Probably of no help whatever in your search, but while looking for something else yesterday I found a 2-page article on Gordon Hook and Automotive Fibreglass Products (AFP) in "Sports Car Talk - 2nd Special Edition" put out in about 1987 by the Sports Car Club of New Zealand (Inc).
The first line begins "Gordon is an elusive fellow....", and goes on to describe Hook's experiences etc in producing Corvette Replicas, 19 of them at the time of the publication. I'm not sure I even read the story 20-odd years ago when I bought the (?) magazine, the main attraction at the time was the 57 page "My Years of Motor Racing Engineering" by Ralph Watson, which later formed a vital part of Trevor Sheffield's Book on Watson.
I think there were 3 of these "Special Editions" produced in the mid 1980's to early 1990's, but I have often been wrong!! They were sold through Vital Books, in Mt Eden Road.
Stu
Published by the Sports Car Club of NZ. GeeBee was a founder member and sec for many years, many of the incredibly well researched articles by Richard Gray (or is that Grey)
Thanks for that infi Stu and OLDFART .Graham
Note rise in door, from front to rear as per Bolwell
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I wonder if there is a link
That looks rather like Ferris De Joux Alfa GTO??
It is Jim
What happened to it ??? Graham
I can tell you, but will need to be "off site"
Not sure perhaps Laurrie Pulman??/ Ferris maintained Ferraris GTO was ugly!!!!! Must say I wish I had every car he built plus the Bugatti chair and English rocking horse.A little storey about the last rockinghose he made ,they had to sell close to $1000 to make it worth the trouble.He had it in my little bike shop Manukau Rd for me to sell for him then in 1989 after the Ardmore race I was off work for nealy 2 yrs, the horse was in the window on display when some upmarket women rang to buy it she offered $600 ,down $200 below its SALE price .No I said how about $ 900 . No dont be silly she said offers dont go up!! needless to say she didnt get it and when I finally reopend I put the price up to $1000 Within two days of been open some upmarket women came in and without a mumure paid $1000 .Looking at a shop in Perth that sold r/horses Ferrises ones would easily make over $3000 at about the same time
Hi Markec Defiantly not the top one is photo,but very much like the Ferrari. Graham
Can anyone (other than myself) see a similarity in these two cars
Maybe Ferrisis one and only ALFA GTO ???
.Graham
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I think Ferris would not be pleased no I am shure very rarely did any shape satisfy him there was this time I was sitting in that beautiful Maserati he created comenting on how little protection the small screen would give when he snaped back .. when are you going to fix the one on the Ferrari SP...What do you mean I went to a lot of trouble getting it right ,I copied the screen frame with small squares then enlarge untill it slotted onto the body Peter B. made it out of metal ect the perspec I carefully cut to follow the shape almost a half round..You have the wrong shape he said No not posible .But on checking he was correct the top was meant to be flat .On the rare occasion you could trip him very rare but talking about his Holden coupe one day I mentioned he had made a mistake in the construction,,.Back in the Ardmore days a parade of cars GP traveled through Newmarket and were on display under the carpark this was the year John Cooper and Brabham and McLaren were there with the Coopers just along from Ferrisis car,I was within earshot and heard Ferris say to Cooper he had made a mistake as it was not posible to get the diff out without a lot of work,, strange how some things you remember,,so fifty years later he took some time to reply,,just looked at me
Hi Jim
I just wonder how far away I am, from being correct,
I guess no doubt, I will get posts from the experts .Graham
Hi looks porsche at the back the alfa looks like a 2z2 that ran at the SFOS 91 Zaid Marouth usa??
Apart from the differences, which could no doubt be explained, the timeline is way out....Originally Posted by markson
Can anyone (other than myself) see a similarity in these two cars
Maybe Ferrisis one and only ALFA GTO ???
.Graham
Hi Paul What year did infact he built this Alfa Graham
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