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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
So yeah, Ford meant business and the business was to whip the ass of ferrari.

Yep - too see a good article that shows a lot of the corporate effort and (at the time) cutting-edge expense that was thrown at the GT40's development, Click here. I think the computer design stuff is amazing, given the mid-1960s time frame.

56 posted on 06/03/2019 1:54:14 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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Oh that is so cool.I have some reading to do.Thank you.I know a guy named Rick Tombs in Tennesee.He operated the dyno at Holman/Moody that tested the 427s for the Gt40 program.They ran the engines through the course of 24 hours of Le Mans without ever leaving Detroit.


67 posted on 06/03/2019 2:51:08 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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