The name of Ford's project, and the serial numbers dispel the story that " GT40 " was " only a nickname.

The GT40 name is currently licensed for use by the Pathfinder Motorsports GT40 / R Competition, which is built by Hi-Tech in South Africa, which also builds street version models of the GT40.

Carroll Shelby sold the Cobra name to Ford in 1965 and went on to develop the famed racing Ford GT40.

The GT is similar in outward appearance to the original Ford GT40 cars, but bigger, wider, and taller than the original ; as a result, a potential name for the car was the GT43.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

" In some versions, such as the French ( Le Guide Galactique ) and the Greek, Ford's name was changed to " Ford Escort.

In the novel, we are told that Ford's original name is " only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect " which was almost wiped out by the " Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal ./ Sid ./ Year 03758 ," a mysterious catastrophe which took place on the planet of Betelgeuse Seven and which Ford's father was the only man to survive.

The Town of Lake View was originated as Ford's Mill, and the name was changed to Page's Mill in 1870.

The decision to name the new car the " Ford Focus " was made in early 1998, as Ford's overheads had been planning to keep the " Escort " nameplate for its new generation of small family cars.

The name E-M-F was gleaned from the initials of the three company founders: Barney Everitt ( a custom auto-body builder from Detroit ), William Metzger ( formerly of Cadillac ), and Walter Flanders ( who had served as Henry Ford's production manager ).

In 1871, Ford's Grand Opera House opened, followed three years later by the Academy of Music ; this new Academy of Music shared the name with the Peabody Institute's organization, but in the same year changed to the Conservatory of Music.

The name was used for the top models in Ford's full-size range from 1959 until 1961, in a marketing attempt to appeal to the excitement surrounding the Space Race.

1959 saw the introduction of the Galaxie name in Ford's model lineup at mid-year.

For 1962, the Galaxie name was applied to all of Ford's full size models, as the Fairlane moved to a new intermediate and Custom was temporarily retired.

By 1970 Torino had become the primary name for Ford's intermediate, and the Fairlane was now a subseries of the Torino.

Most of Ford's literature at the time only used the name " Cobra " without Torino or Fairlane attached.

Developed under the code name " EA169 ", AU adopted Ford's New Edge styling, which was meant to differentiate it from the " conformist " styling prevalent in the 1990s.

The name change accommodated Ford's strategy to rename all their cars to words beginning in F. The Freestar and its twin, the Mercury Monterey, were built in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

It was no longer competitive as Japanese makes had finally adopted the layout and size of the class-defining Chrysler minivans, and its early retirement also contributed to Ford's financial problems, as they had also discontinued the Taurus, Thunderbird, Ford GT and renamed the Ford Five Hundred back to " Taurus ", a name more familiar to the buying public, reversing the " F " naming strategy which had failed.

The Capri name was also used by Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division on six different models which did not bear the Ford name.

As part of Ford's sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors, the Rover brand name was included in the deal, as well as the Daimler and Lanchester marques.

Ford's Mustang, which significantly outsold the Barracuda, gave to this type of vehicle its colloquial name " pony car ", but the Barracuda fastback's release on 1 April 1964 beat the Mustang by two weeks.

The 1969 Ford Talladega was based on the Fairlane Cobra " Sportsroof " ( Ford's trade name for a fastback ) 2-door hardtop.

It is also briefly mentioned by Harrison Ford's character in the 1992 film of the same name.

From 1973, the Ghia name became Ford's top trim-level in its mainstream model range.