As Good as it Gets: Tool Room 1969 Le Mans GT40 Gallery
Images: James Gibson
In 1969 David Hobbs and Mike Hailwood drove a GT40 to third place in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, just behind Hans Herrmann and Gérard Larrousse, and winners Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver.
It’d take an extremely well trained eye to know it, but this isn’t that car. It’s a gorgeous, unflinchingly accurate and brutally fast tool room recreation, and it’s awesome. Check out the gallery.
GT40 specialists Gelscoe Engineering built the car in 2011 as a tool room recreation of works GT40 chassis P 1076.
The full brunt of their extensive experience working on original GT40s was employed over hundreds of hours to make it accurate down to the last rivet. It’s powered by a Gurney Weslake Ford V8 which puts out 494bhp and all mechanicals are authentic to the original. And it’s seen historic racing action, heading to meetings across Europe, including the Spa 6 Hours.
Photographer James Gibson has kindly been in touch with us to share his magnificent photo gallery of the beast, and you can enjoy it below.
Photography by James Gibson, hit this link to his website for more.
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