GO see Ford vs Ferrari movie

Gurney was definitely a bad ass. Imagine driving over 200 at Le Mans at night with your helmet jammed into a bubble. His line of sight was probably more roof than windshield.

One of our local car dealers has a show every year. Being a Ford fan I had to check out the Ford GT that was there, first time I had been that close to one. There also was a very late model McLaren there as well. Sadly the Ford seemed more like a kit car along side the fit and finish of the McLaren. So many Porsche’s and Ferrari’s they started to blend in like Toyota’s and Honda’s. I must be getting old, but the new Corvette looks interesting. I have to wonder how they are going to get the price to start at 60. I think my Avalanche was somewhere near that and it sure has a lot of plastic in it.

Get your wallets out.
https://www.powernationtv.com/post/gt40-driven-by-christian-bale-in-ford-v-ferrari-heading-to-auction

A friend of mine's dad owned and raced this GT40 back in the 70's.
I remember sitting in it and thinking how the hell can anyone drive this.
My head was jammed into the roof and my feet were squeezed together in the footwell and I could barely get in and out of it. The guys that raced these where badass!

I have yet to talk with anyone who saw this movie that did not like it a lot.
Of course most of my friends are Car People with toys in the garage but many of the wifes loved it.

Riley, Ferrari did not want the change in engines, it was the sanctioning body, they had cars approaching 230 MPH and big worries about danger. They cut the engine to 5.0L.

It actually pissed Ferrari off because their whole engine program had been upgraded to beat the 427 Ford.   Ferrari pulled completely out of Lemans for the next year due to this rule change. They had other teams that Ran Ferrari cars but were not part of the factory team.
Those guys were all left hung out to dry due to Ferrari pulling out.
The only Ferrari's to run that year were older models that ran the smaller engines and were not Factory supported. At least that is what I read.   
There were other classes that allowed the larger engines, there were 2 teams that entered in 427 Corvettes but they were a factory stock type class where the GT40 was an unlimited class.
I have heard before that Ferrari asked for the rule change but according to what I read today that was not the case.

Riley wrote: I am looking forward to seeing the movie. Did the movie show that Ferrari went to Lemans and get the 427 disqualified for the next year? Gary what's wrong with giving money to Matt Damon?

If you watch the YouTube link to the Carol Shelby interview, he did mention that the 427 was disqualified for '68 and '69, but, Ford won anyway with the 289 (or similar small block). He mentioned that by then Ford was able to get similar power and reliability out of the small block as the big block. Didn't something similar happen in NASCAR with the Dodge Daytona wing and/or Hemi engine back around '70?

Shelby also mentioned in the interview that he was the one that wanted the three Fords to cross the line together but he has felt guilt all these years about Miles not winning because of that. If he had let Ken stretch his legs and run, he would have won the Triple Crown of the races associated with LeMans (forget what they are). He also talked about that fact that he was sick of the politics at Ford by '68 and was checked out. He just wanted to go to Africa and see the country while it was still Africa.

Okay, I am rambling. Got to go. Dames and I are heading to the airport to take my G4 to a Trump rally with the wives tonight!! I just told him to keep quiet and act. We could care less about each others politics.   

I am looking forward to seeing the movie. Did the movie show that Ferrari went to Lemans and get the 427 disqualified for the next year? Gary what's wrong with giving money to Matt Damon?

davidg wrote: Absolutely! Saw it last weekend. Fantastic movie.

Wow just wow. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought you of all people would be giving your hard earned money to Matt Damon. You win the lottery or something?
I liked the part where Ford - through their Jaguar division spanked Ferrari hard from 2000 through 2004 in F1

Saw this movie Tuesday night. Had to talk my wife into going. She is not a car nut.
She liked it more than I did, thought it was a great movie and asked me questions about the accuracy all the way home.
I really enjoyed it and took it for what it was. Pure entertainment although most of the information on Miles was pretty accurate.
Kind of funny to be looking at a 427 Ford FE engine with 8 Webbers on it and they were talking about it bogging due to the vacuum secondaries on the Holley Carb?
Also at one point they were racing in 1964 and the Corvette chasing them had a 1967 stinger hood, it only showed briefly.
This is nit picking though.   Great Movie, so far all guys I talked to about it were surprized how much the ladies liked it.

Heads up. Go see ford vs Ferrari. It is worthy.