Hello
the GT40 is magnificent, however why call it P1000 and register it as P1000 at Le Mans Classic?
I have already seen racing in France at the 10,000 laps of the Castellet organized by Peter Auto GT40 P1000, I don't know how the owner of P1000 will react when he learns that a GT40 replica impersonates P1000 !!!!!
Hi Poul R .
As far as I know, the other P1000 (W) is a Gelcoe chassis that they sold to a French (Monegasque ?) customer some years ago as a bare chassis.
I have seen the car at Classic Le Mans in 2018 a very nice and fast car indeed, in the green and white Comstock livery.
I will refer to your own thread:
https://www.gt40s.com/threads/p-1000-w.51484/ , for pictures of this car.
I my opinion, however, they made a couple of errors when they build their car.
1: They omitted the roof ventilation which was built into the first 7 chassis numbers 1000-1007.
2:The Comstock team also created an extra-wide radiator intake which you can see on the picture below which is also missing from the 1000 W car.
3: The chassis plate is a later type and as far as I know, not correct for this first production chassis.
4: Extra wide wheel arches. Probably for being able to race with other prototypes but not quite correct for this chassis in Comstock livery.
5 Absence of the number plate lights stapped to the doors (quite understandable because they are very ugly)
6: There are some minor chassis details which you can see on the picture from the Sebring test which also is omitted.
When I started my project I was aware of this other recreation of GT40P1000. When doing research on the original Comstock car, I found the pictures from the test at Sebring from when it was delivered to Comstock team in the spring of 1966, and I thought it was more interesting to restore it as it was built by FAV instead of a car in Comstock livery.
kind regards.
Otto