Why isn't the GT40 listed here?

[ac427cpe]

Is it listed anywhere else on this site? If so, where?

[Roadster2]

here is a picture
http://www.fordfans1.homestead.com/FORDFAN1.html

[ac427cpe]

no. i think that that is a GT90 prototype.

the GT40 is what replaced the Shelby Cobra...

[focalBlur]

Originally posted by ac427cpe
Is it listed anywhere else on this site? If so, where?

it should be here

[cars2000]

They don't sell the GT40 so they won't have a fourm about It !!!!!!!!!

:monkeypis

[ac427cpe]

Well there are plenty of cars that are on this site that do have forums that aren't in production any more. The Shelby Cobra, all of the Vectors, as well as all the other vintage cars on this site. It was an actual production car, they had to make at least 100 for it to be in the GT class in the 60's.

[GoinRallyin]

*ahem*

The GT40 in it's four incarnations - MkI, MkII, MkIII, and MkIV - was NEVER a production car. Furthermore, the GT40 was not to 'replace' the Shelby Cobra. The Shelby Cobra was a Ford-powered AC-built Shelby-named car. (Ford only provided the engines, they did NO assembly of the Shelby Cobra 427AC.) The GT40's sole purpose was as a competition car for endurance racing. For that matter, the GT40's were built in the UK unil the MkIV, which was the only American-built GT40. Incidentally, Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt won LeMans in 67 in a MkIV. The MkII was the first 427, which finished 1-2-3 at LeMans in 66.

Now, if you're a good Car and Driver reader, you'll already have this month's issue. (Feb02) Turn to page 34. If you don't have it, well, you're just going to have to wait a while. Let's just say if it happens, I don't doubt that we'll have a GT40 specific forum very soon.

[ac427cpe]

i thought that one of the requirements for racing in LeMans was that the car HAD to be a production car that could be bought at a dealership. In fact i KNOW that you could buy one in a dealership because a friend of my dad's has one that he races. I didn't was the replacement of the cobra, it was the American car that started to beat them. It was actually a Lola prototype that Ford bought to beat Ferrari when they wouldn't sell out to Ford. and i don't have that issue yet - sorry, i'll check it out at a grocery store or something. and thanks, i didn't know that the MKIV was the only American built one.

[ac427cpe]

i did some research and found that there were 107 made, the ones that were sold as street cars sold for about $20,000 each... in the mid-60's! they were made durring the time that Carroll Shelby was in charge of Ford racing. they ran with the Shelby Daytona Coupe and when they were tuned (all the bugs were worked out) after a few years of trial, they were often the fastest cars on the course.


it was a MKII that Foyt and Gurney won LeMans with in '67 (the MKII X1, the only GT40 that was a convertable). that was also the yeat that they had the 1-2-3 sweep, it was a 1-2-3-5 in '66

[Da Hawxxx]

ahum....

[ac427cpe]

YES!
that is the car!


i have a picture of the blue one that was slod last year at the Barrett-Jackson auction, but it is too large of a file...

[Da Hawxxx]

*note this is the GT40 Concept presented at the 2002 detroit motor show

[ac427cpe]

NICE!!!


but does it have 180 degree headers? Like this one?

[superposition]

Hope they'll eventually be produced, I think it's one of the most beautiful exotics around.