"GT and Sports Car Project"

[Neil]

One of the things John Horsman gave me was his copy of "GT and Sports Car Project" by Roy Lunn, Advanced Concepts Dept.-Special Vehicle Activity Ford Division-Ford Motor Company. The book is about 1/2" thick, spiral bound, and full of early GT40 development tests and reports. I have seen quite a few references to this publication but I do not know if there are copies in private hands. Can anyone shed any light of the status of this book? Is is in circulation?

 

[Ole Nylende]

The community would really appreciate if it could be made public. Atleast i would be...

 

[David mono]

I'm always interested in original paper work. 1/2 inch thick should be a good read. Around 20 pages have been put on the net from a story if I remember correctly about the Ford v Ferrari movie a few years ago

 

[Paul Proefrock]

Is this the same as the SAE papers? They were gathered by Roy Lunn and are made up of about 121 pages. Various copies of the PDF have circulated and are probably available somewhere on this forum

Paul

 

[David mono]

Is this the same as the SAE papers? They were gathered by Roy Lunn and are made up of about 121 pages. Various copies of the PDF have circulated and are probably available somewhere on this forum

Paul

No different papers. The SAE papers can be found on this site very easily.

 

[BenL]

A copy of it can be found here:

https://www.thespeedjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Testing-and-Development-GT-and-Sports-Car-Project-April-8-May-4-1964.pdf

 

[Brian Kissel]

Thank You Ben, I’ve now saved it.

Regards Brian

 

[Neil]

A copy of it can be found here:

https://www.thespeedjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Testing-and-Development-GT-and-Sports-Car-Project-April-8-May-4-1964.pdf

Those are only a few pages.

 

[DaveC]

A copy of it can be found here:

https://www.thespeedjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Testing-and-Development-GT-and-Sports-Car-Project-April-8-May-4-1964.pdf

Cool read! Thanks!

 

[Stephen Ducker]

Another example of the name GT40 being used by Ford Motor Company earlier than some would claim.

 

[Neil]

Here are a couple of pages from my files.

 

[Neil]

One more... April 1964 Le Mans Trial.

 

[Neil]

I went to that website and checked it against my report that John gave me. First, that on-line copy is missing the first page, a photo of the original GT40. Second, that copy is missing the last half of the report. My copy has twice the number of pages as the on-line copy. My copy has the last page as the distribution list.

 

[Neil]

The GT40 report may be copyright Ford Motor Company but here are a couple of pages of John Horsman's hand-written notes on gearing for their Mirage M12. He wrote this on legal-sized lined yellow paper so the very bottom would not fit in my scanner. On the page "M12 Le Mans Gear Ratios", there is a note "Prefer lower 1st but not made", The graph clearly illustrates the effect of tire expansion at high speed. Note rev limit of 9250 RPM!