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Ford GT 40 MkI

Ford GT 40 MkI in Stiletto, Movie, 1969

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: — Made for: USA

Ford GT 40 MkI

00:56:20 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
s13a ◊ 2020-07-29 03:45
supcoach ◊ 2020-07-29 04:09	GT-40
dsl ◊ 2020-07-29 05:50	I wonder how many of the 31 road spec GT 40s were red with white sill stripes, had wires, and were in US in 1969. [P1057] looks a good candidate "P/1057 is the 16th of 31 Mark I examples configured as road cars .... This GT40 was one of 20 cars eventually allocated to Ford’s Promotion and Disposal Program (initiated in February 1967), and one of seven road cars consigned to Shelby American for retail." and originally had wires. But it was Warwick Green until around 1986.
supcoach ◊ 2020-07-29 06:23	According to IMDB, filming was primarily done in Puerto Rico. Also some filming was done in New York City. Could this be a stock shot or does Puerto Rico have terrain as depicted above? NYC certainly does not.
midnight ◊ 2020-07-29 06:38	It looks like deciduous trees in the main picture and the fourth thumbnail, it could be New York state.
aquila ◊ 2020-07-29 10:38	Right hand drive was legal in USA in 1960s?
s13a ◊ 2020-07-29 12:22	Actually very little was filmed in Puerto Rico (Caddy and Mustang might have been filmed there), but the rest was filmed in The States. In the same scene, with GT 40 supposedly breaking down, they went to the secluded house (with the Plymouth parked next to it), and the location looks rather Upstate New York. However I was wondering how tell whether this is MKI or MKII?
dsl ◊ 2020-07-30 15:46	aquila wrote Right hand drive was legal in USA in 1960s? Most GT40s - at least the early versions - were UK-build and seem to have had RHD as default configuration. Would need more digging to establish how solid this comment is. s13a wrote However I was wondering how tell whether this is MKI or MKII? As far as I can tell the main batch of road cars was within Mk1 production, and (usually?) had Borrani wires while the racer Mk1s had alloys. The second batch was the Mk3 - only 7 made (3 RHD, 4 LHD) exclusively as road cars and with modified bodywork (front wings, higher rear for luggage space etc) - no Mk3 racers. Mk2 (with 7-litres/427) looks as if racers only.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2020-07-30 15:59	Vintage Bentleys with rhd have been exported to the USA for many years and were acceptable to the authorities to be driven on the open roads. I have never heard of any problem, we do not refuse lhd cars in UK, although they must be a bit annoying in our congested road system. I have in my hands a copy of the Bentley Drivers Club Review for January 1965, containing reports about events in New York City, Milwaukee Wisconsin and Cleveland Ohio, San Francisco and L A in California, and Reno Nevada in all of which places Bentleys of types not built with lhd were being driven by their owners. The Bentley Drivers Club Gazette, as it was then called, for June 1939 contains a letter from a resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba describing collecting a 4.5 litre supercharged Bentley from the Packard Co’s showrooms in Minneapolis and driving it to his Canadian home in 1933. There is a picture of the car, and it is most definitely rhd. I don’t think that it could have been illegal to make such a journey. -- Last edit: 2020-07-30 16:28:48

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