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PRIVATE LABEL; Retired Ford engineers hand-build a Corvette-engined sports car.(Revs)
Byline: PHIL BERG
Gene Dickirson is not the slightest bit worried when people tell him they don't like the looks of his new car, the GDT Speedster that took him almost six years to hand-build. "Some people like the way it looks, some don't,'' says the retired Ford engineer of 30 years.
The GDT (Gene Dickirson Team) Speedster is a home-built, two-seat, no-roof roadster, based on the driveline of a 1994 Corvette, with a stock 300-hp LT1 pushrod engine and four-speed automatic transmission. It was built by a crew of seven retired Ford engineers, plus some gainfully employed designers, all volunteers, in a cramped, three-car suburban Detroit garage using 13,000 man-hours.
A thicker, stiffer frame preserves only the driveline mounting points from the 1994 C4 and holds the thick-skin GDT Speedster fiberglass body. "Chuck Carlson and I built that frame, and it took 12 trips to the welding shop,'' recalls Dickirson, who ...
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- Built from scratch.
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