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" But then there is the riddle of what happened to the GT44 - the proposed 4WD version of the GT40. Just after the GT40's first run at Le Mans in 1964, Roy Lunn contact HFR with the idea of making a 4WD GT40, the GT44. HFR's project number was P108, codenamed 'Slough'. The surviving correspondence is very sparse, but reference in it to "changes in steering and suspension" following tests suggests that a prototype might actually have been built, although of course these changes may only have existed on the drawing board. Ferguson's certainly had a control unit capable of taking the power of the engine - they'd built one for the Novi Indy car that had begun the race, but was caught up in the dreadful fire that year "

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Posted 20 February 2016 - 12:31