A shot of the No. 2 Ford GT40 Mk II piloted by Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren during the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. The No. 2 GT40 ended up winning the race, the first win in a four-year win streak by ...

This weekend, Ford will launch an all-out assault on the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Four GT race cars and 12 drivers will try to hand the Blue Oval a win in the GTE Pro class on the 50th anniversary of Ford ...

It was the final minutes of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the race was Ford’s to lose. After a long, difficult development and a year’s worth of work by Carroll Shelby himself, the Blue Oval’s ...

Four a couple months now, we've been following the restoration of the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] GT40 Mk II, chassis P1046, that won the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car was purchased in 2014 by Rob ...

Nobody can deny the brute force offered by a big block V8, but the first Ford GT40s delivered composure and confidence from Shelby’s hottest 289 small block with a handfull being offered to the public ...

So what do we really know about the Ford GT40's historic 1960s racing victories at the Le Mans 24-hour race? Yes, Ford Motor set out to beat Ferrari at Le Mans, after being rebuffed in its 1963 offer ...

The 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight Racing Car was expected to bring in a hefty sum even before it hit the auction block. The Gulf-liveried car was extremely successful in races ranging from ...

The Ford GT40 was as much a purpose-built race car as it was an act of revenge directed at Enzo Ferrari. In 1963, a deal between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari to join forces ended abruptly at the ...