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1966: With the GT40, Ford won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1966 (Amon & McLaren), 1967 (Gurney & Foyt), 1968 (Rodriguez & Bianchi) and 1969 (Ickx & Oliver). The '40' refers to the car's height – 40 inches.
GT40s finished 1-2-3 in 1966 and the 3rd place car, chassis #P/1016, engine #HA 1697, fetched us$9,795,000 at RM Sotherby's Monterey auction in August 2018.

1975: A Gulf Research 'Mirage GR8' driven by Derek Bell and Jackie Ickx, powered by a Ford Cosworth DFV 3-litre V8 (a detuned F1 engine), won Le Mans.

2012 August: The 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage race car, P/1074, used as the camera car in the Steve McQueen movie 'Le Mans', set a world record of us$11,000,000 for the most expensive American car sold at auction in RM's Monterey auction.

2019: The movie 'Ford v Ferrari' (or 'Le Mans 66') told the story of the Ford GT40, Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and Ken Miles (Christian Bale) and the start of that four year winning streak.
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