This Barn Find GT40 took me 4 years to buy!
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2022
- Sam from @Hardupgarage tells the story of his favorite car discovery so far.
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Les goooooooo
love from india !!
Please stop putting it on Tavarish's channel!!!
Poggers!
This dude is the guy you'd see on a street corner selling 100% genuine chinese import y-phones, I love his stories
Eighty years ago, he'd have been the man to see if you needed something strategic and you didn't want the War Office knowing too much about it.
It’s got Sony guts.
@@euroasianbob9268 ITS GOOD! SONY GUTS!
All our phones made in China so what’s the issue?
@@euroasianbob9268 I have Triple Antibiotic Ointment in the Extra-Large Tubes.
Urination Bob: "I'll take 12!!" 😳
Ed: "I don't care how comfortable a Kilt is, we're not leaving this driveway until Tyler puts on some underwear." (cue VinWiki music)
Thank you for giving the guy who built the car so much respect. Built on a budget, but still as good as he could. Most people would talk trash on something because it doesn't have high quality aftermarket upgrades. Of course that's what we all want, but quality work speaks for itself.
Only the early ones will remember Sam GT40 v2
Yep
Up all night get the new Car Trek episode ready. Will be a fun day.
Cringe
Facts
He had a v2 too?
Sam is the Every-Man hero. We live through him. He has our budget and the can do attitude we wish we had. Love hearing your stories.
What living in feee housing ripping people off
Indeed, he is a true car lover, owns and uses the tools, has a truck and trailer for immediate opportunity buys, not afraid to get greasy, and can see the end from the beginning. A top bloke indeed!
This is such an epic build and cool story
Come on Scott, you're no slouch. I first saw you when you helped Samcrac with his green Ferrari. You make great content, mate, and I appreciate how you, Scoot, Ciro, and Sam represent the best of Britain!
Thanks mate
@@Hardupgarage 👈 #Legend
Loved being a part of the vinwiki family!! Keep being awesome guys
We will if you keep coming back Sam. Look forward to your next adventure.
You're way better than all the fairy ass, bougie, fuck boys that are normally featured here.
That Renault transaxle is so fragile he may as well have installed a box of wine glasses
The Renault transaxle will handle up to 400 BHP in standard form and considerably more when upgraded….
@@simonjrwinter ... for at least 20 minutes. :)
@@ZGryphon in neutral
@@Immortalrounin on a lift
i used to own a GT40 with the Renault transaxle . i think from memory 295/60/15's on the rear . i used to throw it sideways through the corners with my foot up it . Never had any problem with the gearbox .
The one time in the century he was off work AND sober it paid off!
Here when it was Sam GT40 V2
Sam makes for such a brilliant madman purist. That this cars has just got to turn out great. 👍
I'll tell my kids to start taking him wine in about 20 years... ;)
Happy 6 years to this channel!
I can't wait to see what this looks like when it's done
I didn't understand half of what he was talking about but it sounded good, this guy is trailing Chris for my favorite story teller
This guy could sell ice to an Eskimo.lol I can't tell how exciting or big of a deal the car is at all. Starts off saying its a replica built in some guys garage in his spare time then says this cars gonna make the gt40 community go crazy.lol this guy could could make you think a BRZ is as important as a McLaren F1 lol
The gt40 community hate KVAs with a passion, the least desirable body style with the least desirable chassis, impressive to see one actually finished, as most ended up stuffed in the back of a shed half built for decades.
same dude Q plate spotted str8 away its a replica!!!! big diffrence from an original!!!
The story I heard about the groove is it was put there to prevent legal issues with Ford. ie to make it *not* an exact replica. It was for a time an easy way to tell between the replicas and real ones but since then a few other companies have taken moulds off real GT40s and don't have the groove.
Stapleton42 just did a tour on Holman Moody's shop they are still build gt40s on the original jigs out of original parts. Amazing time capsule. Original machine tools still in use cam grinders etc.
Lee Holman offered a person a Genuine GT40 back in 2002 for $500K . I seen the original chassis he had stacked upright in a room. New someone who almost pulled the trigger but chose to buy a F40 instead.
Just as a car guy to have the car of your dreams and never have yo sell is the way it should be! Love the video and really how I feel about me finally being able to get a car of my dreams and having the mindset of never selling it!!
"completely unpacked" I'm crying hahaha
Fully out of the box, totally unpacked. Brilliant.
I love the idioms the British use to describe getting drunk.
“ completely off it “
ok might be just something stupid but the fact that in england they also call the speed bumps, sleeping police man, like where i live its just hilarious!!! those references world wide lol
Nice one. Ironically the first GT40’s were built in Slough in the U.K.
They all were designed engineered and built in Slough up to and including the MK3, which only sold 7. It is an all British car with an American V8 and an Italian gearbox.
Dude knows his cars!
I hope he is successful. Thanks Vinwiki for giving him such great exposure.
Thanks
this one is for the early people
I shouldn’t be up😂😭
Cringe
Loving the GT40 build
Any story with a GT40 Barn find is a good story.
Carol Shelby in an interview said when they asked ford what their budget was he responded it’s to beat Ferrari…I want a budget like that.
cant wait for more videos on the gt mate
i hope your going with the ITB's mate
I hope he gets to keep it forever. What a well deserved honor that would be
Honestly that would be hard to let go of if done right and the value of building it yourself is priceless
THIS IS THE KIND OF CAR THAT MR. COFFEE WALK, DENNIS COLLLINS FINDS. I STILL SAY HE HAS A DOG THAT CAN SNIFF OUT USED VEHICLE FLUIDS. LOL
I have a barn find Rolex replica. Putting an awesome Seiko movement in it. Hoping to get big bucks at auction.
Time for an external electric water pump! Plenty out there off the shelf for current cars, all most need is power and ground
This guy is one of my favorites - I want to have a pint with him at the pub, and I'm American lol
Hello !!! Love the videos and now I woke up to a good one
My all time favorite toy as a kid was a red with white stripe GT40 model car
Best way to start the day!
Amazing story of passion for the GT 40!
Been watching these feeds for ages, no idea why it took me so long to sub.
That’s So cool ! Just keep it !!
Love this. Would love a GT40 continuation car to drive on the street. Bundle of snakes and all.
No such thing as family time when your car guy who buys and sells strange cars.
Amazing story and epic build....hats off to this dude
Thanks matey
@@Hardupgarage hopefully you could make it out to Malaysia someday...the car scene here isnt as amazing as in the US or the UK, but you could take count of the number of UK private taxi mercs that are selling here are parallel imports
This dude is a fantastic talker . Thanks
lol at "sleeping policeman"
Sam as always , what a character ، nice fella with nice story to tell
Awesome video, love when this guy is on.
Lov Sam! Makes me miss back home 🇬🇧
Im pavong a droveway in va and theres an old car that has the same body style as a gt40, and has the gt40 badge on the back sitting in a droveway. Looks like no e gone because the back suspension is sittong pretty higg
Ed forgot to add a title, it's currently "Sam GT40 V2". You would've known this if you showed up early.
I sure did
That frame is horrific. He basically bought a body and a box of parts.
Gt 40, Audi s1 quattro, McLaren F1. My dream list
In indo we also call it "polisi tidur" meaning sleeping policeman
This has toooooo be one of the best stories/Episodes and the knowledge also the love for cars
I hope this is a forever home for this car.
I often have issues relating to English people. But when car people communicate we all speak the same language and understand each others ideas. And of course, I want a GT40 too.
Sam GT40 v2
another grate story whats with the metro in your garage but you forgot to say the mk1 gt40 was a lola and the mk1 cobra was a ac car that sat around with no motor untill shellby got the deal with ford to suply them motors
worthy project! love the story!
not a money maker tho. bring a thick wallet haha
Suggestion. Do a full breakdown of VRAlexander. Seems like a guy who would've been on this channel numerous times if not for his unfortunate fate.
Awesome GT40 👌
What is a Mark Free?
WIP title makes it to the front page
If he wants to build it right, it needs a good 351 Windsor. Those were in the gt40s that raced. Street ones may have had a 302, but for the most potential 351 is the way to go
Lol nope. Ford cammer sohc 427. The 90 day wonder. Anything less is sacrilege. Who cares they're like 60k for an engine now. Jokes.
302 or 308 is fine. Especially with modern building and parts.
Great story
Sam, bud . Love your stuff.. but man... The frosted tips gotta go.
Out here looking like a dude that put in $30k Calisto gold plated exhaust on a neo Geo.
Edit; that was a friendly roast. Let's not turn this into a hate thread.
The weird beard black dye is even worse.
Love if Sam. Congratulations.
How come we haven’t seen any Doug tabit stories lately? To much hate for him?
That transmission is interesting and someone please explain it to me
Renault 21 and 25 which were bigish front wheel drive sedans from the 80s and 90s in Europe. Usual average Renault build quality but not terrible. But the larger engined variants had a longitudinal engine which made their 5 speed manual gearboxes ( most euro cars are manuals) ideal for a mid engine configuration, cheap in the scrap yards too as no one wanted an old renault, 100 quid and it was yours all day long.. They can take a torquey American V8 like the 302 or the more usual rover V8, you could buy adaptor plates, mid engine shifter conversions and internal upgrade parts with ease back then.
Not much support for them nowadays. The Audi fwd transaxles can take more power stock and they are more compact and reliable.
Mighty fine
You can tell immediately that it's a replica because of the Q registration. In the UK a Q registration is a "kit car" (DIY build)
It's not just kit cars. I had a motorbike that was imported from Turkey and the papers got lost so it had to go on a q plate. Some told me it means questionable origin? I'm not sure if that's true but that is basically the reason. The insurance company's don't like them I can tell you that much
@@mick0846 wow that's weird. I would have thought if the papers got lost it would be unable to get registered. That's quite interesting 👍 I'll need to remember that
@@stevenbrown9374 Wrong, a Q plate depicts a vehicle of unknown origin thus can apply to ANY vehicle of unknown history.
This is a very old myth that all kitcars are Q plates, back from the days of people lashing together cars with parts from all over the place (often scrapyards).
Once the SVA/IVA tests came in, the quality of kits and home built specials vastly improved, and the registration process streamlined means many kits either have brand new or age related plate depending on how they're built.
@@mrzee1951 the only way a kit car or self built car can have a normal registration in the UK, is if you buy every single part brand new from the manufacturer. Therefore I would assume 99.9% of kit cars or self built cars in the UK, are registered under a Q plate. In the context of this video & the manner in which the car was constructed (like most DIY bulids)... I was not wrong.
I think you should keep it if possible
Hey it's one of the few Englishmen I respect. Keep the good storeis. Am not speelings corrightly. Me am have bad week, many expensives.
Lol love that
Poor fella is so hard up he lives in a government house but also has £20k in the bank he can pull out on the spot to buy a GT40 lol
Yeah bit confused by that. I wonder if it's an ex-council house?
@@LeadFarmer1597 nah he’s just trying to come off as a hard up working class fella. Part of that might be true but not many hard up working class people I know can pull £20k out their ass for a GT40
I'm confused. Is this a real GT40 mk3 or not?
It is a kit car, but its one of the most accurate kits almost making it the real thing because of the person who made the kit for this specific kit GT40 had secretly taken the perfect molds of a GT40 they had to repair at Ford, and since the Mk3 is in low numbers its rarity makes this build super rare
@@Drivers_End Got it. Thank you for the clarification. I caught that part about the molds but the entire time he spoke about the car as though it was real which confused me. Still very cool even if not "real"
Replica. Not a great one at that. The mold story may or may not be bullshit but this car is nowhere near accurate.
Love Sam, great story teller.
I agree!
😂 a real animal, with a 302
its easy I see Sam and i click !!! love this bloke fuckin love his stories
Fraggle Rock is back.
what is his youtube page?
Hard up garage
I love the idea of having it look stock outside and a monster underneath, be damned the purists, but even with all the bolt on's, tuning, boring, stroking, a 302 just seems a bit small. A big block crate engine would do it more justice in my opinion.
Then you have to start spending BIG on a transaxle that could handle it. The car weighs nothing, so a worked 302 will be plenty. After all the original world beating GT40 only had a 289 in it.
@@TheWombat2012 the ones to remember were the big blocks regardless of if the first one was a small block, that s why it was the first one and was discontinued after. I understand the cost aspect of it, especially in the UK,. I understand all the rationalizations and have nothing against it, but i still think a big block would do it justice. If you can t afford to do it right, from the beginning, how are you even going to keep it on the road after doing it half asked? The saving you get by installing a small block vs a big block? Anyways, again, this is just my opinion, not an attack.
Way cool
Ok 45 times 😳
I don’t know man, I just think of a barn find as something else. There are a lot of these GT40’s and Cobras that just remain in peoples garages as unfinished project kit cars
The thumbnail of a grown man with his mouth open and 'barn find', or 'rescued' in the title, is usually a dead giveaway, that the content won't match the hype.
Quick question:-are cobras and gt40's kit cars?
@@yeshuinfinity5963 most of them are replicas / kits. Iirc the cobra is the most replicated car ever.
@@yeshuinfinity5963 They we’re actual cars that are basically out of reach for any normal people. If you see one on the street it’s almost certainly a kit. The good ones can get very expensive.
@@blakea216 oh okay thank you 🙌
It should have a big block in it, not a wimpy 302…. Needs the 426 I think it was. Maybe a coyote if u want to stay with a 5.0 ….
427 side oiler
The original cars were 302.
@@ogresquasher101 that’s it, thanks
A True ," Story Tellin' Irishman "...
Why not just keep it? It's a flex to own a GT40.
This guy sounds like Billy Idol, maybe his dodgy bruvver?
Rip Sam 2.0 we await thy resurrection
I've never been this early
I should probably be asleeo
Bring back stryper
Dude what the fuck?? Gt40s go that low?!?!
It’s a replica
Legend
So it’s a kit car or not?
Yup, sounds like it to me. Real ones are ridiculously expensive, 8 figures expensive. Less than 100 or so made IIRC 64-69
Kit
Kir car
I love and respect this guy..he come from the gutter
Ive heard some sheet before but a man pumping up his kit car thia man takes the cake. Pub talk is nothing but guff. Ill bet this goes straight up for sale once finished lol. Offerd 20k without thinking about it then told its rough lol. Still pays 18k or did he? none of that part of the story added up he was in one lane with the story then switched lanes. People dont understand that line lol. Hes defo gearing up to sell this to an american. Brits know their Q plate cars.
The ford GT40 was a Lola cars mk6 and started life with a chevy engine. So i agree it was mayb thrown together from parts bins but Ford vs Ferrari movie was guff too. They didnt build it they threw a ford engine into it and gave it half a facelift. Not much of a facelift though. shelby knew buy british and americans think hes a car god for it. So many Americans copied that formular usually with a lotus chassis. Now i just saw Cardino copied the ginneta recipe and act like hes a visionary too.
But its awesome to see what guys can knock up in their sheds but dont tickle my balls calling it something incredible. Its a DIY car never had any testing but test and tune road side lol ahh that'll do. Unless its Noble uk they did well. But not good enough where are they now?
I hate how he failed to mention the Lola cars mk6 or the AC cobra. Tickling those usa nuts he is int he. Ford imported those cars. Like most of Fords whole line up today are the European line. Except pick up truck and mustang.
I really don’t like the mark 3 and 4