These Are the Best Fast Fords of All Time – Jalopnik

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“The best fast Ford is the 1901 ‘Sweepstakes’ race car piloted by Ford himself.

“539 cubes making 26hp where if Ford, a complete amateur, did not win against the race car driver of the time, Alexander Winton, Ford would’ve been sunk. Ford had to prove his car was reliable so investors would provide him with the capital he had to have—”all” he had to do was take on the Senna of his time and win. So basically an impossible task.

“It was a 10-mile endurance race reaching speeds of 70mph. Winton’s car broke down, so Ford proved the quality of his team’s work and his reputation was made due to Henry Ford’s one and only race win. Ford got his investors.

“So no Sweepstakes victory, then no FoMoCo, then no GT40, etc.—it all hinged on this car.”

Let’s start at the very beginning, for it’s a very good place to start.

Well, actually, it might not be as one commenter argues that this is actually a Cadillac. I’ll let yeardley68 explain:

“This car attracted investors into the Henry Ford Company. Ford’s goal was to make lower priced cars. His investors goal was to make expensive cars.

“By 1903, Ford had been fired from the Henry Ford Company. Ford used his payoff to form the Ford Motor Company. The investors renamed Henry Ford to Cadillac.”

The More You Know.

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