This Ford GT Supercar Honors the 1966 Holman Moody Race Team at Le Mans. Now It’s up for Grabs.

When it comes to motorsport, even the most casual observer will likely know the name Le Mans, the small French city about 129 miles southwest of Paris and home to the most revered automotive endurance race in the world. As for most stateside enthusiasts, there’s one specific contest in the event’s 92 editions that stands above all others—the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, when the Blue Oval prevailed over the Prancing Horse with a podium sweep immortalized in Hollywood’s 2019 blockbuster Ford v Ferrari.

The car that bested the best from Enzo Ferrari’s eponymous Scuderia was the U.S. automaker’s GT40 Mark II racer, a model that has already inspired two generations of Ford’s GT supercar in the 21st century. Now, a rare 2022 Ford GT Holman Moody Heritage Edition, which honors Ford’s winning collaboration with the famed Holman Moody team nearly 60 years ago, is currently available through online-auction platform SBX Cars.

“The Holman Moody Heritage Edition isn’t just a tribute—it’s a rolling artifact of Ford’s most defining moment at Le Mans. It’s incredibly rare, brutally fast, and engineered with the same no-compromise attitude that beat Ferrari in ’66,” says Steve Gregg, managing director at SBX Cars.

That defining moment occurred on June 19, 1966, when three GT40 Mark II entries took the checkered flag simultaneously (as orchestrated by Ford) at Circuit de la Sarthe. It was the culmination of the American marque’s three-year program targeting a triumph at the iconic race. The previous day, a total of eight GT40 Mark IIs were on the starting grid. Ford’s post-race press release, dated July 5 of that year, states: “One important decision prior to the 1966 racing season was to retain more than one racing team to campaign the Mark II, since a bigger entry list was planned for Le Mans. In addition to Shelby American, Holman and Moody, Inc., and Alan Mann Racing Ltd., joined the team.”

According to that historic dispatch, the Shelby American squad saw the pairings of Ken Miles with Deny Hulme, Dan Gurney with Jerry Grant, and Bruce McLaren with Chris Amon. The three Holman Moody cars were piloted by Ronnie Bucknum and Dick Hutcherson, Mark Donohue and Paul Hawkins, and Mario Andretti partnered with Lucien Bianchi. Rounding out the roster was the two-car Alan Mann Racing effort of Sir John Whitmore with Frank Gardner, and Graham Hill taking turns behind the wheel with Brian Muir. At the end of the 24-hour gauntlet, it was Holman and Moody’s Bucknum-Hutcherson car that joined Shelby American’s Miles-Hulme and McLaren-Amon entries to comprise the winning trifecta.

Early into the new millennium, Ford released its GT as a tribute to the GT40 and to establish itself in the supercar market. As reported in a Bonhams lot description of another Holman Moody Heritage Edition at auction in 2023, a total of 4,038 examples of the first-generation Ford GT were built. The second generation, designed to further showcase the automaker’s bleeding-edge engineering and aerodynamic applications, had model years from 2017 through 2022 and was limited to 1,350 cars. The Holman Moody version, debuted at the 2022 New York International Auto Show, was limited to only 21 examples.

Each carbon-fiber Holman Moody homage features a 647 hp, 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission—a power train that enables the car to reach a top speed of 216 mph. Bolstering the drive dynamics are a hydraulic-suspension system and aero enhancements that include a deployable rear wing.

Specific to the Holman Moody Heritage Edition is the gold livery complemented with touches of Heritage Red, Oxford White, and exposed carbon fiber, along with the original Le Mans finisher’s No. 5 festooned in multiple places. The specific example being presented has only 932 miles on it.

“At SBX Cars, we see a lot of special machines—but this Holman Moody Heritage Edition is on another level,” Gregg tells Robb Report. “It’s a celebration of victory, innovation, and rarity . . . ”

With only 14 days left for bidding, the reserve on this vehicle has yet to be met. As for an estimated value range, one is not cited, but the example offered through Bonhams a couple of years back was estimated to fetch between £900,000 and £1.1 million (approximately $1.21 million and $1.48 million). It should be noted, though, that the latter car, of which a sales result has not been made public, had only 20 delivery miles on the odometer.  

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