Superformance GT40 Championship Series Race Car
Ken Miles drove chassis P/1015 to a contested photo-finish at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, the race that broke Ferrari's decade-long stranglehold on endurance racing and later became the centerpiece of Ford v Ferrari. Superformance, working with Safir Engineering, the rights holder to the GT40 trademark, is marking the 60th anniversary with a run of 66 continuation cars split across eight liveries from that single season: three from Shelby American, three from Holman Moody, and two from Alan Mann Racing. Each car carries forward the original GT40 chassis-numbering lineage, with a Safir-issued Certificate of Authenticity and inclusion in the GT40 Registry. Construction includes: a steel monocoque chassis with a pressed-steel roof, composite-resin body panels, independent suspension with Bilstein shocks, and 15-inch Halibrand-style wheels. More than two-thirds of the rolling chassis parts interchange with the original 1960s cars. Buyers choose between a Ford 427 FE engine or a Shelby iron- or aluminum-block alternative, the latter engraved with the car's serial number to validate it as a matching-numbers build. Miles never got the outright win that day, but six decades later, his car is still the one people ask for first.
