This GT40 has a fascinating history. During 1969 JW Automotive Engineering Ltd sold their last complete racing GT40, 1083, and sold one other car, 1085, as a rolling chassis. Then the production line was closed. This left masses of parts, and quite a few chassis tubs, available for sale as spares.
However, the story didn’t end there. There was one other incomplete GT40 remaining as a rolling chassis. After it had sat around for a few years, JWAE decided that the time had come for the car to be completed and sold. Thus it was that this car became the very last 1967-tubbed GT40 to be sold by JWAE, the three subsequent cars (1087, 1088 and 1089) being built many years later around new tubs supplied by Tennant Panels. Thus GT40P/1086 is the last one, the ultimate, the absolutely very very final Abbey Panels-chassised GT40 to be supplied by JWAE.
1086 was completed largely to JWAE/Gulf racing specification, and was the only GT40 other than the Gulf team racers to be supplied new in Gulf’s delightful Powder Blue and Marigold race livery, which it still wears as of right - that’s the way it was built!
And now, it can be yours. This magnificent car, which has never been crashed, and is essentially as built, is available for sale. At present the owner, who has supplied us with these photographs, wishes to remain anonymous, but if you are interested in acquiring this special piece of GT40 history, please contact us by email, (we’ll be away from the office from 28 June to 5 July) and we shall inform him of your interest.
