GT40 Barn Find
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Fruitcake

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236 posts

156 months

Saturday 22nd February 2014
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If this is a repost mods, please delete. I've just seen this barn find GT40....

" If you saw the tail end of a GT40 sticking out of a suburban garage with junk piled all over it, you would assume it was some long forgotten kit car project, but that was not the case in one Thousand Oaks neighborhood, where one of the most desirable cars has been sitting in a cocoon since the late 70's. A meeting at The Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show, lead car collector Thomas Shaughnessy to this rare piece of automotive history.

Chassis P/1067 is the last 1966 GT40 produced it was sold in 1967 with a Mk.II rear clamshell, one of just three cars that were assembled this way and it's the only car to retain its original Mk II rear. The car was raced until 1977 when an engine failure put it out of commission. The owner started to repair the car when an injury postponed the repairs and the car sat there ever since. Now the only choice is to restore it to factory standards or to its late 60's racing specifications."

http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2014/02/garage-fi...









anonymous-user

83 months

Saturday 22nd February 2014
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Just bloody amazing!
A small fortune too at today's prices for original GT40's.

The Nur

9,168 posts

214 months

Saturday 22nd February 2014
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Wow. Top find!

Benbay001

5,892 posts

186 months

Saturday 22nd February 2014
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Surely someone knew about it?
Its not like you would walk in one day and go,
"damn, ive never spotted that there before."

soad

34,654 posts

205 months

Saturday 22nd February 2014
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Salt Walther's old car? scratchchin

Fruitcake

Original Poster:

236 posts

156 months

Sunday 23rd February 2014
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Let's hope they do a build thread on it smile

Rubin215

4,200 posts

185 months

Sunday 23rd February 2014
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That garage looks a lot like mine; I wonder what I have in there...