THE FORD GT ROADSTER Few automobiles have achieved such status as the Ford GT40.

Detroit’s first purpose-built prototype-class race car, developed to beat Ferrari, famously went on to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans for four consecutive years.

While the GT40’s dominating competition record is justifiably celebrated, scrutiny is perhaps less frequently given to the model’s early development cars, which included a small batch of roadsters.

The bulk of GT40 output consisted of a run of 87 production examples whose serial numbers began with a P prefix.

Prior to this group, however, twelve prototypes were built with sequential serial numbers starting with a GT prefix.

This fabulously rare roadster is the eighth of those twelve prototypes.

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GT/108 is additionally the first of only five roadsters built, and the first of four that were mounted on a purpose-built steel roadster-specification chassis.

This car is furthermore believed to be the very first example built at the Ford ...