Real or Replica

[WPA]

I think I know the answer as it was registered in 1963 but what interested me is how do you register it as a 1963 Ford GT or were rules a little more relaxed a few years ago.

[Mr Squarekins]

Mot expired last July.

[sixor8]

It's been exempt since 2018 so fair play that thay kept bothering. But for a valuable car, not surprised they kept it up for a while.

It has valid VED, so is on the VHI register.

[CanAm]

There were no Ford GTs at all in 1963. The only ones raced in 1964 were factory entries and some cars reached private teams in 1965.

So the 1963 registration will probably have been a Ford Zephyr or similar whose identity has been used to tax a kit car. This car has a 4942 cc engine; the cars sold to private teams were 4727cc. It is much more modern than it seems, and almost definitely not entitled to historic status.

Edited by CanAm on Sunday 26th April 14:41

[Mr Squarekins]

It's a real hazard of owning a gt40, AC cobra etc. - everyone thinks they're replicas: .

A work colleague has a real AC Cobra, he's given up now and when people ask if it's a kit car, he just says 'yeah'.

[CanAm]

A bit of googling shows it to be a GTD40, a product of Gardner Douglas Sports Cars, who also made Cobra and Lola T70 spyder replicas.

[thegreenhell]

CanAm said:

A bit of googling shows it to be a GTD40, a product of Gardner Douglas Sports Cars, who also made Cobra and Lola T70 spyder replicas.

GTD were GT Developments, unrelated to Gardner Douglas.

Perhaps the confusion arises because they both made Lola T70 replicas, one called a GTD70, the other called a GDT70?