Just How We Like 'em !!
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GTJack
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Blue Moose
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Gentlemen,
I thought #68 continued to be raced after LeMans because the team did not have a replacement chassis. Am I wrong about that?
Chip
I thought #68 continued to be raced after LeMans because the team did not have a replacement chassis. Am I wrong about that?
Chip
Bullitt2065
Well-known member
I believe you are right, but the Le Mans bodywork was all replaced, to preserve the bugs and guts.
Interesting that the race car does not have the carbon fiber wheels.....
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Bullitt2065
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The Le Mans winning #68 is the #66 car is the US IMSA series . The scoring light system is substantially different on the IMSA spec car. I'm guessing because of the car numbering and the lighting set up The bulk of the #68 body panels never saw the track when the car came back to the USA..
All the bodywork was removed immediately following Le Mans for post race inspection and preservation. The engine was pulled, torn down for post race inspection, and then reassembled in the U.S. by Roush Yates. The chassis did race again in IMSA with different bodywork and a new engine. After the end of the IMSA season, the car was torn down and reassembled with the bodywork and engine as raced at Le Mans.
fjpikul
GT Owner
THamonGT
GT
Thank you for the exact information as to the presevation of #68 Mr Nair. I hope your able to fill the museum with winning GT's at the end of the 2017 season also. Thank You again for your post. We always get exact information and very timely too.
Thanks Raj for the explanation and thank you for saving the history of the car!! When I'm old and gray and hobbling around the Halls of the museum I can tell everyone I was there when it won! !
Unreal.
Raj,
That's genuinely cool. I hope you keep #68 in it's bug festooned state as long as possible. Like some of Andy Worhol's artwork it may not last forever but it's like a battle scarred tank or warplane as you preserved it. Well done and wow......just wow. What a ride you've taken us on. Yesterday DBK told me he was with Greg Miller at a Utah Jazz game in Salt Lake City. I relayed an event from our Rally 6 at Miller Motorsports Park when I was in the museum and discovered that Ken Miles #1 pale blue GT was unguarded and no one was around. I couldn't help myself and I opened the door and crawled in. Putting my hands on the wheel I closed my eyes and boom..... I was at hauling ass down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Who would have thought that 5 years later I'd actually be at Le Mans ON RACE DAY in my yellow GT chasing that same pale blue GT and you in a NFGT down that same straight at triple digit speeds. Even now it's hard for me to believe. And in a few short weeks I'll be picking up my own new GT. Really, seriously?!? Thanks brother, thanks a million.
Chip Beck
Raj,
That's genuinely cool. I hope you keep #68 in it's bug festooned state as long as possible. Like some of Andy Worhol's artwork it may not last forever but it's like a battle scarred tank or warplane as you preserved it. Well done and wow......just wow. What a ride you've taken us on. Yesterday DBK told me he was with Greg Miller at a Utah Jazz game in Salt Lake City. I relayed an event from our Rally 6 at Miller Motorsports Park when I was in the museum and discovered that Ken Miles #1 pale blue GT was unguarded and no one was around. I couldn't help myself and I opened the door and crawled in. Putting my hands on the wheel I closed my eyes and boom..... I was at hauling ass down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Who would have thought that 5 years later I'd actually be at Le Mans ON RACE DAY in my yellow GT chasing that same pale blue GT and you in a NFGT down that same straight at triple digit speeds. Even now it's hard for me to believe. And in a few short weeks I'll be picking up my own new GT. Really, seriously?!? Thanks brother, thanks a million.
Chip Beck
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Apollo
GT Owner
+1
... and what's also cool is there will be the new young Ford fanatics that will be seeing it in all of it's glory and feeling what we felt the first time we saw the 60s LeMans winning cars in person for the first time.
GKW05GT
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Bullitt2065
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Vince H
GT Owner
My thoughts exactly. I will never forget being there at Le Mans. Just incredible. Thanks Raj!
Vince H