All right, CC Sears, Ford GT 40. You know, with all these cars, when you're out driving them, it's important to know how to operate them, but you also got to know the story, and you're not going to get away with driving this car around New York City and not getting blasts of the question. So a little bit of history, and then we'll get to show you actually how this thing works. So this car, probably one of the most is not the most famous car in motorsport history. It was born out of a great story of motorsport and business rivalry. So early 60s, word was out that Ferrari might be looking to sell Henry Ford put several million dollars into some due diligence looking into buy Ferrari, and he was going to move forward to the deal at the last minute when he told Enza that he couldn't be the head of motorsport and he didn't want Ferrari's competing with Ford's on American soil. Ferrari pulled the deal, and one of the biggest business and motorsport rivalry blew out of it. Ford's answer to that was if he couldn't buy Ferrari, he was going to go beat Ferrari at that race, at their own race. So they had been dominating Le Mans for a long time. And he said, I'm going to build a car, I'll beat those guys at Le Mans. And that's exactly what he did. Ford GT 40, 1966, 67, 68, and 69, and one Le Mans. And ours is paying homage, this is a replica, of course. We don't have the real one, it would be several millions, if not tens of millions, dollars. ours is a replica of the chassis 1075 that won two years in a row, 68 and 69, in the Gulf livery. So a really important car, really awesome motor sport history. And while it is a replica, it's built really true to the spirit of the original same kind of motor and chassis. And this is as close as you'll ever get to driving one of these, you know, multi-million dollar, 60s Le Mans cars, especially on the road, it's an awesome experience. We'll take you a little closer and have a look and show you everything works. Again, just a bit more about what it's got. People are going to say what engine does it have. This has a built up Ford Racing 302. The later cars in Le Mans were, you know, 4.9 liter, so 289. So it's again true to the spirit of the motor, the original car. It's actually built though, unlike most American V8s, the thing does rev a fair amount. It'll go, you know, 6 or 6,500 RPM. It's got four down two barrel, down draft Weber carburetors on it, so you get this real kind of classic vintage, you know, clack sound when you get on the throttle. We'll hear that in a minute. Yeah, big fat tire is lots of grip, it's just you move the road. Before we get in the car, really quickly, basic stuff, fuel caps on the outside, just flip that up and go straight down the tank. There's one on each side, they are separate tanks, they need to be filled separately. You know, this filler does a 90 degree turn directly below here, so you don't want to pour fuel into you quickly, it'll kind of gurgle up, you get to take it easy and go slowly. So even if you're in New Jersey and the guys are trying to pump it before you get out and try to help them so they don't flood things with gas. Now we're going to take you inside and do everything else works. So this car, far and away, is going to be the most unique driving experience you have at the club. With that, you know, everything about it is a bit different, requires a bit of handling. And you know, it's not the car to take the fiance for a romantic weekend away, you know, to the beach. There's no luggage space, it's hard, fast, loud and comfortable. It's everything that makes a sports car good. This is the most extreme part of it. So take it on an occasion where you can just go out for a day, you know, with a friend or somewhere that's really into this stuff and good driving some great roads, up to bare mountain and bring it back. The weekend trip in this car would be a brave move, it can be done, but just know you're getting in for. Getting into it, massive sills, the fuel tanks are on both sides, so you have to step over the fuel tank to get in. That's why the doors are cut out so far. When it comes to starting it, this is your security system. There's no locks, so this is the battery kill switch and you put it in here, turn it to the right to give the car power. Put the key in, up here, turn it to finish getting powder and then you hit the start button. You know, starting from cold, you turn the key, makes sure your fuel pumps on, you hear the pump go and just hit the start button and maybe one pump of the gas when it's cold. Then kind of feather the gas to catch it. You really do have to manage the equipment here. A good friend of ours runs a used to run a business called Sailtime and when he did our orientation, he gave me a really good phrase. He said, you're the captain of your vessel and that means you have to take care of knowing everything that's going on in the car and know what you're operating. So you do have to manage things as you go. There's a whole array of toggle switches here. All of them are off in the up position. So just to run you through them quickly, you've got fan, which is a cooling fan, that should come on on its own. This is an override to force it to come on. So if you saw the temperature getting over 90 degrees Celsius and the fan wasn't coming on, which would be indicated by this yellow light here, you can flip that down and turn on. Hazard lights, pre-self explanatory. AC, so this is AC cooling and heat. So up is heat, the middle is vent down is AC and then this dial here is to do the fan control to blow the air around. AC works, it's actually really cold, but there's no regulation of temperature, so I find you'll put on AC and you'll end up toggling back and forth between AC and vent to manage the temperature. So up is off, middle is parking, down is headlights, there's high beams and blinkers on the stock. Fuel, you have two separate fuel tanks, each of their own pump. So again, up is off, middle is the driver side tank and pump and down is the passenger side tank and pump. Without that on, you have no fuel, so you have to always be in the middle or down position when you're running the car. Keepers, just different wiper speeds, probably something you'll never have to use in this car because it's not something you want to be driving the rain. Over here there's a windshield washer and horn button that's up there, so keep that in mind with your horn's air. So rear rear mirror, pretty pointless, I'm just looking at the velocity stacks in the motor, you can't see anything at the back of this car. So when the ignition is on you push this button and a little rear view display will come up, we have a rear view camera. It's actually pretty useful, just going on the highway knowing what's around you because these mirrors are pretty limited and the visibility back is non-existent. Gearbox, it's a six-speed gear box, normal H-pattern. Reverse is up into the left as well and it's right next to first, so I find the best way to not end up accidentally reverse is to pull down into second first and then just go straight up. The clutch is like an on-off switch, it's a pretty heavy racing clutch and there's basically no way to pull away smoothly, it has to kind of commit to it, maybe give it a little feather or the gas to keep it running. There's a few more things to keep in mind once it is running. The alternator is under-driven, so at a idle, if you look at the voltage here, you have to be 12 volts or higher to be charging the battery. And at a idle with some accessories on, this will drop down to 10. So the best thing to do if you do get sucking some traffic, you're sitting at a stoplight for a minute, you always want to be thrown in neutral when you're in a stopgut traffic anyways. And just give it a few revs once in a while to bring up the RPM and get some charge in the battery. It is possible to run the battery dead with the car running at idle, so you do have to manage that a bit. Once you're on the road and moving and you're up in the higher RPMs, it will be charging fine, it's not a problem. But it's deliberately under-driven, so it won't burn up at a higher RPM. That's about it really. Take your time to get oriented with it. It's a lot of car to take in. It's going to feel really foreign, especially getting out of the city and traffic and tight corners and low visibility. But once you get out on the open road, it's actually a pretty nice car to drive. I mean, solid direct. It doesn't shake around. You can manage it pretty well. But get yourself ready for it, get that motor sport spirit. Remember this is a serious bit of equipment. So you want to be serious about how you're post driving it and be deliberate with everything you're doing. Nothing to abrupt. There's no traction control, no ABS. Nothing to save you if you go wrong. So you want to be smooth, you know, brake the car in a straight line, get it settled, down and steering, and only start squeezing on the gas. You can see you head out of the corner and do only squeeze on the gas. The thing is, probably something sub 2500 pounds and has 450 horsepower V8 in the back. So if you do boot the throttle even just quarter to half throttle quickly, it's going to step out the back end and you don't want to be caught out in the car. So respect the machinery and know you're getting into, but enjoy it. It's going to be an awesome ride.