After his meager ten laps of practice, the press solemnly asked 'rookie' AJ Foyt his thoughts about the track and what must surely have been an awesome an humbling experience. He said: "It's just a little-old piece of country road." He then proceeded to build a seven-lap lead in his first stint of the race. No ordinary rookie, was AJ Foyt. Dan Gurney invented the ritual of spraying champagne from the winners podium, after Le Mans 1967. And, the Ford Mk IVs appeared _only_ in Sebring 1967 and Le Mans 1967, winning them both. Many stars aligned to produce a genuine 'legendary victory'.
That car is on display at the Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. An interesting feature of the car is a small dome in the roof. That was necessary to provide clearance for Dan Gurney's helmet. Gurney was 6' 2" tall and needed some extra headroom.
Hi Periscope Films - great video restoration and excellent breakdown of the film in your description section - a great thank you for preserving these long gone parts of our history for the education and pleasure of future generations. Thank you for bringing me back to a time of innocence, freedom and hope. May God bless America and Peace be with you, Ciao, L ("Vintage" Veteran)
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Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt drove the J5 Mk IV to a resounding victory, totally trouncing Ferrari. Sadly, 1967 was the swan song for prototypes with engines over 3.0 liters. The FIA, in its spiteful ways, legislated the Ford Mk IV, Ferrari 330 P4 and Chaparral 2F out of existence.
But they unintentionally allowed in the glorious Ferrari 512S/M and the Porsche 917. What followed in 1972 to 1975 was the real disappointment. Then things got exciting again.
And Foyt had already won the 1967 Indianapolis 500. While Gurney would a short while later provide AAR's maiden victory at Spa at a record pace. 1967 was a year to remember. Andretti winning the Daytona 500 as well.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, some interesting facts about "modern" days of Le Mans: 1) the traditional Le Mans start was abolished after 1969, as a result of John Woolfe's fatal accident on the first lap, and because of then Belgian racing ace Jacky Ickx staging a safety protest of the customary procedures of drivers running to their cars & immediately taking off - only later attempting to fasten their seat belts while steering with their knees driving on the Mulsanne Straight. When the start flag was dropped Ickx merely strolled to his car while his competitors ran to their rides (there is footage of this on YT btw). 2) same event - Le Mans 1969 - Jacky Ickx along with co-driver Jackie Oliver managed to win the race by a mere 100yds in front of the 2nd place Porsche 908 driven by Hans Herman and Gérard Larrousse. This was the closet finish in Le Mans history without the influence of a staged race finish. 3) In the movie _'Le Mans'_ (1971) Steve McQueen's quote of _"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting"_ is often mistakenly thought to have been derived from the high-wire daredevil Karl Wallenda, _"Life is on the wire, the rest is just waiting."_ Wallenda's quote was recorded sometime during an interview after the 1962 Detroit tragedy. The original orientation of such philosophy came from none other than Rudolf Caracciola, one of the greatest pre-WWII GP drivers there ever was... _"To race is to live; all the rest is simply waiting."_ - Rudi Caracciola (1901-1959) 🌿✝️🏁 Edit: .... 4) For you _'Farce vs. Ferrari'_ fans, _THE_ Absolute Triple Crown Champion belongs to one driver now for nearly 40yrs - *Graham Hill.* WDC of 1962 & 1968 1966 winner of the Indianapolis 500 1972 winner of the 24hrs of Le Mans That's not including his five wins at Monte Cario, which in some racing fraternities is considered as a composition of the _'Triple Crown'_ achievements. So for you Ken Miles loyalists strung-out-on-stupid from Hollywood's false narratives, you can buzz off somewhere else before you attempt to poison this comment section with all your nonsense as you have done with other Le Mans YT videos already.
@Max Mulsanne - First of all you must understand that the "Triple Crown" is an UNOFFICIAL title - look it up, and even then, the Graham Hill TC was changed from its original definition of the Indy 500, the 24 hrs. of Le Mans and the Monaco GP. The Monoco GP was later dropped and replaced by the F1 Championship. There are other "triple crown" creations adapted by various racing entities such as the Endurance Racing TC, the Indy Car Racing TC, the NHRA TC, the Australian Motorsport TC. While Hill's accomplishment was the first TC, that does not in and of itself make it the ABSOLUTE TC. It all comes down to a case of semantics.
None of that sanctimonious bullshit changes the fact that Miles was screwed out of the win. As for the "triple crown", that's a subjective "crown" at best. Was it ever officially designated by anyone other than racing journalists? I've been following racing since the 1950s, and never heard of anything like it until Graham Hill did it.
@@tomsmith5216 The original and only official Triple Crown doesn't even belong to auto racing - it was created by horse racing in the U.S in the mid to late 1920s. It includes The Kentucky Derby, The Belmont Stakes and the Preakness. All the so called auto racing triple crowns are completely unofficial and as you said were thought up by the motor racing journalist world.
@Max Mulsanne You are confusing the "Triple Crown of Motorsports" with the unofficial "Triple Crown of Endurance Racing". Do your research properly before commenting.
bellissimo filmato con i prototipi più belli di sempre, comunque le Ford per vincere erano 7.000 di cilindrata contro le Ferrari 4.000 di cilindrata...a parità di cilindrata non avrebbero mai vinto !!!
This film belittles Fords great achievement by so resolutely omitting the names of other marques . Surely Chaparral and Lola deserved a mention ? But then that’s corporate pr for you... I liked the ‘cobbled streets’ so well represented by high quality tarmac!
Les Ferrari P4 étaient désavantagées dès le départ par le règlement stupide de la capacité du réservoir suivant la cylindrée : elles n' ont pu ainsi tirer avantage de leur moindre consommation ... Ou la BDP avant l' heure ...
Too bad this is sort of a Ford propaganda film. It would have been nice to see some more film on the Ferrari P4s and the groundbreaking aerodynamics of the Chapparal 2F. I was there and my memories in addition to the beer tents are seeing the Chapparal 2F of Phil Hill/Mike Spence going around as the dawn was breaking. The big-block Chevy engine of the Chapparal made it sound like a tank going by - actually not dissimilar to the sound of the NASCAR Chevy in the 2023 race.
The Ford GT 40 was built in Hersham, Surrey if memory serves me right. Ford paid for it and supplied the engines. None of them were ever built in the U.S.A. Typical American bullshite.
@@pontozannata8847 Correct - a few parts carried over but the MK4 was built in the USA by Kar Kraft. American drivers, American engine, American car, America tires........johnnyrvf probably still think Montgomery was a better General than Patton too. If Ike had given Patton the gasoline wasted on Market Garden we would have kicked the Nazis out of WW2 by the end of 1944.
Carrol Shelby took that remorse to the grave, There is a long form interview of that great Texan where he expresses his profound regret that Ken was not given his due. It's as real as today's headlines. It is NOT the machination of some Hollywood script writer's fantasy, as it'd been mentioned in someone's comment above.
I was there all those years ago and remember the sights, sounds and frantic pit work. Great to see it again.
One of the good reasons I'm a Ford fan, the Ford Victory and my hero Ken Miles
We get it...... You love the movie......
Miles was british.....
Miles didn’t race in ‘67 though
Fastest
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Another idiot that became race fan because a movie
Great old footage of the way it once was.
The Legends of racing all are there...
After his meager ten laps of practice, the press solemnly asked 'rookie' AJ Foyt his thoughts about the track and what must surely have been an awesome an humbling experience. He said: "It's just a little-old piece of country road." He then proceeded to build a seven-lap lead in his first stint of the race. No ordinary rookie, was AJ Foyt. Dan Gurney invented the ritual of spraying champagne from the winners podium, after Le Mans 1967. And, the Ford Mk IVs appeared _only_ in Sebring 1967 and Le Mans 1967, winning them both. Many stars aligned to produce a genuine 'legendary victory'.
The MKIV also competed at Sebring earlier in the year, which it won in the hands of Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren.
@@stevengaitt2308
Yep, you're right. OP edited to correct the mistake.
That car is on display at the Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. An interesting feature of the car is a small dome in the roof. That was necessary to provide clearance for Dan Gurney's helmet. Gurney was 6' 2" tall and needed some extra headroom.
The GT40 is my an amazing bit of automotive engineering.
Wish I had had the money for one of the Tribute cars Ford released in 2005 I think it was.
Love it From Colombia 🇨🇴☘👑 Gt40 Power Mark The Master Key
I absolutely love your videos! I was just a kid in the 60's. This brings me back!!! Thanks again!!
1967. The best Le Mans of all time. Apart from 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994 and 1995.
Hi Periscope Films - great video restoration and excellent breakdown of the film in your description section - a great thank you for preserving these long gone parts of our history for the education and pleasure of future generations. Thank you for bringing me back to a time of innocence, freedom and hope. May God bless America and Peace be with you, Ciao, L ("Vintage" Veteran)
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Great great thank's for this fantastic film .
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Fantastic. Also my birth year. Ford vs Ferrari is a great recent movie depicting this time period.
8:14 They're hanging onto the poles of a carousel-now that's dedication!
Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt drove the J5 Mk IV to a resounding victory, totally trouncing Ferrari. Sadly, 1967 was the swan song for prototypes with engines over 3.0 liters. The FIA, in its spiteful ways, legislated the Ford Mk IV, Ferrari 330 P4 and Chaparral 2F out of existence.
This car is on display at The Henry Ford museum now
But they unintentionally allowed in the glorious Ferrari 512S/M and the Porsche 917. What followed in 1972 to 1975 was the real disappointment. Then things got exciting again.
Ford won at LeMans in 68-69 through private entrant John Wyer with GT-40’s. In fact the exact same GT-40 won both years.
@@Loulovesspeed Not to mention John Marsh! : )
@@johnmarsh2078 - What do you mean "unintentionally" allowed them in?? They met the requirements to run. Why was 1972-1975 a real disappointment?
Amazing video, thank you very much!
Fantastic
Fantastic
Fantastic
Great film great drivers great car great race power by Ford thanks
Wow
That sums it up perfectly in one word. Cheers
Great vid! Thank You!!
In thi race Dan Gurney started the tradition of the winner(s) spraying the onlookers with champagne .
And Foyt had already won the 1967 Indianapolis 500. While Gurney would a short while later provide AAR's maiden victory at Spa at a record pace. 1967 was a year to remember. Andretti winning the Daytona 500 as well.
@@maxmulsanne7054 And Bruce McLaren winning the CanAm championship,
And Denny Hulme winning the F1 championship .
Well Foyt did all the work, so cafe racer gurney had to contribute SOMETHING.
I watched The 24 hrs at La Man's on wide world of sports showing the cars they drove and the great driver's who raced
This is goldddd
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, some interesting facts about "modern" days of Le Mans:
1) the traditional Le Mans start was abolished after 1969, as a result of John Woolfe's fatal accident on the first lap, and because of then Belgian racing ace Jacky Ickx staging a safety protest of the customary procedures of drivers running to their cars & immediately taking off - only later attempting to fasten their seat belts while steering with their knees driving on the Mulsanne Straight.
When the start flag was dropped Ickx merely strolled to his car while his competitors ran to their rides (there is footage of this on YT btw).
2) same event - Le Mans 1969 - Jacky Ickx along with co-driver Jackie Oliver managed to win the race by a mere 100yds in front of the 2nd place Porsche 908 driven by Hans Herman and Gérard Larrousse.
This was the closet finish in Le Mans history without the influence of a staged race finish.
3) In the movie _'Le Mans'_ (1971) Steve McQueen's quote of _"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting"_ is often mistakenly thought to have been derived from the high-wire daredevil Karl Wallenda, _"Life is on the wire, the rest is just waiting."_
Wallenda's quote was recorded sometime during an interview after the 1962 Detroit tragedy.
The original orientation of such philosophy came from none other than Rudolf Caracciola, one of the greatest pre-WWII GP drivers there ever was...
_"To race is to live; all the rest is simply waiting."_
- Rudi Caracciola
(1901-1959) 🌿✝️🏁
Edit: ....
4) For you _'Farce vs. Ferrari'_ fans, _THE_ Absolute Triple Crown Champion belongs to one driver now for nearly 40yrs - *Graham Hill.*
WDC of 1962 & 1968
1966 winner of the Indianapolis 500
1972 winner of the 24hrs of Le Mans
That's not including his five wins at Monte Cario, which in some racing fraternities is considered as a composition of the _'Triple Crown'_ achievements.
So for you Ken Miles loyalists strung-out-on-stupid from Hollywood's false narratives, you can buzz off somewhere else before you attempt to poison this comment section with all your nonsense as you have done with other Le Mans YT videos already.
@Max Mulsanne - First of all you must understand that the "Triple Crown" is an UNOFFICIAL title - look it up, and even then, the Graham Hill TC was changed from its original definition of the Indy 500, the 24 hrs. of Le Mans and the Monaco GP. The Monoco GP was later dropped and replaced by the F1 Championship. There are other "triple crown" creations adapted by various racing entities such as the Endurance Racing TC, the Indy Car Racing TC, the NHRA TC, the Australian Motorsport TC. While Hill's accomplishment was the first TC, that does not in and of itself make it the ABSOLUTE TC. It all comes down to a case of semantics.
None of that sanctimonious bullshit changes the fact that Miles was screwed out of the win. As for the "triple crown", that's a subjective "crown" at best. Was it ever officially designated by anyone other than racing journalists? I've been following racing since the 1950s, and never heard of anything like it until Graham Hill did it.
@@tomsmith5216 The original and only official Triple Crown doesn't even belong to auto racing - it was created by horse racing in the U.S in the mid to late 1920s. It includes The Kentucky Derby, The Belmont Stakes and the Preakness. All the so called auto racing triple crowns are completely unofficial and as you said were thought up by the motor racing journalist world.
@Max Mulsanne You are confusing the "Triple Crown of Motorsports" with the unofficial "Triple Crown of Endurance Racing". Do your research properly before commenting.
@@Loulovesspeed There is also a Triple Crown in baseball: highest batting aversge, most homeruns, and most rbis. That's been around for decades, too.
Is that The Deuce (Henry Ford II) at 9:19?
bellissimo filmato con i prototipi più belli di sempre, comunque le Ford per vincere erano 7.000 di cilindrata contro le Ferrari 4.000 di cilindrata...a parità di cilindrata non avrebbero mai vinto !!!
First year of the Chaparral 2F. Given another year the 2f would have been the winner.
Well not all rookies are as great as A.J. Foyt. Greatest. Rookie. Ever.
I never knew there was a white 330p4 until I saw this video.
who do I contact to use this footage?
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@11:13
Midnight Largers!
"Il più grande scontro automobilistico mondiale dell'anno, Ferrari e Ford. Il piccolo artigiano, la grande industria......" (Piero Casucci - RAI).
Love how the first car to take the lead was the exact ken miles car after its terrible one the year before
A J. had a very good 1967
They used belts to fix McLaren’s car. One of them was Shelby’s!
Plurals do not have apostrophes.
@@larrysmith6797 it’s not a plural you illiterate. It’s a possessive!
@@larrysmith6797 Possessives, such as used here, do use apostrophes.
Wasn’t aware they started the race with the Italian flag that year (see it at 4min 56sec).
Those were proper sports car’s nowadays they all look the same
I am from Le Mans 😁
@Rocco Cars XD it’s was the race today and yesterday it’s was very cool
@Rocco Cars sur m’y friend come it’s a pleasur
i was there
"South of France" 😂 I thought americans were better at geography back in those days
Ferrari(330 P4) won championship in 1967, won Daytona and le mans finish 2. and 3.
My parents were there
Ford had to pay millions just for ferrari to beat them in daytona😂
Le Mans is not in the "South of France!"
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This film belittles Fords great achievement by so resolutely omitting the names of other marques .
Surely Chaparral and Lola deserved a mention ? But then that’s corporate pr for you...
I liked the ‘cobbled streets’ so well represented by high quality tarmac!
Other marques just don't matter. No time for losers.
👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆🏁
Why does the narrator keep talking about the 'South of France'??
That's hundreds of miles away.
If you're not French, everything south of Paris is the "South of France".
Les Ferrari P4 étaient désavantagées dès le départ par le règlement stupide de la capacité du réservoir suivant la cylindrée : elles n' ont pu ainsi tirer avantage de leur moindre consommation ... Ou la BDP avant l' heure ...
Too bad this is sort of a Ford propaganda film. It would have been nice to see some more film on the Ferrari P4s and the groundbreaking aerodynamics of the Chapparal 2F. I was there and my memories in addition to the beer tents are seeing the Chapparal 2F of Phil Hill/Mike Spence going around as the dawn was breaking. The big-block Chevy engine of the Chapparal made it sound like a tank going by - actually not dissimilar to the sound of the NASCAR Chevy in the 2023 race.
The first words, American made sports cars, wrong, they were made in the UK, shipped to the USA and modified.
The modifications are what made all the difference. Otherwise it was just a taxi cab.
So what. Who cares. Shelby blew the doors off the corvettes. Dave McDonald jumped out of the corvettes the minute Shelby called.
The MklV was made entirely in the US.
why do people attempt to act smart.......the MKIV for 1967 was 100% USA built.
@@mxmissile4588 RIP & Godspeed Dave McDonald. (And Eddie Sachs,)
Door falls off after less than a day of driving; how ford can you get?
Well the Brits like to take credit for the chassis lol
220 mph=354kmh
Ronnie Buckman was clocked at 238 mph at LeMans in 1967.
The Ford GT 40 was built in Hersham, Surrey if memory serves me right. Ford paid for it and supplied the engines. None of them were ever built in the U.S.A. Typical American bullshite.
Well Ford attempted to use a Cortina engine but it wasn’t quite fast enough on the Mulsanne straight
The MK1 and MK2 were Lola desing modified by Shelby to be competitive, the MK4 is Ford designed if memory serves right
@@pontozannata8847 Correct - a few parts carried over but the MK4 was built in the USA by Kar Kraft. American drivers, American engine, American car, America tires........johnnyrvf probably still think Montgomery was a better General than Patton too. If Ike had given Patton the gasoline wasted on Market Garden we would have kicked the Nazis out of WW2 by the end of 1944.
Who paid for it? Whatever we Americans pay for is ours.
you are an idiot.........its the internet age, information is easy to get.......the MKIV was 100% usa built.
fascinating races and video!
I wished Ken Miles had another go at Le Mans 🥲
He literally gave his life to develop the J car which became the mark 4.
I wish ken Miles was still alive
Carrol Shelby took that remorse to the grave, There is a long form interview of that great Texan where he expresses his profound regret that Ken was not given his due. It's as real as today's headlines. It is NOT the machination of some Hollywood script writer's fantasy, as it'd been mentioned in someone's comment above.