1965 Indianapolis 500 -- Item 867
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Even before Jim Clark's groundbreaking 1965 win in a rear-engine Lotus-Ford, the rear-engine layout gained favor at the Indianapolis 500. A.J. Foyt, who'd won the 1964 race with a traditional front-engine car, switched to a rear-engine Lotus-Ford for 1965. Foyt qualified that year with a new record of 161.958 miles per hour, but he suffered a broken gearbox during the race.
Even before Jim Clark's groundbreaking 1965 win in a rear-engine Lotus-Ford, the rear-engine layout gained favor at the Indianapolis 500. A.J. Foyt, who'd won the 1964 race with a traditional front-engine car, switched to a rear-engine Lotus-Ford for 1965. Foyt qualified that year with a new record of 161.958 miles per hour, but he suffered a broken gearbox during the race.
Artifact
Digital image
Subject Date
May 1965
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.158.317.14282
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Technique
Digital imaging
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 1795 pixel
Width: 1204 pixel
Resolution: 72 dpi
Depth: 24 bit
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