[DeTomaso] Best sounding car ever?

[Will Demelo]

I think it's this one.... Skip ahead to 2:00 and wait for the yellow car at 
2:13
Will
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <kjetfinn at online.no>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Best sounding car ever?


>
> In a message dated 5/21/10 16 15 17, kjetfinn at online.no writes:
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>> Best sounding car ever?
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-J4Jydnkc&feature=related
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>
> That's GT40 P/1051, which was originally built as a road car, with wire
> wheels.   It's owned by an acquaintenace of mine named Chris McAllister, 
> who
> lives in Indianapolis.   He owns the Caterpiller distributorship for the
> entire state of Indiana, which is tantamount to owning a money machine, 
> and he's
> living right as a result.   He has a small but extremely impressive
> collection of cars including a '72 Ferrari 312 Formula One car (ex-Niki 
> Lauda), and
> a 1970 Porsche 917, original Gulf team car, unrestored and highly 
> original.
>
> He bought the GT40 as a road car, then had it converted to full Gulf
> specifications by Racing Icons, complete with 14-inch-wide rear wheels, 
> Gulf
> flares, and Gurney-Weslake Eagle heads.   Here's some photos from when it 
> was
> just completed:
>
> http://www.racingicons.com/gt/1051.htm
>
> As an aside, here's a great link showing the process of restoring original
> GT40s, a non-trivial undertaking in the extreme:
>
> http://www.racingicons.com/gt/index.html
>
> Just keep scrolling from one page to the next using the navigation buttons
> at the bottom of each page.
>
> Here's another video from the same event as the link you sent (a hillclimb
> in France), of Chris working on the car in the pits.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCYsZ-40ZH4
>
> Chris is the guy with the baseball cap that looks like a grown-up Harry
> Potter.
>
> We saw him at the GT40 reunion at Road America last summer; he'll be
> driving his McLaren M8F Can-Am car and his GT40 at the upcoming Sonoma 
> Historic
> Motorsports Festival at Sears Point, the same weekend as the Reno POCA Fun
> Rally (just two weeks away!).   He's a bit quiet, but he's a 
> super-friendly,
> super-nice guy.   If you go to the track after the Fun Rally (and anybody 
> who
> lives in California will be driving right past the track on the way home),
> stop in and say hello to him!
>
> Mike
>
>
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