1965 GT40 Roadster GT/108

This 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster is anything but ordinary and holds an important place in motorsport history during one of the greatest battles in motorsports history between Ford and Ferrari. Chassis GT/108 is one of 12 prototypes built for Ford and Shelby America and the first of six GT40 roadsters. Completed in March 1965 by Ford Advanced Vehicles, GT/108 would go on to Silverstone where John Whitmore and Dickie Atwood were waiting to run tests on the car before being shipped to Shelby America. Its first public appearance was with the Shelby USRRC team at Riverside Raceway for an exhibition appearance before returning to the track in July for further testing with Ken Miles. Later that month, the car was used to give rides to Ford's Board of Directors after a meeting at Shelby America with Ken Miles, again behind the wheel. When it came for Mr. Ford's ride; however, it was Carrol Shelby who hopped in the driver's seat. In October 1965 the car made another appearance being featured at the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York with another legend behind the wheel, that year's F1 Champ, Jim Clark. 

The remaining roadsters would go on to be converted to hardtops and cut into pieces to avoid a dispute with the US government over the way the cars were imported, yet somehow GT/108 remains intact to this day. Prototype GT/108 is the only surviving roadster to remain in as-built condition, with its original engine when it was initially sold into private hands from the Ford Factory via Kar Kraft in 1965. Its engine is a 289 V8 with four Weber 48IDA carburetors pushing 380hp through a four-speed transmission to its rear tires. Being the rarest, most original and best-documented GT40 of them all, GT/108 won at Pebble Beach in 2003, and one lucky buyer at RM Sotheby's auction paid a cool $6,930,000.