This week's video on Carroll Shelby makes me happy. He's a real hero of mine. If you're new to the channel, welcome, and please subscribe as I have new mini-movie car documentaries weekly. And here's last week's video on the history of VW ruclips.net/video/SZ373qU_f7I/видео.html
I met Carroll at Monterey one year. I wanted my photograph taken with him, but he was reluctant because he was in such a hurry. I got the shot! - If there's one thing I learned about Carroll Shelby, he was all about work, work, work, work, work, work amd work. The only other person I know who works as hard to be successful in racing is Chip Ganassi. He pulled off the 24-hour GT40 wins at Le Mans as well as Daytona. Chip is everywhere all the time. I really don't know how he does it, but he does it!
Watch Adam Corolla’s biography about Carroll. He was a character. One of his kids was asked about how. Many times his dad was married. He said that his dad had a different wife every time he came over and didn’t know how many wives that he had. None of his exes seemed to be mad at him.
I saw Carroll Shelby racing many times during his years with Aston Martin I am pleased to say. I never knew the early history of Shelby, this was very interesting. ❤
The first thing I saw was that line on this ear and I thought he's got a heart problem and then the narrator said said it. He's got a poor heart. What a legend. Rip .
We get warning signs from our bodies when things are about to happen to us I've just learnt some over the years having lost a very close friend and dear to me and to others.
Shelby was one of the greatest it's a shame for don't have somebody like him again but they still make the Shelby which is a great amazing car just a shame that they're so expensive
Sorry, American doesn’t have that culture anymore. Now they’re a bunch of soy boy sissy’s If you want men like Carol Shelby get rid of the sissies And start treating men like men again
I own and daily drive a 2003 Mustang GT 4.6L 5 speed, it’s as close as I’m going to get to a cobra for now. I love driving it. The new edge mustang is a good but still but they are getting harder to find cheap.
Man with an unquenchable spirit for competition and speed. I was always told that the AC Cobra began as a British made AC Bristol which had to be widen, lengthen and modified to accommodate the much larger American V8. And the GT 40 referred to a roof height of less than his belt height which was 40" from the ground. Whatever the motivation, both vehicles look incredible and I dream of owning either one.
I was Shelby fan since a child. The only one I have owned was a 83 Dodge charger. In it's time. It was a fast light weight Co-cart. It handled very well. I could leave a muscle car, in the weeds through a twisted road. On a straight road I was toast.. I still have the desire to own a Shelby mustang.
Interesting, and lots of shots of Willow Springs - if you know what to look for. As for the the origin of the Cobra.... In the 1957 era, Ed Savin (Savin Motors, Los Angeles), bought the first AC Bristol imported to the Los Angeles area. Bob Oker raced the car for Savin. In 23 starts, Bob had 21 wins, a 2nd, and a crash. BTW, Savin's mechanic for the Bristol was Bill Rudd. He would go on to stellar performances tuning Joe Lubin's Aston Martin DB3S's and DBR2 (also driven by Bob Oker), before Rudd became chief mechanic for Bill Harrah, in Reno, NV. But I digress. Shelby, around 1960 was down and out, and had an idea.... He borrowed the chassis (less engine) of the Bristol from Savin, and brought it to his shop, a garage behind Moon Equipment in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. He shoehorned a 260 Ford V-8 engine into the chassis and proved it would fit (and should work), and that's where the association between AC in England and Ford in Dearborn began.... The rest is history. Finally, Shelby DID, in fact, drive both Ferrari's and Maserati's, besides his LeMans win in an Aston Martin DBR1. The specific Ferrari I'm familiar with (there were others), was a 4.9 liter Ferrari, owned by Frank Arciero and driven by Shelby, Dan Gurney and Bob Oker at different times. Thanks for keeping the 1950-60 era of motor sports alive. Carl..... Lotus 61 racer.
He also drove Max Balchowski's legendary Old Yeller II race car, aside from Shelby Max let Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and just about all the other famous US car racers from that era run it, years later when Phil Hill was ask what the greatest race car he ever drove was he said "Old Yeller II".
REALLY? Well, technically the car was an "AC." Bristol was the engine manufacturer, and over the last 66 years, I've always heard it called... "AC Bristol." Now there was the AC Ace, and I forget what other versions were called, but.... It's too bad I can't attach photos to a comment, or I'd inundate you with photos of "Ed Savin Motors" AC Bristol, that was driven by my best friends father, Bob Oker, to 21 wins, a 2nd, and a crash. Any other questions????@@sergeantmasson3669
Shelby was behind the Sunbeam Tiger, which preceded the Cobra and was a British 2-seat convertible in which engineered a Ford V-8 engine. However, Chrysler bought Sunbeam 2 years later and it didn't look good selling Chrysler built cars (Sunbeams) with Ford engines and the car was discontinued. So he had a track record when he approached Ford to build the Cobra.
One car that I always wanted to see, and finally did see it at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale Arizona was the personal Shelby Cobra that he built for himself. It was the last Cobra ever built, and it had the usual Ford 427 side oiler engine, but with twin Paxton superchargers and a Mickey Thompson cross ram manifold with twin Holley 4bbl carbs. . The car also had a Ford C-6 automatic transmission. It is the holy grail of original Cobras. As I remember, it went over the block at $2.5 million dollars, possibly $3 million, and the man who bought it was a collector from the Phoenix area. It was about a 2,000 pound car with about a 700 hp engine, and the buyer would sometimes take it out for a spin. With an out-of-sight power to weight ratio, the owner said the car was scarier than anything he'd ever driven, so it was just about right for Shelby himself.
I have so much love and respect for Carroll Shelby & Ken Miles and their chemistry together🤩 And the Ford GT40 is without a doubt the Coolest American car I've ever seen thanks to shelby and Miles's brilliant engineering and an advanced aerodynamic design!🏁🇺🇲
Shelby always used Ford motors in his cars, Cobra began with a 260, then 289, and finally 427-all Fords. And the GT40 had Ford V8s. So the day before LeMans Ford had him switch his Ford engines for…Ford engines??
A connoisseur of the original Fleming books might say Dalton was Fleming's Bond, but that Fleming's Bond works well in literature, not quite so well on the movie screen. Still, Dalton's take on it is interesting when consideration to the character as-written is taken.
Um... at 6 seconds that's a Ford Shelby Cobra GT. Not sure of the model, GT350 or GT500 because I can't see what's on the fender. The Ford GT was the GT40, not a Mustang. Just an FYI.
A car guy here, honestly, I'd love to call him a dick, but for what he had left behind, a brand of prestigious car with a prestigious racing team (that manages to fck up every race week), I wouldn't call him that, at least often.
Yea well that movie is so fictionalized about so many things it's not even funny, like the part where Miles crossed the finish line first but lost due to a technicality, the fact is McLaren crossed the finish line a good car length ahead of Miles. Don't believe it? Just Google "Pictures of 1966 Le Mans finish" and you can see it for yourself, the controversial thing is that after lining up for the one two three finish McLaren hit the gas at the last second and darted across the line ahead of Miles, it didn't end the way it did in the movie. Like any other historical events don't ever believe you've learned what happened from a Hollywood movie, they change things for "dramatic effect" all the time.
@@dukecraig2402 that's when all of the cars had already crossed the damn finish line. McLaren and Miles are Shelby's drivers, and they've been told by Ford to go for a photo finish. Hell, the statement "McLaren started further away hence the victory came for McLaren" wouldn't be there if McLaren won all the way further than Miles. Oh and by the way, the wiki noted that all 3 drivers finished in a dead heat, photo finish. Ken Miles' son Henry was directly involved in the movie as well, he knew how it ended. That's to say, you've seen the photo, but you haven't seen the full picture.
@@donnycorn3086 McLaren was not one of Shelby's drivers, he drove for another team. And they did not cross the finish line in a "dead heat", once again all you have to do is Google "picture of the finish of the 1966 Le Mans finish" and you will clearly see McLaren crossed the finish line a car length ahead of Miles, it's the picture where a French guy is waving a checkered flag, you can't miss it. I don't know about Miles son having anything to do with that movie since he criticizes it in a documentary about what happened in 66 after the movie came out, he himself talks about inaccuracies in it including the nonsense about his dad throwing a wrench at Shelby and the finish portrayed in the movie. Once again don't think you've learned about historical events because "you saw it in a movie", Ford vs Ferrari is highly fictionalized.
Ferrari got his ass kicked by a chicken farmer and a tractor builder. I'm starting to have second thoughts about Ferrari. - Early Indy cars used to be built and raced by midwestern farmers by the way. Their race garages of course we're Gasoline Alley which may have been in use throughout the year.
And Miles didn't even cross the finish line first as portrayed in the movie, McLaren actually did, but because of poor visibility due to the rain the track announcer screwed up and thought Miles crossed first and called it that way, in reality it was McLaren in the #2 car who crossed first a full car length ahead of Miles. Try telling people that and they get spitting mad and want to fight about it because of the way it was portrayed in that stupid movie.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Just Google "Picture of the finish of the 1966 Le Mans race" and you'll find out how wrong you are. McLaren's car can clearly be seen crossing the line a good car length ahead of Miles with the H&M team at least a car length maybe two behind Miles, you can't miss it, it's the picture with a French guy standing on the track waving a checkered flag. Sorry if you've got all your emotions tied up in Hollywood's version of things but it's incorrect, matter of fact the Hollywood version gets quite a bit wrong about the last part of the race and why Miles lost his 2½ lap lead after the last time the car pitted.
OK! I didn't know Enzo Ferrari managed to piss off Shelby too, along with Ford and Lamborghini. Is there a list of car makers available online, which were insulted by Enzo? 😂
If It wasn't for Shelby Ford wouldn't have won squat. Ford couldn't get the job done so they went to someone who could. The GT-40 should be re-named the Shelby GT because FORD had latterly nothing to do with the development of the car.
Not really, Hollman and Moody had far more to do with developing the GT40 than Shelby did, he wasn't even brought in until they'd already been racing them and basically just was involved with tuning and fine adjustments for the track, the movie completely fictionalized him being a part of developing the car, along with the finish of the 66 Le Mans race, Miles did not cross the finish line first and lose on a technicality, McLaren crossed the finish line at least a car length ahead of Miles, you can even Google pictures of the finish and clearly see McLaren an easy car length ahead of Miles crossing the finish line. The movie is highly fictionalized in many aspects of what really happened.
SORRY TO BE. PICKY... BUT YOU FORGOT. THE CAR THAT FOR ME. HAD MONENT. I WILL NEVER. FORGET... ..THE G T 350 R.....A REGULAR. GT 350. HAD A FEW. IMPROVEMENTS BUT. IT EAS NOT EVEN CLOSE. TO A RACE CAR.. ..THE GT 350R.. WAS. A REAL. HONEST TO GOD. RACE CAR.... ONE DIVERS SEAT...OVER 300 HORSES.....(JUST MAYBE 400PLUS) FULL ROLL CAGE....ALUMINUM INTERIOR....PL WE XIGLASS SLOTRED BACK WINDOW FIBRERGALASS HOOD AND IF I RENEMBER DOORS. ALUMINUM FENDERS....IT WENT ON AND ON.. I GOT TO GO 165. IN THE SHORT TRACK CAR....THE LONG TRACK CAR. WENT 175. .HAD A CHANCE TO BUY THE SHORT TRACK....BUT THE ACTUAL RACE DRIVER. WREAKED THE CAR CAUSE HE WANTED IT TOO....HE TOTALED IT
Shelby had no business competing with Ferrari at any level. I know it sounds good on a RUclips clip but there was no such rivalry. Ford on the other hand was different.
You might want to study up on the cobra, Daytona Coupe If not for a rock to the oil cooler having to slow the car to reduce the amount of oil, leakage and multiple pitstops to refill it in the 65, Le Mans race, the Daytona coupe would have beaten all of the Ferraris, including the prototypes
@@cashmoney7660 What's that got to do with my comment? Plus woulda shooulda don't count in endurance racing as you don't know the Daytona would've lasted the full 24 hours of racing had it not slowed down.
Lol, he did not stun Ferrari, Ferrari stunned Ford, making them spend millions to beat a small italian team from the North of Italy. Lol, Ferraris gatage was tge size of Henry Fords Office, yet Ford Needed Shelby, Engkabd and millions to be a little i Italian team that could not invest as they where bankrupt.
The three cars he made for Chrysler in the 80s were some ugly-ass cars. Then again, about every small car in the 80s was ugly-ass. The rest of his cars, though. Works of art. Especially the AC Cobra
Carrol shelby never made hes own car he developed crap English cars he was a kit car maker. He only beat ferrari cause he had a 500million budget from ford.
How many Ferrari's have you owned? When I was in high school the parking lot was full of Ford, Chevy and Chrysler V8 performance cars, high school kids could afford them, and despite all the mouth running people will do all day long they were plenty fast and more than any of the wannabe Ferrari owners could handle. What good is something like a Ferrari if they're so expensive you'll never own one? Might as well be a Saturn V rocket for that matter, some people actually like owning cars instead of just dreaming about owning them.
THE. MOST. WONDERFULL. TRUE. STORY. OF. CAROLL. BLESSED. BE. OUR. HERO. TO THIS. DAY. WE. REMEMBER HIM. AND HIS LEGACY IN THIS. WORLD. TKNS👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This week's video on Carroll Shelby makes me happy. He's a real hero of mine. If you're new to the channel, welcome, and please subscribe as I have new mini-movie car documentaries weekly. And here's last week's video on the history of VW ruclips.net/video/SZ373qU_f7I/видео.html
I met Carroll at Monterey one year. I wanted my photograph taken with him, but he was reluctant because he was in such a hurry. I got the shot! - If there's one thing I learned about Carroll Shelby, he was all about work, work, work, work, work, work amd work. The only other person I know who works as hard to be successful in racing is Chip Ganassi. He pulled off the 24-hour GT40 wins at Le Mans as well as Daytona. Chip is everywhere all the time. I really don't know how he does it, but he does it!
Watch Adam Corolla’s biography about Carroll. He was a character. One of his kids was asked about how. Many times his dad was married. He said that his dad had a different wife every time he came over and didn’t know how many wives that he had. None of his exes seemed to be mad at him.
The 24 Hour War and Shelby American by Carolla are excellent docs about the man
I saw Carroll Shelby racing many times during his years with Aston Martin I am pleased to say. I never knew the early history of Shelby, this was very interesting. ❤
Very cool!
@@jeanclaude5180 Late eighties.
Damn unc
@@AFN.90210 ong
The first thing I saw was that line on this ear and I thought he's got a heart problem and then the narrator said said it. He's got a poor heart. What a legend. Rip .
How tho?
We get warning signs from our bodies when things are about to happen to us I've just learnt some over the years having lost a very close friend and dear to me and to others.
So how does a line on an ear equate to a heart problem?
@Wargasm54, ask a doctor he would better explain it. Also, pins and needle feeling down the lèft arm is sign of imminent heart attack .
You ignored the fact that he was a WW2 bomber pilot. Before everything in your prelude.
Instructor and test pilot
Mr. Shelby lived a FULL life and changed automotive history. You have to respect a man who is able to live his life on his OWN terms!
Shelby was one of the greatest it's a shame for don't have somebody like him again but they still make the Shelby which is a great amazing car just a shame that they're so expensive
Sorry, American doesn’t have that culture anymore. Now they’re a bunch of soy boy sissy’s
If you want men like Carol Shelby get rid of the sissies
And start treating men like men again
I own and daily drive a 2003 Mustang GT 4.6L 5 speed, it’s as close as I’m going to get to a cobra for now. I love driving it. The new edge mustang is a good but still but they are getting harder to find cheap.
shame on shame for the shame 🥴🥴
@boboren8246, perfection doesn't come cheap.
@@sergeantmasson3669it also doesn’t come on a football ornament
As a tall skinny farm boy from Texas ... Shelby was my hero growing up. You forgot about the Omni GLHS, such a nerdy pocket rocket 👍
@TheRealCCSmith, Sunbeam Tiger also.
Man with an unquenchable spirit for competition and speed. I was always told that the AC Cobra began as a British made AC Bristol which had to be widen, lengthen and modified to accommodate the much larger American V8. And the GT 40 referred to a roof height of less than his belt height which was 40" from the ground. Whatever the motivation, both vehicles look incredible and I dream of owning either one.
Its a shame you never mentioned Ken Miles without whose car smarts and brilliance the GT40 would have never made it!
I was Shelby
fan since a child.
The only one I have owned was a 83 Dodge charger.
In it's time. It was a fast light weight
Co-cart. It handled very well.
I could leave a muscle car, in the weeds through a twisted road.
On a straight road I was toast..
I still have the desire to own a Shelby mustang.
Excellent Video! Keep it up
Interesting, and lots of shots of Willow Springs - if you know what to look for. As for the the origin of the Cobra.... In the 1957 era, Ed Savin (Savin Motors, Los Angeles), bought the first AC Bristol imported to the Los Angeles area. Bob Oker raced the car for Savin. In 23 starts, Bob had 21 wins, a 2nd, and a crash. BTW, Savin's mechanic for the Bristol was Bill Rudd. He would go on to stellar performances tuning Joe Lubin's Aston Martin DB3S's and DBR2 (also driven by Bob Oker), before Rudd became chief mechanic for Bill Harrah, in Reno, NV. But I digress. Shelby, around 1960 was down and out, and had an idea.... He borrowed the chassis (less engine) of the Bristol from Savin, and brought it to his shop, a garage behind Moon Equipment in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. He shoehorned a 260 Ford V-8 engine into the chassis and proved it would fit (and should work), and that's where the association between AC in England and Ford in Dearborn began.... The rest is history.
Finally, Shelby DID, in fact, drive both Ferrari's and Maserati's, besides his LeMans win in an Aston Martin DBR1. The specific Ferrari I'm familiar with (there were others), was a 4.9 liter Ferrari, owned by Frank Arciero and driven by Shelby, Dan Gurney and Bob Oker at different times.
Thanks for keeping the 1950-60 era of motor sports alive. Carl..... Lotus 61 racer.
He also drove Max Balchowski's legendary Old Yeller II race car, aside from Shelby Max let Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and just about all the other famous US car racers from that era run it, years later when Phil Hill was ask what the greatest race car he ever drove was he said "Old Yeller II".
@carlmclelland7624, AC Bristol never exported a car to the USA.
REALLY? Well, technically the car was an "AC." Bristol was the engine manufacturer, and over the last 66 years, I've always heard it called... "AC Bristol." Now there was the AC Ace, and I forget what other versions were called, but.... It's too bad I can't attach photos to a comment, or I'd inundate you with photos of "Ed Savin Motors" AC Bristol, that was driven by my best friends father, Bob Oker, to 21 wins, a 2nd, and a crash. Any other questions????@@sergeantmasson3669
Shelby was behind the Sunbeam Tiger, which preceded the Cobra and was a British 2-seat convertible in which engineered a Ford V-8 engine. However, Chrysler bought Sunbeam 2 years later and it didn't look good selling Chrysler built cars (Sunbeams) with Ford engines and the car was discontinued. So he had a track record when he approached Ford to build the Cobra.
One car that I always wanted to see, and finally did see it at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale Arizona was the personal Shelby Cobra that he built for himself. It was the last Cobra ever built, and it had the usual Ford 427 side oiler engine, but with twin Paxton superchargers and a Mickey Thompson cross ram manifold with twin Holley 4bbl carbs. . The car also had a Ford C-6 automatic transmission. It is the holy grail of original Cobras. As I remember, it went over the block at $2.5 million dollars, possibly $3 million, and the man who bought it was a collector from the Phoenix area. It was about a 2,000 pound car with about a 700 hp engine, and the buyer would sometimes take it out for a spin. With an out-of-sight power to weight ratio, the owner said the car was scarier than anything he'd ever driven, so it was just about right for Shelby himself.
@bobkonradi1027, Carrol Shelby built two of those cars. They were called Super Snake Cobras.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Wrong.
@@Gurn_Blanston Stats/facts prove otherwise, PUTZ.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Liar.
I have so much love and respect for Carroll Shelby & Ken Miles and their chemistry together🤩
And the Ford GT40 is without a doubt the Coolest American car I've ever seen thanks to shelby and Miles's brilliant engineering and an advanced aerodynamic design!🏁🇺🇲
Well said!
The original Ford Mustang had 6 cylinder and V8 engines available.
I just came across your channel and i love it ❤️
Just found your Channel. VERY well done! All these years I thought I knew the Carrol Shelby story...
Wow, thank you!
Great video
Shelby always used Ford motors in his cars, Cobra began with a 260, then 289, and finally 427-all Fords. And the GT40 had Ford V8s. So the day before LeMans Ford had him switch his Ford engines for…Ford engines??
I need more chapters.
@11:13 What on earth does Battersea Power Station in London, England have to do with Carroll Shelby's Chilli company?
lol was thinking the same
@@hansgruber788 Alan Rickman AND Bond, my hero.
Out of curiousity, who was/is your favourite Bond?
@@STIHLable Ah a man of culture
A connoisseur of the original Fleming books might say Dalton was Fleming's Bond, but that Fleming's Bond works well in literature, not quite so well on the movie screen. Still, Dalton's take on it is interesting when consideration to the character as-written is taken.
Great video and great cars.
Thank you! 👍
That car in the beginning when you say Ford GT is a 69/70 Shelby GT500.
I believe Shelby approached Chevy for engines for the AC. They weren't interested in competition for the corvette.
if true - that's cool.
@@classiccardocumentaries NOT true.
@@sergeantmasson3669 it is true. it birthed the scaglietti corvette
Um... at 6 seconds that's a Ford Shelby Cobra GT. Not sure of the model, GT350 or GT500 because I can't see what's on the fender. The Ford GT was the GT40, not a Mustang. Just an FYI.
Rest in peace
After watching Ford vs Ferrari my middle finger was sore after flipping off Enzo Ferrari 🖕 so many times!
Ford vs Ferrari is bovine excrement Bennet. Total rewriting of history by Hollywood. Fictional.
A car guy here, honestly, I'd love to call him a dick, but for what he had left behind, a brand of prestigious car with a prestigious racing team (that manages to fck up every race week), I wouldn't call him that, at least often.
Yea well that movie is so fictionalized about so many things it's not even funny, like the part where Miles crossed the finish line first but lost due to a technicality, the fact is McLaren crossed the finish line a good car length ahead of Miles.
Don't believe it? Just Google "Pictures of 1966 Le Mans finish" and you can see it for yourself, the controversial thing is that after lining up for the one two three finish McLaren hit the gas at the last second and darted across the line ahead of Miles, it didn't end the way it did in the movie.
Like any other historical events don't ever believe you've learned what happened from a Hollywood movie, they change things for "dramatic effect" all the time.
@@dukecraig2402 that's when all of the cars had already crossed the damn finish line. McLaren and Miles are Shelby's drivers, and they've been told by Ford to go for a photo finish. Hell, the statement "McLaren started further away hence the victory came for McLaren" wouldn't be there if McLaren won all the way further than Miles.
Oh and by the way, the wiki noted that all 3 drivers finished in a dead heat, photo finish. Ken Miles' son Henry was directly involved in the movie as well, he knew how it ended. That's to say, you've seen the photo, but you haven't seen the full picture.
@@donnycorn3086
McLaren was not one of Shelby's drivers, he drove for another team.
And they did not cross the finish line in a "dead heat", once again all you have to do is Google "picture of the finish of the 1966 Le Mans finish" and you will clearly see McLaren crossed the finish line a car length ahead of Miles, it's the picture where a French guy is waving a checkered flag, you can't miss it.
I don't know about Miles son having anything to do with that movie since he criticizes it in a documentary about what happened in 66 after the movie came out, he himself talks about inaccuracies in it including the nonsense about his dad throwing a wrench at Shelby and the finish portrayed in the movie.
Once again don't think you've learned about historical events because "you saw it in a movie", Ford vs Ferrari is highly fictionalized.
Ferrari got his ass kicked by a chicken farmer and a tractor builder. I'm starting to have second thoughts about Ferrari. - Early Indy cars used to be built and raced by midwestern farmers by the way. Their race garages of course we're Gasoline Alley which may have been in use throughout the year.
Old enzo has a habit of pissing people off and making them built empires.
Shelby did not get involved with the GT 40 project until after the loss in 1964
Correct. He prepared the cars to race in 66 - but Shelby did not have anything to do with "developing" the car.
And Miles didn't even cross the finish line first as portrayed in the movie, McLaren actually did, but because of poor visibility due to the rain the track announcer screwed up and thought Miles crossed first and called it that way, in reality it was McLaren in the #2 car who crossed first a full car length ahead of Miles.
Try telling people that and they get spitting mad and want to fight about it because of the way it was portrayed in that stupid movie.
@@dukecraig2402 FALSE. Try again, PUTZ.
@@sergeantmasson3669
Just Google "Picture of the finish of the 1966 Le Mans race" and you'll find out how wrong you are.
McLaren's car can clearly be seen crossing the line a good car length ahead of Miles with the H&M team at least a car length maybe two behind Miles, you can't miss it, it's the picture with a French guy standing on the track waving a checkered flag.
Sorry if you've got all your emotions tied up in Hollywood's version of things but it's incorrect, matter of fact the Hollywood version gets quite a bit wrong about the last part of the race and why Miles lost his 2½ lap lead after the last time the car pitted.
OK! I didn't know Enzo Ferrari managed to piss off Shelby too, along with Ford and Lamborghini. Is there a list of car makers available online, which were insulted by Enzo? 😂
This is literally a movie script. Beating his rival in his last ever race
yeah - there should be a movie about it.
Enjoyed the story, but your use of "less people" instead of "fewer people" at the beginning almost turned me off.
thanks for the correction in my script. next time for sure
In France they now have a law called SCHLABOUBVE, from next year you can only drive 5000 KM with a combustion engine!
C'est magnifique! France can pretend that sunshine lollipops and rainbows make electricity, while China poisons the planet and laughs.
They must have had that Sam rule with all their tanks and airplanes in WW2 which would account for how things worked out for them.
Himmler was a chicken farmer too. They say he failed at farming only to become Hitler's right hand man.
Do ferrari
The Full History of Enzo Ferrari | A Classic Car Documentary
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good stuff , no BS toothe point, noshit music either haha
👍👍👍
Why didn’t Shelby stay with Ford after’67 Le Mans win?
If It wasn't for Shelby Ford wouldn't have won squat. Ford couldn't get the job done so they went to someone who could.
The GT-40 should be re-named the Shelby GT because FORD had latterly nothing to do with the development of the car.
Not really, Hollman and Moody had far more to do with developing the GT40 than Shelby did, he wasn't even brought in until they'd already been racing them and basically just was involved with tuning and fine adjustments for the track, the movie completely fictionalized him being a part of developing the car, along with the finish of the 66 Le Mans race, Miles did not cross the finish line first and lose on a technicality, McLaren crossed the finish line at least a car length ahead of Miles, you can even Google pictures of the finish and clearly see McLaren an easy car length ahead of Miles crossing the finish line.
The movie is highly fictionalized in many aspects of what really happened.
The wrong image for thr Ford GT
oops. - sorry
Enzo Ferrari hated him.
I’m working on that story now
man Enzo Ferrari got his arse handed to him by the agriculturals twice. once by a farmer the other by Tractor salesman.
Thanks to Shelby, Ferrari never won a Lemans race again.
You think the reason he was out of racing for 10 years is because his best friend died testing his cars????? I mean like the movie.
could be
SORRY TO BE. PICKY...
BUT YOU FORGOT. THE CAR THAT FOR ME. HAD MONENT. I WILL NEVER. FORGET...
..THE G T 350 R.....A REGULAR. GT 350. HAD A FEW. IMPROVEMENTS
BUT. IT EAS NOT EVEN CLOSE. TO
A RACE CAR..
..THE GT 350R.. WAS. A REAL. HONEST TO GOD. RACE CAR....
ONE DIVERS SEAT...OVER 300 HORSES.....(JUST MAYBE 400PLUS)
FULL ROLL CAGE....ALUMINUM INTERIOR....PL WE XIGLASS SLOTRED BACK WINDOW
FIBRERGALASS HOOD AND IF I RENEMBER DOORS. ALUMINUM
FENDERS....IT WENT ON AND ON..
I GOT TO GO 165. IN THE SHORT TRACK CAR....THE LONG TRACK CAR. WENT 175.
.HAD A CHANCE TO BUY THE SHORT TRACK....BUT THE ACTUAL RACE DRIVER. WREAKED THE CAR CAUSE
HE WANTED IT TOO....HE TOTALED IT
Shelby had no business competing with Ferrari at any level. I know it sounds good on a RUclips clip but there was no such rivalry. Ford on the other hand was different.
You might want to study up on the cobra, Daytona Coupe If not for a rock to the oil cooler having to slow the car to reduce the amount of oil, leakage and multiple pitstops to refill it in the 65, Le Mans race, the Daytona coupe would have beaten all of the Ferraris, including the prototypes
@@cashmoney7660 What's that got to do with my comment? Plus woulda shooulda don't count in endurance racing as you don't know the Daytona would've lasted the full 24 hours of racing had it not slowed down.
stop with the stupid click noise. my god
Lol, he did not stun Ferrari, Ferrari stunned Ford, making them spend millions to beat a small italian team from the North of Italy.
Lol, Ferraris gatage was tge size of Henry Fords Office, yet Ford Needed Shelby, Engkabd and millions to be a little i Italian team that could not invest as they where bankrupt.
The three cars he made for Chrysler in the 80s were some ugly-ass cars. Then again, about every small car in the 80s was ugly-ass.
The rest of his cars, though. Works of art. Especially the AC Cobra
Great comment
Shelby choose Chevrolet first. He settled or ford.
i just learned that
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Carrol shelby never made hes own car he developed crap English cars he was a kit car maker. He only beat ferrari cause he had a 500million budget from ford.
Yeah Ferrari! Screw Shelby, and Ford.
More like the other way around, Ford were going to screw to Ferrari in the deal.
How many Ferrari's have you owned?
When I was in high school the parking lot was full of Ford, Chevy and Chrysler V8 performance cars, high school kids could afford them, and despite all the mouth running people will do all day long they were plenty fast and more than any of the wannabe Ferrari owners could handle.
What good is something like a Ferrari if they're so expensive you'll never own one? Might as well be a Saturn V rocket for that matter, some people actually like owning cars instead of just dreaming about owning them.
@@dukecraig2402 I,m on my 4th, and still have my 1st one.
Ford beat Ferrari.
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The ford gt ….. shows a gt 500
ooops sorry
The whoosh noises are driving me insane jfc.
STOP.
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