Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"All GT40's have the steering on the right" is simply not true. I worked at Ford and was the chief photographer in charge of the Ford GT. I can tell you I drove at 3 GT40's with the steering on the left, we used these to photograph initial press kits and photoshopped the new skin on them. Mr. Ford started the program because he couldn't buy Ferrari, if you believe he was going to make a car he couldn't drive around Dearborn.... With the first reborn GT we wanted to name it GT40, but we (Ford) had more or less given the name away to a small manufacturer after the original program was done, they wanted several million to buy it back, hence the name Ford GT. The new current prototypes all had GT40 painted on them and after loosing the name battle, I had to photoshop "Ford GT" on about 40 pictures in time for that years introduction at the Detroit Auto Show, requiring me to work all day on christmas that year (any idea what 4x time pays at Ford..?...I made more in a month than I had all year). Also, in order to meet today's street driving requirements it was necessary to raise the bumper thus making it taller than 40 inches, the current one is a GT 43. Roy Feldman