There are several ways of enjoying a work of art ! You can go to a museum and look at a masterpiece, you can get out your cheque book and buy it to hang on your wall as a trophy, you can buy a print and do the same, you could even get out paints and canvas and create your own, or you can buy the jigsaw puzzle, have the fun of putting it together and then view the picture when finished with greater satisfaction . You can even take it all apart and do it all again as many times as you like! The need to be creative is in all of us, the ability to do so is debatable. There are of course people who buy art as a status symbal, others simply to make a profit, others who must have the latest "in thing" or toy, some have ambitions above their ability and other above their finances. We all have dreams ! There is an analogy with our cars as well, and we see it sometime on the Forum. Reading Lynns comments on the Superformance thread, yes you could go out and buy a finished GT40, or take the factory advice and buy a model, but I think there are far more artists in our group than you think, guys who want to posses their own individual piece of art, but who also want to create that possession for themselves, whether by their own hands or by commissioning it to someone who can work with them for the day they put in the last piece and stand back with much greater satisfaction than ever they will get by writing out a big cheque.
Works of art
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Peter Delaney
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Very nicely put Frank !
The really nice thing about this Forum is that we have just about the whole cross-section of GT40 enthusiasts on board, & that allows each of us to draw on, & contribute to, the general expertise in the area that interests us most.
It seems that we each buy or build a 40 that is our own personal interpretation of the "spirit of the car". Whether we achieve our dreams via the cheque-book or via bloodied knuckles probably doesn't really matter much at the end of the day. I am pretty-much at the "bloody knuckles" end of the spectrum, but if life/work dictated that there was not enough time to do the jig-saw, I would have bought one anyway (bank manager / wife permitting !).
Kind Regards,
Peter D.
The really nice thing about this Forum is that we have just about the whole cross-section of GT40 enthusiasts on board, & that allows each of us to draw on, & contribute to, the general expertise in the area that interests us most.
It seems that we each buy or build a 40 that is our own personal interpretation of the "spirit of the car". Whether we achieve our dreams via the cheque-book or via bloodied knuckles probably doesn't really matter much at the end of the day. I am pretty-much at the "bloody knuckles" end of the spectrum, but if life/work dictated that there was not enough time to do the jig-saw, I would have bought one anyway (bank manager / wife permitting !).
Kind Regards,
Peter D.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Yes, very well put Frank, well said. I guess I am at the cheque book end to a degree. However, I have experienced the the bloody knuckles stage, as I built a Bolwell kit about forty years ago. I must say that using the cheque book to contract the build of the GT40 has given me just as much satisfaction as building the Bolwell. I think because I was involved in every decision along the way thanks to Peter Ransom of GT40 Australia who kept me in the loop all the time.
