Superformance Ford GT40 50th Anniversary, 1969
Ford GT40
Ford GT40•
•5 مشاهدة
Chassis No.: GT40P1169
Auction: Monterey 2021
Auction date: August 14, 2021
Lot No.: F43
$270,000 | High bid
- Exterior: Gulf Blue/Orange
- Interior: Black
- Sold on a Bill of Sale
- GT40P/1169
- Tool Room GT40P/1075 configuration that mechanically and visually replicates how these winning cars were raced and can be homologated for sanctioned historic racing
- Limited edition build, estimated 1-2 year wait time
- Build completed by Olthoff Racing in Mount Ulta, North Carolina
- Right hand drive
- 302 CI V-8 engine with Gurney/Westlake heads built to run on lower compression European fuel
- Weber stacked induction
- ZF 5-speed manual transmission
- Custom matching guitar autographed by former Gulf Racing chief engineer John Horsman
- Girling brake and clutch reservoirs with double caps
- Lucas 6W wiper motor
- Lucas 5SJ windscreen washer bottle
- 19 row oil cooler inside nose
- Original style brass and copper radiator
- Original style steering rack
- Fispa fuel filter
- Twin Stewart Warner 240A fuel pumps
- Auto-lite rev limiter
- Unique oil breather catch tanks
- Unique oil return tank
- Unique header tank
- Aluminum suitcase rack
- Original style battery box installed
- GRP battery box lid
- Tubular gearbox guard installed in tail mounting frame
- Ceramic ballast resistor
- Lucas 6J fuse boxes
- Lucas 76464/76465 style push button starter solenoid
- Stewart Warner 0-10 PSI fuel pressure gauge
- Stewart Warner 100-250 temperature gauge
- CAV ammeter
- Smiths tachometer, water and oil temperature gauges
- Zephyr eye-ball dash vents
- Brittex seat belts
- 12” steering wheel
- Steering column mounted momentary toggle switch
- Jeweled dash warning lamps
- Original style seat material and brass eyelets
- Tunnel cutout and braces added
- Floor reinforcement added
- Original style roll bar installed
- Girling 18/4RH&4LH front brake calipers
- Girling 16/4RH&LH GT40 rear brake calipers
- Girling PBOOO264R&L front brake discs
- Girling PBOOO215R&L rear brake discs
- Front firewall and dash plate changed to flat design and braced forward
When it comes to racing icons, few cars can possibly come close to Ford’s heroic GT40. Based on Eric Broadley’s original Lola GT and relentlessly developed through four iterations—including the rare MkIII street model—the GT40 finally took Le Mans victories in 1966 and 1967 under direct Ford Motor Company involvement. By 1968, Ford entrusted the GT40 program to JW Automotive, managed by legendary former Aston Martin racing boss John Wyer. Under Wyer’s direction, the GT40 went out in grand fashion, scoring overall victory at Le Mans over an increasingly strong Porsche in 1968 with Lucien Bianchi and Pedro Rodriguez and with Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver co-driving in 1969.
One and the same GT40 won Le Mans both years: a Mark I car numbered P/1075, appropriately displayed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan today. Fast, comfortable and, above all, reliable, GT40 P/1075 had the right stuff to go the distance in 1968 and 1969; Ickx and Oliver battled with the Porsche 908 of Hans Herrmann and Gerard Larousse especially hard over the final three hours at Le Mans, finishing just 40 yards ahead of the second-place Porsche in one of the most thrilling finishes in race history.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the stunning successes of GT40 P/1075, Gulf Oil, Safir GT40 and Superformance joined forces on the limited-edition 1969 Tribute GT40 featuring P1000 continuation prototype chassis numbers. Including all the aesthetic features of P/1075 at its 1969 Le Mans triumph, these cars included a Limited Edition Gulf GT40 guitar and a plaque naming 25 of the people who brought the Gulf racing team to its stunning success during that glorious 1969 racing season.
While some 50th Anniversary GT40 MkI cars were offered in standard configuration with A/C and a choice of left- or right-hand drive configuration, this special edition “Tool Room GT40P/1075” mechanically and visually replicates how these winning cars were as raced in the late 1960s, and it is even eligible for sanctioned historic racing homologation. Approximately 90% of the parts are interchangeable with the original GT40s, and this car was built to race in vintage FIA events with a lower compression ratio compensating for European fuel.
Carrying Serial No. 1169, this Tool Room GT40 P/1075 car was built to deliver a presence and experience as close as possible to the original GT40 P/1075 of 1968-69 Le Mans-winning fame, down to a veritable multitude of fine period racing components and features, even down to the FIA-compliant aluminum suitcase rack. Topping off the stunning GT40 package is a custom matching guitar autographed by former Gulf Racing Chief Engineer John Horsman.
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التكلفة
991,575 AED
