Sorry if this thread has gone OT. At least we're still talking Fords, I guess.
There is a thread right now on the GT40 forum I referenced, discussing the values of the various MkIV cars. The owner of J-6--the Bruce McLaren car--is of the opinion that J-5, which is the Gurney/Foyt winning car from the '67 Le Mans race, has a value on the order of $20 million. He states his reasons in that thread eloquently, and I won't try to repeat them here, but that is his opinion. He is also quick to point out that he does not figure the value of his car to be anywhere near that much. I can't add much more than that, except that real, live MkIV's are thin on the ground, are the only product of the GT40 project that were truly designed and built at Ford, by Ford, and are a huge part of America's Le Mans heritage. GT40 s/n 1075, the two-time Le Mans winner of '68 and '69, reportedly sold for something like $10M a while back. Whatever they're worth, it'll have to be a winning lottery ticket before I could join that club--IF any were for sale.
Bob