I don't know how many of you read what Ford posted a couple weeks ago about the GT-40 project.
Will have to go looking for the info. They opened their vault and pulled out some of the real info on the project. They actually still have all of the engineering drawings for the cars.
They made a statement cut and pasted from the article.
"The film is a piece of entertainment, first and foremost. It's what I would characterize as a dramatic reinterpretation of history," says Jay Ward, Ford director of Europe product communications and public affairs.
Should have a link in a day or so from the MOM. They had a weekend thing last week for the GT-40. They also had some speakers attend and one was Lee Holman. They did record it and will put up for everyone to hear more of a real version of what happened.
I have not seen the movie will probably wait for it to come to TV, lol.
I sat and talked with Lee Holman a couple times he loves to tell tales about Shelby and how little he did.
I ask Lee why he never got into driving and he said his dad told him that was not his job. He did get the job of seating the brakes on all the cars at Le Mans.
He also talked about his dad getting tired of seeing the last 12 complete cars sitting in Charlotte. I think he wanted $140,000 for 12 complete running cars. Lee said he went to bank and to get loan his dad would have to sign. His dad said Hell No I want them gone if you buy they will stay here. They also had bodies stacked up out back. One of our members here use to go to Holman & Moody when he was a boy. He said he use to go play in the piles of GT-40's out back.
More or less Ford Engineers did all the details and Holman & Moody made the cars run, handle and have durability. Shelby never could. The engineer that had the project at Ford is still alive, Mose Noland.
Here is link to the Ford info.
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/julie-hinds/2019/11/08/ford-ferrari-real-story-christian-bale-matt-damon/2521424001/
