Great Cars: GT-40 Ford v Ferrari
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- In the 1960’s a young Ford Motor Company executive, Lee Iacocca decided that Ford needed to compete with the world’s best companies like Ferrari, Aston Martin, Maserati, Porsche, Mercedes and Jaguar in high performance motor racing. The task of creating a car that could stand up against these racing powerhouses seemed impossible. Iacocca convinced Henry Ford that they should just buy Ferrari.
When Enzo Ferrari sent them packing back to Detroit, Ford told Iacocca, “We will beat him at LeMans, no matter what the cost.” Thus began the story of the Ferrari Ford wars that pitted the fortune of the second largest corporation in the world against the God of motor sports, Enzo Ferrari. Ford had more than money on its side - they had a secret weapon, Carroll Shelby who would take Ford’s GT-40 to fame. Today, Ford is releasing an update street version of its glorious GT-40.
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the GT40 is one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
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Love that mk4 gt.
@carl westernut - I'm lucky enough to have a rare, diecast, 1:12 scale GMP 1967 Ford MKIV, the winner, #1. I have a sizeable collection and this well made model is one of my favorites.
Very nice video King Rose Archives, thanks for sharing these images with all lovers of these beautiful cars!
Thank you for watching. I've been waiting for them to come off their licensing so I can share my work. It was great fun making these.
They have done an excellent job for a long time, I am a big fan of your channel and I hope to be for many more years!
My favorite racing rivalry and story of all time hands down!
Watch for the movie now scheduled for Nov., 2019 release. Matt Damon and Christian Bale.
No replacement for displacement, the 427 Side Oiler was and is THE sweetest engine ever.
Oh Yeah,Ford FE Big Block power !!!!
cavscout62 ummmm , 429 Boss , 429 Cobra Jet, & 429 Super Cobra Jet , Were Actually A significantly Better Design, Especially In Nascar Trim, But Yes The 427 Side Oilers Were The Best Of Their Day Hands Down, & That Includes The Big Block Chevys & The Mighty Mopars, Those Words Will Get Ya Into A Fight In Some Places,, That Being Said , I’m In Agreement With Ya. Dare To Dram Of Having One..
New, so called FORD GT is a V6 garbage
@@dinorossi6611 - Would you care to explain that undefined, immature comment? Just another juvenile comment by someone who clearly knows little or nothing about this race tested and proven engine.
@@Loulovesspeed Look, even Camilo Pardo whom I know well, personally said it to me.
Thanks for these videos! There seems to be a difference of opinion bet. the ferrari & this vid as to why talks broke down about ford purchasing ferrari.
Will have to look. It's so long since I produced these. I can't remember what's in them or why. But contradictions were certainly possible.
As much as people try, they can't change history, Ferrari cried to the FIA to change their rules for engine displacement, making the gt40's unable to compete. There Ford retired.
Actually, even after FIA changed the displacement rules to take the 427s out Brits used the original 298 GT40 MK1 to get two more La Mans wins with the Ford name Gulf Oil sponsorship. In fact both those wins were with the same MK1 chassis.
So cool to see Bruce McLaren driving those cars.
K20C4Sam the guy was a prodigy, to think he was wearing all these hats running his own outfit and risking life and limb. At the same age I was still living in my mum’s house and working my socks off considered tenacious and ambitious and barely had anything to show for it.
The Ford 289 engine is my all-time favorite engine it's a torquey little monster
I have to laugh every time this British gentleman says Fiberglass, he says it as Glass Fiber, pretty funny I think.
"One of the drivers were prepared in England and is classified as a British car". The Mclaren and Amon team in 1966 were a New Zealand team.....
More wide-ranging than just a Ford v. Ferrari. Good background. A bit short on the Ken Miles contribution.
Nothing about the John Wyer GT40s in 68 and 69? Missed the best part of the story!
Or how when testing the gt 40 Ken miles died in a crash
@@cambamscott9195 That's because Miles died testing the Ford J Car (first iteration of the Mark IV), not the GT40.
... the SAME old Lady with Jacky Ickx, piquantly Ferrari F1 star driver, at the Sarthe in '69. Fantastic:)
Rest in peace Ken miles
Foyt/Gurney#1!!!
The only supercar produced in the U.S., and the only real competition (for lack of a better term) to the European supercars....FORD ALL DAY EVERY DAY....
Branon Fontaine typical American the only thing Ford can do right it seems. The 2004 Ford GT was mechanical crap like all Ford cars. The current Ford GT is much better, and what the 2004 version should’ve been mechanically. American car companies, always late to the party, and under engineered. Rude crude and zero sophistication. Using barely controlled brute force to just barely perform.
Yeah keep hanging your hats to that.
Branon Fontaine in the 1930's many American supercars were built. Since this video was posted, the Corvette ZR1 arrived.
Paul Bryant terrible trolling, Spanky. You sound like a Eurodouche, is it so?
@Paul Bryant - "Rude, crude and zero sophistication" certainly beat the crap out of the "better engineered and sophisticated" Ferrari now didn't it! Yep, beat Ferrari so bad, especially in 1967, by some 30+ miles and Ferrari, with all its advantages in racing experience has NEVER won Le Mans outright again. I guess rude and crude is the answer to producing a race winner!
@Paul Bryant - What sources are you referring to when you say the 2004-2006 Ford GT was "mechanical crap?" I guess that's why they are already re-selling for twice their original price or more! Let's have some fun and you tell me what cars your country manufactures - if you have the balls to!
Thanks for a very honest and detailed version of the story..
An honest version?? You got to be joking my friend, the gt40 was an ENGLISH LOLA race car, the same as your COBRA, an A.C. ACECA. and to top it all you had to get hold of BRITISH drivers to get any results like Ken Miles, Phill Hill, and others, then ford killed said Ken Miles by screwing around with the chassis on the G.T. 40s causing it to crash, so let's not get carried away in thinking they where both all American cars
@Roger Hearn - #1 - It was NOT, repeat, NOT a Lola - it was merely designed around the Lola layout - big difference! #2 - You need to do your homework better my friend - Phil Hill English??? Hardly, he was born in the U.S. #3 - The Brits may have laid the ground work for the GT but you failed to mention they initially had horrible results with it as not one even finished Le Mans in 1964 and 65! It took the engineering prowess of Shelby American to get the job done "proper" as they like to say in England. I've read more comments from mostly Brits that think England should take all the credit for this car's historical results. Since it was a combined effort between England and America, except for the MKIV which was all American including the drivers, I'll give you some credit but please stop trying to hog it all for the crown!!
So who's wrong? I've read that Ferrari wanted to retain the racing side of Ferrari and Ford refused to buy only the street car side of the company so Enzo declined the deal. This is the first time I've heard that Enzo just didn't want Ferraris racing in Indy...
John McGlasson - Most automotive minds at the time felt that Ferrari never really intended to sell to Ford. Enzo was using Ford as a pawn, probably to convince Fiat to buy his company. Think about it, why on earth would a European specialty manufacturer of strictly high end vehicles want to sell to a multi-market American company - doesn't make sense. Enzo did tell Ford he was not interested in racing at Indy, I think knowing that would kill the deal with Ford and give him an out from the contract. I'm a Ford fan but I also am grateful the deal fell through as those two companies were about as similar as beans and caviar!. It would have certainly ruined Ferrari and in all likelihood would have hurt Ford. It all worked out just fine - Ferrari was acquired by Fiat and Ford got back at Ferrari for pissing off the Deuce and built the famous Ferrari killer - the GT40.
@@Loulovesspeed I'm not sure about that...credible sources on both sides. They had a whole lot of paperwork drawn up, negotiations at great expense...if anything Enzo tried to slide the detail about retaining the racing side thru unnoticed...we'll never know. The thing that might make your point is that Enzo could've kept racing under another name...why do this?
It was a beautiful car, and it beat Ferrari at his favorite race. Much respect. Shame Enzo pulled out of Le Mans racing. F1 is Ferrari’s only works racing team.
Very interesting insight into the history of the GT40, especially the old film shots of the original racer. However, when you mention that the car 'just faded out' after the MK1V win 1967, this is slightly bias against the later efforts of the Gulf/John Wyer teams in the next couple of years, where the FIA had banned the big engine motors. The 1968 and 1969 GT40 MK1 wins at Le Mans, to name just one race (both in the same car, chassis 1075), where they weren't now in attrition battle with Ferrari but now the Porsches. The GT40 won Le Mans (the pinnacle of endurance racing obviously) from 1966 to 1969, in various guises, only then did it fade away... !
My dad and I attended the 1969 Le Mans 24 hrs.( we lived in Germany at the time ) - what a great experience, especially for a 10-year-old !!
Well said!
happy for the additional information. cheers! great documentaries with intelligent comments are the best movies in all worlds. 😊
@dave glover - What was meant was the Ford backed GTs just faded out. They proved their point. John Wyer squeezed two more years out of the modified (old) Mark I with Gulf Oil sponsorship when the 427 was banned.
Why is a front overhang beautiful ?
I'd take the GT40 over a Ferrari any day
The new ones look great. Saw them at the LA Auto Show last week. Wow!!!!
The cars neck and neck @ 19:24-19:28 are not Ford MK IVs, they are Ferrari 330 P4s
@Pulsonar - I didn't hear the narrator say they were.
Towards the end, it is stunning how dated and utterly pedestrian the yellow Ferrari 360 now looks, it looks like nothing more than a 1990-2000 trinket for the successful hairdresser!
Talking about the GT40 and leaving out the Le Mans 69 victory is simply stupid.
Alain David This video was about the initial Ford backed efforts to beat Ferrari. Ford then retired their team when the FIA changed the rules banning the big 427 CID engines and engines over 5 liters. The ‘68 and ‘69 wins were primarily via the private John Wyer team which was trying to develop their Mirage chassis while campaigning the older original GT40s of 1965 vintage, updated of course.
@@barty8980 The video is actually about the new GT40, highlighting the racing pedigree of the original GT40. It is mentioned however that after 67 GT40 were raced by British teams adding "and faded into oblivion'? That is quite an understatement considering the 2 additional wins including the 69 one which is one of the most memorable races of all.
The narrator sounds like Sean Connery, topping up his James Bond pension with some loose change perhaps?
Our narrator, Reg Abbiss gets that all the time. He was a BBC reporter with a great voice.
Why so much audio ... Of not a Ford... When showing the Ford video
and then i know the real story about ford v ferrari,but in this video not tell about ken milles story
And not even a mention of the man who made the GT40 what it was, and gave his life in the pursuit to better the car... LAME...
Shelby 'built his own cars' by stuffing a Ford V8 into an AC Ace sportscar, which was produced in England. Later he took over the Ford GT40 project that was started in England by the Lola company and FAV under John Wyer, with whom he'd won Le Mans for Aston Martin. Just another case of the United States of The World taking all the credit.
@John Suffill - Shelby didn't take over the GT40 project on his own, it was transferred to him by Ford since the British had been completely unsuccessful in getting it to run, let alone complete or win at Le Mans. Yes, we will take credit for that. Lola did not start the program. They were involved for a short time in the early stages of development and Ford did purchase a couple of GT MK6s to study aspects of its design in order to create the GT40. Be honest and accept the fact that the GT40 creation and success was due in much greater part by the efforts of Ford Motor Co than it was by Lola and John Wyer. It was an American idea, which had British input, but was ultimately made into a successful Le Mans racer by Ford, Shelby American, Holman Moody and other American firms. We do not take ALL the credit for this car, but we damn well earned the majority of it! Ironically, I see more examples of Brits trying to take the majority if not all the credit for the GT40. Some young Americans do the same thing! Bottom line, young people on both sides of the pond who weren't even alive then and have never researched this program thoroughly, are both guilty of overstating their respective country's involvement. As for the AC Ace, I didn't see any British firms or people even attempt to accomplish what Shelby did with that car. Through his very talented crew, he made the car into a world wide icon and in doing so, kept a failing company (AC Cars) alive for longer than they would have on their own. The final Cobra, the 427, had virtually no British components other than the pitiful British made gauges in it. The only remaining parts of the car that were from the the first Cobras were the engine cover and the trunk lid. New body, new chassis, new engine and driveline. It was a British car that was redesigned and developed into the one of the most iconic racers in the world. Yep, we'll take credit for that, too!
The "history" here is full of errors.
"The cars faded into history".... Rich men's vanity. Ferrari was never a threat to Ford's colossal market share. Throw enough money at any problem and eventually you will solve it.
@@Loulovesspeed Ferrari returned the favour at Daytona 24 in '67, a 1-2-3 win, on Fords doorstep.
Ferraris "Deuce" win at Daytona, was just as impressive as Fords GT40 MK IV win at Le Mans.
Its true that Ferrari never won Le Mans again but in 1972 with 8 race wins from 9 they decimated the fieldl winning the WSC series, and could have put new nemesis Porsche and Matra truly in the shade had they entered Le Mans that year with the fabled Ferrari 312PB.
@panther 105 - I'll bet you're a Liberal Dem the way you chose to interpret things. Ford NEVER saw Ferrari as a threat in any way to their market share. What an incredibly ridiculous statement! Also, Ford didn't throw money at a problem, they saw it as an opportunity to broaden their image worldwide as a company capable of developing and successfully racing what was to become an historic machine. In case you don't know, Ford Motor Co was actually started after Henry Ford built "Old 999" and won a race with it.
@@Pulsonar Ferrari did not return the favor since LeMans is run in June and the Daytona 24 hours in late January/early Februrary. Ford was 1-2-3 at LeMans in 1966, so I suppose the victory by Ferrari at the '67 Daytona 24 hours was payback. A Mk IV driven by Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren won the 12 hours of Sebring. Ferrari failed to show. When all money was on the line, the Ford Mk IV destroyed the Ferrari 330 P4. Ferrari was also beaten soundly by Porsche in 1970 and 1971 with the 917. None of this is to say that Ferrari was no good, because their cars were really fast and made the most glorious sounds ever for an internal combustion engine. No doubt the 330 P3/P4, 312P, 512S, 512M and 312 PB were the most beautiful race cars ever produced.
B'Chayil Ben Dan it was just a typo I meant ‘MKII’ not ‘MKIV’. Everything else is correct.
Worst part of this video was jay Leno. What a wessel
@Mark F - The word is spelled weasel. He's actually a very cool guy with a mouth watering collection of vintage cars of all kinds - and he drives them all, which few collectors do. Since he never spoke a word in this video, I have to ask you what the basis is for your obvious dislike of the man?