Nearing the conclusion of a 20-month remediation by Kingston, NH-based Rare Drive, RK Motors Charlotte has launched “Rebirth of a Racing Legend,” a video chronicling the reassembly of P/1046, the renowned ’66 Le Mans-winning Ford GT40 racecar.
Accessible by means of just recently released gt40.rkmotorscharlotte.com, the new footage details the remediation’s painstaking finishing touches, in expectancy of P/1046’s introduction later this month at the historical Le Mans Circuit de la Sarth.
Nearly 4,000 man-hours have been invested on remediation given that the process began in December of 2014, with as many as seven professional restorers working on the racecar daily. Offering a constant stream of obstacles along the method, the restoration needed fabrication of parts that no are longer produced, such as the windshield and the whole exhaust, which– in keeping with its original development– is unevenly spaced at the rear of the automobile.
Furthermore, no minute information was spared throughout the procedure, consisting of replicating the hand-painted No. 2 race number on the hood, which was initially hastily applied at the track. As a result, the restored variation consists of the exact paint drips as the original.
