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Henry Ford II, outraged at Enzo Ferrari for pulling out of a deal to sell up his company to the Americans, ordered his engineers to come up with a car that could humble Ferrari at Le Mans, which the Italians had won six times in a row from 1960 to 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The Mk1, 2 &amp; 3 versions of the GT40 can claim to be largely British as they were designed and built by Ford&#8217; Advanced Vehicles Ltd, in association with Lola engineers, at Bromley, then Slough, with the chassis made in Coventry.<\/p>\n<p>Our shoot featured a Sbarro GT40 rather than an original &#8211; the scarcity of the original cars, and their value makes them very hard to come by &#8211; but Franco Sbarro has better claims than most to build authentic GT40 replicas, as he was part of the Ford Advanced Vehicles team. 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