Cool car of the week

Photo courtesy of Colin Comer

This is my first installment of what I plan to be a weekly column titled Cool Car of the Week. Every week I'm going to pick my favorite car from all the great classic cars I see at the various car shows, cruise nights, races or auction I attend throughout the week. If you think you saw a cooler car than the one I feature here, submit it to me at canatinkle@yahoo.com.

This past weekend I attended the Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America in Elkhart Lake. As one of the biggest vintage events in the country, the KIC features world class road racing with historic and vintage sports racers, Indy cars, Can-Am cars, Trans-Am cars and more, including yours truly in a Group 3 1959 Austin Healey Sprite. Needless to say, there was certainly no shortage of cool cars to pick from. For any car lover this weekend embodies the proverbial kid in a candy store feeling. Albeit with very shiny, expensive, rare candy.

Every year the KIC has a feature car. This year that car was none other than the iconic Ford GT40. You know the story, right? Ford was set to buy Ferrari. Ferrari changed their mind. Ford make it there mission to build a car to beat Ferrari at LeMans. And so they did. Build the car and beat Ferrari, that is.

So as not to keep you in suspense any longer, as if it weren't already obvious, the cool car of the week is the group of original Ford GT40s that showed up at the KIC. If you get a chance to see one original GT40 consider yourself lucky. But two dozen, including the LeMans winning car, is nothing short of an automotive world miracle.

 

 

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