Lunn and his team had done well.  From a promising but unproven concept, to development of the first 200 mile an hour sports racing coupe in under a year spoke well of those efforts in that small shop outside London. 
One of the amusing aspects of this was the press story that Ford had used their first super computer to assist in the development of the car.  This seemed to lend an air of omnipotent scientific mystery to the effort. 
    We can look back from here and appreciate that with less processing power than a car alarm the development of the Ford GT was far less Computer Aided Design, and far more sweat and wrenches.

   And…Iacocca was right. That generation was just over the horizon in 1960. More cars were sold in 1963 than at any point in automotive history. That is until 1964, ’65 & ’66.

Detroit modifications for Daytona ’65…on the way to the Mark II.