The word 'legendary' is overused. But it doesn't come close to doing this GT40 justice
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the imitators apart from the genuine articles. Not that long ago, a ‘replica’ would mean a Ford Sierra chassis and running gear, poorly moulded fibreglass bodywork and a non-period-correct livery. The sacrilege! But replicas, recreations, or whatever you want to call them, have come a long way in recent years. To the point where wealthy car collectors would rather enter a near-perfect copy into a historic race than risk damaging the real thing.
On the positive side, it means we get to see incredible cars, perhaps from before our time, being treated as though they were fresh out of the factory that week. And replicas are so convincing these days that seeing, say, an old GT40 that for all intents and purposes looks like the real deal will likely elicit the same hair-raising response as if you’d seen an original example.
This is one of the few cars that were built from the get-go as a road-going model. No, it’s not one of the ultra-rare Mk3 versions - a trio of prototypes built to see how well the racer would work as a road car - it’s even rarer than that. Chassis P/1069, a Mk1 GT40, was built to order by Ford USA and swiftly loaned out to a Swiss-based firm affiliated with the Scuderia Filipinetti racing team for display at the 1967 Genera Motor Show.
Still wearing its green paintwork , the car featured in various motoring magazines and, in 1969, was put on display once again at the Geneva Motor Show. It would get a good thrashing at the hands of double Formula 1 world champion Graham Hill ahead of its sale to a private collector in 1971, where it was again resprayed in yellow. Fast forward to 2007 when a brave new owner took the car historic racing , including an appearance at that year’s Goodwood Revival.
That’s merely scratching the surface of an exceptionally storied example of a motoring legend. Worth keeping that in mind when giving the seller a call to ask about the price, and best to set aside several million quid to be in with a shout of buying it. If you do happen to become the car’s new owner, do us all a favour and take it out of the garage once in a while. This was the ‘people’s GT40’, after all.
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