Ford vs. Ferrari

[KTPhil]

Worth going to see! A few factual liberties taken, but not much. Great racing. Next to the 917, I think the GT40 is my favorite racer, though you can't deny the Ferrari sexiness.

I heard the only CGI scenes (not real racing) were the crash scenes. If so, they done good!

So after Ford quit racing after '70, it was Porsche's turn with the incredible 917. We have Steve McQueen's "LeMans" for that (fictional) story, with even better racing footage.

[Glenn]

Gonna see it this week. Just need to find a theater with a good sound system and large screen.
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[iowegian]

Just got back from seeing it. It seemed to be a tribute to Ken Miles. Matt Damon did a believable job of portraying Shelby. A few years ago I had the pleasure of seeing the actual cars that that finished 1-2-3 in 1966 (along with a gaggle of other GT40s) at Road America.

[finster]

what a relief! I thought this was one of gregg's more wackier threads
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[Chad1376]

Our SCCA region scored free tickets to an early release a couple weeks ago. It's a good movie, and so much better than typical CGI superhero movies that seem to be the norm.

However, there are a lot of Hollywood liberties that were taken. I'd strongly recommend reading Go Like Hell before seeing the movie. There's so much detail that was filtered out or changed in the movie.

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[KTPhil]

I was invited to see the movie cars in person last weekend. Pinch me! I don't think there will ever be such a collection in one place again. These are for sale and will be scattered around the globe. Just a sampling...

That Gulf-colored GT40P is street legal!

EDIT: Sorry folks, I hoped having one of the two photos with Porsches in it would allow it to stay here on the Samba, but they have both been deleted. All the photo hosting sites want a lot of privacy information and other restrictions I just cannot accept, so I'm out of luck.

[markswagen]

i don't know anything about the movie, but ford vs farrari, for me will always remind me of ford taking farrari to court over the their naming on of their formula one cars the f-150, surely that can only have been good advertising.
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several vw's in the movie,

bugs and buses

[rcooled]

This 250LM was the last Ferrari to achieve an overall win at LeMans back in 1965. The following year it was Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon winning with the Ford GT40 Mk II for Shelby-American Inc. This is the race depicted in the film where Ford's desire for publicity screwed Ken Miles out of his much-deserved win.

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[Zundfolge1432]

Just got back from seeing it, no problems loved every minute wife did too. If you are a gear head you’ll be interested.

[photogdave]

I'm really glad I made the effort to see this an the theatre while it's still playing. (Drove an hour each way!)
This was an awesome movie! All things considered it stays quite close to the real events, at least compared to what I know from reading a few books and watching a few documentaries. Most Hollywood productions are constricted by the structure of film making to change the sequence of events, add or remove characters and create drama where none existed.
This is such an amazing story not a lot of changes needed to be made. There are one or two silly scenes that were clearly thrown in there for "character development" but it doesn't pander to a perceived "dumbed-down" audience like it could have.
The racing scenes were really exciting and well-shot and even when you know how the story ends it's still very dramatic.
The best compliment I can pay this film is that my wife, who is not a motorsports fan, was on the edge of her seat for the entire two-and-a-half hours!
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[Manfred58sc]

Enjoyed it, kept thinking Richard Petty deserves a movie like this, especially the transition from Ford to Chrysler in 1970. Super Birds really need some CGI to make them even more absurd!
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[KTPhil]

As an side, for Chevy fans... interesting article in the same November 1970 Motor Trend where I found an article on EFI that included the Type 3 engine... it's the cover story about "CERV II", the Corvette Experimental Racing Vehicle from 1963/64. It was radical for the time by being 4WD and would have changed the race and movie to "Chevy vs. Ford vs. Ferrari" but for Chevrolet dropping out of much of its racing just as Ford did a few years later. Depending on engine and gearing, 0-60 in 2.8 seconds, top speed 183 mph.

[Spezialist]

Ford almost bought Ferrari back then.
Ford guys are a breed of their own.
Sold the broken dealer license frame to the owner of a factory race car from that dealership.
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[Stanagon]

I really enjoyed the movie. I did a little tribute film with some vintage HotWheels redlines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMwY8kMovKI
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[Major Woody]

The hot parts for the Pinto were the ones smoldering in the burned wreckage after the fire was put out.

[ALLWAGONS]

Awesome movie, awesome cars, I have become an avid old time movie buff, not for the story line, but for the setting, the furniture and the cars, I liked the movie, but hated the fact that EVERYONE got screwed by EVERYONE. WTF?
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