Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/02

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Subject: [Leica] GT40
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue May 2 06:37:52 2006
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Most race cars are completely stripped between races and at least  
partly stripped between practice and race. The component parts would  
have mainly been made specialist concerns in England. The cars would  
have been assembled, at least to ascertain they were complete and  
functioning. They were then delivered to the customer who was  
expected to strip it, learn it and then rebuild it using their own  
little tweaks.
Frank

On 1 May, 2006, at 23:41, PHC wrote:

> I love this! Debating the relative finer points of 1960s racing  
> cars on a camera list! I'm also amazed by what I can remember about  
> these cars, from a previous life...
>
> Anyway, I always thought that all the MkI, II and III cars were  
> built by John Wyer's organisation at Slough. One of the few  
> beautiful things to have emerged from that benighted place.
>
> Of course any racing team worth it's salt would take a new car  
> apart and put it together again a few times, so you could say they  
> were assembled by Holman and Moody...
>
> P.
>
> *******
> Paul Hardy Carter
> www.paulhardycarter.com
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> *******
>
> On 1 May 2006, at 23:50, Didier Ludwig wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>> In John Allens book "GT40 - The legend lives on" (btw a must for  
>> all GT40 aficionados) almost all of the genuine GT40 race cars  
>> made from 1965 to 68 are shown, and I could not see one left hand  
>> driven example.
>>
>> Paul,
>> are you shure all GT40 Mk-I and Mk-IIa were built in UK? I  
>> believed that Holman & Moody assembled the Mk-I and Mk-IIa in  
>> their factory in Charlotte/USA? Their famous crazy golden-pink Mk- 
>> II, from Le Mans '66, 3rd place, #5, driven by Bucknum/Hutcherson,  
>> is my personal favourite GT40 for ever -see http://tinyurl.com/ekc6m
>>
>> Didier
>
>
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In reply to: Message from roy at detroitphotographic.com (Roy Feldman) ([Leica] GT40)
Message from lists at paulhardycarter.com (PHC) ([Leica] GT40)
Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] GT40)
Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] GT40)
Message from lists at paulhardycarter.com (PHC) ([Leica] GT40)