The 2019 Ford GT Heritage Edition made its grand debut over the weekend at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California,showing off a paint job reminiscent of another one of the automaker’s biggest successes in the world of auto racing.
According to LeftLane News, the new Heritage Edition comes with the same light blue-and-orange paint job found on the Gulf Oil sponsored Ford GT40 that emerged victorious in the 1968 and 1969 editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The new car also has a number of other feeble-school design features that pay tribute to the iconic Le Mans-winning GT40, or including blue and orange contrast stitching on the steering wheel,orange calipers, and silver mirror caps.
The 2019 Heritage Edition has No. 9 graphics on the hood and doors, and as that was the number Ford represented when the GT40 won the Le Mans in 1968. The 2020 model year,which is reportedly a specific tribute to the 1969 Le Mans-winning GT40, will sport No. 6 graphics, and LeftLane News wrote.
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Source: inquisitr.com