Holman & Moody Mark II Roadster
Holman-Moody is a former racing team that continues to use traditional methods to manufacture their cars. As a racing team, they manufactured most of the racing Fords during the 1950s, 60s, and 1970s. They owned cars that ran in a multitude of categories such as Nascar, rallies or drag racing.
The team won the Nascar Championship in 1968 and 1969, and the Daytona 500i in 1967. Holman-Moody was also one of the first teams to sell a stock car chassis specially designed for racing.
Today, they manufacture and repair collector's cars and engines.
Following the construction of the Ford GT40 Mark I, the brand hired Holman-Moody and Shelby America to build the next generation of the GT40, the Mark II. Both took care of one half of the car, and after finishing each race, the cars were exchanged to share the know-how and improve the vehicle's performance.
In the 1990s, Holman-Moody and Holman Automotive started manufacturing 1960's GT 40 MkII again. All these original cars already carried Holman-Moody serial numbers in his time to remove liability from Ford; as part of the agreement with Ford.
In this GT40, the proximity to the sixties is such that most of the company's employees are the same from that time. In addition, Holman-Moody has hired employees who helped Ford build and race the original LeMans GT, Mark IIs, and Mark IVs.
More than fifty years later, Holman-Moody still owns the original machinery, tooling, original Ford blueprints for these cars, race reports and extensive paperwork of the time to support the manufacture of new parts.
The GT40 by Holman & Moody is built just as they were raced, using original Mark II body molds, and the chassis is built from original tooling. It's fitted with a Ford 427 FE dry sump engine with riser heads. It's hand assembled at Holman-Moody's own shop just like they were in the 1960's.
All its parts are identical to the original GT40 factory parts according to the original specs, using their original blueprints. In this way, they can provide a real recreation of the original GT40 experience; so much so that their GT40s are eligible to be used in historic races.
Price: Starting at $700.000