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    Factory Five Racing GTM

    The idea for the GTM is simple. Design a modern supercar and price it where an ordinary guy can afford. The only catch is that you have to provide your own running gear (GM based) and you have to build it yourself.

    After more than three years of engineering and development work, we are ready to introduce the world to our vision of what an American-designed Supercar should be. The GTM is an American V-8 powered, mid-engined car with a composite body shell and an aluminum and steel tube frame chassis. The car uses GM Performance engine and suspension parts with four-corner coil-over shocks, huge brakes and a Porsche 911 Transaxle.

    In the Factory Five tradition, the car is first and foremost a high performance car. The GTM is light and aerodynamic, with excellent weight distribution and precise race-car handling/braking derived from the Chevrolet Corvette C-5.

    The car is engineered to be built as a chassis kit by a person at home. More than ten years of manufacturing the best engineered, safest, best selling and easiest to build kits in the world has made us uniquely capable of this challenge.

    Lastly, no matter how well engineered the car is, and how good it looks, in order to succeed we knew we would have to ensure the car had modern comfort and control. The GTM has a large and quiet cockpit, good visibility and modern temperature controls. Items like A/C, power windows, and complete interior make sure the car isn’t limited to race track duty.

    From the first design sketch to the completed production car the team has kept faithful to its charter to deliver a new All-American Supercar design. The GTM is an all-new design for us. It is 100% American designed and proudly made in the USA.

    We humbly present our vision of The American Supercar.
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    I've always liked this car....
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    Nice little track car. One of my pals is thinking about building one.

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    reminds me of a Supra

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    Quote Originally Posted by McLareN
    We humbly present our vision of The American Supercar.
    That car doesn't look american in the slightest way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by andy.muc
    That car doesn't look american in the slightest way.
    I disagree, it has some features of the GT40.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia
    I disagree, it has some features of the GT40.
    What, the ones from LOLA ??



    Nice kit though, but they're maybe stretching it suggesting it's the best in the world - we're used to that sort of hyperbole though
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine
    What, the ones from LOLA ??



    Nice kit though, but they're maybe stretching it suggesting it's the best in the world - we're used to that sort of hyperbole though
    Yeah, that American Lola.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia
    Yeah, that American Lola.
    Straight from the pen of Eric Broadley
    http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-broeri.html
    Just because Iaccoca wanted it and paid for Lunn, Geddes and Carol Shelby to come to England to contract Broadley for a year to design it doesnt' make it American nice try
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine
    Straight from the pen of Eric Broadley
    http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-broeri.html
    Just because Iaccoca wanted it and paid for Lunn, Geddes and Carol Shelby to come to England to contract Broadley for a year to design it doesnt' make it American nice try
    Whatever. Broadley was consultant engineer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia
    Whatever. Broadley was consultant engineer.
    yep, to DESIGN the chassis

    So are you STILL saying American ???

    Now what SHelby did was to put a BIG stonking engine in it to get it on a winning streak that Dwyer made a record
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    Sorry if I cannot express myself correctly, but I don't know English as good as I want, so my answers will probably be the same in many cases.

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    I was seriously considering building one of these but I reallyreallyreally don't want to pay someone out the whazoo to build it for me and I can't exactly build it myself due to my lack of fabrication skills, tools and space to build it. Someday...

    Those are great pics, but why are all the GTM demo cars plated in california when FFR is based in Massechusetts? The only reason I can think of is that since CA has the most infamously restrictive emissions testing, it's to showoff that the GTM is 50 state legal.

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    Interesting ..... donor car is a Corvette and they DON'T take the transverse leaf spring. Putting coil overs in place instead.

    Let them say it ...... "what an American-designed Supercar should be."



    PBB, you aren't "fabricating" anything with kits of this quality.
    Theyve' done all that, you only assemble ( and disassemble an appropriate donor )
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine
    yep, to DESIGN the chassis

    So are you STILL saying American ???

    Now what SHelby did was to put a BIG stonking engine in it to get it on a winning streak that Dwyer made a record
    I'm trying to find out who penned the body, the discussion began with visual design not chassis/engineering.

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