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1. [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: Michael Gee <Michael_Gee@bc.sympatico.ca>; Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:51:28 -0800; Anyone out there have a source for the origin of 40 in GT40? Thanks. Mike Return-Path: <dhughes@opinionsearch.com> Received: from xchng1.osinet.prv ([216.94.153.9]) by priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00127.html (9,032 bytes)
2. Re: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: Jody007@aol.com; Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:01:26 EST; << "The Ford GT-40 is so named due to it's overall height of 40 inches." >> I recall seeing some show where they said it was forty steps (paces) from two different buildings or offices and that was t; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00128.html (7,391 bytes)
3. Re: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: Walt@chekov.mayfield.hp.com (Walt Boeninger); Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:16:27 PST; [from vintage-race-owner@autox.team.] That is what I have always read and believed for the past 30 years. That sounds like a combination GT350/GT40 story, the 350 came from the number of steps betwee; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00129.html (8,275 bytes)
4. Re: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: MHKitchen@aol.com; Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:19:46 EST; << I recall seeing some show where they said it was forty steps (paces) from two different buildings or offices and that was the source of the "40." Have heard the height theory too, and more often.; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00130.html (7,459 bytes)
5. Re: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: quahogracing@webtv.net (Chris Towner); Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:15:37 -0500 (EST); It was the height thing ,a max for that class and the challenge for Ford to produce ... at the time it came up at the 39 inch size can not find the the source sad to say to back this up ???; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00131.html (7,193 bytes)
6. Re: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: Derek Harling <derek.lola@home.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:01:40 -0500; Really originally it was just the Lola GT - before Ford got involved. I heard that the Ford names started with GT, then GT2, then GT3 - finally got it to work on the 40th try! Heard it at an after di; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00132.html (8,009 bytes)
7. RE: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: "Brian Caldersmith" <BrianTC@bigpond.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:37:57 +1100; The definitive book on the marque, "GT 40 An Individual History and Race Record" by Ronnie Spain says on page 35: "The last pre-Le Mans round of the championship, at the Nurburgring, attracted a fiel; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00134.html (7,428 bytes)
8. RE: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: John Rosevear <jrosevear@thinkinginvestments.com>; Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:57:21 -0500; I have heard the 40" story a number of times over the years. My (dim) recollection is that the name originated with either Mr. Holman or Mr. Moody. Regards, John Rosevear; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00138.html (10,143 bytes)
9. Re: [Fwd: GT40 Height] (score: 1): Author: Rikrock@aol.com; Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:02:52 EST; << I heard that the Ford names started with GT, then GT2, then GT3 - finally got it to work on the 40th try! >> What.........the same way WD-40 got named? Rich Rock Pottstown,PA; /html/vintage-race/2001-03/msg00141.html (7,189 bytes)

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