Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The new one is also MUCH bigger, only people of less than 5' 10" and of athletic build can drive an un-modified GT40. Hardly the target market for the new one... I rather like the old one, the one I have driven had air con, it was one of the tiny number originally made as road cars. It weighs half a ton less than the new one too. I have never seen one of the new ones. Frank On 17 May, 2009, at 23:45, Jerry Lehrer wrote: > Gary, > > Well, there is a significant difference 'tween the old GT-40 and > the current GT. Air conditioning, side windows that slide down, > left hand > drive and, I believe, power steering. Having driven both, the old > one felt like a pig to drive. > > Jerry > > Gary Todoroff wrote: >> Just saw this entry from a couple weeks ago, so I uploaded an >> unusual photo op when both a Ford GT and Shelby GT were on the >> local lot here, brand-new and for just that one day. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Gary+Todoroff/General/FordsGT.jpg.html >> The new Ford GT did not look very much different from the GT's I >> photographed along the track when I had a press-pass for the 1968 >> 1000 Kilometer Nuremberg race. Those old slides were taken with a >> pair of black M2's I had then (and still have them). >> Gary Todoroff >> Tree LUGger >> >> At 01:44 PM 5/3/2009, you wrote: >>> Just returned from Silverstone RAC TT/FIA GT Round 1. >>> >>> Saw the new 2010-spec Ford GT, brilliant care. Clearly very >>> capable in the hands >>> of good drivers, if needing development. >>> >>> [ Result 1st Salee S7R Wendlinger/Sharp, 2nd Maserati MC12 Bartels/ >>> Bartolini ] >>> >>> Sorry no pix, too much wire around the circuit to get clear shots. >>> Thought you >>> might be intetrested. ;-) >>> >>> Peter >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information