Hi Guys.
This is my very first post on your forum - and it's kinda alien territory to me, not being a GT40 enthusiast - so please don't shoot me down in flames !
You see, for my sins, I run a register for Ferrari P4 replicas. We have our own BB forum: http://www.p4replicabb.com with 80-odd members and I have something approaching 100 cars on the register - mostly Noble and Foreman P4's.
So why am I writing on your forum ? Well, I'm always on the look out for new P4 replicas to add to the register. My own personal opinion is that you have to be a bit pro-active and go out looking for these things, rather than wait for the owners to come to you. So every now and then, I run a couple of 'Google' searches, to see if anything new has turned up on the web.
A very interesting 'Noble' P4 replica has just surfaced in France.
See: http://www.zegarage.com/fiche.asp?id=125&stock=
and: http://www.novaweb.fr/detail.php?id=129310
It was the (Ford MKIV-esque) paint scheme that first got me thinking. Why would anyone do that ?
Then I started studying the photos a bit closer, thinking to myself .... 'Hang on a minute !'
Initially I thought that I was looking at a very heavily modified Noble chassis - but then just about everything was different. Maybe it was a self-built chassis. Anyway, today, my curiosity got the better of me. Armed with my best 'schoolboy' French, I telephoned the number on the 'Zegarage.com' website. Unfortunately the person who answered didn't speak English. But we got by - sort of ! One of the interesting things that the vendor told me was that he believed the car was not actually built on a Noble P4 chassis, but on a Gee-Tee-Day-Quarante (GTD40) chassis.
Could anybody confirm this from the (800x600) photos on the ZeGarage.com website, please ?
Does anybody have photos of a bare GTD40 chassis that they could post for comparison please ?
Is there a member of this forum who acts as a GTD40 Registrar, who might know anything about this particular car ?
Thanks for any replies ....
This is my very first post on your forum - and it's kinda alien territory to me, not being a GT40 enthusiast - so please don't shoot me down in flames !
You see, for my sins, I run a register for Ferrari P4 replicas. We have our own BB forum: http://www.p4replicabb.com with 80-odd members and I have something approaching 100 cars on the register - mostly Noble and Foreman P4's.
So why am I writing on your forum ? Well, I'm always on the look out for new P4 replicas to add to the register. My own personal opinion is that you have to be a bit pro-active and go out looking for these things, rather than wait for the owners to come to you. So every now and then, I run a couple of 'Google' searches, to see if anything new has turned up on the web.
A very interesting 'Noble' P4 replica has just surfaced in France.
See: http://www.zegarage.com/fiche.asp?id=125&stock=
and: http://www.novaweb.fr/detail.php?id=129310
It was the (Ford MKIV-esque) paint scheme that first got me thinking. Why would anyone do that ?
Then I started studying the photos a bit closer, thinking to myself .... 'Hang on a minute !'
Initially I thought that I was looking at a very heavily modified Noble chassis - but then just about everything was different. Maybe it was a self-built chassis. Anyway, today, my curiosity got the better of me. Armed with my best 'schoolboy' French, I telephoned the number on the 'Zegarage.com' website. Unfortunately the person who answered didn't speak English. But we got by - sort of ! One of the interesting things that the vendor told me was that he believed the car was not actually built on a Noble P4 chassis, but on a Gee-Tee-Day-Quarante (GTD40) chassis.
Could anybody confirm this from the (800x600) photos on the ZeGarage.com website, please ?
Does anybody have photos of a bare GTD40 chassis that they could post for comparison please ?
Is there a member of this forum who acts as a GTD40 Registrar, who might know anything about this particular car ?
Thanks for any replies ....