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  1. GT38

    Lance Macklin's 1955 LeMans Austin Healey 100S is on the auction block

    Very cool, Ralphie, you were obviously a BMOC with that car! I always wanted a big Healey, especially in high school and college, but it just never happened. Maybe someday. The styling of other cars in the photo illustrate why the Austin Healey was such a stunner. :thumbsup
  2. GT38

    Lance Macklin's 1955 LeMans Austin Healey 100S is on the auction block

    Nope, but I'd like to see it someday if it winds up in a museum. I'm not superstitious, but it could be bad juju to own this car - kind of like the James Dean Spyder.
  3. GT38

    Lance Macklin's 1955 LeMans Austin Healey 100S is on the auction block

    A car that figured prominently in the infamous 1955 LeMans Pierre Levegh crash is up for sale at Bonhams tomorrow - Lance Macklin's Austin Healey 100S. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068015/Austin-Healey-racing-car-involved-1955-Le-Mans-disaster-sell-1m.html...
  4. GT38

    OK.....OK......i KNOW this isn't a Corvette forum, but......

    And now from the UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067656/Two-Corvettes-plus-set-lights-idiot-drivers-equals--nasty-accident.html One reader comment: "Two Corvettes, two drivers, one brain cell."
  5. GT38

    Dutch comparo between the GT & GT40

    Chassis number M3/1107, the last factory built GT40. http://www.evo.co.uk/features/features/228996/ford_gt40_to_le_mans.html
  6. GT38

    OK.....OK......i KNOW this isn't a Corvette forum, but......

    Forget the Corvettes - I wanted to see if the TREES are OK! :lol
  7. GT38

    OK.....OK......i KNOW this isn't a Corvette forum, but......

    Love the prophetic comment, "Let's see how stupid these guys are." :eek
  8. GT38

    Classics Restored

    Here's a video of the folks who built my XJ13 replica - Errol & Rod Tempero in Oamaru, New Zealand. http://www.rodtempero.com/ Their work is stunning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqwOJu0I3g
  9. GT38

    Bulldog

    We wound up in Savannah a few years ago - toured Mercer house and talked to a couple of local folks about the movie and the book (which of course is somewhat different from the movie, and both are somewhat different from reality). It was all very interesting.
  10. GT38

    "My Dad's Car"

    Thanks. Most searches for former cars don't have a happy ending and I am very fortunate. There is much more to the story that is too convoluted to get into here - lots of rabbit holes to get side-tracked on. But some of that would only be interesting to E-Type aficionados. I regretted...
  11. GT38

    Bulldog

    Uga 5 plays Uga 4 in "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119668/trivia
  12. GT38

    "My Dad's Car"

    Thanks - and Jeff is a MUCH better driver than me!!! :thumbsup
  13. GT38

    "My Dad's Car"

    36 years (and 36 pounds!) later in the heart of the Swiss Alps... With current owner Christoph behind the wheel, we launch off for eight hours of driving on some of the most beautiful roads in the world - in one of the most beautiful cars in the world! Visiting Wilhelm (William) Tell in...
  14. GT38

    "My Dad's Car"

    I have not been able to find my first car (a 1966 Pontiac GTO, which I bought new), but I did find my second car, a 1966 Jaguar E-Type roadster. After searching unsuccessfully for 10+ years, in 1987 I bought another E-Type roadster (which I still have), but every now and then I'd still think...
  15. GT38

    Ebay question

    Here's a much bigger ebay seller mistake: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/11/12/20111112ebay-car-auction-mistake-questions.html
  16. GT38

    It's done put 70 miles on it today

    Make sure you know what the date codes are, though.
  17. GT38

    It's done put 70 miles on it today

    ...and that won't change! You'll eventually develop a feel for everything, but you'll always need to be extra-careful about other cars in your blind spots. That's where everyone likes drive while they're taking photos of your car. And they will inadvertently swerve into you while taking the...
  18. GT38

    Check your photo archives...

    (With the number of equally boring photos I have in my archives, I could become a multi-billionaire.) Beauty is in the eye of the bidder: Bleak river view becomes most expensive photograph ever sold at auction after fetching $4.3m Andreas Gursky's 'Rhine II' was digitally altered to make...
  19. GT38

    Frank Lloyd Wright's car

    I believe so.