Monday, April 4, 2011

1965 Ford GT40 Roadster to be auctioned

1965 Ford GT40 Roadster
One among the five 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster is to be auctioned at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in Cernobbio, Italy on May 21. The car was built in 1965 as a prototype by Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations center in England, and is one of the four surviving examples.

This Linden Green car was raced by John Whitmore and Bob Bondurant in the 1965 Targa Florio, later it was forced to quit after being damaged. The car, chassis GT/111 was lost after the Targa Florio, waiting to resurface until 2006.

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