The first 12 prototype vehicles carried serial numbers gt 101 to gt 112.
How high is the roof of a gt 40.
The mki mkii mkiii and mkiv were numbered gt40p 1000 through gt40p 1145 and thus officially gt40s.
A roof with a 6 rise for every 12 run has a 6 per foot or 6 in 12 pitch.
Roof pitch or slope is a measure of vertical rise to horizontal run expressed in inches per foot.
The ford gt40 is possibly the most iconic mid engined car to emerge from the united states.
The production began and the subsequent cars.
Superformance gt40 s are built for the street and feature air conditioning standard just like the original gt40 street car p 1028.
Pitch is thus the ratio of the rise in inches to a 12 inch run and is often expressed using a semicolon for example 6 12.
The 40 represented its height of 40 inches 1 02 m measured at the windshield the maximum allowed.
The lack of a roof proved annoying.
Sometimes pitch is also expressed in.
We ll let you read yates s impressions of the gt40 for yourself but one conclusion deserves a callout here.
The name gt40 is derived from its concept name of gt coupled with a roof height of only 40.
Nose data from wind tunnel testing of the mk ii cars lead to the nose of the mk ii a vehicle being shortened by nine inches saving 19 lbs.