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GT40: The Legend Lives on (Osprey Classic Marques)

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This book contains many large and detailed photos of original GT40's which attended the GT40 reunion held at Elkhart Lake's Road America in July 1994. All versions (I-IV) represented. Light on text but heavy on great pictures.

Lots of pics of the outside of the car. The book was lacking when it came to detailed data and interiorpics. Also missing were aan abundant photos of the area under the front and rear bonnets, as well as extreme close ups.

I'm confident that I probably have a copy of at least 90% of all the books ever written on the GT40, many of which are larger and more detailed. However, without a doubt, this is the book I most often refer to due to the extraordinary number of excellent photos of many of the most significant - and obscure - GT40 Mk I's and Mk II's. Bear in mind, this is not intended to be a technical treatise; rather, it is a pictorial resource guide for fans of the GT40.

For the enthusiast, and especially anyone restoring or building a GT40, this book is an absolute must. I only hope that this book is reprinted soon, and the author offers an updated version that includes the Sbarro and Superformance/Hi-Tech continuation models!

This was the first book that I acquired on GT40s. It was not expensive, and doesn't have much in the way of technical information, but that's not what it's about. It pulls together almost all of the cars in one book with reasonable photos and anecdotal comments of an enthusiast rather than those of an expert, although John Allen could be regarded as an expert as well.
Worth having.

There's little new technical information for the GT40 enthusiast, but the pictures are, for the most part, good. It is interesting to see that most of the original cars still survive, and many are still raced.

The book's real value -- at least to me -- is when it is read and compared to other histories of the GT40. For example, it is interesting to see that Ford's 1965 press demonstation car, 1008, still serving in that role, albeit with a junkyard refugee ex-Mustang 289 engine (as of 1994). JWA's 1968/69 cars still survive, although one has an incorrect hood, and two have incorrect paint schemes. (They were repainted to resemble JWA's 1968 and 69 Lemans winning 1076.) This sort of trivia makes the book worthwhile.