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Good movie. Really long though. I think they could have developed the characters better. Movie was 2.5 hour long and I didn't realize Carroll Shelby was married.

It inspired me to come home and tear into the Mustangs differential... Made a mess but got it fixed

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the most fascinating part of the movie was Ken Miles explaining to Carroll Shelby why the suits at Ford hate people like Miles and Shelby.  I leaned over to my son, told him "that's Corporate America in a nutshell."

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Not with that commie asshole in it.

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This.

It's Hollywood, and having lived my early years while it was all going on, then looking back restrospectively with a lot more information, I'm afraid they are going to eff it up some. But it can't be as stupid as Burns doing Vietnam, so, meh. When it comes around.

The story is a great framework to tell of the immense technical advances of the 60's - GT and Indy were the dominant forms of racing, with Ferrari making small high rpm motors in luxury sports cars dominant on their turf, and Indy being largely supercharged Offy four cylinder and FRONT WHEEL DRIVE racers, driver sitting almost on the back axle.

From there we went to Ferrari motors in open wheel mid  engines and the GT's to 427 TRUCK motors midengine. Shelby and the Cobras were a major step up, an exciting story, but a step to getting Carroll to running the GT program.

In point of fact, it took the Daytona Coupe to get there, and in testing the GT's at Rheims they used the coupe from LA as the rabbit to stress them out. And they ran it without major repairs while the GT's broke down - normal sorting out, Shelby's first races in the Cobras had plenty of it. By the time the Coupe was bodied the drivetrain had years of racing in it, so when it fired up, it was ready to run with little issues. Other than the back inboard discs. That was part of a major fire at Daytona.

Sorting the GT's at Rheims led to the Italians contracted to body the other Coupes to be delayed, they took off building the first sans any blueprints and the result was the second being kinda larger, which Dan Gurney got as he fit it better. His USAC crew having talent in depth made it a winner even tho the aero was slighty diminished.

That season as the hand drawn hand hammered Coupe on the old 50s transverse spring front end winning against Ferrari with just the advantage of another 1,000 cc's of engine - not even overhead cam - is the turning point from old school tech to the new school rapidly coming to the field. The 427 GT's were actually the last dying gasp of conventional motors being capable of winning a Championship. We are talking a truck motor run on a dyno simulating 24 hours of LeMans, breaking, getting improved parts, until it could survive, mostly, under real racing loads. Up to then a computer aided dyno run in testing, and the cad cam GT chassis and aero were unknown.

Mixed blessings if you consider it. The modern car now has tech that designers were only dreaming about. The wife's Buick is direct injection with variable cam timing. They made a turbo version. Nothing like that existed in the 60's.

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The real reason I'm interested is that the plot keeps the mystery alive: I can't figure out how they manage to save Matt Damon from space in a 1960s sports car.

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The movie reminded me of the amazing time I had in Colarado- the Shelby museum in Boulder is incredible. This brown car should look familiar for those who saw the movie. Not sure if the blue and white one in my photo is THE car or not.

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Thanks for posting this, I didn't know there was a Shelby museum. I'll go the next time I'm in Boulder.

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It looks like a decent movie about an interesting story, but I still don't get how conservative/freedom loving folks are still supporting the movie industry. I guess "muh-entertainments" trumps values for most folks these days. Not surprising I guess.

It doesn't seem to have any overt SJW overtones but the $$$ still goes to the people/studios who constantly push that shit.

If whatever percentage of the country that claims to be "conservative" stopped going to movies, the movie industry would either change or die (at which point not much of value would be lost), but until that happens, we're still going to get 99 lefty politically-driven shit movies trying to indoctrinate the sheeple for every decent film, like this appears to be.

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The Coupe and the 4.2 E-Jag are tied for second place on my list of unobtainable automobiles.  To tell the truth though, I’m more of a boat person.  If I had the money to piss away on either of those two cars, I’d probably spend it on a restored Chris Craft runabout.  And when it comes to antique go-fasters, classic hydroplanes are my true lust.

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It looks like a decent movie about an interesting story, but I still don't get how conservative/freedom loving folks are still supporting the movie industry. I guess "muh-entertainments" trumps values for most folks these days. Not surprising I guess.

It doesn't seem to have any overt SJW overtones but the $$$ still goes to the people/studios who constantly push that shit.

If whatever percentage of the country that claims to be "conservative" stopped going to movies, the movie industry would either change or die (at which point not much of value would be lost), but until that happens, we're still going to get 99 lefty politically-driven shit movies trying to indoctrinate the sheeple for every decent film, like this appears to be.

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I don’t pretend to be well educated or even well read but haven’t artists always been on that side?

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Where’s the member who was an extra in it?

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It looks like a decent movie about an interesting story, but I still don't get how conservative/freedom loving folks are still supporting the movie industry. I guess "muh-entertainments" trumps values for most folks these days. Not surprising I guess.

It doesn't seem to have any overt SJW overtones but the $$$ still goes to the people/studios who constantly push that shit.

If whatever percentage of the country that claims to be "conservative" stopped going to movies, the movie industry would either change or die (at which point not much of value would be lost), but until that happens, we're still going to get 99 lefty politically-driven shit movies trying to indoctrinate the sheeple for every decent film, like this appears to be.

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I really enjoyed this movie, but it made me miss my dad.

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Saw the movie.   Excellent movie.

Leaving Charlie's Angels in the dust.

The way it should.