Anyone see this EBAY GT40 Replica Body?

[Excaliber]

Parts might not be to bad. VW pan and engine, Corvair windshield, plexiglass for rear. Typical headlights up front, etc. etc. Or, Corvair engine mounted mid ship, but that would be a real hassle. VW was the "donor" car.

This is really "old school" stuff, in the days when kits were just barely kits and a LOT of fabricating was required.

[Ron61]

This is kind of strange. Two days ago I was talking to the guy who actually made the body for my Cobra for Emerson and he told me his son has picked up one of those GT-40s that was built on the Volkswagen set up and that it was in pretty good shape. He is going to finish restoring it.

Ron

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

This is really "old school" stuff, in the days when kits were just barely kits and a LOT of fabricating was required.

No, that's "ancient school" - I recall a couple of very funny Peter Egan columns about getting a wobbly uncut body and a pile of uncut steel stock called a kit. That's late 50s, early 60s.

"Old School" is late 60s to 80s, a "kit" was a crappy, badly-designed (think jr. high student drawing his dream car during History) or distorted (think fitting a Rolls onto an 84" wheelbase) body designed to bolt onto a Beetle chassis.

There was just nothing like spotting something cooler-looking (at first glance) than a Maserati... and having it go WAAAAAAA... WAAAAAA... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... away from the stoplight. (He was by then up to 35, BTW.) You could always follow the driver to a parking lot and see how many tries it took to get the door to close and latch behind him... or better, yet, watch him hammer and curse behind a jammed "lift top" or something else futuro-kewl.

Of course, in an era when a performance car meant lots of tape, paint and plastic bumps, and the Vette had a whopping 160HP, I guess these things were an improvement...

[charles roybal]

I think I remember this … kit was an "Avenger"...VW pan could use corviar motor.

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by charles roybal

I think I remember this … kit was an "Avenger"...VW pan could use corviar motor.

BINGO!

http://www.avenger-valkyrie.org/

These were soooo hot back in the day.

EDIT: I wonder if this is the last uncut Avenger body in existence?

[Bryan Anderson]

I am sure that B&B could help out with some of the parts, our car parts if they don't work straight out of the box would give you a real good start anyway, Ck out our car at www.bandbroadster.com

[BT SNAKE]

That is a T3 GT. It has very little deminsion similarity to the real GT. The headlight boxws are much longer and deeper than a real GT.

Here is a link to a photo of a finished one. I believe this company went out of business in 2002 or earlier. That is not a fiberfab avenger or any other early kit company. You would need the chasssis for that car or you will have to custom build it.
http://image.kitcarmag.com/f/1207430...rd_gt40+t3.jpg

Cheers,
Hersh

[Woodz428]

Nice guesses, but since I have 2 +, I think I can speak with a little authority. That is, as stated a Kellison GT40K. I have assembly manuals as well as headlight covers and other parts that are spares. It can set on a VW chassis, both of mine currently are, but they offered old school V8 to Corvair midengine chassis. I have one sold that will get a 1600 dual port engine from the other one. The second one I am building a lightweight aluminum chassis for and haven't decided on which motorcycle engine I will use, probably Valkyrie. The corvair shields are still available at $185, very cheap. If anyone here buys it, I can supply about any info or parts and what I can't I can direct you to.
It was based on the prototype MKII that had a long nose, and are very close to a GT40 with the main exception being the windshield and surrounding areas that blend into it( door and hood opening areas. Several companies used the molds, with revisions, one was T-3, I also believe that maybe L.A. Exotics also used it at one point. Neither made it any better looking, usually worse. Kellison was one of the larger 'glass companies in their period and were predominantly known for their front engine cars as well as dune buggies,boats and FV cars among a load of other stuff. The Stallion body was from the old Kellison molds, so their is a lot of history. check out www.priceofhistoys.com for info on it and about any kit car you could think of.