5/3/2023 0 Comments Ford gt40 dan gurney![]() ![]() Having won at LeMans two years running, Henry Ford II had nothing else to prove and shuttered their endurance racing effort. ![]() That meant that the car that won LeMans in 1967, the Ford GT40 Mk IV with its 7 liter, 427 cubic inch engine, would not be able to defend its title. In 1967, for the upcoming season the CSI (Commission Sportive Internationale, the sporting arm of the FIA) reduced allowable engine displacement in Group 6 prototype endurance cars to 3.0 liters. It carried Gulf’s corporate colors of dark blue and orange. The original race car painted in Gulf Oil colors was a Ford GT40 (chassis that was raced at Daytona and Sebring in 1967 as an independent entry by Gulf Oil executive vice president Grady Davis. The original Ford GT40 that wore Gulf corporate colors was raced by Gulf VP Grady Davis. ![]()
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