From 1966 through 1969, they were world-beaters. The 427ci big-block Ford V-8-powered GT40 Mk IIs finished First, Second, and Third overall at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans in Rheims, France. With dramatically different bodies, but still...
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My fascination with the GT40 goes all the way back to my childhood. As a young boy hanging around the family body shop, Walnut Park Auto Body in Crestwood, Missouri, I would ask...
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Whoever coined the phrase "keeping up with the Jones'" wasn't referring to Dennis Jones. As a young man he built and raced motorcycles, from motocross to road-course caf racers. The man could travel on two wheels like not many others. To do so he must have ha
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Read About Larry Lessie's 1965 BEC GT40 MK I
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With every automotive task in the garage, you'll make several visits to most if not all of the following: community auto parts stores, specialty tool retailers, the local hardware, the mega hardware emporium, and vintage Ford (substitute brand of car for your
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Dominating Le Mans from 1966 through 1969 helps, but let's face it: The Ford GT40 is one of the most stunning...
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When you sit back and dream of building something no one else has, what kind of car do you come up with? In the street rod aftermarket, the choices are a bit...
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John & Rosemary Place's '65/'03 CAV GT40
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Funny thing about a hot rod, it's all about the person who owns it. The reasons for building a hot rod are as varied as our fingerprints, yet a hot rod's fingerprint tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the car. It's always exciting to look ba
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Back in 1962, Henry Ford II was frustrated that The Ford Motor Company's reputation for high-performance engineering was suffering. So much so he mandated that Ford abandon the 1957 Automobile Manufacturers Association ban on racing. The company then launched
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All the super-heated gases ignite at the same time, and an explosion occurs as a starving fire takes in oxygen. What happens in a backdraft is similar to the experience of driving a Backdraft Racing Cobra. G-forces push heavily upon you when you plant your rig
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The New Superformance SPF GT40
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Some people know what they want from the get-go, while others sometimes languish in their decisions. Ron Nelson from Burton, Michigan, knew he wanted to build a Cobra roadster, but he bounced back and forth between several manufacturers before making an educat
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Editor's note: While the T-bucket has become the iconic cornerstone of the kit, street rod, and hot rod worlds, today it still doesn't garner the recognition it deserves (much like today's kit industry). Mickey Lauria, owner of Total Performance in Wallingford
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Imagine, for a second, that Leonardo daVinci's had the chance to repaint the Mona Lisa 40 years after the event. Maybe he'd change the light, or perhaps he'd have cheered up the model and the most famous smirk on earth would now be a smile. The simple fact is
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If you have more than one child, how do you separate your feelings between them? Each has their own personality, good and bad things about them, things that you might like to change, and things that occasionally surprise you. And if that makes sense to you, th
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One of the most successful racing efforts ever to come from MoTown was the Ford GT40. It was built with one objective in mind...to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, which it did, in 1966 and 1967.
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Rod Bods' All-Steel Body Is the Beginning of Jim Foley's Show-Stealer
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No one will ever mistake the remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds for Gone With the Wind. For one thing, the former movie’s most notable performers weren’t even human—the real stars were the cars. The big news is that one of them in particular can be
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With the resurgence of the Ford Thunderbird in the Blue Oval line this year, a look at Regal Roadsters’ ’55 Thunder is in order. This replicar is built the way a ’55 T-bird would look if it was a real-gone hot rod, modified using 21st-century te
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The traditional street rod, the car that spawned an industry, a genre, and a hobby, is the ’32 Ford. When Ford marketed the Deuce, the options were abundant and included the roadster, phaeton, two-door sedan, coupe, sport coupe, four-door sedan, cabriolet
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Garret Maino has been a car guy for nearly all of his 38 years, and has had a soft spot in his car-guy heart for the GT40 ever since he saw it featured in a kit car magazine in the mid-’90s. He’d built a Lamborghini kit he bought from a Canadian firm
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From 1964 through 1969, Ford’s GT40 made racing history as the foremost race effort to come out of Detroit during that decade. Approximately 100 were built as a result of the partnership between Ford and Lola Cars Ltd. Such racing legends as Bruce McLaren
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An exciting new design has hit the kit car world in the form of a '40s-style truck. It is Henry Caroselli's new-design of an old look, the Sedan Delivery. Caroselli Design has made a solid reputation of building a new-look street rod kit through t
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Superman’s SUV! Superstar basketball player Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t just drive a flashy ride, he now sells ‘em too. His new Shaq SST, based on a Ford Expedition, will be available in a lim
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