The Ultimate Ford GT40 project has proved to be a mammoth undertaking. This landmark work will comprise four volumes, which will build into a unique in-depth study of the GT40, with the first volume published in December 2024. From its roots in the early 1960s through the challenges of its formative racing career, to four consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours victories, every aspect of the GT40 and its remarkable history will be analysed and documented.
Porter Press International has been fortunate in assembling a team of the world’s foremost expert authors and GT40 specialists, including Ronnie Spain, Mark Cole, John S Allen, Graham Endeacott and Mike Teske, who are collaborating to bring their combined knowledge and experience of these cars to the project.
Volume 1, written by Ronnie Spain, provides chassis records and photos for every GT40 built, including the prototypes, roadsters, production GT40s and Mark IIs, Mark IIIs, Alan Mann cars, Mirages, J-cars and Mark IVs, in addition to details of seven original unnumbered ‘spare’ chassis. This book provides extended and updated coverage to the individual chassis histories provided in Ronnie’s original book, published in the late 1980s, here presented in a lavish package comprising 576 pages and over 1,300 photographs.