Ultima GTR

[redturner37]

Originally Posted by oldman

I also have a GTR with a dry sumped 720bhp chevy installed with a six speed G50 transmission, believe me this thing with 640 lb ft of torque is a handfull any time never mind in the wet. My great pal Neil Gould did a huge amount of the work on building the car and between us took it an awfull lot of time and hard work. I have only done less than 400 miles in the car to date. Perhaps an Ultima class may be on the cards !.

You thought he had made a great job of the exhaust system the first time you took it out, then realised that Neil had fallen asleep in the boot. Dives for cover....

[jouhar]

Originally Posted by oldman

I also have a GTR with a dry sumped 720bhp chevy installed with a six speed G50 transmission, believe me this thing with 640 lb ft of torque is a handfull any time never mind in the wet. My great pal Neil Gould did a huge amount of the work on building the car and between us took it an awfull lot of time and hard work. I have only done less than 400 miles in the car to date. Perhaps an Ultima class may be on the cards !.

What is your real name "oldman" ? Do you also post on the PistonHeads Ultima forum ?

Regards

[Fireblade]

Originally Posted by jouhar

What is your real name "oldman" ?

Methuselah I think

[whimsy]

Nice one Kelvin. Probably a bit too expensive to qualify for the 2010 "Scally Rally" !!!

Hope to see you - and it - at Gurston

Andy

[oldman]

I'm far older than Methusela and after the recent Christmas celebrations look it as well.
Mike Tregoning.

[iranoff]

Originally Posted by oldman

I'm far older than Methusela and after the recent Christmas celebrations look it as well.

But still catching up with redturner.

[weirdspeed]

come on Kelvin man up and get it down to wiscombe, we dont get much of that sort of thing down here wondre why........ Whats pete smith doing with him self these days?

[jouhar]

Originally Posted by weirdspeed

come on Kelvin man up and get it down to wiscombe, we dont get much of that sort of thing down here wondre why........ Whats pete smith doing with him self these days?

I think I can safely say that the LAST place I would consider in the Ultima, is Wiscombe !!

I could hardly get a single-seater round Sawbench and Martini !!

Peter is doing well - he is heavily into gliding now - he took that up after we sold the racing car, and he has a share in a glider at a club near Honiton - in fact he has recently been appointed as Chairman of the club !!

I don't think he will go back to cars - but you can never say never !!

Regards

[dennis.doyle]

Originally Posted by jouhar

I think I can safely say that the LAST place I would consider in the Ultima, is Wiscombe !!

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Regards

I've never been to Wiscombe & memory could be playing tricks but ...

I rather think Bev Fawkes threw his "Kitdeal Ultima Mk2" up Scammonden in the early '90's. I suspect this is an ancestor of the Ultima GTR. True, it was a mere 4.2 litres, but that was powerful enough to get BTDBTDBTD's at Aintree in those days. Also, size-wise it was, I think, modelled on the (short-tailed) Porsche 917, so not ideally suited to a course where BTDBTDBTD was about 45 mph.

Either way, any course would love to see something like that turn up.

[jouhar]

How I built my Ultima GTR - in less than 4 minutes !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRfBdz0_7Q


Regards