Alan Mann Racing

Believe it or not, this '65 Mustang will be coming to a race track near you very soon!

Sourced and collected by Alan Mann Racing, this right-hand-drive Ford Mustang was then stripped in our workshop, and sent away for acid dipping to reveal the true condition of its bodywork.

Upon its return, the FIA-approved roll cage was then fabricated and fitted, and the final dry build and fabrication work was completed in-house.

Next step is paint - but what colour would you like to see this one? 🎨

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5th May 1968: The global competition debut of the Twin-Cam Es**rt - at Zolder, Belgium, for the fifth round of the 1968 European Touring Car Challenge.

Alongside the #56 Es**rt, driven to victory that day by Frank Gardner, Alan Mann Racing also entered the #55 Mk2 Ford Cortina (likely CTC 24E), driven by Richard Attwood.

Having secured an overall win at Austria's Flugplatz Aspern, earlier that year, in the hands of Frank Gardner - followed by two ETCC retirements at Snetterton and Belgrade, the Grote Prijs van Limburg marked the last ever competitive outing for Alan Mann's red-and-gold Cortinas. Attwood finished 11 seconds behind Gardner's Es**rt - making it a remarkable 1-2 finish for Alan Mann Racing.

This was both a farewell and a beginning; the Ford Cortina took to the circuit one final time. Having secured dozens of victories for Alan Mann Racing between 1963 and 1968 in the UK, Europe and USA - including a European Touring Car Championship title for Sir John Whitemore in 1966, it had redefined touring car racing - lifting wheels and hearts in equal measure. But as one legend bowed out, another cleared its throat.

The debut of the Ford Es**rt Twin-Cam at Zolder signalled a new era, and it would go on to become an icon in its own right, dominating circuits across the UK and Europe - most notably, in the hands of Australian Frank Gardner, who secured the 1968 British Touring Car Championship with Alan Mann Racing's XOO 349F.

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X-GT3, one of only five lightweight GT40 chassis delivered by Abbey Panels to Alan Mann Racing, and one of only three factory examples of a Ford GT40 MkII produced with a lightweight chassis, is going across the auction block later today with Mecum Auctions in Kissimmee 🇺🇸

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