Ford to celebrate 110 years of racing heritage at SEMA

Zastava_101 · 2011-10-11 22:30:54

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/11/ford-to-celebrate-110-years-of-racing-heritage-at-sema/ On this day in 1901, Henry Ford took his home-built race car named "Sweepstakes" and entered a 10-mile race at the Detroit Driving Club against the favored Alexander Winton. Ford ended up winning the race and the victory garnered attention from investors that would help launch the Ford Motor Company (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) just a couple of years later. Since that first race, Ford has achieved a multitude of successes in a variety of motorsports including wins at the Daytona 500 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/daytona+500/), Indy 500 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/indy+500/), 24 Hours of Le Mans (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/24+hours+of+le+mans/), Baja 1000 (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/baja+1000/) and more. As part of their celebration of 110 years of racing, Ford will be bringing together some of their more historic race cars to display at the upcoming SEMA (http://www.autoblog.com/sema/) show in Las Vegas next month. The lineup is truly impressive, including the Le Mans-winning 1967 GT40 MkIV, Parnelli Jones' 1970 Mustang Boss 302, Jim Clark's Lotus that won the 1965 Indy 500, various John Force Funny Cars and the winning race car from this year's Daytona 500 just to name a few. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/10/1967-ford-gt40-mkiv.jpg

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Ford to celebrate 110 years of racing heritage at SEMA

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On this day in 1901, Henry Ford took his home-built race car named "Sweepstakes" and entered a 10-mile race at the Detroit Driving Club against the favored Alexander Winton. Ford ended up winning the race and the victory garnered attention from investors that would help launch the Ford Motor Company just a couple of years later. Since that first race, Ford has achieved a multitude of successes in a variety of motorsports including wins at the Daytona 500, Indy 500, 24 Hours of Le Mans, Baja 1000 and more.

As part of their celebration of 110 years of racing, Ford will be bringing together some of their more historic race cars to display at the upcoming SEMA show in Las Vegas next month. The lineup is truly impressive, including the Le Mans-winning 1967 GT40 MkIV, Parnelli Jones' 1970 Mustang Boss 302, Jim Clark's Lotus that won the 1965 Indy 500, various John Force Funny Cars and the winning race car from this year's Daytona 500 just to name a few.