126,875mph. Stock Production 1983 500XC

ill ask goog, he will know...

ahhhh, seek the oracle

pretty sure it was 100 for FIA homologation, but don't think I know this as A FACT

Gt40 history is complex and fraught with frauds and claims. Ronnie Spain is the authority on all of that.
https://www.amazon.com/GT-40-Individual-History-Record/dp/0760317402
I spent 3years on historic research before commisioning the car which represents specs of cars which raced and won in my part of the planet. This vehicle was accordingly inspected and certified for competition by the Historic Racing Car Association of South Africa. It is also registered for road use.

do you build these cars????????

commissioning....the act of asking someone to do something for money....

my old neighbour is a porche nut ...so much so that the factory regularly consults him on 70-90's porche issue...he has built from scratch (using blueprints) a 917 and a 908.

He did all the fibreglass moulds (then burnt them when he was finished) joined two 6 cyls together to make the flat 12, bought some parts from paul newman for it. its spectacular in white and orange.

he even makes the fans and fan shrouds in fibreglass, casts his own wheels at the local foundry and he used a v12 jag distributer to spark the motor.

a friend of his in the US found a genuine 917 car stripped for a rebuild and he took 300+ pics of the frame detailing the factory added brackets and braces that weren't on the blueprints so his car is an exact racecar replica.

he also has 1 of only 2 of the first porche powered ground effects cars (possibly Lola's) that Paul Neuman commissioned for a race series. 18 of 20 cars had chev v8's and two had porche 6's. ol mate found the car in mexico and got it back here and has refurbed it. its a piece of work.

so - its easy to build a car from scratch if you know how.
halfway thru the 917 build, he rebuilt an MGA and a healy bn100 ("the first car I got a r**t in" he said when I asked him why the Healy)

pretty fascinating guy...his early relatives were bought to Bendigo from Italy to do the big cathedral here, they were stonemasons etc

at one stage he bought a Rolls Royce merlin engine that he was going to put in an old truck for drag racing but someone offered him good money so it went. I really wanted to see that truck.

my skils only run to cars that I can unbolt and bolt back together (if I can remember where the bolts go)

Nice ride.

has a small block 307 chev in it with a mild 30 70 cam and some mid size valve heads on it..goes ok

just read this in wiki on the gt 40
"Five prototype models were built with roadster bodywork, including the Ford X-1.[1]"

which is what ol mate told me

Sorry clarification .
It looks like I am remembering a story about the Mk 111's