Shelby took an existing GT500 and dropped a Ford GT engine into its engine bay, essentially the same powerplant used in the GT40 MkII that had won at Le Mans the year before. It was said that the ...

Narrator: This is the second-generation Ford GT, the most powerful car the ... This air is routed through the engine bay to cool off components before exhausting out the center of the taillight ...

side-mounted engine oil coolers, and a removable center-section rollover bar. Prepared by Carroll Shelby‘s famed Shelby American workshop in Venice, Calif., GT/109 was painted in the Ford of ...