The Ford GT40 was a high performance sports car, designed to put an end to Ferraris dominance in long-distance sports car races. The car was named the GT (for Grand Touring) with the 40 representing its overall height of 40 inches.
They also needed to sell road cars to the public to recuperate some of the cost of the racing program, and these slightly tamer beasts also went through a development phase of their own. One of these was the open-topped version of the GT40. Just six of these Roadster prototypes were made, only one has retained its original form. The one pictured here, chassis No. GT/108, was the first one to be built and is regarded as the only true survivor of the lot; it is a unique and stunning piece of not just GT40 history, but Ford’s.
Photographed at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance