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June 2019 Ascari FGT & Ecosse Owners' Meet at Grandstand Coachworks
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Grandstand Coachworks are able to provide for your Ascari - from storage and after-care service, through to safety checks, scheduled services, upgrades and rebuilds.
Please contact us to discuss your Ascari and how we can help.
If you are a current or former owner of an Ascari or would like to stay informed about events and meets, we would like to hear from you.
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SERVICING
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TRACK PREPARATION
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ENGINEERING
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BODYWORK
Ascari Ecosse & FGT
One of the first cars - the Ascari FGT - was originally designed by Lee Noble and later developed into a GT race car campaigned by then owner Klass Zwart. Its best results came from the Silverstone British GT championship where it managed a number of podium finishes as well as the British GT championship. It even entered Le Mans between 1995 to 1997.
The road variant 'FGT' model had a race-derived steel tube space frame chassis clothed in a light weight unstressed GRP body shell. It weighed in the region of 1250kg powered by either the 5.7 litre Chevrolet engine or later a BMW V8 (4.0l). Ecosse variants ran a 4.4 litre, 4.7 litre and even a very rare 5.0 litre Dutch-built Hartge engine.
The Ascari Ecosse and Ascari FGT are incredibly rare.
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Of the eight Ascari Ecosses ever built, six remain in the UK.
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Even fewer Ascari FGT cars are in existence, one of which has been converted to Ecosse headlights.
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Two Ascari FGTs that we know of are in the UK
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Up to three Ascari FGTs are believed to be in the US.