Gulf Livery

If there are two things that symbolize Ford performance cars more than anything else, it’s the Mustang, and the iconic blue and orange Gulf livery that was worn by the Le Mans winning Ford GT40 back in the late 1960s.

Ford has been creating Heritage Edition GTs for a while now wearing liveries that are throwbacks to past racing wins their team has racked up. Now, Ford Performance has announced that it will be making a 2019 Heritage Edition, car and the car will wear perhaps the most iconic of the racing liveries, that of the blue and orange Gulf cars. The special edition car has exposed carbon fiber on the outside, along with silver mirror caps and Brembo brake calipers painted orange.

McLaren’s MSO division has unveiled a very cool 675LT road car that it built for one lucky buyer. This 675LT wears a livery that was inspired by the 1996 Gulf-Davidoff GTX McLaren F1 GTR Longtail. McLaren says that the awesome paint job took over 1,000 hours to complete by hand. This probably isn’t the Gulf livery you might typically think of – a completely powder blue car with orange stripes and trim.

I’d wager we have all done something silly behind the wheel of a car that we really knew better than to do. Sometimes things happen. Mine came one Saturday at the racetrack after changing the brake pads on my Mustang to race compound pads in the August Texas heat.