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Originally Posted by carbuilder
I am not sure if I am about to muddy the waters further or open up another avenue, I was told some 3 years ago that 04R had been rebuilt with a new monocoque but never returned to the racetrack, therefore it is concievable that it was indeed the first GTR to be converted to road use following its total rebuild. A lead i had to it being in the North of England was a total red herring.
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Which raises the other possibility that M66 MCL, despite looking quite a bit like a '96 GTR, could instead be #04R.
One thing that could help put that car's identity issue to rest is a registration search. Of course that would be too easy, and the plate 'M66 MCL' has never been searchable in the DVLA website (R66 MCL is). I wonder if by the time we started looking 'M66 MCL' had already been shifted to something else? I don't have time to go through every make from AC to Zhongyu
here trying to figure that out though.
Sidebar discussion: How many GTRs have those little sill extensions on the luggage doors like the 'M66 MCL' car? With a quick scan of my references I can only see 10R, 11R, 16R and 18R having them today. It appears #13R, #14R, #15R and #17R never wore them at all.
Strangely I did find just one picture of #12R wearing them at Anderstorp which is pretty surprising because it seems that would have necessitated a door change as well. See for yourself:
Odd to do that for what appears to be just one race, and certainly no recent photos of #12R show them fitted.
>8^)
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