Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: "John Francis" <jo...@panix.com>
Subject: Re: PESO - What I did over the weekend
That's an interesting "spin" - portraying Ford as the plucky little
guy battling against the entrenched might of the likes of Ferrari.
In reality, almost the opposite was the case - Ford basically gave
the GT40 development team an effectively unlimited budget, and just
one goal - to humiliate Enzo Ferrari, who had refused to sell his
company to Henry Ford II.
That's not in any way to belittle the achievements of the engineers
and drivers; the car was successful practically out of the box, not
after several years of iterative development, and the team of drivers
chosen was world class.
That's the remarkably fact about this effort, in the span of around 4 years
Ford went from an unknown in this form of racing to winning outright,
arguably, one of the toughest tests of a race car - 24 hours flat out.
One of the nice things about living in the San Jose area is that we
are close to Laguna Seca, where the Monterey Historic races are held.
When the GT40 was the featured marque a few years ago, there were over
30 GT40s on track. While a few of them weren't fully authentic, most
of them were - including the cars that dominated at Le Mans (some of
which were paired with their original drivers). And the cars were
being raced hard, too, not just paraded around the track.
Similarly, when Porsches were featured, there were several 917s on
the track (again a mixture of pedigreed race cars and parts-box ones),
the genuine 935 whale tail, 956s, 963s, and all sorts of others.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:14:17PM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Ahhh. The good old days. As an American I was so proud of these cars
racing with "the big guys" and sometimes beating there butts off.
But since the mid-70s my heart has been with Porsche. So I must say I
get more joy out of a 917, any model.
Long Tail version
http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/au/autoart-porsche-917-lemans-hippie-2nd-place-3-1970.jpg
Short Tail version (917K)
http://www.lugnutsracing.com/files/917mcqueen1024x768.jpg
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:57 , Ken Waller wrote:
The MkIV GT shown here
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html is not an
original, but a well done replica by a group of private individuals.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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