Update: First thing I appologized for posting what I thought was accurate information based on my memory of the car and pictures I had.
I will not appologize any further, waste of time. My brother is correcting me on a lot of stuff. His latest email to me with additional information about his ownership of #108:
The person in the two small pictures posted by another are of George Sawyer in Minnesota and not my brother. My brother is in the pictures I posted and were taken in Minnesota.
"The Minnesota photos that you have (meaning me) were taken in August, not October 1971. It was October 1971 when I had my financing in place with the bank and the car was driven to Springfield from Minnesota by George Sawyer. I gave him the check; he gave me a title for transfer. He took a bus back to Minnesota. The GT-40 was sold in October 1975, not 1976. I have the pictures of it being winched up into the truck. So, I was the GT108's owner for four years. The buyer told me he was going to restore it. The original Plexiglas headlamp covers had cracked over the years, for example."
"I have over 20 slides of the car and close-up details taken at my New Berlin house in 1975 before the car was picked up. Unfortunately, I did not take one of the Serial Number plate in the doorframe. One of them shows my 1974 Pontiac Grand Am in the background."
"I'm not surprised that the history of GT108 does not include me from 1971-1976. I bought the car from a guy named George Sawyer in Minnesota in October 1971. Car Craft/Kar Kraft--no big error, but that's where the car came from. I would like to know who was the owner of record for those years if not me. What does the "expert" history say? I did not keep track of the car after it left my house in New Berlin, so it could have had multiple owners by now. The guy who bought it from me, whose name I do not recall because he used a business front, said he had wanted to buy it in 1971 from that same ad, but I had been there first."
"You need to contact (Deleted) in Glen Ellyn, IL at (Deleted). There was a period of time in 1971-72 that he provided me garage space for the GT-40 because I only had a one-car garage with my apartment and needed it for the GTO. This was before I was married to (Deleted) in December 1972, after which I had it out in the country. Ask him whether or not I had a GT-40 roadster. He'll also offer you an unsolicited opinion about my stewardship as owner of the car, but let him tell that story. Hey, a thought, perhaps he has some pictures of it from when he had it in his garage.
"Remember, I still have a copy of the original exploded-view parts diagram manual for the car, which is the one artifact I did keep. Yes, it had a five-speed in it, and it also had a reverse position."
"I did not take the car to shows or race it. In fact, I rarely drove it after a problem occurred where the starter motor would not disengage after the engine started, producing a prominent screeching noise. I sold that problem to the buyer."
"I think I previously shared the story about occasional backfires when starting a GT-40. I never had one, but George told me how to react if I ever did. The problem was not as severe in a roadster with open air above it, but it was all kinds of scary when it happened inside an enclosed coupe. George knew of one car that was burned to a cinder when the driver panicked after a backfire inside the car and bailed out, letting the car burn. The correct reaction was to stomp down on the accelerator and suck the flames back down into the carbs and engine."
I will continue to post updates as I get more info.