[from vintage-race-owner@autox.team.]
>In a message dated 3/13/01 10:55:11 PM !!!First Boot!!!,
>Michael_Gee@bc.sympatico.ca writes:
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><< "The Ford GT-40 is so named due to it's overall height of 40 inches." >>
That is what I have always read and believed for the past 30 years.
> I recall seeing some show where they said it was forty steps (paces) from
>two different buildings or offices and that was the source of the "40." Have
>heard the height theory too, and more often.
That sounds like a combination GT350/GT40 story, the 350 came
from the number of steps between buildings at S-A.
And it is true that the GT40 was originally called just the
Ford GT...if I remember correctly.
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