Mk IV $6.8 million These values are for cars in...

Watching Netflix's F1 series got me wondering about the boats. Before the start of the race at Miami, they show someone talking to folks hanging out on boats(*) next to the track. This got me curious because they didn't show the race cars going over a bridge that could accommodate the boats...

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/chrome-plating-ban/ "According to this California Air Resources Board (CARB) item summary, the state is considering tightening chrome plating regulations, specifically phasing out hexavalent chromium, the chemical compound that gives chrome its mirror-like finish. "

Someone wrote a story about a bored human with a screwdriver on an alien space craft. Except for the aliens, it's not too far from the truth. https://www.tumblr.com/injuries-in-dust/185290161126/injuries-in-dust-give-a-bored-human-a

Last week, my wife pointed out that now that her 2013 Subaru has been sent to the knacker's yard, our daily drivers are all American built cars. Then a few days ago, I realized that not only are the cars all American, their colors are red, white, and blue. The 2018 Mustang's blue color was...