One of just 31 produced, this 1966 GT40 MkI, P/1034, is the first of the so-called production road cars delivered to a private owner and the first delivered in the U.K. Finished in Pine Green (“with no lines on rocker panels,” according to the factory build sheet), 1034 was ordered with a Weber-equipped 289 HiPo engine and ZF 5-speed transaxle and optioned with a heated windscreen, reverse lights, clock, fender mirrors, dual fuel gauges and “road car” silencers. Its road trim included full carpeting, non-perforated leather seats and leather door pouches. Like most road GT40s, it also incorporated chromed Borrani knockoff wire wheels. Although not listed on the build sheet, the car also featured louvered grilles over the radiator outlets, screens over the body side intakes and unique placement of the “FORD” lettering on the nose. Completed in 1965 and delivered on March 17, 1966, it was presented to its first owner, James Fielding of Gloucester, England, by Ford Motor Company’s then-ambassador, Jackie Stewart. Fielding, the chairman of Heenan & Froude, the company that manufactured the dynamometers used for testing GT40s, kept the car for more than five years. After persistent inquiries, Fielding finally sold 1034 to his neighbor Paul Weldon in exchange for a Rolls-Royce. Weldon changed the car’s color to British Racing Green and fitted wider rear bodywork to accommodate a change to wide orange BRM-style six-spoke wheels and correspondingly wider rear tires. One of the original members of the GT40 Owners Club, Weldon vintage raced the car throughout England in the early 1970s. In 1973, Weldon entered and won a GT40 concours event at Brands Hatch, took part in that year’s Le Mans pre-race parade and ran a six-hour relay race at Silverstone, demonstrating the GT40’s sporting versatility. In mid-1974 Weldon traded 1034 to Anthony Hutton as part payment for Mirage M10001; Hutton soon thereafter sold it to Australian George Parlby, who raced the car regularly in Australia, including at Amaroo Park. The GT40 was then repainted in the famed Powder Blue and Marigold Gulf livery of the double Le Mans-winning P/1075, in which it appeared in the Adelaide Grand Prix Support Historic Race in 1985 and 1986. P/1034 was subsequently acquired by Harley Cluxton of Arizona, then Rob Walton of Arkansas, who completed the Copperstate 1000 tour with the car in 1993. (It is no coincidence that Walton’s father, Walmart founder Sam Walton, then owned P/1075.) After a brief time with noted GT40 collector George Stauffer, in 1995 the car was purchased by German Peter Rössler, who
