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Topic: GT40 Roadster?
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 48752
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-25-2003 08:53 AM
 
In the latest Street Rodder magazine there was a mention and a couple pics of someone restoring a ultra rare GT40 roadster?------------------
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Bob Hopkins
Gearhead Posts: 362
From: BRIDGEPORT NJ USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-25-2003 11:34 AM
when Ford was racing the GT-40's back in 60's there was a different clas for open cockpit {however you spellit} racecars so they made a couple GT-40's as roadsters, i do remember seeing them way back then.
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 48752
From: Saco, Maine
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posted 03-25-2003 11:45 AM
Wow, that is pretty cool. I had never heard of those before. Thanks!------------------
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BlueMule
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From: Kent Island, MD USA M&M # 2423
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 03-25-2003 12:34 PM
Wasn't Gurney driving one of these roadsters and lost a knock off? It got picked up by a spectator that wouldn't give it back.------------------
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Bob Hopkins
Gearhead Posts: 362
From: BRIDGEPORT NJ USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-26-2003 01:10 PM
I like thr "regular" GT-40 still the best Say 5-8 years ago I was in Ohio for laborday Ford show driving my F-100 with 10-31x15knobbies upa gravel road lookin my mirror heres some guy driving a GT-40 behind be,git to meat and was talking to guy it's a real one one of the first series street cars ,he drivesit all over.BUT following a puck up a gravel road ???????
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cobrajeff
Journeyman Posts: 38
From: White Lake, MI, USA
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 10-02-2004 10:17 AM
Two of the original Ford GT roadsters were in Monterey last year during Ford's 100th Anniversary celebration at Laguna Seca and Pebble Beach.This is GT108:  and this is GT109:  GT109 was given to Dean Jeffries (famous California custom car builder from the 50's/60's) by Carroll Shelby in return for painting and helping with the first AC Cobras that Shelby put together in Dean Moon's shop. regards, cobrajeff
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 48752
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-02-2004 06:26 PM
Very cool!Thanks for posting those pics!  ------------------
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Hukdunfonix
Journeyman Posts: 71
From: San Diego, Ca. USA!
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted 01-10-2005 05:05 PM
I was watching a show and i saw that one of the gt-40's drivers was so tall, they had to make a little dome in the roof for his head... i wonder how much that thing would cost at an action. 1 of a kind gt-40
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Thud
Gearhead Posts: 1407
From: Cumming,Ga.,USofA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-11-2005 07:57 AM
It might have been Dan Gurney. I remember reading how McLaren had to modify the roll-bar in their Can-Am car for his height so that he could fit for the race or two he drove it.------------------
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 48752
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posted 01-11-2005 09:17 AM
Yes, it even has the name 'Gurney bubble.'The original GTs are all worth over a million each, I believe. ------------------
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Moneymaker
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posted 01-12-2005 01:34 PM
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