[Bruce Robles]

At LaMans in Ford's first attempt with the GT 40's in 1964, I think Richie Ginther or Chris Amon went 203 in practice for the race. Both cars were running the Coletti gear box and skinny Dunlop tires. They broke the gear box's and both DNFed. These cars had very pointed nose's on them which caused the front to lift at high speed. Not the nose's Shelby made when they took over the program from the Brits. These changes were first seen at the 1965 Daytona 24hr. race, they finished 1 & 3, as I remember. They added chin spoilers down low in front of the tires, and changed the radiator intake. The noses were further developed by extending them a bit, they lost the chin spoilers completely, and changed the radiator intake to what you see now. All the teams had thier own tweaks so there are some variables of coarse.

The MII's had huge air intakes behind the doors and some scoops that stuck up on the rear deck lid. They also had some tabs added on the sides of the nose that went on an angle over the top of the front wheel wells. Shelby's team and Holman-Moody's all had different little tweaks that were within the rules.

The MK IV was really designed with drag in mind and much slicker than the others.