GTD Supercars were the best known and most respected builders of Ford GT40 Replicas in the country in the late 1990s and had the necessary facilities and talented engineers to make an excellent job of it.

They had started out originally as agents for the KVA GT40 Replica but it wasn't long before they had redesigned the front and rear of the KVA chassis and were selling the cars as GTDs.

As is often the way with bright young engineers, they weren't happy until they were building the whole car to their own standards and many of these still take pride of place at GT40 events today. For our vendor, the story of this remarkable GTD40 began not in 1999 when construction commenced, but more than three decades earlier at Oulton Park.

Attending the Sports Car meeting there in 1966, he encountered a purple GT40 and one particular detail remained firmly lodged in his memory; the seats, finished with brass eyelets.

It was, in his words, "the stuff of dreams", and the image stayed with him for...