GT40 (1967) BY FORD, A WINNING-SPORTS CAR CONCEPT THROWN AWAY.

FORD HAD THE FIRST AND ONLY WIDE BODY WINNER IN 1967,  AND BECAUSE IT WAS A WINNER, THEY DUMPED IT TO BECOME LOSERS AS A PONZI FINANCIAL INSTITUTION INSTEAD OF AN ENGINEERING CONCERN.

• The Ponzi financial institution,  then started making 4, 6 and 8-cylinder Mustangs to pay off hefty dividends.

June, 2017. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. FORD ENDEAVOURS TO BECOME AN ENGINEERING COMPANY AGAIN, 50-YEARS LATER AND LIKE HENRY FORD INTENDED IT TO BE. THE PONZI MONETARY SCHEME GOVERNED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND GOLDMAN AND SACHS MAY RENDER SHORT TERM YIELDS IN DIVIDENDS, BUT THEIR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. A BUBBLE HAS NO FIX EVEN FOR THE MOST POWERFUL BUBBLE PATCHERS WHO WON'T BE ABLE TO PATCH BUBBLES FOREVER AND EVER. SOONER OR LATER, REAL HARD CURRENCY WILL RETURN AND THE NARCO-FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS MASQUERADING AS MANUFACTURERS WILL BITE THE DUST.
Raj Nair named president of Ford North America Sean Szymkowski 1May 25, 2017 Raj Nair Executive Vice President of Ford North AmericaRaj Nair Executive Vice President of Ford North America Following Ford's decision this week to remove Mark Fields as CEO—and name Jim Hackett as his replacement— the automaker has now announced quite a shuffle of its executive deck around the world. Foremost, Raj Nair, formerly executive vice president, product development, and chief technical officer, will assume the title of Executive Vice President of Ford North America. Nair, who was influential in the development of the GT supercar and Ford's return to Le Mans, will lead North American operations effective June 1. Additionally, Steven Armstrong will lead Ford Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and succeeds Jim Farley. Farley moves to become Executive Vice President and President of Global Markets. A handful of other notable moves include: Peter Fleet to lead Ford Asia Pacific Hau Thai-Tang to lead Global Product Development and Purchasing Sherif Marakby rejoins Ford as vice president, autonomous vehicles and electrification after leaving the company for Uber Neil Schloss becomes vice president and CFO, mobility Kenneth Kent becomes vice president and treasurer Bradley Gayton appointed group vice president, chief administrative, officer, and general counsel Jeff Lemmer is elected chief operating officer, Information Technology Ken Washington named vice president, Research and Advanced Engineering, and chief technology officer Kenneth R. Kent is appointed vice president and treasurer Dave Schoch retires after 40-year career at Ford Ford called the global leadership appointments paramount to three priorities moving forward: sharpening operational execution, modernizing the business, and transforming to meet future challenges. Under Fields' leadership, Ford's share prices dropped 37 percent, in part due to poor fiscal earning performance. Amid pressure from shareholders, Fields announced a 10 percent cut of the automaker's salaried workforce—his final call as chief executive. Fields was shy of three years as CEO, though he's been with Ford for 28 years.

JUN 15, 2017 | DEARBORN, MICH. FORD GT 24 HOURS OF LE MANS DOCUMENTARY "THE RETURN" DEBUTS AS COMPANY'S FIRST FILM ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO “The Return” chronicles Ford GT’s win at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans – 50 years to the day after Ford’s historic 1-2-3 finish in the same race Free video download for Amazon Prime members features never-before-seen footage of the joint development of both the Ford GT race car and revolutionary Ford GT production car Documentary release coincides with the return of the Ford GT race car to the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours on Saturday and Sunday View the documentary at http://amzn.to/TheReturn DEARBORN, Mich., June 15, 2017 – The Ford GT race car’s triumphant return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans and simultaneous development of the Ford GT supercar are highlighted in the new documentary, “The Return,” available now as the company’s first film on Amazon Prime Video. Emmy Award-winning director Erich Joiner brings audiences the behind-the-scenes view of the fiercely competitive struggle to get the new Ford GT race car ready to race at Le Mans in 2016 – 50 years after Ford’s historic 1-2-3 1966 win. “To win a race, you have to have incredible commitment,” said Raj Nair, Ford executive vice president and president of North America. “This film captures the teamwork and challenges the team encountered and overcame living up to the Ford GT’s iconic heritage.” “The Return” features never-before-seen footage showing the challenge Ford Motor Company set for itself in developing an all-new Ford GT, which both honored its storied history on the race track and shattered modern expectations about what a supercar can be. "As a director and an avid racing enthusiast, I set out to make a passion project of a movie,” said Joiner. “I was able to shoot things that very few people ever get to witness about building a world-class race car and program. And then putting this new car and team up against the best in the world at the Le Mans 24 Hours. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience I will never forget.” Enthusiasts get exclusive access to the side-by-side development of the GT race car and production car through the eyes of those involved during its fast and intense development. World-class drivers, racing experts and others bring life to the most treacherous, high-stakes endurance race in the world, while Ford family members link the race’s significance to Henry Ford launching the company on the track more than 100 years ago. “The Return” is available for free download on Amazon Prime starting the eve of the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans, where four Ford GT race cars will return again to fight for the most coveted trophy in endurance racing. The green flag drops on Saturday. ABOUT FORD MOTOR COMPANY Ford Motor Company is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified vehicles and Lincoln luxury vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company and is pursuing leadership positions in electrification, autonomous vehicles and mobility solutions. Ford employs approximately 202,000 people worldwide. For more information regarding Ford, its products and Ford Motor Credit Company, please visit www.corporate.ford.com.​​

The Ford GT40 Mark IV was an updated version of the Ford J-Car, which was shelved following the fatal accident of Ken Miles in August 1966. The Mark IV had an all new chassis designed and built in the United States, as opposed to the Mark Is and IIs which had chassis that were built in England. The big-block 427 cubic inch (7 liters) Ford Galaxie-derived engine from the Mk.II was used for the Mk.IV. Although it had the same engine they did, the Mark IV had a low-drag body which increased the top speed of the car to nearly 220 mph.

The 1967 World Sportscar Championship season started on a real low for Ford. Ferrari had dominated the first round, a 24-hour race at Daytona International Speedway in the United States by finishing 1-2-3 (all works cars) while all of the works GT40 Mk.IIB's (the Mk.IV was not ready yet, and the Mk.II's were upgraded to "B" spec) effectively retired with the same type of gearbox troubles. Thoroughly humiliated on home soil, Carroll Shelby, the Holman & Moody squad and Ford executives knew what had to be done. They ended up winning the next round 6 weeks later at the 12 Hours of Sebring, also in the United States with their new Mk.IV with American Mario Andretti and New Zealander Bruce McLaren driving, run by Holman & Moody. Ford only entered the 12 and 24 hour races that were part of the championship; the way Ford saw it, Daytona and Sebring were really test runs for the only race that really mattered: the world stage at Le Mans.

The surprise winners were Americans A. J. Foyt and Dan Gurney, who led all but the first 90 minutes of the race and defeated the factory Ferrari 330P4 of Italian Ludovico Scarfiotti and Briton Michael Parkes by nearly four laps. The team had to fabricate a roof "bubble" to accommodate the helmet of Dan Gurney, who stood more than 190 cm (6 feet, 3 inches) tall. In one famous incident which took place in the middle of the night, Gurney had been running quite easily to preserve his car, and Parkes came up behind in the second-place Ferrari (which was trailing by four laps, or 34 miles). For several miles Parkes hounded the Ford driver by flashing his passing lights in Gurney's mirrors until an exasperated Gurney simply pulled off the course at Arnage corner and stopped on a grassy verge. Parkes stopped behind him, and the two race-leading cars sat there in the dark, motionless, until Parkes finally realized this attempt at provocation was not going to work. After a few moments, he pulled around Gurney and resumed the race, with Gurney following shortly. With the cat-and-mouse game abandoned, each car then simply maintained their positions to the finish. The win remains, to this day, the sole all-American victory at Le Mans: an American-built car, prepared by an American team and driven by American drivers.

When the winners mounted the victory stand, Gurney was handed the traditional magnum of champagne. Looking down, he saw Ford CEO Henry Ford II, team owner Carroll Shelby, their wives, and several journalists who had predicted disaster for the high-profile duo of Gurney and Foyt. Many of the journalists had predicted the two drivers, who were heated competitors in the United States, would break their car in intramural rivalry. Instead, both drivers took special care to drive the car with discipline and won easily. On the victory stand, Gurney shook the bottle and sprayed everyone nearby, establishing a tradition reenacted in victory celebrations the world over ever since. Gurney, incidentally, autographed and gave the bottle of champagne to a Life Magazine photographer, Flip Schulke, who used it as a lamp for many years. Schulke recently returned the bottle to Gurney, who keeps it at his home in California.^{[citation needed]}

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You also might like the songs that hit number one in 1967 in the US, the UK, or Australia.

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Position	Artist	Song Title
« 196619671968 »
1	Lulu	To Sir With Love
2	Box Tops	The Letter
3	Bobby Gentry	Ode To Billie Joe
4	Association	Windy
5	Monkees	I'm A Believer
6	Doors	Light My Fire
7	Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra	Somethin' Stupid
8	Turtles	Happy Together
9	Young Rascals	Groovin'
10	Frankie Valli	Can't Take My Eyes Off You
11	Music Explosion	Little Bit O' Soul
12	Tommy James and The Shondells	I Think We're Alone Now
13	Aretha Franklin	Respect
14	Stevie Wonder	I Was Made To Love Her
15	Bobby Vee and The Strangers	Come Back When You Grow Up
16	Buckinghams	Kind Of A Drag
17	Arthur Conley	Sweet Soul Music
18	Soul Survivors	Expressway To Your Heart
19	Sam and Dave	Soul Man
20	Association	Never My Love
21	Jay and The Techniques	Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
22	Every Mothers' Son	Come On Down To My Boat
23	Strawberry Alarm Clock	Incense And Peppermints
24	Rolling Stones	Ruby Tuesday
25	Vicki Carr	It Must Be Him
26	Brenton Wood	Gimme Little Sign
27	Buffalo Springfield	For What It's Worth
28	Supremes	Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
29	Supremes	The Happening
30	Beatles	All You Need Is Love
31	Engelbert Humperdinck	Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)
32	Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell	Your Precious Love
33	Jefferson Airplane	Somebody To Love
34	Esquires	Get On Up
35	Van Morrison	Brown Eyed Girl
36	Martha and The Vandella	Jimmy Mack
37	Happenings	I Got Rhythm
38	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade Of Pale
39	Buckinghams	Don't You Care
40	Casinos	Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
41	Diana Ross and The Supremes	Reflections
42	Hollies	On A Carousel
43	Bobby Vinton	Please Love Me Forever
44	Dionne Warwick	Alfie
45	Tremeloes	Silence Is Golden
46	Ed Ames	My Cup Runneth Over
47	Fifth Dimension	Up, Up And Away
48	Scott Mckenzie	San Francisco
49	Cowsills	The Rain, The Park And Other Things
50	Herman's Hermits	There's A Kind Of Hush
51	Buckinghams	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
52	Petula Clark	This Is My Song
53	Jackie Wilson	(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
54	Young Rascals	I've Been Lonely Too Long
55	Beatles	Penny Lane
56	Temptations	You're My Everything
57	Seekers	Georgy Girl
58	Five Americans	Western Union
59	Aretha Franklin	Baby I Love You
60	Monkees	A Little Bit You, A Little Bit Me
61	Lesley Gore	California Nights
62	Mama's and The Papa's	Dedicated To The One I Love
63	Young Rascals	How Can I Be Sure
64	Hollies	Carrie Ann
65	Blue Magoos	(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
66	Easy Beats	Friday On My Mind
67	Bar-Kays	Soul Finger
68	Spencer Davis Group	Gimme Some Lovin'
69	Hombres	Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
70	Grass Roots	Let's Live For Today
71	Peaches and Herb	Close Your Eyes
72	Booker T and The MG's	Groovin'
73	Wilson Pickett	Funky Broadway
74	Monkees	Pleasant Valley Sunday
75	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
76	Aaron Neville	Tell It Like It Is
77	James Brown and The Famous Flames	Cold Sweat
78	Turtles	She'd Rather Be With Me
79	Keith	98.6
80	Ray Charles	Here We Go Again
81	Jefferson Airplane	White Rabbit
82	Four Tops	Bernadette
83	Sonny and Cher	The Beat Goes On
84	Royal Guardsmen	Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
85	Janis Ian	Society's Child
86	Neil Diamond	Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
87	Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell	Ain't No Mountain High Enough
88	Sandy Posey	I Take It Back
89	Tremeloes	Here Comes My Baby
90	Robert Knight	Everlasting Love
91	Peter, Paul and Mary	I Dig Rock And Roll Music
92	Bill Cosby	Little Ole Man (Uptight-Everything's Alright)
93	Electric Prunes	I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
94	Monkees	Daydream Believer
95	Johnny Rivers	Baby I Need Your Lovin'
96	Who	I Can See For Miles
97	Tommy James and The Shondells	Mirage
98	Tom Jones	Green, Green Grass Of Home
99	Petula Clark	Don't Sleep In The Subway
100	Neil Diamond	Thank The Lord For The Night Time