Our staff has a wealth of motorsport expertise between them
after many years in the industry ranging from international race event
management and coordination right through to competing at the highest level in
some of the world’s top racing series.
Bailey Cars was started in 2003 by Peter Bailey and Greg
Bailey to fill a niche need for high quality, reliable, usable and fully
race-able recreation GT40 replica’s. The success of their initial GT40 design
has resulted in customers asking for more.
The result was the development of a P4 Replica,T70 Replica and their flagship
model the 91 Replica. These models have all been designed for hard racing by
true enthusiasts on race tracks around the world. We have now sold
GT40’s, P4’s, 91’s and components to most parts of the world, with customers in
GT40 loving U.S.A, Sweden, Australia, South Africa, 91 loving Germany, Finland,
Holland, England and even Zambia!
Due to the confidence and knowledge that Bailey Cars has
gained from building and successfully racing cars, that are true recreations of
cars that were built in 60’s and 70’s, we have now decided to build and design
our own modern day race cars. The GT1 is a modern day sports car capable of
racing in national championships against the likes of famous marques such as
Porsche GT3 cups and Ferrari 430 challenge cars.
This is the ideal car to take on the South African GT championship with.
The LMP2 is by far the most advanced car Bailey Cars has
produced. It is designed to the latest ACO, Le mans 24 hour race rules, the
ultimate goal for the car is to race at Le mans, but Bailey is also offering
this car to local customers to compete in the newly formed South
Africa Endurance series which is starting in 2011!
Bailey Cars purpose has been to build famous recreation cars
that have all at one stage or another competed at the famous Le Mans 24 Hour
endurance race in France. The original cars have been based on
famous marques that are all household names. These original cars were designed
and built over 40 years ago. Engineering has come a long way in 40 years, and
so why not take advantage of that. There are many books which detail the flaws
and issues with the original cars in one way or another. These were in terms of
safety, reliability or even ergonomics. These flaws were mostly caused by
either restrictions in terms of the rules the cars had to race under such as
homologation or compromise in that the original cars were designed for pure
performance and “win at any cost” type construction and engineering.
So some 40 years later the original cars are all worth many
millions of either Pounds or Dollars and can be and should be found in museums.
But now continuation cars (replicas) are also available, why buy a car that is
exactly like an original if we know it has flaws. We are pretty sure that you
as the private owner of such as car isn’t interested in rebuilding your wheel
bearings after each race or even replacing your aluminum tubed chassis after
each race either!