Tuthill GT One

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Rich B wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 5:41 pm
integrale_evo wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 5:12 pm I love it, looks how I’d wished the original gt1 road car looked.

I’ve not actually read anything about it, but are they chopping up 911s to make it? If so there must be so little of the original left you might as well just start from scratch.

If you just need a tub, there must be plenty of scruffy broken, crap spec 996s and 997s around to butcher which I’d have zero issue with.
yeah, pretty much my thoughts. the world is probably running out of decent 993, 964 and older with everyone making retro mods, but if it was 996 based - go for it!
Shirley there's no donor car needed for this?

I can't find any mention specifically of the chassis in any of the bumf however.

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It is an interesting one with restomodding, people are beginning to whinge in S1 circles about the number of engine converted cars. I think it's pretty hard to judge, as a lot of restomodded/donor cars might not have survived without being given a new lease of life, so you have things naturally getting more scarce over time, a load of restomods in the media and it gives the impression that's the way they're all going. Whilst it is a factor, I'm sure we lose many more old cars to other reasons than to restomodding, but then I would say that. :D
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Simon wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2024 8:57 pm Wheels look shit, scoop looks shit, headlights look shit, splitter looks shit.

Do not want.
I'm not completely negative on it actually. Some of the aspects like the scoop are actually pretty faithful (i.e. how it indents into the screen) to the original 1996 GT1.

I do agree that it absolutely needs BBS wheels on it - make them carbon fibre if you wish. I think they also missed a trick not painting it either GT Silver or White and liveried (though I expect copyright means they can't do the latter). Agate grey is not the colour for it.

Altogether though I think this looks better https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cultur ... evolution/
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GG. wrote: Sun Aug 18, 2024 9:28 am
Simon wrote: Fri Aug 16, 2024 8:57 pm Wheels look shit, scoop looks shit, headlights look shit, splitter looks shit.

Do not want.
I'm not completely negative on it actually. Some of the aspects like the scoop are actually pretty faithful (i.e. how it indents into the screen) to the original 1996 GT1.

I do agree that it absolutely needs BBS wheels on it - make them carbon fibre if you wish. I think they also missed a trick not painting it either GT Silver or White and liveried (though I expect copyright means they can't do the latter). Agate grey is not the colour for it.

Altogether though I think this looks better https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cultur ... evolution/
It does, apart from where you can still see parts of the 996 🤢😂
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It’s based on a 993 according to the Evo article on it, and I guess much like the original it only be using the front half of the donor.
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