mystery GT

cybersdorf · 22 Oct 2001, 20:57 (Ref:164109)

Can anybody tell me more about this car?:
http://www.geocities.com/guacomole1/gt.html
All I know is that it was designed by a man named Jo Karasek (who also penned an Indy Car for the Mc Namara team around 1970).

Dr. Austin · 23 Oct 2001, 00:26 (Ref:164209)

Man, check out those nose fins!!! The car bears a striking resembelence to the original Lola GT from around '62-'63. That was the car that eventually became the GT40.

I remember the McNamara. I thought at the time it was a good looking car. Whatever happened to that constructer? One year in USAC and POOF!!! They were gone.

cybersdorf · 23 Oct 2001, 08:07 (Ref:164310)

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Originally posted by Dr. Austin
Man, check out those nose fins!!! The car bears a striking resembelence to the original Lola GT from around '62-'63. That was the car that eventually became the GT40.

This car happened slightly later; I believe it was a contemporary of the actual GT40. And I am almost sure it doesn't exist anymore.

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I remember the McNamara. I thought at the time it was a good looking car. Whatever happened to that constructer? One year in USAC and POOF!!! They were gone.

I believe McNamara ran off with the money.

Marshal · 23 Oct 2001, 10:40 (Ref:164349)

Looks to mew like its a modified GT40, a bit like the '67 Mirage M1 was (except not as tastefully done as the Mirage)

Here's a picture of the Mirage.

cybersdorf · 23 Oct 2001, 10:58 (Ref:164353)

It is definitely a GT40 clone but I don't think it is actually a modified GT40.

**Aysedasi** · 24 Oct 2001, 18:47 (Ref:164967)

Why would anyone want to clone the beautiful GT40 to produce something as ugly as this?!!

cybersdorf · 24 Oct 2001, 19:17 (Ref:164972)

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Originally posted by Aysedasi
Why would anyone want to clone the beautiful GT40 to produce something as ugly as this?!!

What led to the Cougar?
Someone had to give it a try, I guess

KC · 25 Oct 2001, 19:19 (Ref:165481)

Instead of a Ford GT40 replica or look-a-like racer, maybe its a rebodied Lola T70 from the late 60s?

zealot · 26 Oct 2001, 19:01 (Ref:165966)

It looks like something I built in my backyard.

mickj · 29 Oct 2001, 00:39 (Ref:166786)

zealot what are your qualifications??.Could you build it in your backyard.I't been built by someone who knows what they are about

Morris 1100 · 29 Oct 2001, 09:56 (Ref:166871)

To me it looks like a rebodied GT40 (and I have looked at quite a few GT40's), The fuel fillers are in the right place and the seats are the same (look at the drivers seat and you can see what looks like dots, they are holes to let cool air onto the drivers back)the windscreen also looks like GT40 but the wheels look very Italian. My guess is that it is a Gt40 Rebodied in Germany.

cybersdorf · 29 Oct 2001, 22:43 (Ref:167174)

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Originally posted by Morris 1100
To me it looks like a rebodied GT40

This may be a silly question, but - why?

mickj · 29 Oct 2001, 23:07 (Ref:167184)

not 1 of sbarro's creations,or 1 of filipinetti's ?
did mcnamara build a gt? as well as as fv and ff

cybersdorf · 30 Oct 2001, 07:24 (Ref:167276)

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Originally posted by mickj
did mcnamara build a gt? as well as as fv and ff

Not McNamara, the man who later worked for McNamara.

Dereck Bennett · 4 Nov 2001, 21:14 (Ref:169841)

I just got around to looking at the photo. Boy, this is a stumper! My reference books say that the Austrian Karasek was an ex-Lola design engineer so maybe there could be a Lola GT connection. Studying the photo leads me to make some wild guesses: the injector (Weber?) stacks sticking through the body almost ensure it's not an endurance racer. The rear spoiler looks adjustable, and maybe even moveable. The front fins or dive planes must be there to balance the downforce from the back. The size of the rear air inlets reminds me of CanAm. This was the one arena where moveable aero aides were fairly common in the sixties and where the engines were big enough to need that much air. However, a cursory glance at some of the old CanAm grids doesn't show anything like this car. The bodywork and paint appear professional so it probably negates the backyard boys. Who knows? European hillclimb special?

cybersdorf · 4 Nov 2001, 21:24 (Ref:169847)

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Originally posted by Dereck Bennett
Boy, this is a stumper!

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My reference books say that the Austrian Karasek was an ex-Lola design engineer so maybe there could be a Lola GT connection.

What would these books be?

The CanAm would have been a little far-fetched - the money man behind the project seems to have been an Austrian driver named Otto Stuppacher; so the idea was to race it in Europe. I don't think the car ever worked right, nor was it given development time/funds. To tell you the truth, I have no idea if/where it ever ran.

cybersdorf · 4 Nov 2001, 23:22 (Ref:169905)

..why your name sounds familiar - DereK Bennett - Chevron!
Any relation?

Dereck Bennett · 6 Nov 2001, 15:35 (Ref:170899)

cybersdorf-- no relation, just a nom de plume. He was my hero-- a self-trained designer/builder of racing cars of unusual simplicity, logic, grace and speed.

cybersdorf · 6 Nov 2001, 18:45 (Ref:171036)

Yes, he was good. One can only wonder what might have been had he not taken up hanggliding...

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