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Old 04-07-2002, 12:40 PM
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Question According to Ronnie Spain

The following is what Mr. Spain says about GT40 chassis (I realize that there are some original GT40 owners who do not think much of Mr. Spains' work):

"Prototype GT/101-112 = 12
Production GT40P/1000-1086 = 87
Mirage M.10001-10003 = 3
Mark III GT40 M3/1101-1107 = 7
Post-Production GT40 P/1108-1114 = 7
Alan Mann AM GT-1 and 2 = 2
Alan Mann XGT-1 to 3 = 3
'J' Chassis J-1 to 12 = 12"

Mr. Spain continues: "This total of 133 different chassis numbers does not, however, represent the actual total number of chassis built - for the following reasons:

a) In three cases new chassis were supplied by the works as replacements for wrecked originals - 1009, 1010 and 1073.

b) Two of the originally unnumbered post-production chassis were supplied new as replacements for wrecks - for 1012 and 1078. (No change to the total in these cases.)

c) Three cars were rebuilt as new chassis and renumbered - 1004 as 1084, and M.10002 and M.10003 as 1074 and 1075.

d) Two alloy chassis roadster prototypes were in fact built by Abbey Panels-not just one. One of these was numbered GT/110 while the other remained unnumbered. I have called this chassis GT/110A for identification purposes and it is covered in the history for GT/110.

The actual number of chassis built is therefore 134."

Dave Lowell
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