We found the boldly painted and wheeled Holman & Moody nestled amongst a Boss 302 and some Mustang GTs at Jack Demmer Ford in Wayne, MI, and braved a slightly rainy afternoon to get our licks in.

A full restoration was completed in 2011, returning the car to its original #4 Holman-Moody Le Mans livery, making it a true representation of Ford’s engineering excellence from the era.

The car was entered in the famous Ford v Ferrari race by Holman-Moody with drivers Mark Donohue and Paul Hawkins, but only completed 12 laps before it was sidelined by a differential failure.

Back in 1969, the team at North Carolina–based Holman Moody developed 10 massively powerful 494 cubic-inch, big-block Ford V-8 motors for Andretti’s McLaren M6B Can-Am-series racer. Fast forward to ...