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Commodore,
The Gulf car is a Mark I GT-40. The chassis number should be FAV-1075. It is the winningest GT-40. The original chassis was replaced before the 1969 LeMans race, which the car won as I remember. The top speed of the Mark IIA model GT-40 was 218 mph. About 12 Mark II's were made. In 1967 Mark IIA's were converted to MarkIIB's and ran along side the Mark IV's. The Mark III was the street model Gt-40 which had round headlights and extended rear end. All MarkII's from 1966 Lemans on ran with full roll cages. The low compression was not only for durability but the real reason was they had to run on lower octaine European fuel for LeMans, but could use higher compression for Sebring and Daytona as the gas supplied was much better than the European gas.
Bill K
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