| smadsen |
12-14-2018 08:40 PM |
The legacy GT-40's from 10 years ago are cool. See them all the time at Cars & Coffee. Then one day a similar car rumbled in to Trancas. Something didn't look right, like the car had been chopped & slammed, low rider style. Holy s**t. It was a real GT-40. What had become the height of ubiquity with the Malibu set was really a GT-48. The real thing is just a stunning piece of engineering for the era and about as tall as my kneecap.
Back in the early '90's I had occasion to be back in Detroit looking for money to build Buttonwillow Raceway (another story) with some time to kill, so a friend & I went to the Henry Ford Museum. Several hundred thousand square feet of American ingenuity on display. Back in the far dark end of the building I came around a corner and saw a car covered with a ripped parachute, the unmistakable silhouette of a GT-40 with a f**king bubble in the roofline, sitting on corroded magnesium wheels, bugs & dirt plastered everywhere. You all know what it was or else you wouldn't have read this far.
When the stuff came back from LeMans someone asked Deuce, "what do you want to do with the cars?" Since they couldn't be displayed in the museum for 30 years, they got sold, except one stored in a far dark corner. Saw the semi-restored car at Monterey a few years ago, along with the two guys who drove it.
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