Hi all,
The feeling is now well and truly getting real for me as my car with chassis J211 will be arriving on the production line in Markham tomorrow morning!
I've been lurking on the forum for a while but only recently joined. However, I've been reading many threads over time and have truly enjoyed following the processes of so many forum members receiving their cars and using them. As per many of you, I am beyond excited for the new car and I think even more so as the number of them from the allocations so far that we will be receiving in the UK are looking to be limited to approximately two handfuls.
I'll be making the voyage across the Atlantic to Toronto next weekend, which coincidentally is Canadian Thanksgiving, and then making a visit to Markham to see the car in build - which I believe at the time will have engine and chassis in place but awaiting body panels. They had a number of dates available but I was very keen to choose one where there will be distinguishable panels available, in this case I understand the roof will already be in place with my fairly unusual colour scheme of choice on show.
The base colour is Liquid Red; I've not seen a physical car in the paint in person but from the images and then later the sample as part of the Ordering Kit, I don't think one can possibly go wrong with it. The stripes are then from the Extended Palette, or rather a colour I have chosen for a specific reason - Alan Mann Racing Gold. I set about to recreate an old racing livery, with a modern twist, and pay tribute to the Alan Mann Racing team of the 1960s who at the time competed with GT40s, F3Ls and Escorts. In my garage, the GT will sit alongside my Focus RS Heritage Edition (1-of-50 for the UK market only) which itself pays a 50th anniversary tribute to the 1968 Escort as its spiritual predecessor, and coincidentally in that year the winning car of the British Touring Car Championship was operated and wearing the colours of Alan Mann Racing. I'm also a big McLaren fan, currently with a 675LT Spider that's soon to be joined by a Senna, and as it happens Bruce McLaren himself also raced for Alan Mann back at the time. As such I got in contact with brothers Henry and Tom Mann, who operate Alan Mann Racing's heritage activities and they very kindly made it possible for me to source a sample of the paint used on their original cars to be matched for the stripes on my new GT, and for that I cannot thank them enough!
Naturally, words cannot really describe my excitement to see how it turns out next week. In any case I'm really looking forward to both the personal experience but also the opportunities I have to share this car and what it really means across my social media platforms going forward - and believe me when I say that 2019 will be a big year for my car.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thread, I look forward to sharing more of it in due course.
The feeling is now well and truly getting real for me as my car with chassis J211 will be arriving on the production line in Markham tomorrow morning!
I've been lurking on the forum for a while but only recently joined. However, I've been reading many threads over time and have truly enjoyed following the processes of so many forum members receiving their cars and using them. As per many of you, I am beyond excited for the new car and I think even more so as the number of them from the allocations so far that we will be receiving in the UK are looking to be limited to approximately two handfuls.
I'll be making the voyage across the Atlantic to Toronto next weekend, which coincidentally is Canadian Thanksgiving, and then making a visit to Markham to see the car in build - which I believe at the time will have engine and chassis in place but awaiting body panels. They had a number of dates available but I was very keen to choose one where there will be distinguishable panels available, in this case I understand the roof will already be in place with my fairly unusual colour scheme of choice on show.
The base colour is Liquid Red; I've not seen a physical car in the paint in person but from the images and then later the sample as part of the Ordering Kit, I don't think one can possibly go wrong with it. The stripes are then from the Extended Palette, or rather a colour I have chosen for a specific reason - Alan Mann Racing Gold. I set about to recreate an old racing livery, with a modern twist, and pay tribute to the Alan Mann Racing team of the 1960s who at the time competed with GT40s, F3Ls and Escorts. In my garage, the GT will sit alongside my Focus RS Heritage Edition (1-of-50 for the UK market only) which itself pays a 50th anniversary tribute to the 1968 Escort as its spiritual predecessor, and coincidentally in that year the winning car of the British Touring Car Championship was operated and wearing the colours of Alan Mann Racing. I'm also a big McLaren fan, currently with a 675LT Spider that's soon to be joined by a Senna, and as it happens Bruce McLaren himself also raced for Alan Mann back at the time. As such I got in contact with brothers Henry and Tom Mann, who operate Alan Mann Racing's heritage activities and they very kindly made it possible for me to source a sample of the paint used on their original cars to be matched for the stripes on my new GT, and for that I cannot thank them enough!
Naturally, words cannot really describe my excitement to see how it turns out next week. In any case I'm really looking forward to both the personal experience but also the opportunities I have to share this car and what it really means across my social media platforms going forward - and believe me when I say that 2019 will be a big year for my car.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thread, I look forward to sharing more of it in due course.
