So it is this:
No power brake booster
No steering assist
No ABS
No traction control
No magnetic adjustable shocks
No torque vectoring differential
No lack of fantastic, visceral, seat-of-pants input, best time you ever had driving experience!
The GT40 is 50 plus years old. It is "old school" but was "state of the art" when new...........and it still will thrill, scare and entertain a driver who is willing to put some effort and concentration into going fast. It is 10/10s of car to my 8/10s of driving skill. It will constantly remind me of why I was never recruited by Ferrari as a factory driver. It will allow me to put myself in Steve McQueen's "LeMans" in a starring role in my imagination easily passing those Porsches and Ferraris. It is the car that doesn't take years off your life (unless you are stupid) but rather takes years off your age (thank you P. J. O'Rourke for giving me that line when you test drove our AC Mk IV some years ago) and lets you be Ken Miles, Chris Amon or Dan Gurney or whatever your fantasy is.
In short, you need one.......................
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