The Ford ‘40 GT features a body made of copper 1.5 mm in thickness fashioned at a former MIG factory in Poland. Power comes from a 5.4 liter supercharged V8.
The Ford GT began as a concept car designed in anticipation of Ford’s centennial year and as part of its drive to showcase and revive its “heritage” names such as Mustang and Thunderbird. Camilo Pardo, the head of Ford’s “Living Legends” studio, is credited as the chief designer of the GT and worked under the guidance of J Mays. The designers drew inspiration from Ford’s classic GT40 race cars of the 1960s and the GT is sometimes mistaken for its 1960s counterpart.
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