How many gt40

Search forums. Log in. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. How many gt40's were produced? Thread starter Wayne Presley Start date Jul 19, How many cars were produced and what were the production 's for each year?

Wayne, Thats a pretty tough question to answer, because it depends as little upon what you call a GT40, and also a number of cars appeared in different guises The delivery of this production car began in the fall of The car entered the racing circuit in , and the street-legal version was made available at Ford dealerships in The Harrier first flew in and soon became the best and most versatile of the VTOL aircraft in development at the time.

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A big fan of football and especially the English Premier League, he can spend hours talking about football, movies, the universe, or just about anything and everything. Racing History Via Pinterest. Via Pinterest. Share Share Tweet Email. With that car set to sell for millions of dollars on Friday, August 16, at the auctions surrounding this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance festivities, we felt now is as good a time as any to delve into our connection to it.

We are one of only two publications to have been given original access to this Ford GT40 prototype the other was Sports Car Graphic , and that access came from none other than Carroll Shelby himself. It was his beckoning that landed former editor Brock Yates in the GT40 prototype's driver's seat during a summertime testing session at Riverside Raceway in On hand for assistance?

Ken Miles, one of the drivers who'd later help bring Ford the checkered flag in the '66 Le Mans race in the automaker's famous photo finish. Also present was his mechanic. Miles was at Riverside testing the GT40 roadster, of which only three existed at that time.

Ford had begun shifting its Le Mans strategy around that time, effectively giving outside control over its GTs' development to Shelby American after the car fell flat in and races. In a separate piece on the GT40 program we published in June , we noted that the transfer of the GT program to Shelby made all the sense in the world: The man and his budding performance outfit had created the insanely successful Cobra race car, plus it had turned the Mustang into a racing success.

Shelby also was based in Southern California, a much more consistent testing venue than seasonal Dearborn, Michigan. And, we noted, nearby Riverside raceway was far, far away from European racetracks, where rival Ferrari might sniff out Ford's game in the lead-up to Le Mans.

Ken Miles was both a development driver and one of Shelby's racers, and he was a gifted fellow. It would easily qualify as the crown jewel of most collections and would make a peerless addition to any assemblage of s sports cars. Chassis number was sent to the Ford Merchandising Department in Dearborn but was not delivered to its first owner, Charles Hill of Dallas, Texas, until Andy Harman from Mississippi owned the car for a short while during before it was sold to English collector Nicholas Shrigley-Fiegl in A two-year restoration was undertaken in , and when completed the car only showed 2, recorded miles.

Later, in , William Loughran bought GT40 chassis number has a well-documented history with a continuous chain of ownership. Before purchase the car received a detailed inspection and the mileage showed 2, Auction Source: Monterey Preview. Videos Pictures Wallpapers Forum.