The Ford GT40: America's Greatest Racer Ever - The Cheat Sheet
We have 707 horsepower Hellcats , and 762 horsepower Teslas , but there is something missing – what we don’t have is a true supercar. Yes, the 650 horsepower Corvette Z06 is good enough to keep Porsche 911 owners up at night, but since the 2005 -’08 Ford GT, we haven’t had a true exotic. Since 1969, if it’s sleek, mid-engined, and American, it better be as good as the Ford GT40. It looked so good that when Ford unveiled the GT, it looked almost identical to its 40-year-old predecessor. Its dominance on the track was so impressive that it’s one of the few Americans mentioned among the all-time performance greats, and it’s stranger-than-fiction story is so impressive, that in the annals of automotive history, it could be the... The GT40’s story begins in 1963. This was a pre-Mustang Ford, when its hottest car was the giant “R-Code” Galaxie 500, a 450 horsepower monster tuned to meet NASCAR and NHRA standards. But he had met his match in the equally difficult Henry “Hank the Deuce” Ford II, who wanted all of Ferrari, and said he would refuse to compete Ferraris against Fords in races like the Indianapolis 500. Outraged, Ferrari broke off the talks,... Source: www.cheatsheet.com
