It was his greatest race – and one of Ford’s as well. Which is why this weekend at Le Mans will be a massive Blue Oval celebration. One without Chris Amon, but he’s not downbeat.
Ford NZ relates why doing little locally still counts as significant contribution to celebrating the anniversary of a motorsport moment that means a lot here.
We gave them the famous victory – but, 50 years on, Ford won’t let us buy into their tribute car. Not that this has stopped a couple of Kiwis trying to lay hands on the new GT supercar.
Is America’s pony car hairy-chested enough? That so many Kiwi Mustang buyers are immediately implementing increasingly wild performance upgrades suggests not, but Ford’s not worried.
Those Sprint-badged special versions of the XR8 and XR6 Turbo that will see out the Falcon in its final year of production might very much live up to their name in respect to availability.
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