Le Mans Trials, April 1966

Summary

Ford Motor Company intended to compete at Le Mans in 1967 with the all-new J-Car, seen here during an April 1966 trial in France. Those plans changed in August 1966 when Ken Miles died in a rollover accident while testing a J-Car at Riverside, California. Ford engineers and Shelby American specialists reworked the J-Car into the safer, sounder Mark IV.

Ford Motor Company intended to compete at Le Mans in 1967 with the all-new J-Car, seen here during an April 1966 trial in France. Those plans changed in August 1966 when Ken Miles died in a rollover accident while testing a J-Car at Riverside, California. Ford engineers and Shelby American specialists reworked the J-Car into the safer, sounder Mark IV.

Artifact

Slide (Photograph)

Subject Date

April 1966

Collection Title

Dave Friedman Collection 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.158.1191

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 2.0 in

Width: 2.0 in

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