An American automaker delivered a historic 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans in 1966, defeating Ferrari and reshaping endurance racing history.

As great as European cars are, these U.S.-built machines beat them at their own game and proved American designers and engineers could match and sometimes beat their European rivals.

While Ford mulls over the possibility of an all-new supercar, we at least have the track-only Ford GT Mk IV to show us just what the Blue Oval is capable of at the very highest level of performance.