{"id":16495,"date":"2010-10-06T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16495"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:44:32","slug":"we-love-american-gts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/we-love-american-gts\/","title":{"rendered":"We Love American GTs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re always amazed, here at Influx towers, how creative photography can tease out unexpected perspectives for cars that we believe we know intimately.<\/p>\n

Take the shot of the GT40 MK 11, for example, taken by the very talented Boyd Jaynes.<\/p>\n

We never realised that the ultimate fast Ford could be rendered with so much sensitivity: and that despite its fabled speed, power and GT dominnce, that the car could look so pretty from the rear three quarters.<\/p>\n

It seems that Caroll Shelby new a thing or two about design as well as engineering.<\/p>\n

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And if there was a purely beautiful bit of Shelby engineered racing loveliness, it had to be the Shelby Daytona<\/a> (below). The Daytona was based upon the AC Cobra’s chassis, but featured an incredibly pretty and slippery looking body that took it to a number of GT class wins in the mid-to-late-sixties.<\/p>\n

There’s something about the American attack on European GT racing at the end of the sixties that was brash, heroic and worth delving deep into the archive for…<\/p>\n