Thanks Ken, Its a beautiful car, even if a only replica. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Ken Waller<[email protected]> wrote: > I Attended the Kohler International Challenge (vintage races) the weekend of > 7/17-19 @ Road America in > Elkhart Lake Wisconsin. > > The featured Marquee was the Ford GT 40. These were popular road race cars > in the mid 60's when I started my career @ Ford Motor in Dearborn, Michigan, > and while I > never got to work directly on these (not that I didn't try), I became good > friends with several of the engineers that did. Together, we raced other > Ford vehicles over the years as independents. > > I hooked up with several of these ex GT engineers for this trip to > Elkhart Lake. It was an enjoyable time spent viewing the GT 40s & > Ford Mark IVs that were on site (less than 50 in total, authentic GT40s & > Mark IV GTs) with around a thousand other vehicles entered for this > racing weekend and have my friends recall their adventures with these > vehicles. > > One of my pals recalled his transporting of replacement windshields > from the Paris airport to the LeMans race course, after it was discovered > there was a 'flaw' in the original windshields at 215 mph down the Mulsanne > straight! > > The MkIV GT shown here > http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html is not an > original, but a well done replica by a group of private individuals. > > Hope the car nuts on the pdml enjoy this ! > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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