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GTV116:
I remembered another thing about the Reif car! When I got the article from Stern, which was several years later than 1977, I called the Reif company to ask what had happened with the GTV8 production. In the article it was mentioned a production run of 100 pcs(!), so I wondered if there were some for sale still. This guy in the factory told me that only 1 was made and it was the exhibition model! This one had busted the donut in the drive shaft on the Autobahn and they actually didŽnt have time to repair it, because of the bankruptcy, so it was sold in this state to an italian guy. So when I later came over an ad. in a magazine where sombody wanted to sell a red GTV8 I thought it was a privately made car. It was advertised by a company who did not know the origins of the car. I got a lot of photos of this red car and these photos convinced me that our own GTV8 project was possible, so we went ahead. Details from this car shows the present owner(Stefan) that his and this car is the same! This red car is in fact a prototype which the Reif company used. So we have arrived at 2 german cars produced!
GTVke:
Thanks for the photo! Seldom to see this car in action!
Matter of fact the Lockheed brakes are mentioned in the next sentence in the book:
"Per l`impianto frenate si utilizzó un Lockeed con i dischi anteriori autoventilanti e la scatola dello sterzo fu modificata(diminuito il rapporto e lŽangolo di sterzata)."
What I get out of this is that they used ventilated Lockheed disc brakes in the front.
Gabor
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