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Originally Posted by carbuilder2002
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. Alead i had to it being in the North of England was a total red herring.
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Originally Posted by Peloton25
Which raises the other possibility that M66 MCL, despite looking quite a bit like a '96 GTR, could instead be #04R.  |
if that M66 MCL would be the 04R and it wasn't the car that stood in for 14R in Mine, which car did it then? Something doesn't match here. The comment "never returned to the racetrack" could be e.g. from a person who knew its history till the end '95 or early '96 but perhaps then the 14R accident came as such a surprise that not many people knew that specifically which car was used to replace it. Ok, just speculation, but at least there were 2 Macs in the Mine race and not so many possible chassis for that #61 car as we have concluded. I think it's now more likely the question of which one, 04R or 14R, has been road converted and which one is in the LARK-livery.