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 ...

Forty-nine years ago Ford achieved the impossible: beating Ferrari in the Le Mans 24-Hour race. The Italian team had been dominant for the previous six years and the Americans desperately wanted to ...

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. According to the listing, the car ...

Delivered on March 1, 1966, it was the first production road-car example of the GT40 sold to a private owner, James Fielding of Gloucester, and Ford UK’s then-ambassador, Jackie Stewart ...

and even the 2019 film Ford v Ferrari, which mixed fact and fantasy to tell a (somewhat) credible story. And while the characters behind the GT40 are well known, such as Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles, ...