Salad Days: Ford’s 1960s Run at Le Mans Made a Legend of the GT40
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– Ford finally has made the announcement we’ve all been waiting for ever since the new Ford GT supercar made its debut at the Detroit auto show (if not before): The company will campaign a racing version of the new GT and will return to Le Mans for the 2016 race. – The word came in a press announcement at Le Mans featuring Ford executive chairman Bill Ford, president and CEO
-They came seemingly out of nowhere. Nearly 3000 feet above sea level and hours from the nearest city of consequence, a group of approximately four-dozen camera-wielding tourists of random nationalities spun on their heels and began to snap pictures of, well, us. The fact that we arrived at this Norwegian mountaintop overlook in a fleet of candy-hued 2016 Bentley Continental GT coupes may have contributed to their elation. Although we
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