What is your Favourite all time GT car?

What is your Favourite all time GT car?

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Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

146 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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Hmmm, hard, so many great GTs,

Alfa Romeo TZ2, lightness over power, Also pretty. Only 620kg, which means it can be put in a small lift!



Ill go for a more modern one, Maserati Granturismo MC GT3.

Raced with Swissteam in Superstars GT, now being homologated properly in GT3 through Maserati.

Rather impressive results.


zebedee

4,589 posts

278 months

Tuesday 19th March 2013
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I am The Gimp said:
Do you mean the purple coloured model raced in the 1997 or 1998 FIA GT Series? I think it was called a Bitter? Was a shocking car and set a light a lot.


Some of the Lotus GT1 cars were pretty tidy just lack of funding compared to a CLK GTR , Porsche , F1 GTR. Etc.
He probably means the proper Elise GT1 that the Bitter was based on. Wonderful looking car, shame it just didn't really work. Saw a solid silver one (not sure if it was a road version?) on a flat bed (no surprise there) at Le Mans a few years ago.

B1GRLM

347 posts

215 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2013
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The last time I saw Dan's Mantis out in 2006 Dutch Super Cars.

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/garyharman/5404967471...

And a couple of shots of these is LM600s out in the BPR Series in 1996.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyharman/sets/72157...

bltamil1

298 posts

144 months

Thursday 18th April 2013
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The Oreca Vipers have to be up there. Up until a couple of years ago they were still being raced in the N24 by Zakspeed, they sounded like nothing else and went like stink!

chevronb37

6,471 posts

186 months

Friday 10th May 2013
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zebedee said:
I am The Gimp said:
Do you mean the purple coloured model raced in the 1997 or 1998 FIA GT Series? I think it was called a Bitter? Was a shocking car and set a light a lot.


Some of the Lotus GT1 cars were pretty tidy just lack of funding compared to a CLK GTR , Porsche , F1 GTR. Etc.
He probably means the proper Elise GT1 that the Bitter was based on. Wonderful looking car, shame it just didn't really work. Saw a solid silver one (not sure if it was a road version?) on a flat bed (no surprise there) at Le Mans a few years ago.
I believe the Elise GT1 on the left of this shot is the only road going car. This is the Lotus Festival at Snett in 2011.



B1GRLM

347 posts

215 months

Monday 20th May 2013
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There was a black Lister Storm at the Silverstone Classic media day 2 weeks ago.

freedman

5,417 posts

207 months

Saturday 8th June 2013
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935/78

No comparison


ph123

1,841 posts

218 months

Saturday 8th June 2013
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Any excuse to get the images out!
This one ...
Probably.


XJ Flyer

5,526 posts

130 months

Thursday 20th June 2013
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Graham said:
Im a lover of the big bang GT1 Cars.

the macca and the lister being my favourites..

the panoz bat mobile was just a monster ( saw that at lm and daytona) and the gt1 vipers awesome.

the original porker Gt1 edged it for me over the later evo, and the merc was a bit late.

if i had to pick one I'd probably go for the Lister Storm..


I'd prefer to see Le Mans going back to the GT1 style cars rather than the diesel protos
The Storm was the type of car that seemed to sum up everything that was great about GT racing in the earlier years.

If only we could have seen GT cars allowed to be more competitive with unlimited engine capacity and no restrictors instead of the rule makers,as usual,going backwards.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kKNSKfUX-A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44pj6FDBBs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3m4DCL0nwk

Turn up the volume.







HollywoodStig

902 posts

149 months

Monday 1st July 2013
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Anyone present at Donington '98 when the Sintura with the 4.0l Judd engine threw itself at the scenery?

eastlmark

1,654 posts

207 months

Friday 5th July 2013
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Is there any race series that runs what I call the modern classic GT cars such as the F40, Venturi, A610, Vipers, F1, etc from the BPR era? Would love to see some of those on track again.

Graham

16,368 posts

284 months

Friday 5th July 2013
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There was the short lived gt90's series

slippery

14,093 posts

239 months

Friday 5th July 2013
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I love them all, but the sight and sound of the big Astons does it for me. smile

XJ Flyer

5,526 posts

130 months

Saturday 6th July 2013
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The problem as in everything else which seems to apply to cars is that the racing organisers seem to have allowed themselves to be taken over by the PC lot wanting ever more regulation and smaller engines.Instead of what it should be of open regs just so long as the cars are based on GT types that the manufacturers have available on the market.As far as I know there's nowhere now,at least in FIA sanctioned events,where anyone can see the big Astons racing in any series even in 6 Litre,let alone in possible 7 Litre + form.The same seems to apply in the case of the Corvettes and Ferraris etc.

Edited by XJ Flyer on Saturday 6th July 19:44

stevo666

161 posts

205 months

Saturday 7th September 2013
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eastlmark said:
Is there any race series that runs what I call the modern classic GT cars such as the F40, Venturi, A610, Vipers, F1, etc from the BPR era? Would love to see some of those on track again.
No race series as such that I know of but there is a 'revival' BPR demonstration at Paul Ricard Circuit on 5th October during the Historic race meet there - however how many cars attend will be a different matter....

Hopefully be attending with a friends original 1996 Lotus Esprit GT1 - there just to show (she's not running - yet!)

Anybody else attending?

Steve

zebedee

4,589 posts

278 months

Bas Jaski

439 posts

193 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2013
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The Prodive 550 GTS. The noise that thing makes is fantastic! Also love the 550 road car so that has something to do with it I suppose.

I used to live in Zandvoort so I was at the track quite literally every day (After school I drove my quad there as there was something on most days...if there wasn't I went offroading in any case!). One of the days a big truck rolled up as always, but it was the first one there. My friend asked me what car it was and I confidently said Viper, but the owner (Cor Euser as he turned out to be)told me it was Marcos. He let us sit in it after he rolled it out. Pretty cool thing to do for a couple of 9 year olds!

Also love the Mosler and Murcielago.

zebedee

4,589 posts

278 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2013
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I'd forgotten about the Murcielago - but alas then I remembered the JLOC Le Mans debacle

RJames

753 posts

190 months

Saturday 9th November 2013
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For me it is the Aston Martin DBR9 Le Mans in British Racing Green.



Watching it battle for 24 hours on my first Le Mans trip in 07 was fantastic and the noise was great.

bordercontrol

125 posts

171 months

Saturday 9th November 2013
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One of my first memories of racing is seeing this at Croft...


It was sponsored by my favourite football team and sounded incredible.

But I also loved this...


and remember this bursting into flames at Oulton Park.

It is sad that we don't have cars like this any more.