Riding in a roadgoing GT40
YOUR COVER STORY about roadgoing GT40s in Octane 206 gave me the incentive to share some memories of when I was a young boy growing up in Northamptonshire. Father was Rover distributor for the county and so he was offered some now highly desirable cars as part-exchanges against new Rovers. Owners often had inflated ideas of the value of their car, however, so not all came our way.
I used to go to a local sailing club with some friends and there in the car park I saw what I still view as the perfect performance car: a roadgoing Ford GT40, in gold. It belonged to David Bennie, a local plant hire business owner. David had many exotics over the years but it’s the GT40 that I remember best.
As a typical teenager, I had written off to many manufacturers and importers of exotica for brochures and anything else that they would send out. Ford Advanced Vehicles at Slough responded favourably to
