Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >I was about to say pretty much the same thing. The UK-manufactured cars >(race and raid) were RHD except possibly for those for mainland European >customers for road use (von Karajan had one for instance)and the few built >for the US in the UK. There was a long history of sportscars being RHD >which faded out in the 60s or 70s as I recall. > >Peter Dzwig > >>You must have a long arm to reach that gear stick! :-) >>Only kidding. I guess you're talking about the Mk IV, which was made in >>the States, some for racing and some for the road. I believe they only >>made 12 of these all together, and the racing ones - including the 1967 Le >>Mans winner - were certainly right hand drive. I'm assuming the road cars >>were LHD. As indeed some of the (only 7 in total) Mk IIIs probably were, >>those that were intended for US non-race customers. >>As usual my statement was quite as definitive as it should have been... >>Sorry. >>I understand a lot of US circuits are anti-clockwise, notably those used >>for NASCAR - is this true? If so it would have made a lot of sense for Kar >>Kraft, builders of the Mk IV, to build some LHD racers. >>I think we can assume that almost all of the 111 cars built at Slough in >>England were RHD, and at least half the 12 cars built in Michigan were >>RHD, so I'll modify my original statement: >>"Almost all GT40s have the steering wheel on the right". >>Replicas built after 1967 are, of course, a different thing altogether... >>Paul Hardy Carter