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The Cars => GT40 - Original/Mk V => Topic started by: CSX 4133 on August 08, 2020, 07:09:27 AM

Title: Riley Motorsports to build GT40 next generation.
Post by: CSX 4133 on August 08, 2020, 07:09:27 AM

No matter what we may personally feel about this venture I think it's cool and the background story of Bob Riley makes it even better.

https://speedsport.com/sports-cars/other-sports-cars/riley-technologies-to-build-next-generation-of-mk-iv/
Title: Re: Riley Motorsports to build GT40 next generation.
Post by: shelbydoug on August 08, 2020, 07:25:07 AM
Maybe I should read the entire article but wasn't Holman making continuation Mark IV's? What happened there?
Title: Re: Riley Motorsports to build GT40 next generation.
Post by: gt350bp on August 08, 2020, 08:23:29 AM
Thought it was Kenny Thompson and Mike Teske that completed the continuation of the Mark IV's? .
Title: Re: Riley Motorsports to build GT40 next generation.
Post by: propayne on August 08, 2020, 11:42:54 AM
Lee Holman offered MkIIs starting in the early '90s.

- Phillip

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Title: Re: Riley Motorsports to build GT40 next generation.
Post by: shelbydoug on August 08, 2020, 12:40:05 PM
Lee Holman offered MkIIs starting in the early '90s.

- Phillip

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It WAS at SAAC36, at VIR, as I walked around the corner from vendors row, there they were staring me in the face, a Mark II, a J car and a Mark IV. Kenny Thompson was one of the "constructors" there explaining  them.

I recsall the Mark IV was the only one that ran. The J car was a roller and the Mark II was on a trailer.

They were being offered for sale at around 995 each depending on the equipment and it was Lee Holman I was talking to about them and my C6FE aluminum427 heads and what they belonged on. So at that moment, it wasn't just limited to the MkII's.