The Terry Drury Tribute Ford Gt40 will be offered for sale at Bonhams’ upcoming sale, titled, “Goodwood Members' Meeting,” that will be held on April 7, 2019, in Chichester, Goodwood. This unique car will be featured in lot 97 at the auction. “The late Terry Drury - a former Ford Motor Company engineer - was a very familiar figure in British national and International racing, well remembered for his exploits as an energetic Ford GT40 privateer in the late 1960s. Here we are pleased to offer a GT40 assembled by Terry Drury Racing - now run by his sons - which most significantly is based upon what he described to them as being an original Abbey Panels-made monocoque chassis from period, supplied to Terry Drury by Ford after his car - chassis '1073' - had been damaged in an accident during the Monza 1,000Kms race in April, 1968,” stated the auction house. This car was built by the former GT40 racer and it is described by expert Ronnie Spain as “best GT40 representation...Bar none!” It has many original parts and has exceptional build quality. Bonhams also mentioned in their auction release, “This monocoque is certainly an original-style 1968 «fuel cross over» chassis which in period would have embodied two fuel crossovers between the left and right-side sill tanks, one passing through the dash section and the second via a rubber pipe passing under the driver's legs. Such a fuel system is of course considered too risky today, but the cross-over paths survive in this tub, with the upper accesses closed by bangs. The vendor will supply two of the original one-way fuel cross-over flap valves if required. The car has been examined in detail by acknowledged Ford GT40 authority Ronnie Spain who reports that its chassis is: "...far and away the most accurate non-original GT40 chassis I have ever seen, or been made aware of!” The auction house further added, “This 1968 GT40 is an ultra rare build especially consisting of not only this extraordinarily faithfully-constructed monocoque but so many original period correct parts from Terry Drury's personal collection. This is a most accurate-monocoque Ford GT40 - so described by the acknowledged specialist investigator in this field - offering great potential as either a high-performance road car, or indeed as an FIA-regulation Historic racing car.”  https://www.blouinartinfo.com/              Founder: Louise Blouin Read more