Ford’s debut campaign with the GT40 in 1964 proved a mixed bag; while the new car demonstrated an exceptional turn of speed, it also suffered from embarrassingly poor reliability. For 1965, a new…
Read MoreOver the winter of 1964-1965, Ford decided to shoehorn a seven-litre V8 into a suitably modified GT40 chassis. Prior to this, the GT40 Prototypes had been campaigned with engines of 4.2 and 4.7…
Read MoreAfter the GT40’s debut campaign in 1964, Ford decided to create a bigger-engined variant that would come to be known as the Mk2. The first pair of Mk2 Prototypes (chassis GT/106 and GT/107)…
Read MoreAlthough Ford’s limited 1964 campaign with the GT40 proved a major disappointment in terms of results, it was perhaps more important that the fledgling model had demonstrated the kind of speed…
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