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I'm super stoked about seeing this one. I'll wait 'till we can watch it at home, but man I am excited.
IMDb linky linky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h1_dy9kxvY

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Local car club is doing a car show/ pre party type thing on opening day. I know a few locals have Ferarris and Ford GTs but I rarely see either at the local car shows. I'm thinking of offering my left nut on trade for a FGT, see if i get any takers.

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The GT ate Ferraris lunch and shat on their living room floor.

God bless Carol Shelby.

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ZFG.

Not a car guy. Could care less.

But yay Hollywood for doing something that isn't a chick flick, scifi or action/guns.

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You really need to read " Go Like Hell" and watch "The 24 Hour War" to get a good feel of what the movie will be covering.

Both are excellent entertainment and informative as well.

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We are ready !!!!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/dXNe6YH.jpg

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ZFG.

Not a car guy. Could care less.

But yay Hollywood for doing something that isn't a chick flick, scifi or action/guns.

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If it’s anything close to being as good as Rush I’ll give it a watch.

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Sounds like it will be picketed by the SJW crowd for lack of a gay single parent trans-woman advocating for a climate change friendly carbon neutral sustainable living technology solution while trying to break through the racial, sexual, and class barriers of the affluent white euro-centric toxic male hegemony of professional auto racing, all while raising an adorable adopted Autistic child of opium addicted parents with gender confusion issues.

Sounds about right for our media Lords & Masters...

Or it could be about a couple of American hands-on guys who said, "Fnck It!  Let's take on the Best and Beat them..."

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This.

It's Hollywood, and having lived my early years while it was all going on, then looking back restrospectively with a lot more information, I'm afraid they are going to eff it up some. But it can't be as stupid as Burns doing Vietnam, so, meh. When it comes around.

The story is a great framework to tell of the immense technical advances of the 60's - GT and Indy were the dominant forms of racing, with Ferrari making small high rpm motors in luxury sports cars dominant on their turf, and Indy being largely supercharged Offy four cylinder and FRONT WHEEL DRIVE racers, driver sitting almost on the back axle.

From there we went to Ferrari motors in open wheel mid  engines and the GT's to 427 TRUCK motors midengine. Shelby and the Cobras were a major step up, an exciting story, but a step to getting Carroll to running the GT program.

In point of fact, it took the Daytona Coupe to get there, and in testing the GT's at Rheims they used the coupe from LA as the rabbit to stress them out. And they ran it without major repairs while the GT's broke down - normal sorting out, Shelby's first races in the Cobras had plenty of it. By the time the Coupe was bodied the drivetrain had years of racing in it, so when it fired up, it was ready to run with little issues. Other than the back inboard discs. That was part of a major fire at Daytona.

Sorting the GT's at Rheims led to the Italians contracted to body the other Coupes to be delayed, they took off building the first sans any blueprints and the result was the second being kinda larger, which Dan Gurney got as he fit it better. His USAC crew having talent in depth made it a winner even tho the aero was slighty diminished.

That season as the hand drawn hand hammered Coupe on the old 50s transverse spring front end winning against Ferrari with just the advantage of another 1,000 cc's of engine - not even overhead cam - is the turning point from old school tech to the new school rapidly coming to the field. The 427 GT's were actually the last dying gasp of conventional motors being capable of winning a Championship. We are talking a truck motor run on a dyno simulating 24 hours of LeMans, breaking, getting improved parts, until it could survive, mostly, under real racing loads. Up to then a computer aided dyno run in testing, and the cad cam GT chassis and aero were unknown.

Mixed blessings if you consider it. The modern car now has tech that designers were only dreaming about. The wife's Buick is direct injection with variable cam timing. They made a turbo version. Nothing like that existed in the 60's.

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The GT ate Ferraris lunch and shat on their living room floor.

God bless Carol Shelby.

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We are ready !!!!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/dXNe6YH.jpg

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I’m looking forward to the sequel “Porsche smokes them all”

https://i2.wp.com/s3.amazonaws.com/scardigest/wp-content/uploads/Porsche-917-KH-Attwood.jpg

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Looks like a different theatre is giving free admission to the first 80 hot rods Friday evening so they can have an impromptu car show before the movie. Will probably go.

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The trailers suck, the movie is very good.

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I’m gonna be on this like a duck on a junebug.

I’ve been a Shelby fan since I read this

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/172294/06F9F326-F545-4C69-A9CE-0FE97F46BF29-1154547.jpg

as a girl in the mid-seventies; the GT40 has been my grail car every since.

Shelby is generally remembered as a constructor and entrepreneur.  But he was first a successful driver, winning at Le Mans in the late fifties for Aston Martin with a Brit whose name I can’t recall, before coming back in ‘66 to beat Enzo Ferrari’s arrogant, Eye-talian ass into the dirt with an American hot rod and a Ford engine. You know that had to make the latter want to eat his own liver.

I’ve read recently that Shelby might not have been the world’s nicest guy - he went through wives like oats through a goose - but I don't care. He got shit done, and America could vastly benefit from ten or fifteen million more men like him. Instead of piddling around with various inconsequential, money making projects in his later years, he should have been put out to stud.

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Not with that commie asshole in it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n37qHXxxC3U/U0pVT6WihrI/AAAAAAAADuw/ckTDm8PpXA0/s1600/matt-damon-team-america.gif