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Pardon us while we feel all full of ourselves for a second, but Ian Gray, designer and builder of yesterday’s glorious F1-67 Race Car Replica, stopped by yesterday to give us a little more information in the comments. In case anyone missed it — and I would have, if he hadn’t emailed me to tell me he had visited — I’ve posted it below the jump.

So, it appears that the only disagreeable factor about it is that it’s being built in the UK where everything is much more expensive. £30,000 in the UK is the price of, what, a nicely-equipped Focus? A stripped-down BMW 3-series? Quite affordable. Unfortunately, when you exchange it for Canadian Dollars, the universally-accepted currency standard as we all know, that works out to almost $70,000, which is roughly the same as a nicely-equipped Jaguar XF. And I can’t remember if the American currency is still in free-fall, but let’s just say that amount of money in US dollars would buy, oh, say, Detroit. (All math done off the top of my head, so pipe down you nit-pickers.)
That said… that’s still really damned affordable. Detroit ain’t worth nothin’ no more anyhow. And Mr. Gray informs us that it is quite driveable — I think that’s what he means when he says it’s a “doddle” — with power levels appropriate to your skill level. I, personally, would choose the 350-hp option, not because I consider myself a fantastic driver, but because I want to be able to say I did it. And I like scaring myself.
Now that’s out of the way, I’m personally putting Ian Gray’s name forward as a nominee for our first official Hoonourary Knight of the Realm. All in favour, say aye!
Sorry, I seem to be getting British all over the blog here. Maybe that’ll mop up. Terribly sorry.