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[LM mic]

Price increases every day ...with some speculation!!
One Gelscoe was sold this year in Paris but the price is on ask on the website and I asked it by mail and was replying by phone contact or visit only...I guess the price was high as you says because the car is eligible for all races (le mans classic Goodwood and american races..)

https://www.classic-racing-annonces....-gt40-gelscoe/

I think maybe wrongly the price for building one is less.

I visited last year Mick Sollis (Southern GT) he received me personally and showed his last GT40 and gave the price list around 90-100k for one accurate turnkey with all same engine and gearbox as original
His cars are agreed and one of them ( don't remember the name of the owner ) races frequently at Goodwood revival and other races in UK!

Gt 40 like Mick Sollis is building are still replicas ( they cannot be accurate due to the tube chassis ?) so they enter in categories like " saloon cars " when they race or only "demonstration" cars or specific races with no connection to historic series ( In france they named this possibility " régularité" ( this is LB kits where admitted at Tour de corse ; the Historic "international champion ship" named C.E.R does not allow any sort of replica ... you must show at scruteneering HTP papers ( so this is why as stated previously some "intelligent" fabricator companies have understood years ago , obtaining this permit of building "continuations"!!!!!
Again those continuations are very very rare ( so very very pricy !!!) and are submitted to a very close and accurate exam before to get the" famous race pass" , but ,as usual if you are the friend of the friend of the brother to the sister of someone in FIA office or if you are .....millionaire the pass is easy to get !!!!!

Today if you are "clever " and rich plus well introduced , you can start a rebuilt of watever historic car starting from only ; one original rear lower bolt of the trany !!!!!!
Starting from this important and" historic , genuine , rare part!!!!!!! you can reinvent and rebuilt totally the car !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Non speaking of the new owners of old companies ( Chevron , Lola etc ) and some old rebirth companies like Karcraft in the US who are rebuilding brand new "historic cars" !!!! Using the name continuation and giving brand new Vin plates with serial number starting at the last chassis built 40 years ago !!!!! Karcarft have sold 10 brand new" J" cars ( with Ford permission !!!) in the past only 3 or 4 chassis where done !!! Guess who did those !!!!

C'est la vie !!!!!

[Stratie.fr]

Exactly Mich... No word to add