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Originally Posted by tomshep
I'll bring this back to the top....saw it today and really enjoyed it.
I will be the first to admit I am not an expert on the Shelby Team from the 60s but I did feel the general content was good. I enjoyed the nostalgia of many scenes and look forward to watching it again at home where I can observe the background action.
I would like to have seen them include a little more history of the failed 64 effort prior to Shelby getting involved to show how he inherited the program and made it successful. I also would have liked more inclusion of how the Ford/Shelby relationship started with the Cobra and grew into the GT40 program.
Few items I had never read/heard and I would like to know if accurate:
1) Was Shelby on fire when driving at LeMans?
2) Is the "wrench" accurate?
3) Was Beebe locked in Shelby's office at LAX?
4) Any credibility to the Ferrari stopwatch/bolt at LeMans?
And, what happened to Miles wife and son?
Tom
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From what I could find I don't think the "wrench" incident was a real event and locking Beebe in Shelby's office didn't happen. Don't know about the others. From what I could find on the internet (always risky business) there were a lot of liberties taken with the whole Carroll Shelby vs Ford story. Some of the incidents had a real basis but they were portrayed out of actual chronological order and/or over-hyped. Shelby was actually in agreement on the 1-2-3 finish although regretted it later when Miles got screwed. The test drive with Ford II didn't happen - at least as portrayed. Events over 2 - 3 years in the GT40 program development and early competition were hugely compressed in time and shuffled around some in the movie. What I found said the actual race events were actually portrayed very correctly although it was raining at the finish. Don't know about the stop watch and loose bolt - but somehow I suspect some of that may not be completely made up.
I also thought it was a great movie and worth seeing again.