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Originally Posted by Mark IV  I am amused that Shelby is calling them "GT40s" as he contends that name was a "figment of the English press" (per his quote in OCTANE magazine) |
I agree with Shelby the early preproduction chassised GT prefix cars including the 1965 Daytona winner were correctly called Ford GT. By May 1965 when P1006 was at Le Mans and was the first production GT40P fitted with the definative nose on show to the public. Then you could call them GT40 officially.
Incidentially I have offical press releases for 1966 and the MKII are being called that. In fact especially in the USA magazines the Big block 427 were referred to MKII and the small block 289 GT40.
Regards Allan