Recap of the Japanese F1 fleet - Take 2

[Peloton25]

Some small chance this car has simply been purchased by ArtSports to be held onto and not necessarily for sale. I believe they did the same with #029 for several years. Certainly with the direction prices are moving this isn't a bad idea but the point is that it may not go anywhere quick.

The reason I mention this is I have translated the headline announcing this car on the main page of their site and the result is "ArtSport Collection" and it does not yet appear in their stock list.

>8^)
ER

[cabrio92]

It´s cool to see current pics because for many years we had no pics at all.
Maybe Henry can say us if the car was cared after by the factory.

I wonder if 029 and 060 could be connected.

[Peloton25]

ArtSports have updated their site with more photos of what should almost certainly be #060. No shot of the interior, but it is quite clear that all the plastic still remains giving the next owner the chance to unwrap their very own 'new' F1.

http://www.wintel.co.jp/wintel/owa/p...1&in_carno=208

One odd thing I just noticed - they appear to have photoshopped out Gordon Murray's signature from the rear bumper in the photo on their website...

>8^)
ER

[hurstg01]

#013, and now [potentially] this one losing GM's signature

[PatrickT82]

amazing 060!

Any chance it goes to Europe?:P

[Peloton25]

Yes Patrick - they are only considering potential owners from the Netherlands just to make it easy for you.

>8^)
ER

[PatrickT82]

yep: me

[cabrio92]

Do you think the car was serviced regularly by the factory ?

[hurstg01]

Dud adverts - check out the Kawahra Website and they have Andys GTR for sale, #27R, #19R, 2 F1 road cars etc etc

It just drives traffic to their website and aren't selling them

[cabrio92]

Ok Greg, what a mess ! we delete our posts ?

edit i deleted

[svxit]

This write-up recently appeared on Yahoo! Autos in regards to 060's availability. The last paragraph seems to be the only one approaching 90% accuracy...

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoram...185433395.html

I thought briefly about posting the correct link to Wintel, but decided against it.

[Peloton25]

Yes - a blog called Daily Auto Fix dreamed up the story of zero miles, and wrote an article about that which has since gone viral. It's literally been repeated in a dozen places so far, with the big exceptions being AutoBlog and Jalopnik so far as I can tell. It was my efforts on another forum that got Yahoo's version of the article updated - those are my comments they used, not necessarily how I would have composed them, but at least it makes the article more accurate than it was.

>8^)
ER

[svxit]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Yes - a blog called Daily Auto Fix dreamed up the story of zero miles, and wrote an article about that which has since gone viral. It's literally been repeated in a dozen places so far, with the big exceptions being AutoBlog and Jalopnik so far as I can tell. It was my efforts on another forum that got Yahoo's version of the article updated - those are my comments they used, not necessarily how I would have composed them, but at least it makes the article more accurate than it was.

>8^)
ER

OK, just read through the Vortex thread; many thanks. Very interesting to read about the regular care 060 has received over the years, though I'm amazed no pictures of it being flatbedded for servicing have ever surfaced.

[Thorst13]

58F1GT, why did they ever change the lovely burgundry!?

[hurstg01]

The car was 'refreshed' and the colour change was part of that