GT?

[Paul Brameld]

I am sure this has been raised before but hey ho..............

If Ford had built their Le Mans winning beauty in Europe would it have been a

GT100 or GT10 or GT1?

Just a thought!

 

[Mike Drew]

Paul, I hate to break it to you, but they DID built it in Europe--in England to be exact.

Like it or not, England is in Europe. :laugh:

 

[Paul Brameld]

Mike,
I knew the moment I hit the send button that someone would pick me up on that. I was just trying to offend as few people as possible...had I said France , Germany et al then I would have had to include every metric country this side of the pond!
However thank you for pointing out that geographical point....now back to the original question, a GT100,GT10 or GT1?

 

[JimmyMac]

Are you saying that your Franco GTD is not a GT40 ?

 

[Paul Brameld]

Are you saying that your Franco GTD is not a GT40 ?

Only you could put such a spin on my question!

 

[Cliff Beer]

Paul, was the UK on the metric system in 1964?? I believe it was automotive journalists of the day who first coined the phrase "GT40" rather than Ford, if I'm remembering my GT40 history correctly....

 

[Ivan]

iirc its to do with the height of the car.

 

[Ian K]

iirc its to do with the height of the car.

Yes, and if 40 inches were converted into metric, it would be around 100 cm
(101.6 cm to be exact).

Hence Paul's (not so serious) question ...

Ian

 

[Mike Drew]

Yes, and if 40 inches were converted into metric, it would be around 100 cm
(101.6 cm to be exact).

The GT101.6! Now THAT has a real ring to it! :laugh:

 

[victor]

But GT100 could be a nice name also, altough it wouldn´t be 100% accurate.

 

[glen]

:drunk:if we still used fathoms, it'd be a gt0.55555555!

 

[Keith]

Paul, I hate to break it to you, but they DID built it in Europe--in England to be exact.

Like it or not, England is in Europe. :laugh:

Sorry, that's incorrect on 2 levels. England doesn't exist as a Nation
and there is no nationality of being "English". You might possibly mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so sorry - no England, plus this Sceptered Isle is not IN Europe, it's adjacent to the West coast of Continental Europe and is drifting Westwards towards a bar somewhere near you. If you'd like to hang on for a couple of million years, we'll be over there and then you can discuss this English thing over a beer or two with your new "European" neighbours.

Oh, there is a third level. The GT40 was built at a time when a United States of Europe was a faded dream of Adolph Hitler, but I guess by the early 1960's the French & Germans were already muttering and scheming in a Beer Cellar somewhere where all serious World Domination plans are usually spawned