Anyone know anything about this GT40 derivative?

I saw this on a French website. Car looks very similar to a 'modern' day GT40, Ford GT excluded. The model is a 2002 VBM 4000 GTR.

 

[Ron Earp]

I'll bet it is a GTD or a KVA that someone has attached a lot of scoops, vents, and wide flairs onto. Seems I recall someone discussing this here a couple years back.

Ron

 

[Bill Bayard]

Ron,

Could this be the carbon fiber car from Germany(photos posted here a while back)? I seem to remember that car having a roof intake and vented front fenders.


Bill

 

[Ron Earp]

That could be it too, I'd forgotten about that one. I don't know how to search for it since I can't remember the people or the name of the car.

R

 

[Ian Anderson]

Ron

Try http://www.gt40s.com/ubbthreads/showflat...=true#Post56619

This was a Carbon Fiber one in Germany

Ian

 

[mike_starling]

Actually, I remembered a thread on this guy a LONG time ago. Is called a VBM. Took me a little while to find it:

French racer

There really is a huge amount of information on this board!

 

[Ron McCall]

It's amazing how much this car looks like the Factory Five GTM "Supercar"

 

[Ron McCall]

another

 

[Chris Kouba]

I still think the French one looks better:

http://www.vbmautomobiles.com/

http://www.vbmautomobiles.com/VBM/Photos-VBM.htm

Cheers,

 

[Bill Bayard]

Pantera Ron,

I think you're onto something there. Not only are the vents ahead of the front tires identical, but also the hump at the base of the windshield. Lots of other similar body cues too. Maybe there was some VBM involvement in the development of the FF GTM, a purchase of the design, or just some simple plagiarism.


Bill

 

[Ron McCall]

Just what I thought. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[Allan Feldman]

In the mists of my memory the VBM was built using some parts from a GT40. I think it was the doors, windscreen and side windows also the front hatch.
The owner had I think a real forty and spares and incorporated them into this car.
Regards Allan

 

Man, this thing looks great. To me it looks like MK1B on steroids.

I would trade mine up in a heart beat /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif