How do you find an original Gold GT40 - maybe a Mk III

[BenL]

In the book GT40-The Legend Lives On (can't remember the author right now, Freidman?) he says P1051 now wears all ex-works Gulf body panels. You sure can't tell it was originally a road car.

I wonder if it still has an ash tray on the center tunnel? I've noticed that a couple of road cars that were converted to race cars retained the ash tray.

 

[Johan]

Was it metalflake ?

 

[CliffBeer]

I like the gull wing conversion, and the original steering wheel and velour interior - very classy.

 

[TimB]

If I remember right that fine example is a Bradly GT. Ughhhh

 

[Tod]

You can't help but admire a car that has the same body color as a bass boat...

 

[Mark Charlton]

It was said to be gold though the photos don't show it well.

Gary, does this look more like it?

 

[Sheena]

Bump!!! after 4 years...

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/original-gt40s/31921-something-special-about-p1066.html#post300848

 

[John Cummins]

Hi Lee

2 gold GT40s that I know of, one was a Mk III, chassis 1102 which was Gold in 1967 before being painted dark blue.
The other was a Mk I chassis 1051 once (still?) owned by Chris MacAllister and featured on the cover of a Ford sales brochure of the day.

This info is courtesy of John S Allen and his Ford GT40 Osprey Automotive book.

Cheers

Bill.

SNO 250D Was a gold GT40 road version. I first met the owner when it was parked in a side street off Wellingborough Road, Northampton, England around 1968. I believe the owner was a contractor of some sort and his office was there since the car was parked there every day. The gentleman put the car up for sale when he ordered a new Monteverdi adn i looked into buying it. But alas, as a twenty something in the sixties the 6000 pounds he was asking for was beyond my means at the time. I lost track of the car after it left town and the only other GT40 owner i met over there was Ron Fry who raced his in many Silverstone events. There is one GT40 in Maryland USA where i now live.

 

[John Cummins]

Gary, does this look more like it?

That is the one i wanted to buy in 1968