The first owner was James Fielding, chairman of Heenan & Froude, the company that manufactured the dynamometers used by Shelby American for testing GT40s. He reportedly sold the car in 1971 to his ...
Engine displacement in cubic inches included 255, 289, and 302 small-blocks, and a big-block 427, the latter in the Mk II and Mk IV cars. The 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I road car being offered through ...
The GT40 was built to take Ford to the track; specifically endurance racing at places like the Nürburgring, Daytona, and famously, Le Mans, which saw four consecutive Ford victories from 1966 through ...
(Motor Authority ... Because an original 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I—one of only 31 road-going examples ever built—will be up for grabs and is likely to fetch bids in the millions.
The history of Ford’s GT40 has ... sold with an additional engine, dated January 1966, which has accompanied the car since it was new. When it comes to Ford’s GT40, there aren’t too many ...