Factories at Work: In The Ford Wind Tunnel
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Ford J Car in the Wind Tunnel
You’d think that Ford would have rested a bit after achieving their drubbing of Ferrari and bringing LeMans victory home. But whether it was just momentum or to silence critics that suggested that the GT40 was more Lola than Ford, FoMoCo decided to bring the design of the next iteration of the GT car more in-house. Keeping the mighty 7 liter of the previous generation, they sculpted a new shape around it in partnership with Kar Kraft. Getting those strings placed right to measure the wind movement over the shape helped refine the aerodynamics of the project that would eventually become the GT40 Mk IV.
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Looks like the white wind-tunnel model above is an in-between version of the two below.
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J-car (top) and MkIV (bottom). Similarities are in the beholders eye...
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