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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,711
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Originally Posted by Zeke
No, he was driving a prototype of the next gen GT code named the J car. The side scoops, if they were there at all, were different. I worked at the fiberglass factory where the first bodies were built. I may have been on the one that crashed, but I was a finisher not a laminator. I was 18. The rear body came off at Riverside at the end of the straight.
We had a real GT40 on the factory floor. I don't know why, the cars were different at least body wise. It wasn't there long.
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Cool story, Zeke! Thanks for sharing.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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