To meet the speed requirements for a pace car, it was fitted with a detuned engine from the Mark I Ford GT40 race car. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...