Audrain Concours - GT40 Class (Newport, RI - Oct 5, 2025)

[Mark Duquette]

Is it pure coincidence that none of these cars have stripes. Seems like a ,"come hell or high water I am going to this show, stripes be damned"

Okay so reading some of the comments these are all originals, which explains all the wire wheels.

 

[Lee Patterson]

They are 6 of the original ROAD cars and hence none had stripes and all have been fully restored to factory condition.

 

[BenL]

Is it pure coincidence that none of these cars have stripes. Seems like a ,"come hell or high water I am going to this show, stripes be damned"

They were four true Mk I Road cars, not race cars (except 1030 was not one of the 30 Road cars, but it was sold as a car for the road. The red car is a competition car). 1030 never had stripes while privately owned, but before it was sold, Shell painted it red and put gold stripes on it for their ad. 35 years later, Ford borrowed the car and put stripes on it for a photo shoot in 2002 (they redid the shot without stripes because they thought it was too distracting, even though it was in the background)

At the 60th GT40 reunion, someone pointed out that 1030 was the only car without stripes.

 

[David Brown]

beautiful thread