[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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raL5NQAgCHc
> Will
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> 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?
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>>
>> In a message dated 5/21/10 16 15 17, kjetfinn at online.no writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Best sounding car ever?
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-J4Jydnkc&feature=related
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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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