One of only two Ford GT40 Mk.I sports cars known to have been driven by the late, great Carroll Shelby will be up for grabs in January with Mecum Auctions. This particular model – chassis P/1018 – is ...
Ford Racing brass looks behind the rush to Le Mans 2027. It's Ford's first effort in prototype class since the 1966-69 glory ...
Four owners over the years included one ex-Ferrari works driver who drove the MkI GT40 race car at the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans. Over the nearly 58 years of its life, these owners combined to put ...
Auto collectors and enthusiasts are revved up over an extremely rare street model of one of America’s most legendary race cars. The sleek, metallic dark blue 1966 Ford GT40 MkI Road Car, with black ...
In the automotive racing arena, Ford's game-changing GT40 is about as iconic as a single car can be. The vehicle's development and on-track feats have, of course, been well-documented over the years ...
The 1966 Ford GT40 did more than win a race. It reset expectations for how fast a production-based car could go, how long it ...
A 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I bearing chassis no. P/1034 is coming up for sale The car will go under the hammer at Mecum's Kissimmee auction in mid-January The car is one of 31 road-going Mk Is built and is ...
Born out of a feud between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, the GT40 is America's most successful outright Le Mans winner, having won the 24-hour race four times from 1966 to 1969. And not only did it ...
Emelia Hartford bought the Ford GT40 project car a year ago and was planning to fix it and return it to the road, but she was simply forced to shelve the project. The original owner bought it with ...
The Ford GT40 famously beat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (eventually), but it was also intended as a road car. One of those rare roadgoing examples is now up for sale in the U.K. through ...
This particular car, presented by classic car auction house Duncan Hamilton, is Chassis GT/105, the fifth of five prototypes built in Coventry, England for the start of the Ford GT40 program in 1964.
Opportunities to purchase a genuine Ford GT40 don’t come up that often. Ford built just over 100 examples of the iconic sports racer across its four iterations, with the majority serving as ...