South African GT40 targa

[Historybuff]

Regarding those GT40 289 powered Targas, now I remember seeing a picture of one racing in South Africa. It was a black and white picture so I can't tell what color it was other than a dark color but it was definitely roofless. I wonder if anyone knows if a GT40 small block coupe was cut into a roadster for South African racing back in the Sixties? I know they do things their own way there, as it was South Africans who also compaigned the Willment coupe , their own version of a Daytona coupe which looked only sorta like Brock's original

[HIGHFLIGHT]

The Willment coupe was driven South africa and Europe by Bob Olthoff. It is currently at the SHELBY AMERICAN operation/museum in Boulder Colorado. It did not have a duck tail. I knew Bob for years and was sold my first SPF by Bob. His son, Dennis, is now running the operation after Bobs passing several years ago. He was very nice people as was his wife Baby. Saved many of us from putting 600HP into out cars and killing ourselves.
If you get out to Boulder stop by. You'll never see that many ACs, tigers, GT40 Mk1 & IIs, plus one of the long cars MkIVs. These guys drive much of the stock. 427s with ZFs attached....
Regards
Grady

[Historybuff]

When reading about the Bondurant/Whitmore GT40 roadster
unearthed from storage and welded back together they mention that they were able to get the body from Sutcliffe's GT40 roadster to
guide them in the making of a new body for the Bondurant/Whitmore car. Sutcliffe had made his into a coupe so I guess wherever it is it could be converted back to a roadster which would make it far more valuable.

That solves the mystery of the GT40 roadster in Africa--it was a real one
not a coupe cut down into a roadster.

So I guess all the small block roadsters are accounted for.
but where's the big block roadster that won Sebring in '66?

[Trevor Legate]

So I guess all the small block roadsters are accounted for.
but where's the big block roadster that won Sebring in '66?[/quote]



It's quicker to read Ronnie Spain's books.....all there.

[BT SNAKE]

Trevor,
I couldn't have said it better.

Hersh

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by Historybuff

but where's the big block roadster that won Sebring in '66?

Still under the apartment building in L.A.

[Jim Holden]

The Sebring Roadster (originally X-1) had served as an early CanAm car without much success. It was re-bodied with a GT40 MKII front and rear clip. After it was taken back to the Shelby facility in California after winning Sebring, the government showed up demanding that it either be shipped back to England, import duty paid or the chassis destroyed. Shelby sought the later route and had the car cut up and buried.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know how much the Import Duty was versus what it might be worth today?

Jim