Need Help Identify GT40

[JP Verweij]

Beware, only the lightweight version of the GTD MK2 is lighter. The regular GTD MK2 is heavy thick sturdy fibreglass with the frontclip at 45kg and the rearclip at 65kg.

Take a look at mobile.de about prices.
A GT40 with street legal road registration in Europe is hard to find, that raises the prices.
Road legal GT40s go way over 100K in Europe as they are scarce.
New build GT40s or import with V5 document from the UK is since Brexit almost impossible to get street legal these days in the EU.

While your in France, first question will be, is it road legal with French documents. If not it aint worth the money.
Second question will be, if its road legal, what do you want to pay for it.
Its a personal thing.

I got offered 150K recently and never thought about it.

 

[Marco Solari]

Beware, only the lightweight version of the GTD MK2 is lighter. The regular GTD MK2 is heavy thick sturdy fibreglass with the frontclip at 45kg and the rearclip at 65kg.

Take a look at mobile.de about prices.
A GT40 with street legal road registration in Europe is hard to find, that raises the prices.
Road legal GT40s go way over 100K in Europe as they are scarce.
New build GT40s or import with V5 document from the UK is since Brexit almost impossible to get street legal these days in the EU.

While your in France, first question will be, is it road legal with French documents. If not it aint worth the money.
Second question will be, if its road legal, what do you want to pay for it.
Its a personal thing.

I got offered 150K recently and never thought about it.

The car is not road legal.

 

[Marco Solari]

Another question: I am 1.90 m tall, I can fit my head in the car without any problems. The problem are the pedals that almost reach my knees. Can you tell me if it is possible to relocate the pedals on this car?

 

[JP Verweij]

The car is not road legal.

There you have your answer about the value. €180.000 for a replica GT40 that will never be road legal in Italy or anywhere in Europe is way overpriced.
At the moment in Europe there are several GT40's going in circles denied bij several country's, from owner to the next owner who all fail to get it road legal.
Just very few are lucky to get it sorted or know people that know people that can have it sorted.
There are several on this forum that failed, even recently.

They all fail on certificate of conformity which non of these have. V5 on a kitcar is not valid anymore in Europe.
The whole kitcar / replica export market from the UK to Europe crashed since Brexit.

So the question now is, do you want a road legal GT40?
If not, you can find them for less then half that price.

 

[Malcolm]

24890 is the orighinal GT Developments (GTD) chassis number. The chassis was originally made in house in 1990. Initially built without a customer in mind it was sold to its first owner as a MK1 but later had a MK2 body conversion. Initially specified to take a Ford 302 and a Renault transaxle. Anything different to that is by the owners not the factory. It is not a factory lightweight car. More than 7 MK2s were produced by GTD and the vast majority of chassis supplied were to take the Ford 302. If you didn't want a 302 then it was a special option. Handfiul of Rover V8s, a couple of Chevrolet 350s and a couple of V6s. Mainly 302s by a big margin.

On leg room GTD did use to offer a long footwell option. Gave an extra 50mm or so. If not fitted at build time, it is possible to retro fit but not a small task.

Hope that helps

 

[Marco Solari]

24890 is the orighinal GT Developments (GTD) chassis number. The chassis was originally made in house in 1990. Initially built without a customer in mind it was sold to its first owner as a MK1 but later had a MK2 body conversion. Initially specified to take a Ford 302 and a Renault transaxle. Anything different to that is by the owners not the factory. It is not a factory lightweight car. More than 7 MK2s were produced by GTD and the vast majority of chassis supplied were to take the Ford 302. If you didn't want a 302 then it was a special option. Handfiul of Rover V8s, a couple of Chevrolet 350s and a couple of V6s. Mainly 302s by a big margin.

On leg room GTD did use to offer a long footwell option. Gave an extra 50mm or so. If not fitted at build time, it is possible to retro fit but not a small task.

Hope that helps

Thanks. Amazing you know the history of the car. Thank you very much!

 

[JP Verweij]

More than 7 MK2s where produced..

Any numbers that where actualy made

 

[Marco Solari]

Any numbers that where actualy made

I am interested too

 

[Malcolm]

Just under 400 GTD produced of all variants. Mk1 Mk2 and Lola T70

 

[JP Verweij]

Just under 400 GTD produced of all variants. Mk1 Mk2 and Lola T70

As Lee Dawson told me last year, just a few MK2's.

 

[Ian Anderson]

Just under 400 GTD produced of all variants. Mk1 Mk2 and Lola T70

And a Mini

 

[Malcolm]

ah yes that mini

11 Mk2s by the factory with 2 mk1s being later converted to mk2s by customers. And 10 Lola T70s. 319 mk1s. 6 chassis numbers ordered but then cancelled. In the Mk1/2s all bar 9 had ford 302s.

Allegedly!

 

[BenL]

For folks like me who don't remember that Mini, here's the first article I found about it.

You Know You Want To... The GT40 Mini...

Q: When is a GT40 not a GT40? A: When it's a Mini. We'll explain...

www.pistonheads.com

It was offered for sale for 17,500 GBP.

One of the comments says "If my memory serves me correctly the owner of GTD was Ray Christopher who was a legend in the customising world with a V8 milk float "

https://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/posts/520221/

 

[max sainz]

Wow! Really cool.
The FIA Passport is a great starting point—it might help confirm some details about its identity and race history.

 

[Marco Solari]

Wow! Really cool.
The FIA Passport is a great starting point—it might help confirm some details about its identity and race history.

Meanwhile I managed to find out the previous owner. It’s a GTD40 MK2 built by the owner itself. The VIN P1064 was added by someone else, the correct vin is the one related to the Q plate SABTVR03596177285. Then the car was sold to Italy were it got some racing upgrades such as exhaust, brakes and new carburetors. The power steering was removed together the handbrake. The car didn’t take part to significant races, only to minor Italian historical reenactments and hill climbs. She needs a lot of love.