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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 30 Jun 2010 19:38 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Turco <jtur(a)concentric.net> saying something like: >> > Thus, Ford UK built a redoubtable racer around this mighty motor, and >> > the legendary Ford GT was born. >> > >> > (Did I get anything wrong?) >> >> Close enough. > >How unsporting of those Britishers, to rely on American iron! Not very >honorable, I must say. I recall a Ford ad for a GT40 in a UK magazine in 1966-ish. �6000 it was on sale for, iirc. I tried to persuade my father to buy one, but since at that time that was the cost of a decent house, he unaccountably showed no sign of rushing down to the showroom. |