Original Ford GT - Transporters

[JD]

^^^ yes, couldn't agree more!

[honker]

Rich, repost: now in sequence.....

I believe thus is taken at the Le Mans Trials, April '66 ?  Tails of AM GT40/1 and AM GT40/2 (the Alan Mann light weights) plus the transporter, still in it's original colours, but with  different script,. Was it being used by Alan Mann ?

Mike

[honker]

camp upshur, thanks for the compliment for Richstang & Myself, everyone here contributes their bit, this is what makes the Shelby

community so great, there's alway an image, or bit of history that is new to me.

Thanks to all of you !

Mike

[Richstang]

Mike, I have the '66 photo from the Le Mans trials dated around April 3rd.
I can only guess that Alan Mann was using the transporter for the two lightweights #15 & #16 since we see both of those rear shells.

I don't have any other '66 photos. Next up is the one from '67 also at the LM trials... unless you have any others from '66.

(as Mike said, THANKS for the compliment 'Camp Upshur' and 'JD')

[Richstang]

Around April 9, 1967 the Strachons Ford GT team Transporter appears at the Le Mans trials behind the Ford of France GT40 P/1020.
Once again it appears with different lettering in the side stripes now as 'J.W. Automotive Engineering Ltd.'

[honker]

Rich, your last one from '67    great image, the boy behind reminds me of myself at various venues, just in awe of what your

looking at !

I think you said you only had one from '67, so I hope I'm not jumping ahead of you ? Here's what I have in my files, you can just

see the nose on the right behind the Piper-Attwood Mirage.

[honker]

Le Mans, April '67..trials. a larger shot from the back, and behind the Mk. 1V on the trailer (can you imagine hauling cars around

like that today !) you can see the two transporters where there.

Mike

[Richstang]

Mike, these are all great finds from the 67 Le Mans trials. Well done!
I didn't realize the person in the side view I posted was a young boy. (He was dressed too nice in the collar shirt.)

You must have eagle eyes to spot these transporters in the backgrounds. I completely overlooked the two next to each other in the B&W photo with the J3 MKIV on the trailer. (All I saw were those shark fins on it, similar to what they used in '65 on the two GT prototypes.)

Great to see the back door of one of the transporters showing the changed lettering to 'J.W.A.E.' in both B&W and in color!


Nothing yet showing the team unloading or carrying the GT40's. That might be a tall order.
I only have one photo from '68 left to share...

[Richstang]

Last in my files for these two Ford GT team transporters is this photo from April 25th, 1968 at Monza.
The side stripes are now gone. The GT40 pictured is P/1075.

[6R07mi]

I saw these on a FB post, and would the "TNT San Juan" be considered a "transporter"?

jim p

[Richstang]

I saw these on a FB post, and would the "TNT San Juan" be considered a "transporter"?

jim p

Nice color photos.
That 'Paris'/'WALON' transporter, used for the '65 Le Mans race, was likely just a typical new car transporter rented for the weekend.
I've never seen it used anywhere else or at any other European events, nor any other years.

I suppose that TNT/San Juan Ferry boat to Nassau does count as a Ford GT transporter, but not as a team owned hauler.
There also the ferry boat to Sicily for the Targa Florio. There's a few photos of that with some damaged Cobras, I suspect from rough seas.

[Richstang]

Here's a nice color photo at the LeMans trails in April 1964 showing GT/105 and GT/108.
The side lettering on the transporter still notes it as hauling the 'FORD GT'

The b&w photo also appear to be from the '64 LM trails. (correction; file name says Nurburg[ring] '65-5-23)
Is that Gordon Chance tuning the engine?

[MichaelM]

Great thread! I went through my files and came across this image from Le Mans in 1965. The red arrow indicates what I believe is one of the transporters.

[Richstang]

Great thread! I went through my files and came across this image from Le Mans in 1965. The red arrow indicates what I believe is one of the transporters.

Ha, yea that's the GT Transporter...what we can see of it hidden behind those campers.
It seems most of the photos are from LeMans. These are tough to find anywhere else in Europe.

[MichaelM]

Another shot I came across. 5S114 at Le Mans in 1965. The transporter is now wearing Ford Advanced Vehicles livery.