ginetta-g4-g12.com

[Alez]

Does anyone know what this is about??

http://ginetta-g4-g12.com/

As far as I know, there's Ginetta, that's the company to which the Walklett brothers sold the rights for the make and then there's Dare, the company operated by the Walkletts, and that was pretty much it. I'm confused.

Edited by Alez on Friday 21st September 16:51

[geeeman]

this site has not been updated for a few years
i think it is a Japanese based site

[Alez]

It looks UK based to me... The website says "Copyright © 2008. Ginetta G4 & G12 (UK) Ltd. All rights reserved." and the domain record is:

"
Registrant:

kumiko english
2 The Retreat
Colchester, Essex CO6 3HN
GB
Phone: [phone]
Email:

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: ginetta-g4-g12.com
Created on..............: 2008-05-28
Expires on..............: 2013-05-28

Administrative Contact:

kumiko english
2 The Retreat
Colchester, Essex CO6 3HN
GB
Phone: [phone]
Email:

Technical Contact:
BT.com/domains
BT Business Internet Services
81 Newgate Street
London, EC1 7AJ
GB
Phone: [phone]
Email:

DNS Servers:
dns2.register.com
dns1.register.com
"

From:
http://whois.domaintools.com/ginetta-g4-g12.com

[h4887]

Kumiko represents Tamotsu Maeda of Wary House who owns the rights to the G4 and G12.

Geoff

[Alez]

Do you mean in Japan? Surely the rights to those cars still belong to the Walkletts?

[330p4]

When the walkletts sold the company to Martin Phaff the rights went with the sale they got into difficulty after a while and sold the rights to the G4 and G12 to Maeda to raise cash
Ian

Edited by 330p4 on Saturday 22 September 18:47

[Alez]

I'm still confused because that would mean Dare are building G4 and G14 without owning the rights to do so (as those would be with Maeda) which surely is not the case.

Anyway, I was asking much out of curiosity, in the end it's Dare and only them who continue building those models, be it race spec, road spec, round tube, square tube, historic, continuation, or whatever.

[h4887]

No need for confusion. Maeda wanted his cars built by the Walkletts. No-one else has the legal right to produce Ginetta G4s and G12s.

[captainsensible]

oh gawd... not this topic all over again. Somebody find a link to the last thread!! It's been done to death and nothings changed

[Alez]

h4887 said:

No need for confusion. Maeda wanted his cars built by the Walkletts. No-one else has the legal right to produce Ginetta G4s and G12s.

I now understand, thanks.

captainsensible said:

oh gawd... not this topic all over again. Somebody find a link to the last thread!! It's been done to death and nothings changed

I found said thread after my earlier posts on this one. Given that this thread clears up any confusion in a nice, effective and simple way, I won't add confusion by posting the link to it.