I could not resist the opportunity to investigate a Group 44 Gt6, more
tire kicking than serious interest. Too many cars already, too little time.
Hopefully the latter will change very soon. But not enough to justify another
car.
If anyone is seriously pursuing this car, I would warn them that it is
pretty difficult for this particular car to be the actual Group 44 team's race
car for 1969. The shell has a manufactured date of July 1969. (There are other
reasons to doubt this particular car,but its not worth going into the detail).
Over the last few years, a number of other GT6's claiming to be Group 44
cars have come to market. The problem will each of them was lack of
documentation. This one comes the closest to having documentation, but
somewhere along
the ownership history it was apparently necessary to replace the entire tub and
since it was pre 1972, there is not Group 44 logbook to at least substantiate
a lineage back to them.
Incidently, the seller never responded to my email when I asked him about
the chassis discrepancy.
Regards to all, Cary
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