Walt Boeninger wrote:
> "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.
Really originally it was just the Lola GT - before Ford got involved.
I heard that the Ford names started with GT, then GT2, then GT3 - finally got it
to work on the 40th try! Heard it at an after dinner speech - - - - - - - - - -
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