Ford Mustang Maxum GTP

The Ford Mustang Maxum GTP was an IMSA GTP sports racing car designed by Paul Brown and constructed by Maxum Sports Cars, and Roush Racing operated it in the 1987 season. Maxum was founded by the Zakspeed manager Alan Smith, the designer Paul Brown and the engineer Dennis Aldred, with financial backing from John Shearer, to build a low cost customer car developed from the principles of the Zakspeed Ford Mustang GTP. The clean sheet design had wider underfloor venturi tunnels and a longer wheelbase, used its engine as a stressed structural member, and was designed, built and delivered in exactly 100 days, largely in Bolton, England. Roush debuted it at the 1987 24 Hours of Daytona, where a suspension failure ended its race, and its best reported finish was second overall at the Lime Rock Grand Prix. Later in 1987 it ran a 7 litre version of its Ford based V8. A lawsuit over the unpaid contract was settled out of court, and a third chassis later went into the LOTEC C1000.