file.newsgroup.cars.103688 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (James P. Callison)
Subject: Re: SUPER MEGA AUTOMOBILE SIGHTING(s)!!!!! Exotics together!
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Graham E. Thomas) writes:
>[email protected] ("The Blade Runner") writes:
>
>>A GT-40?! Gotta be in my top 5 favorite-cars-of-all-time
>>list. Where is this place? Was the car for sale? COME ON, I
>>need details...or not. Anyways, I just had to say WOW at the
>>sighting of such a fine beast. But remember, the Mustang will
>>forever be the true King of the Road.
>
>The place was in what used to be a small town (now a suburb) north of
>Atlanta. I don't know if the car was for sale or not, you wouldn't put
>a price on the window on this type of car anyway.
Damn straight! As far as I've heard, unless the owner is _very_
hard up, the GT-40s are not for sale at any price that mere
mortals could afford.
>And maybe the Mustang
>will be forever King of the Road, the GT-40 isn't road legal.
I think the GT-40 actually _is_ street legal, although that particular
question is moot (see the price figures below).
>This car was right hand drive (weren't they all like that?). How much does
>a GT-40 go for? How many were made?
I wish I could find my Shelby-American guide; it included the GT-40
registry (as of '88 or so). There were precious few of them made
(fifty is the number that springs to mind; they made just enough
to qualify for the Manufacturer's Cup, or whichever series it
was that Shelby broke Ferarri's 13-year winning streak in in '65),
and they are all accounted for. The last price I saw estimated on a
GT-40 was a little bit over $1,000,000 (yes, that's right, ONE MILLION
US DOLLARS; it was second only to some worthless piece of Ferrari
that it would blow the doors off of ;-).
I don't recall off-hand what the drive configuration was, although
I'm certain some must have been LHD, as they had to be sold to qualify
for racing. The drivertrain was the Ford 427 (hi-riser, I think,
and/or side-oiler) coupled to various 4-speed transmissions. They
also used 3-speed manuals; they had lots of problems with the
original trannys breaking under the load of the 427. Layout was
rear-engine, rear-drive, with the "bundle of snakes" exhaust
headers...I can remeber other bits and pieces of info, but I
can't remember whether they applied to the GT-40 or the Shelby
Cobra Daytona Coupe...I'll try and find that reference.
James
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