Not sure whether this qualifies as a GT40 kit by today's standards. It was 1965. The GT40s were the hottest looking thing on four wheels, but practically nobody had ever heard of them. I was a twenty-one year old college student. Universal Plastics and Fibrefab had the only two GT40 replica kits on the market at the time, and in my mind the better looing was the Universal Plastics "Sebring GT" kit. I put down my money and received only the nose and tail sections before the company went bankrupt. Still have the pieces. Probably not the first and definately not the last GT40 kit car "rip off".
My college friend also got the bug but opted for the Fiberfab Valkyrie mid engine kit and completed construction the following year with a built C%$#@* V8 and Corvair transaxle. I have since been told by Datona Bill of this forum that there were only about a half dozen of the Valkyrie kits ever sold and I have no idea how many were ever completed.
Oh, by the way, construction of the space frame tube chassis is progressing nicely, albeit a bit behind schedule.
Hope this doesn't start another one of those flame wars.
Best regards, Orin Meyer
[ April 10, 2003: Message edited by: Blue Oval Blood ]