Exoto 1966 Ford GT40 X-1 Roadster

How sweet it is!   😀 😀 

here's my Exoto GT-40.

in 1:10 the scale.

Beautiful model!

Gorgeous!

Exoto in its infinite wisdom saw fit to do this car in several colors even though one one existed and it was scrapped after the Sebring race. Collectors questioned the shape of the windshield when the model first came out but all of us Ford GT lovers bought them anyway

I made one for Alan Mann racing and one for my favorite 'privateer' Scuderia Filipinetti

I also modified my Sebring roadster by covering its headlights to mirror how it looked at the beginning of the race and so I could 'uncover' the lights on the #2 Gurney car

All in all it is fun to have three

@franklemire Nice cars, The GT40 X-1 Roadster was originally raced by McLaren in Europe and they could never get the car to be competitive, the car was shipped to Carrol Shelby and he sent the car to Holman/Moody to have a GT40 front and rear body work put on the car. It was imported for a single race and was to be either deported or customs tax had to be paid. 

Shelby had scheduled the car to be refurbished after the Sebring race at Holman/Moody but when the tax issue came up Shelby said scrap it so Shelby American employees cut the car up but there was a problem with that, when you scrap a car the customs officers had to be present to make sure the car was actually scraped. So Shelby American had to haphazardly weld the car back together again so they could cut it up in front of the customs officers. The cut up car was then said to be buried on a lot where an apartment building was built on in California. 

There is a replica of this car that the owner claims the rear firewall is from the original so he tries to pass it off as the original GT40 X-1 but it is highly doubtful he has any original parts from the original car. 

Sadly the GT40 X-1 no longer exists. 

While at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1966 the car had an automatic transmission in it but they kept breaking it so they switched over to a manual transmission before the race. 

During the race Ken Miles and Dan Gurney were racing harder than Shelby wanted them to and he had the team put a sign board up telling both drivers to slow down, when both Dan Gurney and Ken Miles did not slow down Carrol Shelby picked up a hammer and the next lap when both cars went past Shelby he was waving the hammer at both drivers, both drivers slowed down but on the next lap when Ken Miles went past the pits on the track he gave Shelby the middle finger as he went by. 

Posted by: @franklemire

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 Collectors questioned the shape of the windshield when the model first came out but all of us Ford GT lovers bought them anyway

@marty-johnson Nice as their cars were Exoto was not above making concessions to accuracy to make manufacturing a bit easier. In their defense it was a challenge to make a model of a car that was a one off and no longer existed in the real world. Flaws or not, I love my models of a really unique car.