1/23/2024 0 Comments Light blue car in cars movie![]() SuperFormance, based in South Africa, is the company that produces all of the current continuation Cobras under license for Shelby American. “Sure, no problem,” said the ever-jovial Lance Stander, majordomo of SuperFormance, Shelby Legendary Cars (SLC), and Hillbank Motor Corporation. Shelby Legendary Cars provided all of the Cobras and GT40s you saw on that big screen, and still had a few on hand when we visited to ask, “Can we drive them?” Matt Damon and Christian Bale did more than credible acting work portraying Carroll Shelby and the mega-talented but oft-times mercurial Ken Miles.Īmong the many things Ford v Ferrari accomplished was to (re)introduce Ford and Shelby American’s epic chase for total domination of Ferrari, and everyone else, at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the mid-60s, as well as the rest of the world’s sports car and endurance racing landscape. Making one look like Le Mans in 1966 was an even bigger one that had to also include every car seen, period-correct apparel, signage, the grandstands and such. Making any race track look like Le Mans is a major undertaking. But in the end, the producers got the big stuff correctly – and what about those cars!?īesides the marvelous cars we got to see and hear in surround-sound, the set recreation in the movie was marvelous. ![]() Sure, you can quibble with some of the factual accuracy of this big-screen, big-drama racing epic, as true fans know not everything happened as portrayed. – Most of us saw and presumably enjoyed the film Ford v Ferrari, which in some world markets was named Le Mans 1966. ![]()
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