was Gulf oil racing cool?

>>17289726
For amrican cars yes it was reallly breddy gud!!!

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>>17289726
No, but this guy was

>>17289739
its a British car

>>17289751
It was originally designed and built in the U.S. (shelby america) that was later built in the UK.
https://autooftheday.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/gt40s-chassis-by-chassis/

Production was shifted to Europe because it was built to be a Ferrari killer (after ford's buyout was cancelled) so he wanted production close to the tracks it was destined for, mostly to avoid import issues he ran into with the mk1's.

Learn your shit dipwad.

>>17289726
It made an incredibly iconic wrap for a great car. So I would say yes.

>>17290053
uhh no

its based on a Lola (British) while being designed and built in the UK until late in its run when some were made in the US

its a British car

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>>17289726
no. its a bit like elf or marlboro
even Martini & Rossi looks cool but such sponsors are now considered unethical

>>17290070
Yeah thats an iconic car.

The 2000's reboot model they made was a piece of shit though.

I havnt heard anything about the newest one though. I saw it on a billboard a year ago and it LOOKED cool, but my instincts tell me otherwise about it being a good car.

>>17290138
>I havnt heard anything about the newest one though

has a v6

all you need to know

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>>17290138
>The 2000's reboot model they made was a piece of shit though.
lol in what fucking world. i just watched a Doug video of an actual owner talking about how reliable they were and how he daily his and another guy in seatle had over 150k miles on his.

>>17290079
its not so clear cut as that
lola mk6 with a few simple mods
engines are too weak races not going so well
then Shelby throws 7 litres at the problem
at some point 7 litres gets b&
smaller engines are back .eg about 4 or 5 litres
later gt have all sorts of retarded alloy honey comb construction but nobody cares to remember that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
10 ford gt in the race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
11 ford gt in the race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
this time only 6 ford gt in attendance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
5 enter the race

then there is this pos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_P68

>>17290159
His record setting car was completly stock. I'm sure he changed nothing that the factory engineers failed to do from the drawing board. KYS, faggot.

>>17290191
When the hell did anyone ever imply that? did you even read my comment at all retard? i wasn't posting the picture as an argument and that's still impressive since there isn't fuck all of anything else modified or not that can touch that without being a silhouette or kit-car.

>>17290148
that its good?

>>17290079
the mki is a disgrace and nobody is ever talking about the mki unless they specifically mention it.

>>17290079
>first gens designed and built in the U.S.
>Imported to europe
>production shifts to UK
>"now its a European car"
>after 4 years of wins, when factory racing ends, production is brought back to the states for street legal versions

You
Are
An
Idiot

>>17290159
Standing mile record (from a dead stop to 1 mile) is held by a GT.
>they broke the record.
>they waited for almost a year and nobody beat the record, so they beat it again in the same GT
>couple months later, they broke it AGAIN, in the same GT.

>>17290326
thats actually the opposite of what happened

the mk1 was english, and it was a miserable failure.

ford gave it to shelby and he made the mk2 and it stayed in america from then on.