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Well, where to begin with this perverse recreation of what is actually a very exciting time in US auto history? I see why they waited until most of those involved were dead to make this. I can understand kind of "churching" some things up, but they make everyone at Ford, except Iacocca, to be a moron and fighting against Shelby and especially Miles, the whole time. Garbage. Oh well, I guess the small amount of CGI and the use of the repop cars make it worth watching if you have nothing else to do. The relationship wasn’t between Shelby and Miles. It was between Miles and Charlie Agapiou. They both worked at Shelby. The friction with the Ford bureaucracy wasn’t between Shelby, Ford 2nd and Leo Beebe. It was from the previous person(Shelby’s boss from Aston Martin Racing) that worked on the GT40. The race at the beginning at Willow Springs never took place. There was no wrench thrown. Ken Miles liked and respected Ford and even told a reporter to not misconstrue his words when printing them because he appreciated everything they had done for him. Lee Iacocca didn’t go to Shelby, Shelby went to him. He wanted money to develop his cars. His pitch was that he could build cars that could spank the Corvette on the race track. He was given some crate engines and $25k. It wasn’t until after the development of the Daytona Continental car that he was called back to Dearborn and had a meeting with Ford 2nd and Iacocca about taking over the race program for Lemans. It was Phil Remington and Bob Bondurant that did most of the tuning and improvements to the GT40. Not saying that Miles and Shelby didn’t work on it, but Ken Miles said he didn’t like the car. Ken Miles was not left back in the US for the race at Lemans in 1965. He went. He raced. He DNF due to gearbox problems. Ken Miles was not expected to win the Lemans race in 1966. He was designated the rabbit car. This means that he was supposed to drive his car harder so that the other teams would try to keep up and break their in the process of doing so(and possibly breaking his). That’s where the whole “7,000 RPM” thing comes from. The 427 was tested on the engine dyno, hooked up to a gearbox and ran just like it would run at Lemans for 24 hours. It did this at 6400 RPM and expected speed of 220 MPH. So, 7,000 RPM was pushing the car harder than what it was tested for(it doesn’t sound like much, but this is over a 24hr period). Phil Remington worked very closely with the Ford engineers to help develop the GT40(all versions they worked on). The Shelby team didn’t scoff at the Ford engineers. Shelby did not fight with Ford about the 123 finish in 1966. He thought it was a great idea. Leo Beebe did have some concerns for how hard Miles was pushing the car in 1966, but nothing like in the movie. This movie is like they took about 5 years of car development and mixed it all up and then added a bunch of make believe unicorn dust to it.