Ford GT - fastback
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Triheart7
GT Owner
fjpikul
GT Owner
fjpikul
GT Owner
Thank you Ralphie. Judging from some other threads here, apparently we have to be gracious to each other now. Thank you again, sir.
Your friend, Frank
Your friend, Frank
You can say anything you like about EP. No one has ever seen him in person so most likely is a fictional character.:wink
cobrajeff
GT Owner
PL510*Jeff
Well-known member
During one of the 100 Year Ford Centennial dinners.
I was lucky to be seated next to Bob Casey (Transportation Curator @ HFM)
(See below)
In conversation I found he is a real car guy.
And one of his duties that evening was arraigning the loan of #1- 67 winner to the event. That’s right we had that car outside the museum on display with job 1,2,3 cars.
It was way cool.
Bob told me after the win in 67. As part of the celebration, 2 more cars were prepared to resemble the red #1. And the trio went on tour as a marketing promo deal.
And one of his first tasks @ the museum was to confirm the car on display in the HFM was the actual race winner. As there were some questioning if they even had the proper car?
Short story _ there was no mix up and he was able to confirm.
I thought it a cool story.
http://www.thehenryford.org/neh/faculty.asp
Bob Casey, Curator of Transportation
Bob Casey is an automotive historian and author of a forthcoming centennial history of the Model T Ford. Bob Casey has combined his love of engineering and of history. He is a graduate mechanical engineer and worked for Bethlehem Steel. He also holds degrees in American history and the history of technology. He has been a historian and curator for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, and the Detroit Historical Museum. Since 1991 he has been John and Horace Dodge Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford. He is a judge at the Meadow Brook and Glenmoor Gathering concourses, and his book The Model T: A Centennial History was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July, 2008.
I was lucky to be seated next to Bob Casey (Transportation Curator @ HFM)
(See below)
In conversation I found he is a real car guy.
And one of his duties that evening was arraigning the loan of #1- 67 winner to the event. That’s right we had that car outside the museum on display with job 1,2,3 cars.
It was way cool.
Bob told me after the win in 67. As part of the celebration, 2 more cars were prepared to resemble the red #1. And the trio went on tour as a marketing promo deal.
And one of his first tasks @ the museum was to confirm the car on display in the HFM was the actual race winner. As there were some questioning if they even had the proper car?
Short story _ there was no mix up and he was able to confirm.
I thought it a cool story.
http://www.thehenryford.org/neh/faculty.asp
Bob Casey, Curator of Transportation
Bob Casey is an automotive historian and author of a forthcoming centennial history of the Model T Ford. Bob Casey has combined his love of engineering and of history. He is a graduate mechanical engineer and worked for Bethlehem Steel. He also holds degrees in American history and the history of technology. He has been a historian and curator for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, and the Detroit Historical Museum. Since 1991 he has been John and Horace Dodge Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford. He is a judge at the Meadow Brook and Glenmoor Gathering concourses, and his book The Model T: A Centennial History was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July, 2008.
TEXAS GT
2006 Twin Turbo
Which rendition is this? I don't remember the back of the Mark IV looking like that.
This photo was used on the cover of a car magazine (I can't remember which) in the '60s. I've got a copy of it with Carroll Shelby's autograph on it. I need to find it and get it framed.
Sinovac
GT Owner
Jim Glickenhaus owns the yellow #2 Mk. IV that is shown in the photo of the Ford starting grid for the 1967 Le Mans. I think he may at one time had it converted for street use. Imagine that.
http://www.cobracountry.com/posters/GT40MkIV-LeMans-67-1b.jpg
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php?imagenum=7&carnum=3406
http://www.cobracountry.com/posters/GT40MkIV-LeMans-67-1b.jpg
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php?imagenum=7&carnum=3406
S592R
GT Owner
- Dec 3, 2006
- 2,800
I have had the opportunity on several occasions to spend time with EP and his very lovely and gracious wife. I even have photos to prove it ... but I promised under threat of death not to put them on the forum. :secret::secret::secret::secret:
But with that said you can still be a schmuck to him...... he likes it. :biggrin
GT38
GT Owner
Yup, EP exists! :bow
(Can't give any more details, or I'll loose my security clearance. :cool)
:skep 'Twould appear Guedo may need to pack his gear...again...:tongue :slap :slap :slap :slap :slap