40°S / HANDBUILT / AUSTRALIA
The GT40, recreated
to the finest degree.
Roaring Forties supplies GT40 construction kits, every part of the car down to the last nut and bolt, with build support from our workshop at Pakenham, Victoria. V8 first, with an electric driveline emerging.
Roaring Forties
Established 1997
Roaring Forties has been developing the RF GT40 in Victoria since 1997.
Every nut and bolt
The kits contain all the parts required to build a complete, compliant car.
Built for Australian roads
Three kits and more than 120 items, compliant for registration throughout Australia.
The RF GT40 / Specification
The V8 GT40
The Le Mans silhouette on a modern platform: a triangulated space frame chassis, a hand laid GRP body and the Ford 302 Windsor 5.0 litre V8, as originally fitted. In standard configuration, 0-100 km/h takes around 5 seconds and top speed is 250 km/h.
Engine
Chassis
Body
Interior
Wheels & brakes / 15 in
Wheels & brakes / 17 in
Options include a Mk II rear body panel, a wide flare rear end, competition brake systems, a 4 point roll cage, race seats and harnesses, front and rear aero packages, and lightweight carbon fibre bodywork. Leather trim and air conditioning are standard.
Paint Shop / Colour and configuration
Build one on screen
We have run a colour and configuration tool since 2003, first in Flash and now rebuilt to run in any browser. Choose a body colour, change the stripes, and turn the car around.
Provenance / The workshop
Our own factory in Victoria
Roaring Forties was established in 1997 and has had several homes across Victoria since, now at Pakenham. Many of the parts are made in our own factory: chassis welded on precision jigs and powder coated, bodies hand laid in GRP, and wiring harnesses supplied as tested, plug and play systems that cannot be installed incorrectly.
Made here, sourced there
- Chassis and panels RF made CAD designed with experienced race car engineers and factory welded on precision jigs, then sand blasted and powder coated. All the bright-work, and even the rivet holes, are laser cut aluminium.
- Body RF made Hand laid GRP, smooth and ripple free. The roof centre section and doors are double skinned and reinforced, recesses come ready moulded, and every edge is fully returned to aid panel fit.
- Engine and transaxle Sourced The Ford 302 Windsor 5.0 litre V8, as originally fitted, and an Audi 5 or 6 speed transaxle, mated through adaptor plates and a flywheel designed and made specifically for the RF GT40.
- Wheels Made for RF Purpose made replicas of the wheels fitted to the original cars, in Halibrand and BRM styles and a choice of sizes and offsets, mounted with knock ons or spinners.
- Seats and instruments Made for RF Riveted seats manufactured specially for RF GT40, standard in black leather with lumbar support, and original style Smiths gauges with modern internal mechanisms.
Australian compliance
The RF GT40 is an Individually Constructed Vehicle (ICV), and it complies with all Australian Design Rules (ADR). We spent over 12 months compiling an Evidence Package covering that ADR compliance, and we make it available to every customer to assist with registration. Registration itself is handled by your own state or territory transport department, and the process differs from one to the next.
Roaring Forties is a member of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) and Specialty Vehicles Australia (SVA).
Ordering / The kits
How the build works
The RF GT40 is built from three kits: the body chassis kit, the rolling chassis kit and the deluxe kit. Between them they hold more than 120 items, virtually everything needed to finish the car. You start with the body chassis kit and order the rest as the build progresses, so the cost spreads over the build period.
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Get informed, then call
The right way into an ICV program is to understand the car, the company behind it, the registration laws in your state and what the build involves. Call us and ask anything.
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The body chassis kit
Your first purchase: the space frame chassis, the hand laid GRP body components, and all the laser cut aluminium panels and fastener materials.
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The rest as the build progresses
The rolling chassis kit and the deluxe kit are ordered as and when you need them, to suit your timeline and budget. Everything to finish the car is available from us, from the exhaust and air conditioning to the handles, locks and catches.
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Build with support, then register
Once your kits are ordered we provide the full build process documentation, and we help with technical questions along the way. The car goes together like a kit of parts: almost no power tools are needed, and there is one point in the build where a single hole has to be drilled.
Gallery / Finished cars
Completed GT40s
A selection of GT40s completed by Roaring Forties customers, and the factory where the parts are made.
From the archive
These are older photographs from the company's history. They are smaller and softer than the pictures above because of their age.
On film
Roaring Forties on film
Two press drives of our cars, hot laps at Sandown, and a piece of the racing history behind the silhouette.
Epic Ford GT40 at Winton Raceway with Luke Youlden
Via Motoring.com.au
Roaring Forties GT40 Replica
Via Unique Cars Magazine
Ford GT40 Racing History
Via King Rose Archives
Hot laps at Sandown Raceway with John Bowe
Sandown Raceway, Victoria
Enquiry
Enquire about a build
Call 0416 268 645 during business hours, or send the form and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We would love to hear your reasons for wanting to own one of these cars.
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