Ford v Ferrari races into theaters on Nov. 15.

[Mike I]

Originally Posted by Jdata

I guess you need to blame RCR.. they built 28 cars for the movie

Why would you suggest RCR is to blame? That's a ridiculous thing to say. If you want to speculate on who's to blame, start with the producer and the studio, they likely didn't want to pony up for one last accurate replica. No one replicates the J car, so it would have been a one-off custom build for about 10 seconds of film. I understand the business decision, but it was disappointing they didn't take it across the finish line.

[Blas]

I don't think the scene was meant to be about the "J" Car. Like was said, for 10 seconds of screen time.... Maybe they tried to just illustrate a "different car" in some way from the cars seen earlier in the movie to the uneducated viewer.

To me that scene really put closure to the movie and immortalized Ken Miles.
Blas

[Igofastr]

Originally Posted by Mike I

Why would you suggest RCR is to blame? That's a ridiculous thing to say. If you want to speculate on who's to blame, start with the producer and the studio, they likely didn't want to pony up for one last accurate replica. No one replicates the J car, so it would have been a one-off custom build for about 10 seconds of film. I understand the business decision, but it was disappointing they didn't take it across the finish line.

I spoke with one of the stunt drivers Friday (Tony Hunt). He said that they used a mixture of cars from Superformance and RCR. He ended up buying the Superformance 289 slabside "hero car" (#98, one of three, actually, but the one used for driving in the movie).

I was disappointed at the treatment of Phil Remington. He was a genius who made important contributions, but was made to look like an old dweeb. I know this wasn't the "Phil Remington" movie, but they didn't have to do that.

[eschaider]

Originally Posted by Igofastr

... I was disappointed at the treatment of Phil Remington. He was a genius who made important contributions, but was made to look like an old dweeb. I know this wasn't the "Phil Remington" movie, but they didn't have to do that.

As was I, Ron.

Phil Remington was the genius that made it happen for all the cars, 289, USRRC, 427, Daytona coupe and of course the GT40. The Shelby story would have been very different without Remington. His contributions are right up there with the very best at Shelby American — in a word the man was simply, brilliant!

Perhaps Shelby's greatest strength was recognizing raw talent, seducing it to play in his sand box and then motivating some of the most gifted people the sport has ever seen to work together as the unprecedented machine that was Shelby American.

There is so much more to be told about the Shelby years and certainly enough for many more movies.


Ed