AC Cobra Le Mans Crash at Goodwood

[Trevor Legate]

Nitpicking I know, but point of order: not XKSS but E-type.

However, the rumor mill thinks the XKSS may yet resurface, although they were never raced in the day (he said, waiting to be corrected! Not raced in the UK anyhoo)

And certainly not a single Superformance GT40! No siree - nor any Gelscoe versions, nope. Thirty ge-uine GT40s or my name ain't Verity Muppeteer.

I always find it highly amusing that the race commentary has to gloss over the fact that (some of) the cars were built last week But business is business.....

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by Trevor Legate

Nitpicking I know, but point of order: not XKSS but E-type.

However, the rumor mill thinks the XKSS may yet resurface, although they were never raced in the day (he said, waiting to be corrected! Not raced in the UK anyhoo)

And certainly not a single Superformance GT40! No siree - nor any Gelscoe versions, nope. Thirty ge-uine GT40s or my name ain't Verity Muppeteer.

I always find it highly amusing that the race commentary has to gloss over the fact that (some of) the cars were built last week But business is business.....

Trevor,
This is the article I was referring to....

The Jaguar XKSS is back

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by Trevor Legate

Nitpicking I know, but point of order: not XKSS but E-type.

However, the rumor mill thinks the XKSS may yet resurface, although they were never raced in the day (he said, waiting to be corrected! Not raced in the UK anyhoo)

And certainly not a single Superformance GT40! No siree - nor any Gelscoe versions, nope. Thirty ge-uine GT40s or my name ain't Verity Muppeteer.

I always find it highly amusing that the race commentary has to gloss over the fact that (some of) the cars were built last week But business is business.....

Nope Trevor, every car on that grid was extant in 1966. Absolutely, positively. I guarantee that every molecule of iron and aluminium was around in 1966. Of course they may have been around a beer can or some bauxite in the ground, but they existed! They just hadn't been arranged as a "GT40" yet..............

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

Nope Trevor, every car on that grid was extant in 1966. Absolutely, positively. I guarantee that every molecule of iron and aluminium was around in 1966. Of course they may have been around a beer can or some bauxite in the ground, but they existed! They just hadn't been arranged as a "GT40" yet..............

Well, I didn't realize we were going all the way back to the Periodic Table!