This Could Be The Most Expensive Ford Ever Auctioned

GT40 roadster prototype coming up for auction for the first time in its history.

With little over a hundred made and a legendary racing history, the Ford GT40 is, without a doubt, one of the most sought-after vehicles ever to wear the Blue Oval. But only a handful were made as roadsters. And one of them is coming up for auction, where it could emerge as the most valuable Ford ever sold.

What you’re looking at is a 1965 Ford GT competition roadster prototype. It’s one of only five such roadsters that were made by Ford Advanced Vehicles, one of only two to have survived, and the only one that actually raced at Le Mans.

Laying the groundwork for the GT40 that would follow, the GT/109 prototype entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1965 under Carroll Shelby‘s Ford of France team. Future racing constructor Guy Ligier was to share the cockpit with Maurice Trintignant (who had already driven Shelby’s Daytona Coupe in the Tour de France the year before), but the car retired after only 11 laps with a broken transmission at that early stage of the GT40’s development. The following year Ford won the first of four consecutive Le Mans victories, but the roadster design was abandoned and never raced again.

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