Auto collectors and enthusiasts are revved up over an extremely rare street model of one of America’s most legendary race cars. The sleek, metallic dark blue 1966 Ford GT40 MkI Road Car, with black ...

A rare 1966 Ford GT40, P/1034, sold for an impressive $7 million. It is one of only 31 MkI Road Cars produced, the first delivered to a private customer, the first to set wheel on British soil, and ...

Four owners over the years included one ex-Ferrari works driver who drove the MkI GT40 race car at the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans. Over the nearly 58 years of its life, these owners combined to put ...

Born out of a feud between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, the GT40 is America's most successful outright Le Mans winner, having won the 24-hour race four times from 1966 to 1969. And not only did it ...

The Ford GT40 is the most American race car story of all time. It’s red, white, and V8 thunder, built out of vengeance, rivalry, and more cash than sense. It’s the car that dethroned Ferrari at Le ...

The Ford GT40 did not just win at Le Mans, it rewrote the balance of power in endurance racing and forced Europe’s most established teams to reckon with Detroit muscle. I see its story as a rare ...

The original Ford GT40 became a '60s symbol of speed, determination and the American way. Its seven MKIII offspring—all nursed on the same Le Mans winning super soldier serum—were born with race-bred ...

Over time, the origin story of the Ford GT40 has become the stuff of legend (or at least Hollywood history). After making overtures to purchase the Italian automaker in 1963 that were not so politely ...

Peter earned a Bachelor of Archeology and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has since joined his love of driving and riding with storytelling. His voice is full of southern ...