GT/108 to cross the block at RM Auctions Monterey (Aug 2014)

[AutoSmith]

We posted this great GT40 Roadster Prototype on Monterey Car Week as well. Someone's going to buy an epic race car/prototype in mid-August. 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster Prototype - Monterey Car Week

[Historybuff]

I thought he lived in Montana or someplace way out west (I don't consider Kansas City out west enough). there is a picture of Shelby taking HF II for a ride in the car on the Richard Nixon freeway (try to find that on the map!).

Also I have seen pictures of a roadster in the Sixties painted red, I wonder which of the four that was?

Thanks for any clues

[Jac Mac]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

I thought he lived in Montana or someplace way out west (I don't consider Kansas City out west enough). there is a picture of Shelby taking HF II for a ride in the car on the Richard Nixon freeway (try to find that on the map!).

Also I have seen pictures of a roadster in the Sixties painted red, I wonder which of the four that was?

Thanks for any clues

You thinking of the x McLaren X1/GT110 rebodied as a MKII roadster in red?

[Historybuff]

it was a big block. So you could call it a Mk.II, As far as I know it was pitched into a hole within a few miles of Shelby's LAX plant, and one former Shelby mechanic was there, and had some small pieces as keepsakes. I think modern methods could find it.

Anybody know who did Tom Congleton bought his open car from and was it a bargain back then? It's a pity Jeffries got on that Indy car engine kick--that took up 25 years of getting his back on the road, and I don't know if it was street drivable when he died. Leaving in the 289 pushrod would have made it drivable much earlier,

[Russ Dickey]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

Anybody know who did Tom Congleton bought his open car from and was it a bargain back then? It's a pity Jeffries got on that Indy car engine kick--that took up 25 years of getting his back on the road, and I don't know if it was street drivable when he died. Leaving in the 289 pushrod would have made it drivable much earlier,

According to RM:

By 1978, GT/108 was owned by Harley Cluxton III, of Grand Touring Cars in Scottsdale, and the roadster was offered by him a year later and purchased by John Robertson, of Big Fork, Montana. Robertson notably reverted the nose to white and added black Le Mans stripes, and the original white paint is believed to largely remain intact to this day.

Passing through Cluxton again in 1983, the GT roadster was then acquired by Tom Congleton, of Mission Hills, Kansas, who soon embarked on a full mechanical restoration.


No idea what was paid though.

[Historybuff]

I thought he lived in Montana or someplace way out west (I don't consider Kansas City out west enough). there is a picture of Shelby taking HF II for a ride in the car on the Richard Nixon freeway (try to find that on the map!).

Also I have seen pictures of a roadster in the Sixties painted red, I wonder which of the four that was?

Thanks for any clues