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[Shelby] Perseverance is
the most important thing in life.
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Believe in what you want to do
and go do that,
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and don't let anybody sidetrack you.
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[announcer speaking indistinctly]
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[engine revving]
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[announcer] The 1959 Le Mans race
one lap out,
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Moss on the Aston leads the two Ferraris
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of Gendebien and da Silva Ramos.
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And Shelby rides again.
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The tall man from Texas is in the saddle.
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[engine revving]
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Through the long night they drive,
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in a solitary high-speed world of sound,
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broken only by routine stops to refuel.
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[Shelby] Twenty-four hours is a long time.
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So it's a lot of luck.
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[vehicle rumbling]
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[Shelby] First pains I had in my chest,
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and I knew something was wrong.
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[Baime] This is Le Mans,
the biggest race on the planet,
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the most grueling race on Earth,
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and Shelby has this condition
that's a secret even from his team,
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that he could literally die at any moment.
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[announcer]
The leader returns to the race.
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[Shelby] I was forced to drive
with a nitroglycerin pill.
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When I would have the pain in my chest,
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I'd pop one of them
and slow down for a couple laps.
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[Baime] As we get deeper
into the 24-hour race,
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Shelby's heart condition is getting worse.
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If the danger of the race
doesn't do him in,
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his own heart might.
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[light music playing]
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[Shelby]
I was raised as a Southern Baptist.
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Boy, I wasn't allowed
to drink a Coca-Cola.
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I was only allowed to drink
water and milk on Sunday.
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My father was a rural mail carrier
that drove pretty fast,
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and I remember when I was three years old,
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I'd stand up and I'd say, "Whip it,"
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and he did, and I would say,
"Let's go faster, Dad.
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Let's go faster, Dad."
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I've been interested
in racing all my life.
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When I was very small,
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my father used to carry me
to all the races.
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He was interested in them.
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The only automobile racing
we had was on the half-mile dirt tracks.
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That was back during the Depression.
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He was encouraged in this
by his early life,
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and he said he always enjoyed that speed.
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I think he liked to go fast.
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It was something that was on the edge,
and he liked to be on the edge.
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[Shelby] I got my driver's license
at 14 years old,
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and the first thing I do
is take my dad's '34 Dodge out
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and get caught by the cop
for driving 85 miles an hour.
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[Baime] Shelby grew up
during the Great Depression,
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so he was used to life being tough,
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but when he gets to be a teenager,
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the world faces the biggest challenge
that it ever has.
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[mid-tempo piano music playing]
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[Baime] World War II had begun.
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[gunfire]
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[explosions]
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[Baime] After graduating from Woodrow
Wilson High School in Dallas, he enlisted.
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Young and fearless,
he wanted to go fight the Nazis.
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[military drill music playing]
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[Randall] As far as his involvement
with World War II,
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he was a member of the Army Air Corps
back in World War II.
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He was training other pilots.
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Carroll loved speed, and whether
it's in a car or an airplane,
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he just loved speed.
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He loved flying
as much as he loved racing.
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[Baime] He was born loving
anything that went fast.
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The Army also saw that he was
a pretty good leader.
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The Army recognized
Shelby's greatest skills
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and utilized both of them.
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After World War II was over,
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Carroll married his high school sweetheart
Jeanne and started a family.
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This was life-changing
in more ways than one.
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For the first time in his life,
Carroll Shelby raced a car.
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[Shelby] I had a high school friend
named Ed Wilkins.
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We built a go-kart
with a Maytag washing machine engine
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when we were
in junior high school together.
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And the first race car
I ever drove in my life
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in an organized race was his MG.
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It was in Norman, Oklahoma.
It was in a little MG TC.
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[upbeat race music playing]
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I won that race,
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and I went to another race
in Oklahoma and drove a Jaguar
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and won that race,
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and a friend of mine
had an Allard with a Cadillac engine,
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and I started driving his car
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and won three or four races in it.
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[Aaron] I think he realized then
there was something to it.
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He didn't make the money back then
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that you could make racing cars
today, obviously.
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It was not very lucrative
from a salary perspective,
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but he was good at it.
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[Patrick] I don't think my dad
ever had a real job.
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It was just
one entrepreneurial aspect after another.
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He got in the dump truck business,
gravel trucks,
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and then the last thing he did
was the chicken farm.
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[Shelby] I was vaccinating my chickens,
and my wife called me and said,
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"You're supposed to be
in Fort Worth, Texas.
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The race starts in an hour and a half."
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I jumped in my pickup truck;
I didn't have time to change.
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I got to Fort Worth
just in time to start the race.
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[indistinct chatter]
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I won it in these overalls,
and they put pictures of me
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on the front page of the Fort Worth Press.
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I thought, "Hey, this is pretty good."
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[Aaron] Chicken overalls was a win
to start with,
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but he realized it gave him a brand.
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He really, I think,
then continued to do that,
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and it built his persona.
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And it didn't take
but about another year or so
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for a couple other rich guys
that had cars to call him up and say,
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"Hey, we want you to drive our car."
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His progression was
very astounding on how fast it happened,
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but that was due to his aggressiveness.
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He could sell anything in the world.
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He sold his racing
to whoever could afford it.
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[announcer] A 4.5-liter Ferrari is
the entry of Guiberson.
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Carroll Shelby is the driver.
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[Baime] Shelby's winning on the track
was equaled by his success on the farm.
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His first batch of chickens
had netted him nearly $5,000,
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a tidy sum for that day.
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He thought he was on the road to riches.
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[Shelby]
I was stickin' a needle in these chickens
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to keep 'em from getting
Newcastle disease.
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All the chickens died eventually,
and I went broke.
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[Baime] Shelby lost 20,000 birds
over a two-day period.
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He was instantly bankrupt.
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[Michael] There was probably one or two
little survivors poking their heads out
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but not a going business at that point.
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It was... they were all dead.
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[Shelby]
Growing up in east Texas as a kid,
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very poor circumstances,
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living through the Depression,
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you realize the world
turns upside-down every day
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on somebody that was on top of it.
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He didn't really know what he was gonna do
from day in and day out.
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Particularly
after the chicken business went under,
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that was a big, big shift for him,
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and he was struggling
to find something else to do.
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I think he had learned,
at that point in time,
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that he wasn't gonna work
for somebody else.
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That wasn't really his personality.
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He needed to find something
that he could do on his own.
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[Shelby] I'd always wanted
to be a racing driver.
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I was 29 years old, and I said,
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"To hell with it,
I'm going out and do that."
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[Baime] Racing came naturally to Shelby.
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In 1953, he raced nine times.
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He won five races and was second twice.
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[announcer] Watch car number 20
take the curve on the inside
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and leave the others behind.
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That's Carroll Shelby,
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and that bit of driving
sends him to the front.
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[Patrick]
My dad never made much money racing,
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and he knew that it was
the way it was gonna be.
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It was lean.
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Nobody thought back then
of themselves as being poor.
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You just didn't have any money that week.
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One time, he brought home a pickup truck
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full of canned beans that
we lived on for a long time.
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But when he started racing,
he found out he's good,
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so that's when he decided that
he would make a name for himself
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and then use that name
to go develop other things.
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[Baime] Shelby wanted to parlay
winning on the track
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into a bankable enterprise off the track,
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and by 1954, it was paying off.
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He was attracting the interest
of the biggest players in the world.
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[Aaron] He wound up, in 1954,
going over to Europe for the first time,
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and raced with Aston Martin at Le Mans.
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[uplifting music playing]
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He started winning races,
and he really made a name for himself.
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There was never really a question of,
"Could he win the race?"
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It was like, "Well, if he didn't win,
then the car must've broke."
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[Michael] And when they said
you could go to Argentina,
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I mean, I think he turned
Heaven and Earth up
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to figure out how to get
a plane ticket down there.
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Then he came back, and he went to Mexico.
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[Shelby] Mexican road race in 1954,
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I was driving Austin-Healey.
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Panamericana was probably
the greatest road race that's ever been.
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Started at the Guatemalan border
and wound up in Juarez.
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It was a couple of thousand miles,
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and nobody could learn
the course completely.
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[Baime] This race paid over $117,000
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with a big chunk of that
going to the winner.
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Shelby knew a win here
would take care of his family for years.
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The Carrera Panamericana
had to offer huge prize money
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because it was one
of the most dangerous races in the world.
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Nine drivers
were killed the previous year.
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[Shelby]
Actually, I was going along pretty good.
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I was keeping up with the Ferrari's
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and ahead of all the Lincolns in this
little four-cylinder Austin-Healey,
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and I screwed up.
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[somber music playing]
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[Aaron] The car flipped over.
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Cars could not withstand sudden stops.
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Fatalities would happen.
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[Michael]
No seatbelts in that point in time,
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so he was thrown out of the car.
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[Shelby]
I hit so hard, and the hickory handle,
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the knockoff handle, broke my elbow
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and chopped up a little bit.
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Racing was easily the most dangerous sport
in the world at that time.
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[Baime]
Shelby knew the danger of the sport.
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He'd lost many friends already,
but racing was in his blood.
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The sport killed a lot of drivers
for far too many years.
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Every year, you would accept
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maybe one in four drivers
to have a huge accident
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and some of them to die.
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[Shelby] The Grand Prix, as a circuit,
I think they lost half of the stars
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of the racing here
in the United States that year,
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and it was not uncommon for us to lose
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four or five drivers a year
back in the '50s.
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[Jones] Fire is racing's worst enemy,
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but you gotta keep goin',
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hope like heck some of that stuff
don't happen to you.
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[Laban] The one group of people
who just accepted it
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as part of the job
were the drivers themselves.
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[interviewer]
But is it scary enough to stop driving?
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[Shelby]
No, I won the next race at Riverside.
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-[engines revving]
-[action music playing]
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[Randall] After breaking his arm,
he used to drive with a cast on
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and tape his arm to the wheel
so he could have good grip.
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That shows his true grit,
that he'd have the broken arm
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and still continue.
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[announcer] The starter unfurls
the checkered flag,
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and at the finish, it's Carroll Shelby
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blazing past, the winner
of the Torrey Pines feature.
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Carroll Shelby pushes his Ferrari
and is showing the way.
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Ten laps remaining,
the drivers increase the tempo
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and push their cars
to the limit of man and machine.
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[Chance] Drove big 4.9 Ferraris
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and he drove giant 5.7 Maseratis,
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and he drove the Birdcages,
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and he won, and he won, and he won.
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[rhythmic drumbeats]
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[Chance] And he wore his bib overalls,
and he was a showman.
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There was an article
in one of the London papers
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that talked about the ten-gallon hat man
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coming over to challenge the stars.
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And here was this big man
with his Stetson hat on,
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I mean, he looked every inch
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the big man in the desert
hunting out the baddies,
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and everybody sort of was impressed
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with the way he drove.
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[Shelby] To win, you've got to have
a perfect mental attitude every time.
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When you go to a race,
if you're not mentally up for it,
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you're not going to win
no matter what car you have.
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[Baime] From 1955 to 1957,
Shelby drove in 81 races.
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He came in first place over half the time.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[Baime] He won Sports Illustrated's
Driver of the Year Award twice.
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As a driver, he was considered
one of the best to ever compete.
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[Chance] He's the most underestimated
winning driver,
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both in terms of European fans
and American fans, in my view.
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He's the most underrated driver.
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[Baime] Shelby raced all over the world,
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winning wherever he went,
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but racing in Europe for him
meant something different.
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He was studying the cars.
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[Shelby] The reason I wanted
to go to Europe
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was because I wanted to learn
how Ferrari, Maserati,
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Aston Martin, all those teams
built their cars
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and ran a little automobile company.
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[Laban]
Carroll Shelby made two trips to Ferrari
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in the mid-1950s,
essentially as a customer.
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[Baime] Shelby and a partner started
a business with the idea of importing
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the most successful
European sports cars of that time.
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So of course he wanted
to include Ferraris,
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which had dominated
the global racing scene for a decade.
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Both times,
Enzo Ferrari treated Shelby like dirt.
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I think Carroll watched
Enzo Ferrari pretty closely,
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and I think he learned a lot from that.
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He may not have
particularly got on with Enzo.
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When it came to Ferraris,
though, Dad was never a big fan.
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Enzo wanted nothing to do with him.
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I don't think he liked the cowboy hat
and the overalls and stuff.
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He didn't understand that, Enzo didn't.
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So, Carroll Shelby told Ferrari
that one day...
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he'd come back and kick his ass.
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[Baime]
Shelby wouldn't have to wait that long
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to go to battle with Ferrari.
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At the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans,
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the biggest race in the world,
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Shelby's driving an Aston Martin,
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and he's battling with Ferrari
for the outright lead in the race.
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[Patrick] And it was during the night,
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Dad just methodically started moving up.
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He certainly wasn't
the fastest on the track,
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just plugging along kind of like
a tortoise and the hare.
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[announcer] Shelby now drives Aston #5
through the esses.
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And with eight hours still to go,
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Ferrari #14 leads Aston Martin #5
by three laps.
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Shelby is battling with Ferrari
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in the greatest, most grueling
24-hour race in the world,
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and he's about to score
the biggest victory of his life.
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As he speeds his green Aston Martin
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around the eight-and-a-half-mile circuit,
his heart is starting to fail.
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The pain is excruciating.
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[Shelby]
I knew that I had hereditary problems,
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and my father died
at 46 years old with it,
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so I figured there was nothing
that could be done.
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[Baime] The pain grew so great,
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Shelby would sometimes
double over in agony.
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The only relief is temporary
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and came in the form
of nitroglycerin pills,
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which he'd place
under his tongue as he drove.
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By doing this, he was somehow able
to continue racing for hours on end.
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Shelby and Salvadori
kept the pressure on Ferrari,
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and as the race wore on,
the usually reliable Ferrari
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started to break down,
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and the Aston Martin was closing in.
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[engine revving]
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[announcer] Whilst at Mulsanne,
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Shelby brings the Aston
onto the same lap as the sick Ferrari.
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[applause]
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[announcer]
And now the Ferrari's race is run.
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Gendebien brings his crippled car
into the pits to retire.
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Now the winner pulls in to be submerged
beneath a seething mass eager to acclaim
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a resounding victory,
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a victory as richly deserved
as it was long awaited.
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[Baime] To do what Shelby did,
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be part of a two-man team,
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race 24 hours with a heart condition
and come out on top
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on the world's biggest stage in racing,
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this is a feat
that will never be duplicated.
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[Aaron]
It was probably the peak of his career.
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Finally his doctor told him,
"You can't keep racing cars.
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It's gonna kill you."
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[Baime]
Shelby tried to keep racing in 1960,
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but he realized
he needed to stop for good.
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[Shelby] Race driving wasn't
very profitable back then,
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and I didn't have any way
to make a living.
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I'd had a very unfortunate divorce.
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I started all over with not a dime.
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A race car driver that retires
with heart problems,
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he's very quickly forgotten about.
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[Baime] With his racing career over,
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Shelby had already been planning
his next endeavor.
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[Brock] Carroll was trying several things.
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He didn't know for sure what
he was gonna do in his life,
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but one of the things that he could do
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was he thought he would start
this school for race drivers,
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and I became his first paid employee,
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you know, with the driving school.
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[Shelby] Most people who enjoy motor
racing find the more they learn about it,
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the more interesting the sport is to 'em.
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I don't know anybody any more qualified
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to pass along some of these fundamentals
than our own Pete Brock.
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[Brock] So Carroll asked me to run
his driving school out at Riverside.
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During the off time,
I started working for Carroll
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on a secondary business.
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[Shelby] In 1960, the doctor told me
I had five years to live, maybe.
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I figured, "So what?"
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I might as well try to build a car
that I dreamed of.
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[uplifting music playing]
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[Shelby] About all I had was a dream.
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It was to build a sport car
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that more people could own
and enjoy driving;
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and second, they could race
under American colors
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and maybe prod the old established names
a little bit.
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The Corvettes were winning everything,
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and I said,
"Carroll, it's never gonna help it."
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He said, "Yes, it is."
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[Agapiou] Corvettes were the prominent car
in racing at that point.
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And Shelby definitely--
yeah, he definitely wanted
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to beat the Corvettes,
there's no doubt about it.
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[Baime] He knew if he wanted
to make a name for himself,
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as a car manufacturer,
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he had to build a Corvette killer.
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[Aaron]
Carroll was an entrepreneur at heart.
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He just did what he wanted to do,
and he woke up every morning with ideas.
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He'd always dreamed about it,
even when he was in Europe the first time,
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a European lightweight chassis
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with a light American V8 in it.
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Ray Brock with Petersen Publication
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came to me and said,
"Ford has a new small-block V8,
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and you might put something
together with 'em,"
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and I also knew that AC
had lost their deal with Bristol Engine.
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Carroll went over to AC and went in there
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with his great ability
to sell things and said,
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"Ford Motor Company is behind me,
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and we're gonna build
all these sports cars,
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and would you guys supply us
a couple of chassis for nothing?"
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Shelby was a great character.
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He wasn't overburdened
with a great deal of honesty.
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One of the nicknames we had
for him was "Billie Sol Estes."
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My dad used to call him "Billie Sol"
after Billie Sol Estes,
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the guy that
sold a bunch of stuff he didn't have.
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[Gurney]
Billie Sol Estes was another Texan,
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managed to sell
nonexistent tanks of fertilizer
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to the government,
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and he made a lot of money doing that.
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[Ford III] Carroll Shelby shows up
to Ford Motor Company
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and knocks on the door
and gets a meeting with Lee Iacocca
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who was running sales
and marketing for us at the time.
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[Shelby] I went to Lee Iacocca and said,
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"If you'll loan me $25,000,
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I'll build you a car
that'll blow the Corvette off.
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It's all it'll cost you."
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He says to Lee,
"Listen, I've got these chassis and bodies
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from AC Cobra over in England,
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and I want to put a Ford engine in 'em,
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and I want to go race 'em
all over the world."
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[Shelby] I didn't have any money,
but Ford didn't know that,
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and AC Cars didn't know that.
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He knew how to connect with people,
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and he used that to his advantage.
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[Shelby] Between whipsawing both of them,
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I wound up with a chassis
and four or five engines from Ford.
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And he was still talking
as they pushed him out the door,
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you know, and finally, Iacocca said,
"Just get that guy outta here,
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give him a couple engines and some money,
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and let's see what he can do."
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[mid-tempo music playing]
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[Shelby] I wanted to build my own car.
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The only people in America
that could do it at the time
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were the hot rodders,
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and it started here in California.
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Shelby was smart to move to California
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and tap into all the hot rodders,
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the fabricators, the mechanics,
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the welders, the painters.
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Everybody had a race car in their garage
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or a hot rod or something at home.
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[Randall] You didn't want a car
just like everyone else's,
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so you wanted to customize your car,
you wanted to change the wheels
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or put an extra carburetor on it.
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[Baime] Across the country,
people were hot rodding their cars
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to make them go faster,
to make them look cooler.
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Young people were literally marching
in their towns
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demanding that their town
build them drag strips.
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[announcer]
He's on it, and into the three quarter,
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he's really coming on and into the traps
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with a top time of 170.45 miles per hour.
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[Baime] The epicenter was right
in Southern California.
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[Shelby] Lance Reventlow had put
a group of people together in California
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that had built a car
that looked like it might be successful.
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The first American car
that really competed
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against the Ferraris
and the European cars,
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so I decided that I had to come out here.
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[mid-tempo music playing]
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[Shelby] I got a couple
of engines sent out
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to Dean Moon's shop in Los Angeles,
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and we started working on 'em.
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[Baime] The AC chassis
had also arrived in Southern California.
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The public relations manager for Carroll
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asked me to come down to Dean Moon's
in Santa Fe Springs
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and take some pictures
of a car being built.
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[tools whirring]
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[metal clanging]
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I walked in the shop and I go,
"What the hell is this?"
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Nobody knew if it was running or not.
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The chief engineman for Dean Moon
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built the engine, got it running...
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[engine turning over]
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[engine starting]
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[Shelby] We started putting
whatever carburetor, manifold on it,
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and got the engine up
to about 265 horsepower.
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[engine revving]
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[Bondurant] Carroll took it for a spin...
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[engine revving, rumbling]
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...and said, "Where's the Corvettes?"
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[Gurney] I liked driving
the Cobra Roadster very much.
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It sort of flouted all the rules.
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It was still light, good brakes on it,
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and the engine had
a broad range of torque in it,
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and they were just a lot of fun to drive.
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[Baime] Across the county in Venice,
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Lance Reventlow and his Scarab racing team
were moving in the opposite direction.
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While the car was competitive,
476
00:25:22,103 --> 00:25:25,440
Reventlow had had his fill
of the high cost of racing.
477
00:25:25,982 --> 00:25:29,194
[Holman] If you look at the core
of the Shelby American team,
478
00:25:29,569 --> 00:25:33,073
they were the team
from Lance Reventlow's Scarab effort.
479
00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:38,536
[Morton] And Carroll took it over
when Reventlow quit racing,
480
00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:41,206
and some of the people
just stayed with the building.
481
00:25:41,665 --> 00:25:45,669
[Shelby] Out of that came the best guy
that I ever ran into, Phil Remington.
482
00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:49,256
I don't think there was anybody
that could do what Phil could do.
483
00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:50,715
[rattling]
484
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:52,884
[hammering]
485
00:25:52,968 --> 00:25:55,470
Remington is one
of the few figures in racing
486
00:25:55,553 --> 00:25:58,473
who's become a legend who's not
a race car driver or constructor.
487
00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:03,103
Well, the guy was a fabricating
engineering genius, self-taught.
488
00:26:03,186 --> 00:26:06,439
He had the ability,
when something broke on the cars,
489
00:26:06,523 --> 00:26:08,275
he could build a fix or weld a fix
490
00:26:08,358 --> 00:26:11,820
or machine fabricate it
right then and there.
491
00:26:11,903 --> 00:26:13,738
The guy was just amazing.
492
00:26:13,822 --> 00:26:16,616
He had seven ideas,
and he only needed one,
493
00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:18,660
but they were all pretty good.
494
00:26:18,743 --> 00:26:21,579
[Friedman]
And he taught a lot of the young guys
495
00:26:21,663 --> 00:26:23,832
how to do all this stuff
496
00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:26,126
and fabricate and everything else,
497
00:26:26,209 --> 00:26:28,837
and the guys who worked under him
498
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,463
can't say enough about him.
499
00:26:30,547 --> 00:26:34,384
We all looked up to Remington;
we all learned from Remington.
500
00:26:34,467 --> 00:26:35,969
Oh my gosh.
501
00:26:36,052 --> 00:26:37,429
The guy's amazing.
502
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,599
To build up the financial strength
of his company,
503
00:26:41,683 --> 00:26:44,060
Carroll wanted to create the impression
504
00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:46,813
that Shelby American was
bigger than it really was.
505
00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:48,690
There's a slight problem:
506
00:26:48,982 --> 00:26:50,900
Shelby only has one Cobra.
507
00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,153
[Randall] Carroll was a salesman.
508
00:26:53,236 --> 00:26:54,612
He could bend the truth a little bit
509
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:57,157
in order to get done
what needed to get done.
510
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,368
During that whole time,
he's building a relationship
511
00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:03,872
with Motor Trend,
Car and Driver, Road & Track,
512
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:05,665
and so when his car was completed,
513
00:27:05,749 --> 00:27:07,834
he had 'em all lined up to go test it.
514
00:27:07,917 --> 00:27:10,295
[Baime] To seem like there were
more Cobras than just one,
515
00:27:10,378 --> 00:27:12,756
Shelby had his only car
painted a different color
516
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:16,092
each time a different member
of the press came to test it.
517
00:27:16,176 --> 00:27:19,179
[Friedman] So one would have a yellow
car, one would have a blue car,
518
00:27:19,262 --> 00:27:20,513
one would have a red car,
519
00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:23,350
and, "Oh, God, we got an exclusive!"
520
00:27:23,433 --> 00:27:27,228
So every magazine would think
it got something special.
521
00:27:27,979 --> 00:27:30,148
[Baime] Shelby was really
in the right place at the right time.
522
00:27:30,231 --> 00:27:31,775
He had all of these young people,
523
00:27:31,858 --> 00:27:34,444
these hot rodders who knew
how to make cars go fast,
524
00:27:34,527 --> 00:27:36,029
who knew how to fabricate,
525
00:27:36,112 --> 00:27:38,907
and he had Phil Remington,
who was this technical genius.
526
00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:41,618
All of that together,
you had an amazing company.
527
00:27:42,786 --> 00:27:44,704
[Shelby]
It was really a very interesting time.
528
00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:46,873
We had a lot of spirit around the place.
529
00:27:46,956 --> 00:27:49,250
[Brock] You gotta realize,
we're a very small group.
530
00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:50,919
We're like about eight guys total
531
00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:53,713
which we had a Frenchman, we had a Swiss,
532
00:27:54,255 --> 00:27:58,510
we had Japanese, New Zealand,
and Australian guys there.
533
00:27:58,593 --> 00:28:02,180
[Shelby] And all these guys
worked together amazingly well.
534
00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:05,809
[Agapiou] They were all a little bit
of road racers, hot rodders.
535
00:28:05,892 --> 00:28:09,938
It was a great shop to work in.
It was like one big family,
536
00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:12,690
abusing each other. [laughing]
537
00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:15,026
There was a lot of nicknames, yeah.
538
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:18,613
We hired a shop foreman
named Carroll Smith.
539
00:28:18,696 --> 00:28:20,323
"Scatter-Shit" was his nickname.
540
00:28:21,032 --> 00:28:23,493
[Kretzschmar]
Ken Miles, we called him "The Hawk."
541
00:28:23,910 --> 00:28:26,538
And some people called him
"Sidebite," you know,
542
00:28:26,621 --> 00:28:28,498
'cause he talked
out of the side of his mouth.
543
00:28:28,581 --> 00:28:31,334
It was a good day for Ford.
I'm very happy for the Ford Motor Company.
544
00:28:31,418 --> 00:28:33,336
I'm very sorry indeed for Dan.
545
00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:37,090
You really had to listen close
to understand what he was saying.
546
00:28:37,173 --> 00:28:41,386
Gordon Chance was "Ricky Nelson"
'cause he looked just like Ricky Nelson.
547
00:28:41,469 --> 00:28:44,055
[Chance] "Ricky Nelson,"
"The Teenage Tuner,"
548
00:28:44,139 --> 00:28:46,057
and isn't this all funny?
549
00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:48,017
Well, Remington, he was twitchy.
550
00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:50,937
His nickname was "STP,"
"Super Twitch Phil."
551
00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:53,064
That stayed with him, that did.
552
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:56,985
We were a ragtag bunch of crazy guys,
kind of out of control.
553
00:28:57,068 --> 00:29:01,823
I remember they had a cage,
like an aquarium, with a live cobra in it,
554
00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:03,908
and a real cobra snake.
555
00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:06,411
He always had fireworks, Charlie did,
556
00:29:06,494 --> 00:29:08,747
so he'd throw fireworks from time to time.
557
00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:12,000
They'd put 'em in the engine room
and fire 'em in a pipe there
558
00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:13,209
at the guys working
on the engines and shit like that,
559
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:14,753
and it was really echoing in there.
560
00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:16,171
[explosion]
561
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,632
[Clinard] Ferrari was contentious.
He pitted people against each other.
562
00:29:19,716 --> 00:29:21,676
It was not a happy place to work.
563
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,095
At Shelby American,
Carroll Shelby was a team leader;
564
00:29:24,179 --> 00:29:27,766
he was a team builder
just through his personality.
565
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:29,684
It was a happy place to work.
566
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:34,355
Being an employee at Shelby's,
back then in the beginning,
567
00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:37,108
it was like working
almost in a hobby shop.
568
00:29:37,192 --> 00:29:39,152
It's the kind of job that,
569
00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:41,613
even though it was good, hard work,
570
00:29:41,696 --> 00:29:42,739
you wanted to go to work.
571
00:29:43,364 --> 00:29:46,910
Carroll would come down through the shop,
and he would give you a compliment.
572
00:29:46,993 --> 00:29:48,244
"That's a nice weld."
573
00:29:48,328 --> 00:29:49,788
You felt so appreciative.
574
00:29:49,871 --> 00:29:53,541
It made you want to, you know,
work harder and even do better.
575
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:57,545
Guys would come back after dinner,
and I'd come back with 'em.
576
00:29:57,629 --> 00:29:59,839
I wasn't gettin' overtime.
I wasn't even working.
577
00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:02,592
I just came back to watch.
578
00:30:02,675 --> 00:30:05,887
He knew how to connect with people,
all kinds of different people.
579
00:30:05,970 --> 00:30:07,472
It really didn't matter
what your background was
580
00:30:07,555 --> 00:30:08,848
or what your profession was.
581
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:12,018
[Friedman] If he liked you,
you could do no wrong,
582
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:15,271
and if you did your job,
you could do no wrong.
583
00:30:15,855 --> 00:30:17,982
If he didn't like you, watch out.
584
00:30:19,234 --> 00:30:20,360
Watch out.
585
00:30:21,194 --> 00:30:24,030
In less than ten months,
Shelby created his vision:
586
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:27,450
a car that would be the envy
of everyone on the street
587
00:30:27,534 --> 00:30:30,495
and possibly one that could win
on the track.
588
00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:33,998
But Shelby knew,
in order to sell these cars,
589
00:30:34,082 --> 00:30:35,875
he had to beat the Corvettes.
590
00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:38,253
[Grant] The Corvette was the car to beat,
591
00:30:38,336 --> 00:30:42,257
and that was our primary challenge
with the Cobra.
592
00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:46,386
[narrator] This Corvette was developed
by Chevrolet engineers,
593
00:30:46,928 --> 00:30:49,347
headed by Zora Arkus-Duntov,
594
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:52,267
internationally known designer
and racing driver.
595
00:30:53,017 --> 00:30:56,062
Had the first head-to-head
competition at Riverside.
596
00:30:56,145 --> 00:30:59,440
Obviously, all the top West Coast
Corvette drivers were there,
597
00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:03,236
including Bob Bondurant
and Dick Guldstrand and Dave MacDonald.
598
00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:07,574
And Billy Krause shows up
in the first Cobra.
599
00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:11,119
[Brock] Billy Krause, one of the top,
top road racers
600
00:31:11,202 --> 00:31:14,163
at that time, very, very race savvy.
601
00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:18,960
There were no competitive cars
to the Corvettes at that time to speak of,
602
00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:20,670
until the Cobras got going.
603
00:31:20,753 --> 00:31:22,589
[suspenseful music playing]
604
00:31:25,216 --> 00:31:27,468
[Krause] The first time we showed up
at Riverside with a Cobra,
605
00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:30,054
nobody knew what to think.
606
00:31:30,138 --> 00:31:33,725
After a few laps,
they figured it out pretty quick.
607
00:31:37,186 --> 00:31:38,813
MacDonald and I were up toward the front.
608
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:41,232
I knew I had to beat him to win,
609
00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:44,444
so I wanted to measure
the Cobra against the Corvette
610
00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:46,195
knowing he was gonna drive
the heck out of the Corvette.
611
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,907
I didn't have to guess
if he was trying or not
612
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:50,241
'cause I knew he was.
613
00:31:56,789 --> 00:31:59,751
[Brock]
Krause, he went out and led immediately,
614
00:31:59,834 --> 00:32:03,463
and it showed that the car was
way, way ahead
615
00:32:03,546 --> 00:32:04,881
of whatever Corvette was doing.
616
00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:07,759
[Lerner] As soon as it appears
at Riverside in its first race,
617
00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:11,012
it dominates the Corvette,
makes it look second rate.
618
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,766
[Krause] Actually,
I was surprised how easy
619
00:32:14,849 --> 00:32:17,435
it was to beat the Corvette
with the Cobra.
620
00:32:17,518 --> 00:32:19,228
I was at least a half a lap ahead.
621
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:20,980
Coming out of turn nine,
which is a banked turn,
622
00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:22,148
all of a sudden, it went boom,
623
00:32:22,231 --> 00:32:24,943
and then the wheel and tire passed me.
624
00:32:25,234 --> 00:32:27,320
I said, "This is not good."
625
00:32:27,403 --> 00:32:32,408
The Cobra was handily leading the race
and broke a stub axle,
626
00:32:32,492 --> 00:32:33,952
and the Stingray won.
627
00:32:35,286 --> 00:32:38,665
[Lerner] But everyone knows that the Cobra
is gonna dominate thereafter.
628
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:44,003
[Krause] The other drivers pretty much
avoided me afterwards.
629
00:32:44,545 --> 00:32:47,090
They were jealous, I mean,
what else can I say?
630
00:32:47,548 --> 00:32:50,802
My dad was so impressed with that Cobra.
631
00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:54,222
So quick, so light,
much lighter than the Stingray,
632
00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:56,933
and he knew the writing was
on the wall from that race.
633
00:32:57,016 --> 00:32:58,184
Shelby didn't win the race,
634
00:32:58,851 --> 00:33:02,522
but he proved that the Cobra
was going to dominate the Corvette.
635
00:33:02,897 --> 00:33:06,401
[Ford III] It was a recognition that
Carroll, along with Ford,
636
00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:07,902
had found something special.
637
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:12,115
We had our first true competitor
in the racing car business in a while.
638
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:16,786
And like Carroll Shelby the driver,
Shelby Cobra started to win.
639
00:33:17,245 --> 00:33:21,290
-[heroic music playing]
-[engine revving]
640
00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:39,892
We're running 35, 40 hours on the cars
without even overhauling them now,
641
00:33:39,976 --> 00:33:42,854
which is phenomenal.
That's even better than Ferrari is.
642
00:33:42,937 --> 00:33:45,523
They've been reputed to be
the most reliable cars,
643
00:33:45,606 --> 00:33:48,401
and I think we even got them
beat on that now,
644
00:33:48,484 --> 00:33:51,154
so I'm not worried one bit
about the 500 miles.
645
00:33:51,237 --> 00:33:52,822
In fact, I wish it were 1,000.
646
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:58,077
[announcer] Carroll Shelby and his Cobras
win the Manufacturers' Championship.
647
00:33:58,161 --> 00:34:02,540
Cobra creator Carroll Shelby
has realized his ambition.
648
00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:06,127
We won the Drivers' Championship,
the Manufacturers' Championship,
649
00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:08,755
and of course, the USRRC Championship.
650
00:34:09,297 --> 00:34:13,760
He was doing really what he wanted to do:
beat the Ferraris, the Corvettes,
651
00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:15,762
the Porsches, and everyone else.
652
00:34:16,929 --> 00:34:20,516
When we were able to run with 'em
and actually beat 'em,
653
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,560
it was a huge accomplishment,
654
00:34:22,643 --> 00:34:27,565
and it meant a great deal to Shelby,
to Ford Motor Company.
655
00:34:27,982 --> 00:34:30,610
[Baime] Henry Ford II, Chairman
of the Ford Motor Company,
656
00:34:30,693 --> 00:34:32,987
knew the value of winning races,
657
00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:35,698
but his desire was to win
at the highest level.
658
00:34:35,782 --> 00:34:39,452
That meant competing and winning
at the biggest race in the world,
659
00:34:39,535 --> 00:34:41,120
the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
660
00:34:42,246 --> 00:34:46,125
You need to understand the magnitude
of winning Le Mans during this period.
661
00:34:46,209 --> 00:34:50,004
It made celebrities out of the drivers
who won and the manufacturer.
662
00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:52,882
[Oliver] Major manufacturers
get in long-distance racing
663
00:34:52,965 --> 00:34:56,761
because it's an arduous race,
and it enhances the brand.
664
00:34:57,553 --> 00:35:00,848
I mean, if Ford can win
at Le Mans reliably,
665
00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:03,935
that says something about the engineering.
666
00:35:04,018 --> 00:35:06,813
[Nader] There was a marketing arm
of each auto company
667
00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:08,940
that's obsessed with auto racing
668
00:35:09,023 --> 00:35:11,734
as a marketing technique to sell cars.
669
00:35:12,193 --> 00:35:14,862
They would say,
"Win on Sunday, sell on Monday."
670
00:35:15,238 --> 00:35:18,658
We didn't have that performance
component of our brand
671
00:35:18,741 --> 00:35:19,784
that customers wanted.
672
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:24,205
[Baime] Ford had the Galaxie,
Ford had the Thunderbird,
673
00:35:24,580 --> 00:35:28,126
but when it came to a plausible race car,
Ford had nothing.
674
00:35:28,876 --> 00:35:33,131
[Laban] Henry is at a motor race,
sees a Ferrari win, and says,
675
00:35:34,048 --> 00:35:35,716
"We need those red cars."
676
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:38,052
[Baime]
His solution to win Le Mans quickly
677
00:35:38,427 --> 00:35:40,179
was to simply purchase Shelby's rival,
Ferrari.
678
00:35:41,806 --> 00:35:44,767
Since Shelby's win
in an Aston Martin in 1959,
679
00:35:44,851 --> 00:35:48,980
Ferrari had dominated,
winning every 24 hour contest since then.
680
00:35:49,856 --> 00:35:53,651
For speed and endurance,
Ferrari was without equal.
681
00:35:55,111 --> 00:35:58,906
There was a lot of effort put
into making this deal a reality.
682
00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:04,704
And we'll try to accommodate
your desires as best we can.
683
00:36:04,787 --> 00:36:07,874
My father thought that this
was gonna be a done deal.
684
00:36:07,957 --> 00:36:11,544
Ford Motor Company was gonna walk away
with an incredible brand.
685
00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:14,505
But I said, "No, I don't want to sell it."
686
00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:16,883
[Baime] Enzo Ferrari was playing
Henry Ford II
687
00:36:16,966 --> 00:36:20,761
so that he could get a sweeter deal
from an Italian company, Fiat,
688
00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:23,139
a deal which he would eventually take.
689
00:36:23,472 --> 00:36:25,766
[Ford III]
My father was extremely disappointed.
690
00:36:26,434 --> 00:36:28,019
That's when he decided, "All right,
691
00:36:28,102 --> 00:36:29,604
we're gonna beat you,
and we're gonna beat you
692
00:36:29,687 --> 00:36:31,355
at your own game, in your backyard."
693
00:36:31,814 --> 00:36:35,610
[Baime] Ford began construction
on a race car with an unlimited budget.
694
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,488
The GT40 was being designed
for two reasons:
695
00:36:39,572 --> 00:36:42,325
win Le Mans and humble Ferrari.
696
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,413
Shelby had not forgotten
about his vendetta with Enzo Ferrari,
697
00:36:47,496 --> 00:36:51,584
and he wanted to take him on at Le Mans,
but he knew he didn't have the car.
698
00:36:51,667 --> 00:36:54,378
No matter how good it was
for short track racing,
699
00:36:54,462 --> 00:36:56,964
it was not gonna be
a suitable car for Europe
700
00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:59,133
'cause it simply didn't have
the top speed.
701
00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:03,262
[Shelby]
We wanted to go international racing,
702
00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:05,723
and the old 289 Cobra
703
00:37:05,806 --> 00:37:09,310
was about as aerodynamic as a shoebox.
704
00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:13,272
[Brock] The tracks we ran
over in this country didn't run over 150,
705
00:37:13,356 --> 00:37:14,857
155 miles an hour anyway.
706
00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:17,902
So it'd run up to 155 miles
an hour and just stop.
707
00:37:17,985 --> 00:37:19,695
It was like pushing a brick
through the air.
708
00:37:20,029 --> 00:37:23,032
[Baime] Shelby knew that Cobra
did not have the aerodynamics
709
00:37:23,115 --> 00:37:25,117
to blast 200 miles an hour
710
00:37:25,201 --> 00:37:27,370
down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans.
711
00:37:27,453 --> 00:37:29,372
[Shelby]
We knew that we had to do something
712
00:37:29,455 --> 00:37:32,416
as far as body style was concerned.
713
00:37:33,918 --> 00:37:38,089
So I had a young man named Pete Brock
that had worked at General Motors,
714
00:37:39,173 --> 00:37:43,678
and I said, "Pete, you think we could
build a streamlined version of a Cobra?"
715
00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:47,682
I said,
"We can design a completely new body
716
00:37:48,224 --> 00:37:50,393
for the existing Cobra chassis,
717
00:37:50,476 --> 00:37:52,979
and I think that
we can make 'em go faster."
718
00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:57,692
But I said, "It may not look like anything
you've ever seen before."
719
00:37:58,234 --> 00:38:00,653
And he said, "Aw, hell,
I don't care what it looks like.
720
00:38:00,736 --> 00:38:03,864
Is it gonna go fast?"
And I said, "I believe it will."
721
00:38:04,323 --> 00:38:07,326
[down-tempo music fades]
722
00:38:08,244 --> 00:38:11,622
[hopeful music playing]
723
00:38:16,335 --> 00:38:19,255
[Brock] The actual idea
for the new shape of a body
724
00:38:19,338 --> 00:38:22,758
had been developed
in the late 1930s in Germany
725
00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:27,388
by a guy named
Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld.
726
00:38:28,264 --> 00:38:33,019
The idea for it has never been
really tried in modern competition.
727
00:38:33,811 --> 00:38:35,980
Extending the length, cutting it off,
728
00:38:36,063 --> 00:38:39,817
and fooling the air that was
flowing over the back of the car
729
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,445
into thinking
that it was gonna go that far.
730
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:46,574
It might look so different that there'd be
a lot of resistance for it,
731
00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:49,785
and I knew that
because I knew what the history was.
732
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:53,581
Builders at that time, including BMW,
733
00:38:53,664 --> 00:38:56,876
they'd had focus groups,
and the cars looked so strange
734
00:38:56,959 --> 00:38:58,586
that everybody rejected 'em,
735
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:00,755
so the idea went away.
736
00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:03,716
World War II comes along.
737
00:39:03,799 --> 00:39:05,968
-[gunfire]
-[ominous music playing]
738
00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:11,223
Factories were bombed out.
739
00:39:12,683 --> 00:39:15,144
All of that information was lost.
740
00:39:15,227 --> 00:39:18,647
[gunfire]
741
00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,528
But when I was at General Motors,
742
00:39:24,612 --> 00:39:28,574
I found in their library
a technical paper on their studies,
743
00:39:28,657 --> 00:39:32,119
and it showed what
the aerodynamic improvements were on it.
744
00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:35,706
And I couldn't read all the German,
but I could understand the numbers
745
00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:38,167
on the coefficient of drag improvement.
746
00:39:38,709 --> 00:39:41,545
These ideas could be applied to the Cobra.
747
00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:43,422
I presented the idea to the crew,
748
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:45,800
because they were gonna
have to build the car.
749
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:49,053
All the enthusiasm I'd had
stopped completely
750
00:39:49,136 --> 00:39:51,639
because I showed people
what I thought the car would look like
751
00:39:51,722 --> 00:39:54,433
with a strange looking car
with a chopped off tail.
752
00:39:55,059 --> 00:39:58,062
And the main resistance
came from Phil Remington,
753
00:39:58,145 --> 00:39:59,563
who was our chief engineer,
754
00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:01,732
and the guy was my idol.
755
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:04,735
This is the greatest fabricator,
race car builder in the world.
756
00:40:04,819 --> 00:40:08,280
And I thought, "Well, boy,
if I get Phil behind this deal,"
757
00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,324
you know, "it's gonna be a slam dunk."
758
00:40:11,450 --> 00:40:14,995
I mean, he thought it was a
stupid looking car, and it wouldn't work.
759
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,832
And of course all the guys in the shop
followed him and said,
760
00:40:17,915 --> 00:40:19,708
"We don't want to work on it either."
761
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:21,836
[Agapiou]
I mean, everyone was abusing him,
762
00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:24,046
saying it wasn't gonna work
and this and that,
763
00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:26,549
and especially the upper echelon.
764
00:40:26,924 --> 00:40:30,219
When I looked at the Pete Brock coupe,
765
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,721
I thought,
"You know, that thing's gonna be
766
00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:35,433
200, maybe 300 pounds heavier,
767
00:40:35,933 --> 00:40:38,018
and it's gonna bog down the engine,
768
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:42,690
and I don't expect it
to be a big success."
769
00:40:43,232 --> 00:40:45,025
[Agapiou] But he had Shelby on his side,
770
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:47,445
and that's all that--
that's all that really mattered.
771
00:40:47,945 --> 00:40:50,698
[Shelby] So I didn't really know
anything about aerodynamics.
772
00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:52,616
It looked pretty good to me.
773
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:56,078
Aeronutronic, a Ford defense company,
774
00:40:56,162 --> 00:41:00,374
had some really good PhDs and some people
that understood aerodynamics.
775
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:03,752
They came up and looked at it and said,
"Hey, that thing ain't gonna work."
776
00:41:04,628 --> 00:41:09,341
[Brock] Told us if we extend
the tail out about three feet to a point
777
00:41:09,425 --> 00:41:11,427
that we'd be much better off.
778
00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:16,182
Common acceptance of what
aerodynamic efficiency was
779
00:41:16,265 --> 00:41:18,976
was to have this
teardrop-shaped automobile,
780
00:41:19,059 --> 00:41:20,936
but it really wasn't very efficient.
781
00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:23,731
That created turbulence all over the body.
782
00:41:24,523 --> 00:41:27,109
Fortunately, our top driver, Ken Miles,
783
00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:29,069
he had seen what the Germans had done
784
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,447
and knew that they were onto something,
785
00:41:31,530 --> 00:41:34,658
and he convinced Carroll
that we should go ahead with the project.
786
00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:37,453
So he said, "OK, go ahead and do it."
787
00:41:37,536 --> 00:41:38,913
I said, "OK, what's our budget?"
788
00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:42,500
He says, "Well, we don't have any money."
789
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:46,045
He said, "You can have
Skip Hudson's old crashed car."
790
00:41:46,128 --> 00:41:49,507
The body was damaged,
but the chassis was still OK.
791
00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:53,594
[Baime] Brock had his opportunity,
but what he didn't have was time.
792
00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:56,222
Shelby American wasn't just racing.
793
00:41:56,305 --> 00:41:59,642
It was producing Cobras for street use,
and demand was high.
794
00:42:00,643 --> 00:42:04,605
Shelby gave Brock a drop-dead date
to finish the car.
795
00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:07,733
[Brock]
We had a 90-day window to build this car
796
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:11,237
from the first sketch
to the completed running car
797
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,030
to get it ready for Daytona.
798
00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:16,659
Took a jigsaw and just cut out
all those patterns
799
00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:18,786
and then put it together
like a big ice cube tray.
800
00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:22,039
[ominous music playing]
801
00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:29,004
And made the book so we could really see
what the car looked like full size.
802
00:42:32,967 --> 00:42:36,262
As it started taking shape, though,
people started believing in the car.
803
00:42:36,345 --> 00:42:37,680
[Brock] Once the car started going,
804
00:42:37,763 --> 00:42:40,432
well, they all dived in,
and everybody contributed something
805
00:42:40,516 --> 00:42:42,268
to make the car right.
806
00:42:42,351 --> 00:42:45,020
[Patrick] Phil Remington and Ken Miles
807
00:42:45,104 --> 00:42:47,648
and John Olson and Donn Allen,
808
00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:50,234
they all put together a chassis
809
00:42:50,317 --> 00:42:52,486
and we built the first body.
810
00:42:53,904 --> 00:42:56,532
[Kretzschmar] It looked kind of funny
with a chopped-off tail,
811
00:42:56,615 --> 00:42:59,660
and everybody didn't think
it would do that well.
812
00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:03,956
[Brock] We got the car done
and took it out to Riverside.
813
00:43:04,039 --> 00:43:06,542
[suspenseful music playing]
814
00:43:08,502 --> 00:43:10,921
[Baime] Pete Brock had defied everyone
with his design,
815
00:43:11,005 --> 00:43:14,049
and now was the moment to see
if it would succeed or fail,
816
00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:16,719
because the stopwatch doesn't lie.
817
00:43:17,636 --> 00:43:21,432
[engine revving]
818
00:43:21,515 --> 00:43:25,102
And it was 25 miles an hour faster
down the back straightaway of Riverside
819
00:43:25,185 --> 00:43:26,520
than a regular Cobra.
820
00:43:28,939 --> 00:43:30,024
[Brock] Right out of the box,
821
00:43:30,107 --> 00:43:33,652
the car was three and a half seconds
faster than anything we'd ever run.
822
00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:36,989
[Agapiou] Ken was amazed how fast that car
was down the straight at Riverside.
823
00:43:37,072 --> 00:43:38,157
[Shelby] It ran pretty well.
824
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:42,077
It would run 170 miles an hour
down a straight
825
00:43:42,161 --> 00:43:45,205
on 350 horsepower.
826
00:43:45,664 --> 00:43:46,915
[Agapiou]
Painted it and put a stripe on it.
827
00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:49,793
It was incredible design
that Pete had come up with.
828
00:43:49,877 --> 00:43:52,046
Carroll said, "Let's get this thing
back to the shop.
829
00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:54,173
We'll try to get it ready for Daytona."
830
00:43:54,673 --> 00:43:57,384
[Baime] Shelby named the car
for the race he was preparing it for,
831
00:43:57,468 --> 00:43:58,969
the Daytona Continental.
832
00:43:59,053 --> 00:44:03,182
So, since that day, it's always been known
as the Cobra Daytona.
833
00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:08,145
[Brock] When we got down to Daytona,
834
00:44:08,228 --> 00:44:12,650
Carroll had assigned Bob Holbert
and Dave MacDonald to drive the car.
835
00:44:13,233 --> 00:44:16,654
The main competition against the Cobra
was the Ferrari 250 GTO.
836
00:44:16,737 --> 00:44:19,198
An American car challenging them
was unusual
837
00:44:19,281 --> 00:44:21,325
and certainly put some feathers
the wrong way
838
00:44:21,408 --> 00:44:23,077
in the European racing elite.
839
00:44:24,036 --> 00:44:26,455
[Baime] Enzo Ferrari
and his team knew very little
840
00:44:26,538 --> 00:44:29,041
about the new American race car
with a strange body,
841
00:44:29,124 --> 00:44:30,584
but they were about to find out.
842
00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:33,170
When the race started,
the Daytona Coupe and the Ferrari
843
00:44:33,253 --> 00:44:34,963
were battling for the lead.
844
00:44:36,131 --> 00:44:39,259
[Brock] Holbert goes out,
he's running against the Ferraris,
845
00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:41,512
and he comes back and after
a couple laps, he says,
846
00:44:41,595 --> 00:44:43,931
"This is too easy. Christ," he says,
847
00:44:44,014 --> 00:44:46,266
"I can run off
and leave these guys easily."
848
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:48,268
[engine revving]
849
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:52,648
[Baime] After 110 laps,
the Daytona Coupe had built
850
00:44:52,731 --> 00:44:54,900
a ten-minute lead on the entire field.
851
00:44:54,983 --> 00:44:57,569
The Ferrari continued to lose ground.
852
00:44:58,404 --> 00:45:01,281
At that point,
we did some testing on fuel.
853
00:45:01,740 --> 00:45:05,661
The car was 25% more efficient
than the roadsters.
854
00:45:05,911 --> 00:45:09,415
For endurance racing,
the fuel economy was even more important,
855
00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:13,001
because if we could go three more laps
each time Ferrari pitted,
856
00:45:13,335 --> 00:45:15,045
that's the way you'd win the race.
857
00:45:15,129 --> 00:45:19,174
The Daytona Coupe was so much faster than
anything there, it was just incredible.
858
00:45:19,258 --> 00:45:21,343
There was nothing there
that could even go near us.
859
00:45:22,302 --> 00:45:25,097
[engine revving]
860
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:27,099
[Brock] By the seventh hour
of the race down there,
861
00:45:27,182 --> 00:45:29,768
we were so far out in front,
862
00:45:29,852 --> 00:45:31,979
there wasn't any question,
we had the race won.
863
00:45:32,479 --> 00:45:36,483
[Agapiou] They came in for a pit stop,
put the fueler in,
864
00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:39,069
it burst out the other side,
out the vent can,
865
00:45:39,153 --> 00:45:40,737
and ran down and caught on fire.
866
00:45:40,821 --> 00:45:43,073
[explosion]
867
00:45:43,157 --> 00:45:45,951
There was a point there it looked like
the car was gonna explode.
868
00:45:46,034 --> 00:45:48,287
[Kretzschmar]
One of our boys from New Zealand
869
00:45:48,370 --> 00:45:51,123
was absolutely engulfed in flames.
870
00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:53,959
[Agapiou] We're trying to put Olson out.
871
00:45:54,251 --> 00:45:56,086
Meanwhile, he's screaming, you know,
872
00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:59,047
"I dropped my wallet,"
so we got his wallet for him.
873
00:45:59,673 --> 00:46:02,509
[Brock] And Carroll was so angry
with the whole situation,
874
00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:04,011
and he said, "We're done."
875
00:46:04,970 --> 00:46:08,515
And the mechanics were saying,
"Carroll, we can get the wiring fixed.
876
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:12,269
It doesn't matter. We'll lose
all these laps, but the car is so fast.
877
00:46:12,352 --> 00:46:14,229
We can get out and win the race."
878
00:46:15,230 --> 00:46:18,108
[Baime] Shelby puts his foot down
and retires the car.
879
00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:21,820
[Brock] So the car didn't win it,
but we did set the lap record on it.
880
00:46:21,904 --> 00:46:23,614
And then we went to Sebring.
881
00:46:25,908 --> 00:46:28,785
[announcer] Shelby's Cobras,
led by the Number 10 Daytona Coupe,
882
00:46:29,161 --> 00:46:32,122
caused a stir
as they moved through inspection.
883
00:46:32,206 --> 00:46:34,583
[Brock] The reaction after Daytona
was rather mixed,
884
00:46:34,666 --> 00:46:37,169
because obviously we'd shown great speed,
885
00:46:37,252 --> 00:46:40,088
but the car had also proven
pretty vulnerable with it blowing up.
886
00:46:41,089 --> 00:46:44,760
[announcer] The reigning Ferraris.
They dominate the prototype class
887
00:46:44,843 --> 00:46:47,471
with two four-liter
and two three-liter cars.
888
00:46:48,096 --> 00:46:51,683
They'd been champions
of the world already since '62,
889
00:46:51,767 --> 00:46:53,894
and we're already
into the beginning of '64.
890
00:46:54,311 --> 00:46:56,980
They'd won everything all through '63.
891
00:46:57,064 --> 00:46:58,899
So they were very, very confident.
892
00:46:58,982 --> 00:47:03,070
I mean, the Ferrari factory team
had pretty much ruled the roost forever.
893
00:47:03,820 --> 00:47:05,864
[Baime] When you think of Ferrari
and what Ferrari means,
894
00:47:05,948 --> 00:47:07,282
you would think that the founder
of that company
895
00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:09,826
would be extraordinarily wealthy,
but he never was,
896
00:47:09,910 --> 00:47:13,205
because every lira
was always spent on racing.
897
00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:19,294
Carroll Shelby had already decided
what he thought about Enzo Ferrari.
898
00:47:19,628 --> 00:47:21,797
[Shelby]
I never saw anybody with an equal race car
899
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,300
that I didn't figure
that I could hold on with.
900
00:47:25,384 --> 00:47:27,386
It would be great for motor racing
901
00:47:27,469 --> 00:47:30,180
if American cars could beat
the Ferraris once.
902
00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:32,975
[referee] Six, five, four...
903
00:47:33,058 --> 00:47:34,726
[announcer] They've broken on five,
904
00:47:34,810 --> 00:47:37,271
earlier than they've
ever jumped the gun before.
905
00:47:37,521 --> 00:47:39,022
[indistinct shouting]
906
00:47:39,648 --> 00:47:42,317
[announcer]
Penske gets away just in front of Holbert.
907
00:47:42,776 --> 00:47:46,947
[Agapiou] The race started,
and we just went away with it.
908
00:47:48,699 --> 00:47:52,244
We're just killing
the Ferraris and the Porsches,
909
00:47:52,327 --> 00:47:55,414
and not just GT cars
but prototypes as well.
910
00:47:56,999 --> 00:47:59,042
[Brock] It didn't take long
for people to understand
911
00:47:59,126 --> 00:48:01,670
that the car was gonna be
really, really fast.
912
00:48:05,173 --> 00:48:08,343
[Agapiou] It was absolutely amazing,
a group of guys from Venice, California,
913
00:48:08,427 --> 00:48:11,430
who'd come down and beat all
those high-end manufacturers.
914
00:48:11,513 --> 00:48:15,100
[announcer] True to his hopes, Carroll
Shelby, with the Ferrari GTOs,
915
00:48:15,183 --> 00:48:18,395
taking the Manufacturers' Championship
lead at the same time.
916
00:48:18,478 --> 00:48:21,231
Holbert and MacDonald led the GT winners.
917
00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:24,735
[Brock] By the time that Holbert
and Davy won at Sebring,
918
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:27,988
I think Ferrari had some concern.
919
00:48:28,322 --> 00:48:29,615
[Shelby] We dominated.
920
00:48:30,324 --> 00:48:32,034
That's when we decided to go to Europe
921
00:48:32,409 --> 00:48:35,245
when we saw that we could beat the GTO
in a 12-hour race.
922
00:48:36,246 --> 00:48:40,042
This was also now starting
to be very personal between Ferrari
923
00:48:42,377 --> 00:48:43,795
and Carroll Shelby.
924
00:48:44,463 --> 00:48:47,299
[Brock] I mean, all the American guys
wanted to go to Indy.
925
00:48:47,382 --> 00:48:49,217
That was their goal.
926
00:48:49,301 --> 00:48:52,179
Carroll's goal was to go back
and beat Ferrari's ass,
927
00:48:52,262 --> 00:48:55,015
because he had been insulted
by Enzo Ferrari at one time,
928
00:48:55,098 --> 00:48:59,311
and he wanted to go back and show
what Americans could do.
929
00:48:59,686 --> 00:49:01,229
[Baime] And he held a press conference,
930
00:49:01,313 --> 00:49:02,814
and he looked people in the eye,
and he said,
931
00:49:02,898 --> 00:49:05,984
this is a quote, "Ferrari's ass is mine."
932
00:49:06,777 --> 00:49:09,404
[Brock] We knew that we had a car
that would beat Ferrari,
933
00:49:09,488 --> 00:49:13,492
so we scraped a little money together
with a little help from Castrol
934
00:49:13,575 --> 00:49:18,288
and our sales of the Cobra
were making a little money,
935
00:49:18,372 --> 00:49:21,875
so we put it together on
a very scrimpy budget
936
00:49:21,958 --> 00:49:23,168
and went to Europe.
937
00:49:27,422 --> 00:49:30,425
[Baime] Of all the races in the world,
there was none bigger than Le Mans.
938
00:49:31,968 --> 00:49:34,346
To win Le Mans,
it meant that you were the best.
939
00:49:36,598 --> 00:49:38,392
[Baime] Since its inception in 1908,
940
00:49:38,475 --> 00:49:41,603
no race was more prized or coveted.
941
00:49:41,978 --> 00:49:45,232
For an automotive manufacturer,
it proves their endurance
942
00:49:45,315 --> 00:49:48,193
more than any other race can possibly do.
943
00:49:48,276 --> 00:49:51,029
Commercially,
it is the most important race
944
00:49:51,113 --> 00:49:53,490
to win in the world
for a car manufacturer.
945
00:49:54,825 --> 00:49:57,452
You win Le Mans, the whole planet knows.
946
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,250
[suspenseful music playing]
947
00:50:03,333 --> 00:50:05,544
[Brock] There was a tremendous amount
of publicity,
948
00:50:05,627 --> 00:50:08,714
the fact that Ford Motor Company
was gonna enter the Le Mans race.
949
00:50:09,005 --> 00:50:10,966
[Baime] It had taken nearly 14 months,
950
00:50:11,049 --> 00:50:14,678
but Ford's entry, the GT40,
was ready to race at Le Mans
951
00:50:15,011 --> 00:50:18,682
and ready to put an end to Ferrari's
dominance at this race.
952
00:50:19,224 --> 00:50:22,269
[Brock] Millions of dollars had been
devoted to this project.
953
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:24,646
It was getting tremendous,
tremendous publicity,
954
00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:27,607
you know, with the Ford PR campaign.
955
00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:33,947
This title, the GT40 was really
representing a big change in motor racing.
956
00:50:34,281 --> 00:50:37,117
My father was surprised about the car.
957
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,497
[Randall] I'm not sure if people had
seen a car that was so low.
958
00:50:42,581 --> 00:50:45,751
It was clearly a very dynamic design.
959
00:50:46,752 --> 00:50:49,045
[Baime]
Although Shelby was using a Ford engine,
960
00:50:49,129 --> 00:50:51,131
that's where the relationship stopped.
961
00:50:51,214 --> 00:50:55,093
All Ford ever cared about was their entry,
the GT40.
962
00:50:56,303 --> 00:50:58,555
[Brock] Nobody was looking at the Cobra,
963
00:50:58,638 --> 00:51:01,850
and we've got two Daytonas
in the GT class.
964
00:51:02,309 --> 00:51:05,020
In sports car racing,
there's always been a class structure.
965
00:51:05,103 --> 00:51:08,231
At the top of the totem pole
is the prototype class.
966
00:51:08,315 --> 00:51:09,149
Anything went,
967
00:51:09,232 --> 00:51:10,901
and you could build as many
as you wanted of them
968
00:51:10,984 --> 00:51:11,985
or as few as you wanted.
969
00:51:12,068 --> 00:51:14,279
You could just build one car,
and it would just be a prototype.
970
00:51:15,739 --> 00:51:18,366
And the next class down
was typically the GT class,
971
00:51:18,909 --> 00:51:21,745
and now it's the so-called
production-based class.
972
00:51:21,828 --> 00:51:24,873
The GT class has a lot
of value for a manufacturer,
973
00:51:24,956 --> 00:51:27,125
because it's based on the cars
they sell on the street.
974
00:51:28,251 --> 00:51:31,421
[Baime]
The stage is set for a war of speed.
975
00:51:32,172 --> 00:51:35,467
The Ferrari P Series versus the Ford GT40.
976
00:51:36,593 --> 00:51:41,848
The Shelby American Daytona Coupe
versus the Ferrari 250 GTO.
977
00:51:42,182 --> 00:51:45,769
Each manufacturer had poured everything
they had into their cars.
978
00:51:47,354 --> 00:51:49,606
Le Mans always had hundreds
of thousands of spectators,
979
00:51:49,689 --> 00:51:51,274
but this year, it was overflowing.
980
00:51:51,358 --> 00:51:54,319
Ford's debut at Le Mans
drew millions of eyes
981
00:51:54,402 --> 00:51:56,238
to that race around the world.
982
00:51:56,321 --> 00:51:58,323
[announcer]
The Le Mans 24-hour race at last,
983
00:51:58,406 --> 00:52:01,409
and three gleaming Ford GTs are present.
984
00:52:03,286 --> 00:52:06,790
At 4:00 p.m. the starter drops his flag
and runs for safety.
985
00:52:11,086 --> 00:52:14,381
[Baime] In the opening laps,
the GT40 is furiously fast.
986
00:52:14,464 --> 00:52:17,217
There's a helicopter camera car
following it.
987
00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:19,719
Its top speed is incredible.
988
00:52:20,345 --> 00:52:21,805
[Attwood] The cars were fast.
989
00:52:22,222 --> 00:52:26,184
Richie Ginther was particularly quick
and was challenging the Ferraris,
990
00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:28,895
which was really his job
because he was the lead car.
991
00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:31,523
[announcer] Richie Ginther has taken
the lead on the second lap
992
00:52:31,606 --> 00:52:34,109
in the white Ford with the blue stripe.
993
00:52:34,192 --> 00:52:36,987
The American racing colors
are in front at Le Mans.
994
00:52:37,070 --> 00:52:39,573
[interviewer] Do you reckon
you've got anything up your sleeve
995
00:52:39,656 --> 00:52:41,908
that you can pull out a little bit more?
996
00:52:41,992 --> 00:52:44,411
I can pull out 15 seconds
any time you wanted it,
997
00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:46,788
but we're trying to finish in 24 hours.
998
00:52:46,872 --> 00:52:49,791
You mean they won't let you
pull out for 15 seconds?
999
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:53,920
[Baime] In the GT class,
both Cobras are outpacing the Ferrari GTO
1000
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:57,048
as well as staying with the Ford
and Ferrari prototypes.
1001
00:52:57,132 --> 00:52:59,885
Shelby American's first showing
is going strong,
1002
00:53:00,510 --> 00:53:02,971
until an improper starting
of a dead battery
1003
00:53:03,054 --> 00:53:06,391
leads to the disqualification
of car number six.
1004
00:53:06,683 --> 00:53:08,268
Only one Cobra remains,
1005
00:53:08,351 --> 00:53:10,937
the one driven by Dan Gurney
and Bob Bondurant.
1006
00:53:11,813 --> 00:53:15,442
Losing one of the coupes is a serious blow
to Shelby and the team
1007
00:53:15,525 --> 00:53:18,695
and seriously hinders
their ability to win the race.
1008
00:53:19,279 --> 00:53:23,199
Ford's first casualty is Richard Attwood
from Britain.
1009
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:26,202
[Attwood] We'd done maybe
two or three hours into the race,
1010
00:53:26,661 --> 00:53:32,667
and I saw some flames starting to lick up
into the engine bay.
1011
00:53:33,126 --> 00:53:35,670
It was burning fairly well when I got out.
1012
00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:38,131
There was a "whoof" underneath the bonnet.
1013
00:53:38,757 --> 00:53:41,092
[Moss]
It's known as the grand prix of endurance,
1014
00:53:41,176 --> 00:53:42,344
and I think that this is the thing.
1015
00:53:42,427 --> 00:53:45,764
It's a great endurance on the driver
and on the car.
1016
00:53:45,847 --> 00:53:49,059
And this is a combination
that I think wears out
1017
00:53:49,142 --> 00:53:50,727
a lot of people and a lot of vehicles.
1018
00:53:50,810 --> 00:53:53,396
And this is, I'm afraid,
what's gonna happen now.
1019
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:54,940
We're starting 55 cars.
1020
00:53:55,690 --> 00:53:59,110
I don't think more than 15 or 20
are going to finish.
1021
00:54:00,111 --> 00:54:02,656
[Baime] During the 11th hour
of the race, troubles brew for Ford.
1022
00:54:02,739 --> 00:54:05,116
Richie Ginther's GT40 is retired.
1023
00:54:05,575 --> 00:54:08,370
Thirteen hours into the race,
Phil Hill goes also.
1024
00:54:11,289 --> 00:54:14,542
[Baime] By morning, with every GT40 broken
and out of the race,
1025
00:54:14,626 --> 00:54:18,129
the Ford execs were forced
to pay attention to the Daytona Coupe.
1026
00:54:18,213 --> 00:54:21,591
It was now winning the entire race
in both classes.
1027
00:54:23,426 --> 00:54:26,930
The Daytona could genuinely beat Ferrari.
1028
00:54:27,430 --> 00:54:28,765
[Shelby] When you had long straightaways,
1029
00:54:28,848 --> 00:54:30,725
we'd just blow the Ferrari off
in the weeds.
1030
00:54:30,809 --> 00:54:31,977
It wasn't even close.
1031
00:54:33,728 --> 00:54:35,939
I don't think that
the European racing world
1032
00:54:36,022 --> 00:54:38,650
was expecting much
of a challenge from America,
1033
00:54:38,733 --> 00:54:42,112
and they thought that they probably had
the grandfather rights to dominance
1034
00:54:42,195 --> 00:54:45,281
at these prestigious events like Le Mans.
1035
00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:49,285
And then the first place car
all pulled off.
1036
00:54:49,369 --> 00:54:50,370
[announcer] Here's a car that's
been having
1037
00:54:50,453 --> 00:54:51,830
a good deal of trouble during the night,
1038
00:54:51,913 --> 00:54:54,874
the John Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini car.
1039
00:54:54,958 --> 00:54:58,086
In and out once more
and back on the course. There he goes.
1040
00:54:58,795 --> 00:55:02,590
And I was thinking,
"Are we gonna win overall?"
1041
00:55:03,633 --> 00:55:06,553
[Shelby] We were leading there
for a little while overall,
1042
00:55:06,636 --> 00:55:09,097
and there wasn't anything
that could have beat us.
1043
00:55:09,180 --> 00:55:11,850
[Brock] They're competing
against one of the lead Ferraris,
1044
00:55:11,933 --> 00:55:14,227
and they run those guys into the ground.
1045
00:55:14,310 --> 00:55:16,271
[engine revving]
1046
00:55:16,938 --> 00:55:19,941
We'd gotten a rock
through the oil cooler in the front,
1047
00:55:20,025 --> 00:55:23,570
and it had a little pinhole, and it was
spitting oil out all over everything,
1048
00:55:23,653 --> 00:55:26,281
so they had to drive it really gently.
1049
00:55:27,032 --> 00:55:28,324
Now stay ahead of the Ferrari.
1050
00:55:28,408 --> 00:55:30,660
We'll use the brakes instead of more RPM.
1051
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:31,828
Yeah, OK.
1052
00:55:32,912 --> 00:55:37,333
[Shelby] The thing ran the last four
or five hours at 300 degrees.
1053
00:55:37,751 --> 00:55:42,338
It never missed a lick. How 'bout that?
Amazing.
1054
00:55:43,965 --> 00:55:45,717
[Baime]
The oil leak prevented the Daytona Coupe
1055
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:46,885
from winning Le Mans outright,
1056
00:55:46,968 --> 00:55:50,805
but Shelby and his team
still won the GT class, beating Ferrari.
1057
00:55:51,765 --> 00:55:55,894
For the first time in history,
an American car had won at Le Mans.
1058
00:55:57,062 --> 00:55:59,522
[Grant]
Carroll obviously was very pleased.
1059
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:02,776
On the other hand,
his eye was on the goal,
1060
00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:04,652
and that goal was to win the championship.
1061
00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:09,282
Until we achieved that goal,
he wasn't about to celebrate early.
1062
00:56:10,575 --> 00:56:12,952
[somber music playing]
1063
00:56:14,913 --> 00:56:17,499
[Ford III] The first time that
they raced at Le Mans, cars didn't finish.
1064
00:56:18,708 --> 00:56:23,004
The GT40, for a number of mechanical
reasons, they weren't strong enough.
1065
00:56:24,005 --> 00:56:27,467
[Baime] So once again,
Ferrari wins Le Mans in 1964,
1066
00:56:27,550 --> 00:56:29,177
first, second, and third.
1067
00:56:32,931 --> 00:56:34,474
Henry Ford II is not pleased.
1068
00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:38,812
He wanted somebody who had demonstrated
that ability to win.
1069
00:56:38,895 --> 00:56:41,147
Ford has always known,
and the whole industry's always known,
1070
00:56:41,231 --> 00:56:42,857
that Shelby's the guy who can get it done.
1071
00:56:43,483 --> 00:56:46,194
[Ford III] Carroll Shelby had won
Le Mans as a driver,
1072
00:56:46,277 --> 00:56:49,906
had won Le Mans as a manufacturer
with the Daytona Coupe,
1073
00:56:49,989 --> 00:56:52,826
and it was after '64 that
he brought in Carroll Shelby
1074
00:56:53,368 --> 00:56:55,578
to help develop the cars.
1075
00:56:57,038 --> 00:56:58,957
[Shelby] Here's something else
that we're excited about.
1076
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,209
It's this new Ford GT.
1077
00:57:01,292 --> 00:57:03,294
It was designed and built
by Ford engineers
1078
00:57:03,378 --> 00:57:05,421
as kind of a laboratory on wheels
1079
00:57:05,505 --> 00:57:06,923
to test new ideas
1080
00:57:07,006 --> 00:57:09,384
and prove Ford's capabilities
in open competition.
1081
00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:14,013
We've been given the job of testing
this new car and racing internationally.
1082
00:57:14,264 --> 00:57:18,017
The biggest concern for them
was endurance.
1083
00:57:18,309 --> 00:57:22,814
These 12-hour and 24-hour races are,
you know,
1084
00:57:22,897 --> 00:57:25,567
demanding beyond reason.
1085
00:57:25,650 --> 00:57:28,820
Carroll Shelby knew the task before them.
1086
00:57:30,029 --> 00:57:32,574
[Grant]
I can remember one of the two GT40s
1087
00:57:32,657 --> 00:57:34,909
actually came into our shop.
1088
00:57:34,993 --> 00:57:37,954
They still had wire wheels on 'em,
and they were overheating,
1089
00:57:38,037 --> 00:57:40,915
and so Phil went to work on that.
1090
00:57:41,249 --> 00:57:43,334
Phil Remington was pretty much responsible
1091
00:57:43,418 --> 00:57:46,087
for all of our successes
in racing over there.
1092
00:57:46,463 --> 00:57:49,966
In spite of his reluctance
to build a Daytona,
1093
00:57:50,049 --> 00:57:53,720
he was still, I think,
the most critical guy in the team.
1094
00:57:55,013 --> 00:57:56,014
When Shelby got the cars,
1095
00:57:56,097 --> 00:57:59,559
the first thing we did
was put Halibrand mags on it,
1096
00:57:59,893 --> 00:58:03,229
bigger tires,
and so that put more stress on it.
1097
00:58:03,313 --> 00:58:04,939
But they even had problems
with the suspension
1098
00:58:05,315 --> 00:58:07,692
even before they put the bigger tires
and wheels on it.
1099
00:58:08,485 --> 00:58:12,155
Changed the suspension geometry,
they changed the engine.
1100
00:58:12,530 --> 00:58:14,199
A lot of the subsystems,
1101
00:58:14,282 --> 00:58:17,076
braking subsystems
and everything was redesigned.
1102
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,496
[Baime] Not only did Ford
entrust Shelby and his team
1103
00:58:19,579 --> 00:58:22,665
with redesigning the failed GT40,
1104
00:58:22,749 --> 00:58:26,753
Ford also had an additional product
that needed Shelby's attention.
1105
00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:29,464
When Carroll was successful
with the Cobra,
1106
00:58:29,547 --> 00:58:31,633
Ford came to him and asked
1107
00:58:31,716 --> 00:58:33,718
about doing something to the Mustang
that they had just introduced.
1108
00:58:33,801 --> 00:58:35,803
That was the start of the GT350.
1109
00:58:36,554 --> 00:58:39,432
[Ford III]
The Mustang, when it was first conceived
1110
00:58:39,849 --> 00:58:43,561
by Lee Iacocca and everyone else
at Ford and my grandfather,
1111
00:58:43,645 --> 00:58:46,773
it was really just a way to get
younger customers into the showroom.
1112
00:58:47,065 --> 00:58:49,609
It was almost sort of a housewives' car
in '64.
1113
00:58:49,692 --> 00:58:53,488
[narrator] A beautiful day.
A Mustang day. Ford Mustang.
1114
00:58:53,571 --> 00:58:55,865
Practical enough for this family of five,
1115
00:58:55,949 --> 00:58:59,494
yet beautiful enough to be honored
with the Tiffany Gold Medal for Excellence
1116
00:58:59,577 --> 00:59:01,079
in American Design.
1117
00:59:01,162 --> 00:59:03,540
[Ford III] And then, you know,
along comes Carroll Shelby.
1118
00:59:04,332 --> 00:59:06,459
[Shelby]
The Mustang was very, very popular,
1119
00:59:06,543 --> 00:59:09,504
but it was a secretary's car,
a little six-cylinder engine,
1120
00:59:09,587 --> 00:59:11,548
and they wanted to put a V8 in it.
1121
00:59:11,631 --> 00:59:15,134
They wanted a sportier version
that had wider appeal,
1122
00:59:15,218 --> 00:59:17,470
especially to the performance enthusiasts,
1123
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:21,182
and I thought, "Man, you can't make a mule
outrun a racehorse."
1124
00:59:21,266 --> 00:59:24,018
The Mustangs were a real transformation,
1125
00:59:24,102 --> 00:59:29,148
and that was when the shop
became really super overcrowded,
1126
00:59:29,482 --> 00:59:34,279
and they realized they had to do something
and get a bigger shop.
1127
00:59:34,362 --> 00:59:37,198
Well, they moved from that small shop
at Princeton Street,
1128
00:59:37,282 --> 00:59:38,825
and they moved to the airport.
1129
00:59:39,033 --> 00:59:40,159
[light music playing]
1130
00:59:40,743 --> 00:59:43,079
♪ I've got a destination ♪
1131
00:59:44,414 --> 00:59:46,332
♪ And I'm on my way ♪
1132
00:59:48,293 --> 00:59:51,045
♪ There's no hesitation ♪
1133
00:59:52,505 --> 00:59:53,756
[Kretzschmar]
I don't know how Shelby slept.
1134
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:55,925
He had his tire division going,
1135
00:59:56,718 --> 00:59:59,512
he had the race shop going,
had the assembly line going.
1136
01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:03,057
He had a parts division
shipping parts all over the world.
1137
01:00:03,891 --> 01:00:06,603
There was 250 people working there.
1138
01:00:08,813 --> 01:00:11,024
It just got bigger and bigger and bigger.
1139
01:00:12,442 --> 01:00:16,404
Guys on the assembly line
were 17, 18, 19 years old.
1140
01:00:16,988 --> 01:00:20,199
Guys in the parts department
were 18, 19, 20 years old.
1141
01:00:20,533 --> 01:00:23,453
Guys in the race shop,
half the guys were in their 20s.
1142
01:00:23,536 --> 01:00:26,873
The oldest guy there was Shelby.
He was 40.
1143
01:00:27,957 --> 01:00:30,668
[Baime] At this point,
Shelby felt he could do no wrong.
1144
01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:33,963
From the evolution of the Cobra
to the Daytona Coupe
1145
01:00:34,464 --> 01:00:36,799
to taking over the GT40 program,
1146
01:00:36,883 --> 01:00:38,593
his rise from broke, retired driver
1147
01:00:38,968 --> 01:00:41,304
to auto CEO was meteoric,
1148
01:00:41,387 --> 01:00:45,016
and Shelby was good at making sure
everybody knew about it.
1149
01:00:45,099 --> 01:00:48,811
[Holman] Carroll Shelby
was a promoting genius.
1150
01:00:48,895 --> 01:00:53,316
He took his assets and made
the world know about them.
1151
01:00:53,399 --> 01:00:57,779
We got tickled because he always had
a photographer there to take pictures,
1152
01:00:57,862 --> 01:01:00,657
and Carroll Shelby's picture...
1153
01:01:00,740 --> 01:01:02,116
-[shutter clicks]
-...was to be in the front page
1154
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:04,285
of any paper anywhere he was.
1155
01:01:04,369 --> 01:01:07,538
-["Every Little Movement" playing]
-♪ Every little movement ♪
1156
01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:11,584
♪ Every little thing you do ♪
1157
01:01:12,585 --> 01:01:14,879
♪ Is a sleight of hand ♪
1158
01:01:14,962 --> 01:01:19,801
♪ That commands my heart to love you ♪
1159
01:01:20,009 --> 01:01:21,636
[Holman]
He was to do something noteworthy,
1160
01:01:21,719 --> 01:01:24,514
and his press agent
was to get it in the paper
1161
01:01:24,806 --> 01:01:28,017
so that Carroll Shelby's legend moved on.
1162
01:01:28,351 --> 01:01:29,686
In Carroll's case,
1163
01:01:29,769 --> 01:01:33,356
if another mechanic had their picture
in the paper and Carroll's wasn't,
1164
01:01:33,439 --> 01:01:35,692
that mechanic could lose his job over it.
1165
01:01:35,900 --> 01:01:38,277
He was there to promote Carroll Shelby.
1166
01:01:39,070 --> 01:01:42,281
Few people realized,
back when all this was happening,
1167
01:01:42,365 --> 01:01:44,826
Ford had taken over Shelby American.
1168
01:01:44,909 --> 01:01:46,703
[narrator]
Ford in California is represented
1169
01:01:46,786 --> 01:01:48,579
by these sleek racing cars.
1170
01:01:48,663 --> 01:01:51,541
They're the products
of Shelby American Incorporated,
1171
01:01:51,624 --> 01:01:54,335
builders of the world champion Ford Cobra
1172
01:01:54,419 --> 01:01:57,422
and the Mustang GT350 sports car.
1173
01:01:57,505 --> 01:01:59,632
[Holman] And it became a division
of Ford Motor Company,
1174
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:02,719
and so the other side of it was
he was the factory team.
1175
01:02:02,802 --> 01:02:03,720
He was their boy.
1176
01:02:04,303 --> 01:02:05,430
They owned him.
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01:02:05,972 --> 01:02:09,475
[Shelby] I was having to build Mustangs,
having to build Cobras,
1178
01:02:09,934 --> 01:02:14,522
having to try to straighten
the Ford GT program out.
1179
01:02:15,064 --> 01:02:16,399
It was too much for me.
1180
01:02:17,024 --> 01:02:18,985
[Morton] The whole atmosphere changed.
1181
01:02:19,068 --> 01:02:21,112
It went from a cool race shop
1182
01:02:21,195 --> 01:02:24,490
to a, you know, to a corporate entity.
1183
01:02:24,574 --> 01:02:26,409
[down-tempo music playing]
1184
01:02:26,492 --> 01:02:30,121
[Marietta] Got a little bit more sterile
when we moved to the airport,
1185
01:02:30,204 --> 01:02:31,831
because now there were more rules.
1186
01:02:32,331 --> 01:02:33,750
It was just a different environment.
1187
01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:36,502
Uh... It was so big.
We went from 10,000 square feet
1188
01:02:36,586 --> 01:02:38,963
to probably like 40,000 square feet,
1189
01:02:39,046 --> 01:02:40,506
so things got spread out,
1190
01:02:40,590 --> 01:02:43,259
and you weren't as close to the guys
that you worked with before.
1191
01:02:43,968 --> 01:02:46,262
[Baime] Shelby American
was experiencing growing pains.
1192
01:02:46,345 --> 01:02:48,097
It was no longer a little shop
1193
01:02:48,181 --> 01:02:50,183
filled with badass car guys
and hot rodders.
1194
01:02:50,683 --> 01:02:52,727
It was a professional operation.
1195
01:02:52,810 --> 01:02:55,396
The quality of the work
continued to be unmatched,
1196
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,524
starting with the reimagining
of Ford's Mustang.
1197
01:02:58,858 --> 01:03:03,237
[Shelby] This GT350 is a racing version
of Ford's Mustang 2+2.
1198
01:03:03,321 --> 01:03:05,114
We set the cars up for racing
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01:03:05,198 --> 01:03:08,451
by installing special components,
racing shocks and so on.
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01:03:08,534 --> 01:03:12,497
We converted the Mustang fastback
into race cars.
1201
01:03:13,498 --> 01:03:16,209
The bodies came from the factory
1202
01:03:16,292 --> 01:03:18,878
and put lighter aprons
and Plexiglas windows,
1203
01:03:19,337 --> 01:03:20,546
made the cars lighter.
1204
01:03:20,630 --> 01:03:21,756
We modified the engine,
1205
01:03:21,839 --> 01:03:25,593
and also welded in override traction bars
1206
01:03:25,676 --> 01:03:28,262
to make the suspension stronger.
1207
01:03:28,346 --> 01:03:29,472
In the assembly line,
1208
01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:33,935
they built those GT350s
that were strictly for the street,
1209
01:03:34,811 --> 01:03:39,232
and we sold them
to the customers for $5,900.
1210
01:03:39,565 --> 01:03:42,860
And then in the other hangar,
they built R models...
1211
01:03:43,528 --> 01:03:45,071
and they were strictly for the track.
1212
01:03:45,154 --> 01:03:47,532
[engine revving]
1213
01:03:51,244 --> 01:03:55,331
Mustangs really weren't a big deal
until they started racing them.
1214
01:03:55,623 --> 01:03:57,500
That really put the Mustang on the map.
1215
01:03:57,583 --> 01:04:00,920
They shipped over more rally cars
and race cars
1216
01:04:01,003 --> 01:04:03,714
to enter events in Europe in '64.
1217
01:04:03,798 --> 01:04:07,844
And the Tour de France,
they won the event, first and second.
1218
01:04:08,886 --> 01:04:11,347
It was an important victory,
the Tour de France, for the Mustangs
1219
01:04:11,430 --> 01:04:14,600
because they had, at that point,
not won anything in America.
1220
01:04:15,017 --> 01:04:16,894
[Baime] The victory proved to Ford brass
1221
01:04:16,978 --> 01:04:20,523
that this former secretary's car,
the Mustang, could be fast;
1222
01:04:20,606 --> 01:04:22,316
it could be a winner on the track.
1223
01:04:22,817 --> 01:04:25,611
But Shelby had ambitions elsewhere,
and he made that clear.
1224
01:04:26,404 --> 01:04:28,948
[Shelby] I don't give a shit
about the Tour de France anyway.
1225
01:04:29,448 --> 01:04:32,118
It means a lot
to a lot of people over there,
1226
01:04:32,201 --> 01:04:35,997
but it wasn't as high
on my priority list as Daytona...
1227
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,833
[engines revving]
1228
01:04:38,916 --> 01:04:40,042
[Shelby] Sebring...
1229
01:04:42,128 --> 01:04:43,170
...Le Mans.
1230
01:04:44,922 --> 01:04:46,757
[Baime] And at the end of 1964,
1231
01:04:46,841 --> 01:04:48,968
Carroll Shelby really wanted
just one thing.
1232
01:04:49,051 --> 01:04:52,930
He wanted to beat Ferrari
for the World Manufacturers' Championship.
1233
01:04:54,473 --> 01:04:56,559
[Laban] With one race left at Monza,
1234
01:04:56,642 --> 01:05:00,396
the Daytona was gonna win
the Manufacturers' Championship,
1235
01:05:00,855 --> 01:05:04,775
beating Ferrari the way Shelby
had always promised he would.
1236
01:05:05,192 --> 01:05:08,112
Ferrari had just a couple of points
more than we did,
1237
01:05:08,195 --> 01:05:10,740
so it all came down
to the last race at Monza.
1238
01:05:10,823 --> 01:05:13,075
And by then, we had four cars,
1239
01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:16,537
so we were gonna go to Monza
with four Daytona Coupes.
1240
01:05:16,621 --> 01:05:18,956
We would have absolutely crushed Ferrari.
1241
01:05:19,248 --> 01:05:20,917
Enzo Ferrari sees the writing on the wall.
1242
01:05:21,250 --> 01:05:23,628
There's no way he's gonna let that happen.
1243
01:05:24,337 --> 01:05:26,797
Ferrari protested the fact
1244
01:05:26,881 --> 01:05:29,884
that he wasn't allowed
to run the cars he wanted,
1245
01:05:30,176 --> 01:05:32,887
and eventually, the race itself
was cancelled.
1246
01:05:33,262 --> 01:05:36,223
So no points can be awarded,
and the Cobra can't win.
1247
01:05:36,515 --> 01:05:38,392
Ferrari wins again.
1248
01:05:38,476 --> 01:05:41,771
So, Ferrari won 1964 by politics,
1249
01:05:41,854 --> 01:05:43,981
not by being the fastest car.
1250
01:05:44,565 --> 01:05:47,693
[Baime] For Shelby,
the 1965 season was looking to be
1251
01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:50,279
the most stressful thing
he had ever faced.
1252
01:05:50,696 --> 01:05:55,076
The Cobra and the GT40 are both competing
in the same endurance races.
1253
01:05:55,368 --> 01:05:57,787
Ford executives are putting
tons of pressure on Shelby
1254
01:05:57,870 --> 01:06:00,581
to make sure his focus is on the GT40.
1255
01:06:00,665 --> 01:06:04,877
Two months before Daytona,
the car is not even close to ready.
1256
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:07,797
[suspenseful music playing]
1257
01:06:09,882 --> 01:06:12,218
[Agapiou] Ken Miles was the test driver,
really.
1258
01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:15,805
He basically tested
and developed most all the cars.
1259
01:06:15,888 --> 01:06:17,890
He was an engineer
prior to going to Shelby's
1260
01:06:17,974 --> 01:06:19,642
and prior to opening his own business.
1261
01:06:19,725 --> 01:06:23,187
[engines revving]
1262
01:06:23,270 --> 01:06:26,148
Ken Miles drove it first.
He didn't like it at all.
1263
01:06:26,649 --> 01:06:30,653
I hopped in, and I drove it,
and it didn't handle great.
1264
01:06:30,736 --> 01:06:34,407
It was not as aerodynamic
as it needed to be.
1265
01:06:34,782 --> 01:06:37,368
Remington made new bodywork for it.
1266
01:06:37,451 --> 01:06:41,872
They adjusted the ride heights
and suspension,
1267
01:06:41,956 --> 01:06:43,582
changed the shocks on it,
1268
01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:45,084
and stiffened it up.
1269
01:06:45,584 --> 01:06:47,378
Then we put a stronger motor on it
1270
01:06:48,295 --> 01:06:50,089
so it could go quicker.
1271
01:06:50,297 --> 01:06:52,883
Each time that they worked on it,
1272
01:06:52,967 --> 01:06:55,886
it got better and better and better.
1273
01:06:55,970 --> 01:06:58,222
[engine revving]
1274
01:06:58,931 --> 01:07:01,475
[suspenseful music playing]
1275
01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:04,103
We have high hopes
for all of these cars this year.
1276
01:07:04,186 --> 01:07:07,732
We hope that by racing with Ford,
we can make this an American year.
1277
01:07:07,815 --> 01:07:09,942
Very soon now, we'll be racing these cars
1278
01:07:10,026 --> 01:07:11,610
against the best competition in the world.
1279
01:07:11,944 --> 01:07:14,822
The Ford GT,
after running experimentally last year,
1280
01:07:14,905 --> 01:07:16,949
now begins its first full racing season
1281
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:20,077
with its American debut
at the Daytona Continental.
1282
01:07:20,661 --> 01:07:25,624
[announcer] Forty-three cars,
29 from Europe and 14 from America,
1283
01:07:25,708 --> 01:07:29,128
will start the 2,000-kilometer
Daytona Continental.
1284
01:07:29,211 --> 01:07:32,840
[Baime]
So the GT40s show up at Daytona in 1965.
1285
01:07:33,257 --> 01:07:37,303
Shelby's had less than two months
to turn these cars into winners.
1286
01:07:37,553 --> 01:07:39,513
[announcer]
The cars move up tight behind the pace car
1287
01:07:39,597 --> 01:07:40,681
for the running start.
1288
01:07:41,223 --> 01:07:44,560
Number 77 Ferrari,
the fastest qualifier on the inside.
1289
01:07:45,227 --> 01:07:49,690
Number 72 Ford GT, the second fastest
qualifier on the outside.
1290
01:07:51,192 --> 01:07:52,651
And the race is on.
1291
01:07:52,735 --> 01:07:55,362
-[engines revving]
-[suspenseful music playing]
1292
01:07:56,781 --> 01:07:57,740
[Baime] At the beginning of the race,
1293
01:07:57,823 --> 01:08:01,660
Bob Bondurant in the GT40
flies by Surtees in a Ferrari.
1294
01:08:01,744 --> 01:08:03,871
[announcer] Bob Bondurant
zips into the first turn,
1295
01:08:03,954 --> 01:08:06,332
opening up Number 72 Ford GT.
1296
01:08:06,415 --> 01:08:07,958
[Bondurant]
By the time we got to turn two,
1297
01:08:08,042 --> 01:08:13,422
I was doing 200 miles an hour,
and I pulled Surtees 18 car lengths.
1298
01:08:15,132 --> 01:08:17,510
That car felt great. I was like, "Yes!"
1299
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,970
We fixed it and it worked.
1300
01:08:20,262 --> 01:08:22,890
[Agapiou]
With all the changes that Remington made,
1301
01:08:22,973 --> 01:08:24,975
they got the car moving very quickly.
1302
01:08:25,476 --> 01:08:29,021
[Ford III] This race was the first race
that GT40s finished.
1303
01:08:29,105 --> 01:08:31,315
-[vibrant music playing]
-[announcer] The last lap.
1304
01:08:32,775 --> 01:08:34,360
The Americans have won.
1305
01:08:34,985 --> 01:08:36,487
They've overthrown the Ferraris.
1306
01:08:39,490 --> 01:08:41,909
[Baime]
This was a magnificent win for Shelby,
1307
01:08:41,992 --> 01:08:43,327
and you can say that this victory,
1308
01:08:43,410 --> 01:08:45,913
maybe even more
than his Le Mans win as a driver,
1309
01:08:46,163 --> 01:08:48,916
this is really the win
that puts him on the map.
1310
01:08:50,209 --> 01:08:52,044
Not only had the GT40 won,
1311
01:08:52,128 --> 01:08:54,922
Shelby American cars
took the top four spots,
1312
01:08:55,297 --> 01:08:59,343
with the Daytona Coupe
taking first and second in the GT class.
1313
01:08:59,593 --> 01:09:01,720
[indistinct dialogue]
1314
01:09:01,804 --> 01:09:05,015
The next race for the factory
team was at Sebring.
1315
01:09:05,349 --> 01:09:08,227
-[suspenseful music playing]
-[engines revving]
1316
01:09:12,106 --> 01:09:14,859
[Baime] With the GT40
and four Cobras running strong,
1317
01:09:14,942 --> 01:09:17,736
Shelby is delighted
with how the team is performing.
1318
01:09:18,112 --> 01:09:21,782
[engine revving]
1319
01:09:22,533 --> 01:09:24,201
-[Kretzschmar] Then the rains came.
-[thunder crashing]
1320
01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:27,079
[mid-tempo music playing]
1321
01:09:29,290 --> 01:09:32,585
[announcer] It's the worst deluge
ever recorded at Sebring.
1322
01:09:41,010 --> 01:09:43,179
You'd take a tire off and change it,
1323
01:09:43,262 --> 01:09:45,598
and if you didn't grab it,
it literally would float away.
1324
01:09:45,681 --> 01:09:48,517
[upbeat music playing]
1325
01:09:54,398 --> 01:09:57,318
[Agapiou] Phil came in,
and he's up to his waist in water
1326
01:09:57,401 --> 01:09:59,778
because it couldn't drain out
the coupe fast enough.
1327
01:09:59,862 --> 01:10:01,947
He was trying to get out of the car,
1328
01:10:02,031 --> 01:10:04,241
and Shelby's going,
"God dammit, you stay here."
1329
01:10:04,325 --> 01:10:05,910
And he's pushing him on the shoulder.
1330
01:10:05,993 --> 01:10:08,454
And I had gotten a little hammer
and a giant ice pick,
1331
01:10:08,537 --> 01:10:11,707
and I'm smashing holes in the floor
1332
01:10:11,790 --> 01:10:13,167
to drain the water out.
1333
01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:18,005
Meanwhile, Phil was screaming
'cause he thinks
1334
01:10:18,088 --> 01:10:19,673
I'm gonna hit him
in the balls or something,
1335
01:10:19,757 --> 01:10:21,717
'cause I'm-- with the hammer,
'cause I'm right between his legs
1336
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:22,927
with the hammer and the ice pick.
1337
01:10:23,010 --> 01:10:25,804
He's yelling, "Watch it, you.
You're gonna castrate me."
1338
01:10:25,888 --> 01:10:28,265
So he's trying to get out,
and Shelby's pushing him back in,
1339
01:10:28,349 --> 01:10:29,934
saying, "God dammit, Phil,
get back in the car.
1340
01:10:30,017 --> 01:10:32,144
He's not gonna hit you
where it hurts." [chuckles]
1341
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:33,938
What a funny pit stop that was.
1342
01:10:35,105 --> 01:10:38,984
[announcer] Suddenly, the 12-hour
Sebring Grand Prix of Endurance is over.
1343
01:10:39,610 --> 01:10:43,364
Number 11 Ford GT is first
in the Grand Touring Prototype class.
1344
01:10:44,406 --> 01:10:48,285
If we're successful at Daytona
and we're successful at Sebring,
1345
01:10:49,912 --> 01:10:52,706
my family and I will be there in June.
1346
01:10:53,666 --> 01:10:56,877
[Baime] By the time Ford is getting
its cars ready to ship to France,
1347
01:10:56,961 --> 01:11:00,214
suddenly people are starting
to describe Ferrari as an underdog.
1348
01:11:01,465 --> 01:11:03,467
Ford is expected to win.
1349
01:11:04,718 --> 01:11:07,513
[Shelby] Well, we did all right
the first couple of times out.
1350
01:11:07,596 --> 01:11:10,808
The field of cars were very impressive
at Daytona and Sebring.
1351
01:11:10,891 --> 01:11:13,519
Now we're getting ready
for the big ones overseas.
1352
01:11:13,602 --> 01:11:15,813
Monza, Targa Florio, and Le Mans.
1353
01:11:16,105 --> 01:11:19,566
In the weeks to come, we hope
to continue our string of victories.
1354
01:11:20,317 --> 01:11:22,778
[announcer 1] This is the year
of Ford's great challenge
1355
01:11:22,861 --> 01:11:25,990
and American invasion
on the supremacy of the Italian giants.
1356
01:11:26,907 --> 01:11:28,158
[announcer 2] The pre-race drama
had centered
1357
01:11:28,242 --> 01:11:30,244
on the strongest ever
challenge from America.
1358
01:11:30,953 --> 01:11:33,706
Their declared intention: to beat Ferrari.
1359
01:11:34,665 --> 01:11:38,335
[Agapiou] In 1965, it was starting
to get really serious.
1360
01:11:38,752 --> 01:11:42,047
[Brock] Shelby had won a year earlier
in the GT class with the Daytona Coupe,
1361
01:11:42,131 --> 01:11:44,800
but Ferrari had still won
overall with the prototype.
1362
01:11:45,134 --> 01:11:48,512
Prototypes are the cars that compete
for victory overall at Le Mans,
1363
01:11:48,595 --> 01:11:51,849
and that's all anyone really cares about
is who wins the race overall.
1364
01:11:52,308 --> 01:11:55,894
Henry Ford II even made the trip
to Le Mans for the first time
1365
01:11:55,978 --> 01:11:58,063
to watch his GT40s make history.
1366
01:11:58,647 --> 01:12:02,484
The car worked fantastic.
I was third fastest qualifier.
1367
01:12:02,568 --> 01:12:05,362
Ford debuted the GT40 in 1964.
1368
01:12:05,446 --> 01:12:06,864
There's a huge audience.
1369
01:12:07,197 --> 01:12:10,451
But now in 1965,
there's an even bigger audience.
1370
01:12:10,534 --> 01:12:11,869
For the first time at Le Mans,
1371
01:12:11,952 --> 01:12:14,246
an American car is actually favored
to win.
1372
01:12:14,788 --> 01:12:15,998
-[suspenseful music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]
1373
01:12:16,081 --> 01:12:18,334
[announcer] Chris Amon's first away
in the Ford seven-liter,
1374
01:12:18,667 --> 01:12:21,211
followed by Bob Bondurant,
Bruce McLaren, and Surtees.
1375
01:12:21,295 --> 01:12:25,883
[engines revving]
1376
01:12:26,592 --> 01:12:28,677
[announcer] At the esses,
the seven-liter Ford GTs
1377
01:12:28,761 --> 01:12:30,804
are pulling away from the Works Ferraris
1378
01:12:30,888 --> 01:12:33,724
as the leading Ford
sets a blistering pace.
1379
01:12:33,807 --> 01:12:36,143
Bruce McLaren in one of the 427s
1380
01:12:36,226 --> 01:12:38,812
and Chris Amon in the second 427.
1381
01:12:38,896 --> 01:12:40,939
By the time they're at the end
of the straight,
1382
01:12:41,023 --> 01:12:42,649
the Ferraris aren't even in sight.
1383
01:12:43,650 --> 01:12:45,611
[Shelby]
Ford had really built some good engines,
1384
01:12:46,195 --> 01:12:49,323
and somebody at Ford
decided to replace them
1385
01:12:49,406 --> 01:12:50,908
just before Le Mans.
1386
01:12:50,991 --> 01:12:53,702
[Baime] The night before the race,
the heads of Ford's Special Vehicles Unit
1387
01:12:53,786 --> 01:12:58,290
ordered Shelby to replace his engines
with engines prepared by the Ford factory.
1388
01:12:59,625 --> 01:13:01,627
They wanted to be able
to tell Henry Ford II
1389
01:13:01,710 --> 01:13:04,588
that they had won Le Mans
with Ford factory engines,
1390
01:13:04,671 --> 01:13:06,673
not the ones from Shelby American.
1391
01:13:08,175 --> 01:13:11,428
[announcer] But now the McLaren,
Miles Ford, is in gearbox trouble.
1392
01:13:11,512 --> 01:13:14,181
Already, the Ferrari grip
on the race tightens.
1393
01:13:14,973 --> 01:13:17,518
[Shelby] What happened was
they got some new head bolts,
1394
01:13:17,601 --> 01:13:20,771
and they didn't check 'em out,
and all the head bolts stretched.
1395
01:13:21,605 --> 01:13:23,941
[announcer] By midnight,
with the race only one-third through,
1396
01:13:24,024 --> 01:13:26,318
the Ford challenge had been shattered
by Ferrari.
1397
01:13:27,694 --> 01:13:29,530
[Bondurant] All the cars broke.
1398
01:13:30,114 --> 01:13:34,827
Ford made the decision
to tell Shelby
1399
01:13:34,910 --> 01:13:37,454
to take 'em all out
and put in Ford engines.
1400
01:13:37,538 --> 01:13:40,582
[Shelby] It didn't work out.
That was a disastrous race.
1401
01:13:41,208 --> 01:13:43,627
[Bondurant]
If I had not have changed the engine,
1402
01:13:44,002 --> 01:13:45,254
I would have won.
1403
01:13:47,005 --> 01:13:49,550
[Agapiou] Again, the Fords broke.
1404
01:13:49,633 --> 01:13:54,012
They made simple engineering mistakes,
and Ferrari didn't.
1405
01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:57,224
[engines revving]
1406
01:13:57,307 --> 01:14:01,395
[Laban] Only one Ferrari prototype
finished the race,
1407
01:14:02,062 --> 01:14:07,484
but that was enough to win it,
and Ferrari also won the GT class,
1408
01:14:07,568 --> 01:14:09,695
and they finished one, two, three overall.
1409
01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:13,991
Not even Shelby's Daytona Coupes
managed to finish the race.
1410
01:14:14,992 --> 01:14:17,661
[Baime] The press called it murder,
Italian style.
1411
01:14:18,287 --> 01:14:21,707
[Ford III] It was the second year for
my grandfather of utter disappointment,
1412
01:14:21,790 --> 01:14:24,877
and I'm sure he probably questioned,
in his mind,
1413
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:26,128
whether this was all worth it.
1414
01:14:26,962 --> 01:14:29,923
[Shelby] Henry Ford and Edsel
were at Le Mans.
1415
01:14:30,007 --> 01:14:32,551
They looked around
at their father and said,
1416
01:14:32,634 --> 01:14:34,219
"Is that the best we can do?
1417
01:14:34,303 --> 01:14:36,972
Ford Motor Company
bring 200 people to Le Mans
1418
01:14:37,055 --> 01:14:39,266
and fall on our face like this?"
1419
01:14:41,268 --> 01:14:45,689
[Agapiou] Ford, with millions
and millions of dollars
1420
01:14:45,772 --> 01:14:47,357
going down the tube again,
1421
01:14:47,441 --> 01:14:49,234
start to look bad.
1422
01:14:49,526 --> 01:14:54,406
This was humiliating,
and Henry Ford II was pissed.
1423
01:14:55,032 --> 01:14:59,411
Despite the GT40s' disastrous performance
at the 24 Hours of Le Mans,
1424
01:14:59,495 --> 01:15:00,954
not everything is lost.
1425
01:15:01,413 --> 01:15:04,166
Shelby American actually
has the Cobra Daytona Coupe
1426
01:15:04,249 --> 01:15:07,628
in a position to win
the World Manufacturers' Championship
1427
01:15:07,711 --> 01:15:10,797
if the car can win
at the 12 hours of Reims.
1428
01:15:11,632 --> 01:15:15,594
[Brock] All of our Daytonas were given
to the Alan Mann racing team in England
1429
01:15:15,677 --> 01:15:16,803
to run them.
1430
01:15:16,887 --> 01:15:18,430
My father got the Daytona Cobras
1431
01:15:18,514 --> 01:15:21,433
because Shelby, at that time,
had a lot on his plate.
1432
01:15:21,850 --> 01:15:23,936
[Baime]
The race at Reims started in darkness.
1433
01:15:24,853 --> 01:15:27,231
And soon enough, the team
of Bondurant and Schlesser
1434
01:15:27,314 --> 01:15:30,484
and the Cobra Daytona Coupe
were winning the race handily.
1435
01:15:31,985 --> 01:15:33,403
No one could keep up with them,
1436
01:15:33,487 --> 01:15:37,407
and anyone that tried found themselves
destroying their car in the process.
1437
01:15:38,408 --> 01:15:42,871
The Ferraris were just outgunned by
Shelby's engineering and Brock's design.
1438
01:15:42,955 --> 01:15:47,251
Jo Schlesser, my co-driver,
we both wanted to win that championship.
1439
01:15:48,335 --> 01:15:51,755
We were running nice and strong,
crossed the finish line,
1440
01:15:51,838 --> 01:15:53,799
and we knew we just won the race
1441
01:15:53,882 --> 01:15:56,843
and won
the World Manufacturers' Championship.
1442
01:15:57,344 --> 01:15:59,555
First time any American ever won it.
1443
01:16:00,389 --> 01:16:03,475
That was the last time
any American ever won it.
1444
01:16:04,142 --> 01:16:06,937
[Baime] Schlesser and Bondurant
had carried out Carroll Shelby's mission.
1445
01:16:07,521 --> 01:16:10,148
They "beat Ferrari's ass" on his own turf,
1446
01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:13,026
and they did it with six races
left in the season.
1447
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:15,571
Shelby crushed Ferrari.
1448
01:16:15,779 --> 01:16:17,864
[Bondurant] That's the one race,
1449
01:16:17,948 --> 01:16:21,159
the championship that
Carroll Shelby wanted the most.
1450
01:16:21,618 --> 01:16:25,998
He was so proud when we won
the World Manufacturers' Championship.
1451
01:16:26,999 --> 01:16:27,874
[Kretzschmar] That was a big deal
1452
01:16:27,958 --> 01:16:32,045
because that was basically
a hot-rodded Cobra,
1453
01:16:32,462 --> 01:16:35,340
that was a 289 passenger car motor.
1454
01:16:35,799 --> 01:16:40,095
It was a home-built car,
and they won the World Championship.
1455
01:16:40,929 --> 01:16:46,476
Carroll Shelby finally met his promise
to whip Ferrari's ass
1456
01:16:47,102 --> 01:16:49,271
and loved it ever afterwards.
1457
01:16:49,980 --> 01:16:52,065
[Shelby] When we won it in '65,
1458
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:56,570
it was probably the greatest day
of my life up till that time.
1459
01:16:58,614 --> 01:17:01,908
Ferrari personally took it very hard
1460
01:17:02,618 --> 01:17:05,078
that Shelby beat him with the Daytona.
1461
01:17:05,662 --> 01:17:12,461
Reims is the capital of Champagne,
so we celebrated immensely.
1462
01:17:12,544 --> 01:17:13,587
[laughs]
1463
01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:19,301
[somber piano music playing]
1464
01:17:19,384 --> 01:17:22,346
[Baime] But there was little celebrating
going on back in Los Angeles.
1465
01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:25,432
Henry Ford II's dissatisfaction at Le Mans
1466
01:17:25,515 --> 01:17:29,269
had reverberations that were shaking
the foundation of Shelby American.
1467
01:17:29,353 --> 01:17:31,730
The decree comes down from Henry,
1468
01:17:31,813 --> 01:17:34,691
"Put that shit to the side
and start getting these GT40s done
1469
01:17:34,775 --> 01:17:35,984
and do it right now."
1470
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,528
And that crushed Peter, clearly.
1471
01:17:39,696 --> 01:17:41,990
[Baime] The Daytona Coupe
was no longer needed,
1472
01:17:43,325 --> 01:17:44,910
and neither were its workers.
1473
01:17:45,869 --> 01:17:47,371
[Agapiou] Definitely they got rid
of a lot of people,
1474
01:17:47,454 --> 01:17:49,456
'cause when I came back,
a lot of the crew were missing.
1475
01:17:49,539 --> 01:17:51,500
They were gone.
I mean, they just weren't there anymore.
1476
01:17:51,875 --> 01:17:55,128
Anyone who worked on the Daytona Coupe
kind of got their walking papers.
1477
01:18:01,134 --> 01:18:05,597
Jack Balch had said, you know,
"We don't need you anymore."
1478
01:18:05,931 --> 01:18:08,600
And I thought,
"Well, they can't do that to me.
1479
01:18:08,975 --> 01:18:12,562
I'll go over everybody's head
and talk to Carroll."
1480
01:18:12,646 --> 01:18:16,024
He just looked at me, said, "Sorry,"
and kept walking.
1481
01:18:16,566 --> 01:18:18,276
[Brock] When I got back from Europe,
1482
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:21,154
there was a total stranger
in my office there,
1483
01:18:21,613 --> 01:18:24,950
and I could see that there was,
you know, not much future for me in there.
1484
01:18:26,618 --> 01:18:27,911
Shelby didn't really fire me
1485
01:18:27,994 --> 01:18:31,707
but, you know, it was obvious that
they didn't need me around there anymore.
1486
01:18:32,290 --> 01:18:35,711
[Baime] And there was one more casualty
that no one could have foreseen.
1487
01:18:36,294 --> 01:18:38,588
My father had
five remaining Daytona Cobras
1488
01:18:38,672 --> 01:18:40,549
at the end of the '65 season
1489
01:18:40,632 --> 01:18:43,385
and had no way of getting them
back to Shelby really,
1490
01:18:43,468 --> 01:18:46,805
and Shelby wasn't interested and said,
"Dump them in the North Sea."
1491
01:18:49,266 --> 01:18:51,268
[Shelby] After we won
the world championship,
1492
01:18:51,351 --> 01:18:53,854
we didn't even think they were worth
hauling back from Europe.
1493
01:18:53,937 --> 01:18:54,980
We were through.
1494
01:18:55,647 --> 01:18:58,984
[Holman] And Carroll said, "They're
not worth the freight to ship back.
1495
01:18:59,067 --> 01:19:02,571
If you would, just put them on a barge,
take a customs guy out with you
1496
01:19:02,988 --> 01:19:04,990
and just dump them in the English Channel
1497
01:19:05,073 --> 01:19:07,784
because I'm not willing to pay
the freight on them."
1498
01:19:09,202 --> 01:19:12,539
Once something was done,
that was history for him.
1499
01:19:12,622 --> 01:19:14,708
He's looking for the next thing
that's happening.
1500
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,586
[Holman] And Alan Mann
couldn't bring himself to dump them
1501
01:19:17,669 --> 01:19:19,171
in the English Channel.
1502
01:19:19,254 --> 01:19:22,048
[dramatic orchestral music playing]
1503
01:19:22,132 --> 01:19:24,885
And so, my father shipped them
back to Shelby at his own expense.
1504
01:19:25,886 --> 01:19:28,305
[Holman] The cars were loaded up
as deck freight,
1505
01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:32,350
exposed to the weather and conditions
and shipped back to California.
1506
01:19:33,518 --> 01:19:34,436
[Patrick] He didn't like it,
1507
01:19:35,187 --> 01:19:37,147
but he was ready to move
on to something else.
1508
01:19:39,316 --> 01:19:41,568
[Holman] Henry Ford II
was not the chairman
1509
01:19:41,651 --> 01:19:43,278
or the president of Ford Motor Company.
1510
01:19:43,361 --> 01:19:44,863
He was the emperor.
1511
01:19:44,946 --> 01:19:46,990
He really wanted to win races,
1512
01:19:47,073 --> 01:19:49,284
but he didn't care
about second place at all.
1513
01:19:49,367 --> 01:19:51,703
If you called him up and said,
"Well, we got second,"
1514
01:19:52,204 --> 01:19:54,289
you might as well not have
even finished the race.
1515
01:19:54,623 --> 01:19:57,459
[Shelby] I was with Don Frey and Leo Beebe
when he called us in,
1516
01:19:57,542 --> 01:20:00,629
and he had the name tags made in '65
1517
01:20:00,712 --> 01:20:03,715
where it says, "Ford wins Le Mans in '66."
1518
01:20:03,924 --> 01:20:05,759
"You want a job next June, don't you?"
1519
01:20:06,551 --> 01:20:09,638
Henry Ford had given him a business card
1520
01:20:09,721 --> 01:20:12,098
that Henry had written on the back of it,
1521
01:20:12,182 --> 01:20:13,517
"You better win."
1522
01:20:14,267 --> 01:20:16,895
There was a big Ford meeting in 1965
1523
01:20:17,187 --> 01:20:18,480
about how they were going to win Le Mans,
1524
01:20:19,064 --> 01:20:22,526
and it was decided that certain teams
would have certain responsibilities,
1525
01:20:22,609 --> 01:20:24,820
and they would all prepare cars
independently
1526
01:20:24,903 --> 01:20:26,488
and run them at the event.
1527
01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:29,741
Ford decided to expand its operation.
1528
01:20:29,825 --> 01:20:31,493
So,
instead of just having Shelby American,
1529
01:20:31,576 --> 01:20:33,286
they also hired Holman & Moody,
1530
01:20:33,578 --> 01:20:35,580
who was already running
their stock car operation,
1531
01:20:35,872 --> 01:20:36,915
and Alan Mann Racing
1532
01:20:36,998 --> 01:20:40,585
which had just won the GT Championship
with the Cobra Daytona Coupe.
1533
01:20:41,086 --> 01:20:43,421
[Baime] The vice to win
was tightening around Shelby.
1534
01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:45,131
Not only was his job on the line,
1535
01:20:45,215 --> 01:20:49,219
Ford had added two other teams
to put even more pressure on him.
1536
01:20:49,886 --> 01:20:55,016
So, there's competition all along,
not just Ford-Ferrari.
1537
01:20:55,642 --> 01:20:56,893
It's Ford within Ford.
1538
01:20:57,519 --> 01:21:01,064
Everyone worked extra hard, extra testing
1539
01:21:01,147 --> 01:21:03,191
to make everything really work.
1540
01:21:03,275 --> 01:21:06,528
If the engine blew,
they just lost their job.
1541
01:21:06,611 --> 01:21:07,654
[ominous music playing]
1542
01:21:07,904 --> 01:21:09,906
We knew we had some brake issues.
1543
01:21:09,990 --> 01:21:13,076
A heavier car, you just have to understand
1544
01:21:13,159 --> 01:21:15,495
that, you know,
it's not gonna stop as easy
1545
01:21:15,579 --> 01:21:19,499
and especially Le Mans
because of the Mulsanne Straight.
1546
01:21:19,583 --> 01:21:21,459
So you got 3.2 miles,
1547
01:21:22,168 --> 01:21:27,048
and the brakes would go from 1,200 degrees
to zero every single lap.
1548
01:21:27,757 --> 01:21:29,843
I don't think they had the material
1549
01:21:29,926 --> 01:21:33,555
that would withstand,
you know, the repeated cycle.
1550
01:21:33,638 --> 01:21:36,391
[Holman] Kinetic energy at the end
of that 3.5-mile straight
1551
01:21:36,474 --> 01:21:39,811
was so high from the brake temperatures
1552
01:21:39,895 --> 01:21:43,732
and so forth that the brakes would have
probably lasted two or three hours
1553
01:21:43,815 --> 01:21:45,609
and that would have been all.
1554
01:21:45,692 --> 01:21:46,735
[Brock] Phil Remington figured out
1555
01:21:46,818 --> 01:21:51,156
how to make a quick-change brake setup
on the Shelby American GT40.
1556
01:21:51,239 --> 01:21:52,991
He changed the discs and the calipers
1557
01:21:53,074 --> 01:21:55,327
and the whole braking system on it.
1558
01:21:56,536 --> 01:21:58,663
The fact that we could change
the brakes in one minute
1559
01:21:59,205 --> 01:22:00,248
was the key.
1560
01:22:00,332 --> 01:22:02,584
[ominous music playing]
1561
01:22:03,752 --> 01:22:06,296
[engine revving]
1562
01:22:06,379 --> 01:22:10,300
[announcer] Racing for the flag
in the 24-Hour Daytona Continental.
1563
01:22:10,967 --> 01:22:13,470
[Baime] Ford had five GT40 MKIIs
in the running
1564
01:22:13,553 --> 01:22:15,388
led by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby
1565
01:22:17,098 --> 01:22:18,934
and Dan Gurney and Jerry Grant.
1566
01:22:20,852 --> 01:22:24,147
[announcer] Miles takes the lead,
quashing the last Ferrari threat.
1567
01:22:26,399 --> 01:22:30,153
[Baime] For the first time,
Ford wins 1-2-3 at Daytona.
1568
01:22:31,196 --> 01:22:33,114
[announcer]
This is the 12 Hours of Sebring.
1569
01:22:33,198 --> 01:22:34,574
Can the Fords win two in a row,
1570
01:22:34,658 --> 01:22:37,911
and can Ferrari come back
after a rather dismal start
1571
01:22:38,244 --> 01:22:39,704
at the beginning of this year?
1572
01:22:39,788 --> 01:22:43,750
[engines revving]
1573
01:22:45,335 --> 01:22:46,670
[announcer] It's neck and neck now.
1574
01:22:46,753 --> 01:22:50,173
Mark, Miles, Gurney
close enough to cover with a blanket
1575
01:22:50,548 --> 01:22:52,425
as they roar through the Websters.
1576
01:22:57,138 --> 01:23:00,183
Team manager Carroll Shelby
keeps a paternal eye on the situation,
1577
01:23:00,266 --> 01:23:04,062
tells Ken Miles to lower
his lap times and catch parts.
1578
01:23:04,729 --> 01:23:06,606
[Baime]
The GT40s and the P Series Ferraris
1579
01:23:06,690 --> 01:23:08,566
battle each other all race...
1580
01:23:09,818 --> 01:23:11,403
neither giving in an inch.
1581
01:23:12,278 --> 01:23:16,157
[announcer] So, with night full on,
it's Ford, Ford, Ford.
1582
01:23:16,241 --> 01:23:19,828
Sebring is another 1-2-3 finish
for the Ford GT40s.
1583
01:23:19,911 --> 01:23:21,162
All that's left is Le Mans.
1584
01:23:21,830 --> 01:23:24,874
[Shelby] You'll probably see us around
as a competitor at Le Mans
1585
01:23:24,958 --> 01:23:26,209
for a long time to come,
1586
01:23:26,751 --> 01:23:28,503
and I'm talking about as a real threat,
1587
01:23:28,586 --> 01:23:30,588
where it's taken us
about three or four years
1588
01:23:30,672 --> 01:23:33,133
to get onto the type of racing here
1589
01:23:33,216 --> 01:23:35,552
and the type of race
that this particular race is
1590
01:23:35,635 --> 01:23:37,345
which is the only one like it
in the world.
1591
01:23:39,514 --> 01:23:44,185
[Patrick] My brother and I,
in 1966 summer, were in Europe,
1592
01:23:44,269 --> 01:23:47,022
and Dad invited us to Le Mans.
1593
01:23:48,481 --> 01:23:52,318
We were not under the impression
of the pressure he was under.
1594
01:23:52,902 --> 01:23:55,405
If he had lost,
he was gonna be in trouble.
1595
01:23:57,032 --> 01:24:00,410
[Baime] Shelby knew he had
to stay ahead of the other GT40 teams.
1596
01:24:00,660 --> 01:24:03,663
And then there was Ferrari,
who would do anything to win.
1597
01:24:03,913 --> 01:24:06,916
I learned that Enzo Ferrari
wanted to meet me.
1598
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,085
[ominous music playing]
1599
01:24:09,169 --> 01:24:11,046
[Bondurant] So, I went down and met him.
1600
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:15,008
[Ferrari speaks Italian]
1601
01:24:15,091 --> 01:24:18,261
[Bondurant] And he said,
"Would you like to run with us?"
1602
01:24:18,553 --> 01:24:21,097
I said, "Yeah, I would."
1603
01:24:21,556 --> 01:24:23,892
[Baime] Ferrari had stolen
Shelby's world-champion driver
1604
01:24:23,975 --> 01:24:24,934
right out from under him.
1605
01:24:25,018 --> 01:24:27,312
[suspenseful music playing]
1606
01:24:28,521 --> 01:24:30,565
[Edsel] '66 was a great year for the GT40.
1607
01:24:30,815 --> 01:24:33,777
We won Daytona 1-2-3.
We won Sebring 1-2-3.
1608
01:24:33,860 --> 01:24:35,737
I went to Le Mans with him in 1966.
1609
01:24:36,279 --> 01:24:38,865
He had a smile on his face
the minute we got on the airplane.
1610
01:24:38,948 --> 01:24:40,909
I mean, he was really excited.
1611
01:24:41,242 --> 01:24:43,328
He was going over to beat the Europeans
1612
01:24:43,411 --> 01:24:45,330
on their own turf.
1613
01:24:45,705 --> 01:24:48,208
[Lerner] Even though I'd say
they were the odds-on favorite,
1614
01:24:48,291 --> 01:24:51,252
they had a history of failing
at Le Mans the past two years,
1615
01:24:51,336 --> 01:24:53,046
and, in fact, they'd never had
a car finish at Le Mans.
1616
01:24:53,671 --> 01:24:55,006
[Surtees] We had a strategy,
1617
01:24:55,256 --> 01:24:58,593
and we thought the only way
we would beat the Fords
1618
01:24:58,676 --> 01:25:01,930
would be if we could go along,
1619
01:25:02,013 --> 01:25:04,891
and from the very start of the race,
1620
01:25:04,974 --> 01:25:06,726
we could drive it like at Grand Prix,
1621
01:25:07,018 --> 01:25:10,605
because the drivers
in the Fords were all racers,
1622
01:25:10,688 --> 01:25:12,148
and they wouldn't just hold back.
1623
01:25:12,398 --> 01:25:13,316
They would have a go,
1624
01:25:13,399 --> 01:25:17,320
and there's some possibility
that we might be able to break the Fords.
1625
01:25:17,403 --> 01:25:20,198
[suspenseful music playing]
1626
01:25:21,199 --> 01:25:23,827
[cheering]
1627
01:25:31,167 --> 01:25:32,585
[Agapiou] Ken and Gurney were the rabbits,
1628
01:25:32,669 --> 01:25:35,255
so their job was to go out
and break the Ferraris.
1629
01:25:38,466 --> 01:25:42,428
When the race started, Ken Miles
didn't get his door closed correctly.
1630
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,264
He got a terrible start.
1631
01:25:44,848 --> 01:25:47,183
And I thought, "Oh, this ended
right from the beginning."
1632
01:25:49,018 --> 01:25:52,897
[Shelby] Ken Miles, he was
the ultimate long-distance racer.
1633
01:25:53,106 --> 01:25:55,275
He could go very quickly if he had to.
1634
01:25:55,358 --> 01:25:57,485
[engine revving]
1635
01:25:57,569 --> 01:25:59,070
[Miles] Race, race, race.
1636
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:01,656
His deal was competition.
He just loved to compete.
1637
01:26:02,574 --> 01:26:05,118
[Agapiou] The next 20 laps or so
were just incredible.
1638
01:26:05,201 --> 01:26:07,912
Ken was hauling ass.
I mean, he was just going so quick.
1639
01:26:08,371 --> 01:26:09,747
He wasn't backing off for anything
1640
01:26:09,831 --> 01:26:11,624
'cause it was his job
to break the Ferraris.
1641
01:26:11,708 --> 01:26:13,918
[suspenseful music playing]
1642
01:26:17,797 --> 01:26:21,092
[announcer] The MKII, driven
by Ken Miles and Dennis Hulme, is leading,
1643
01:26:21,634 --> 01:26:23,720
but it has been a battle all along
1644
01:26:23,803 --> 01:26:25,889
between car number one
and car number three,
1645
01:26:25,972 --> 01:26:27,891
Dan Gurney and Ken Miles,
1646
01:26:27,974 --> 01:26:32,437
and the Ferrari being driven
by Rodriguez and Ginther.
1647
01:26:34,647 --> 01:26:37,317
[Agapiou] Dan Gurney's car died
at about the 11th hour.
1648
01:26:38,735 --> 01:26:40,862
Ken is still really hauling ass.
1649
01:26:40,945 --> 01:26:42,697
I mean, he was just doing a great job.
1650
01:26:42,947 --> 01:26:44,782
We're still running away with the race.
1651
01:26:45,867 --> 01:26:47,327
[Baime] The Ferraris are dropping out.
1652
01:26:48,494 --> 01:26:50,455
[Agapiou] Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon,
1653
01:26:50,538 --> 01:26:53,416
they were running several laps back
but still running really strong.
1654
01:26:54,876 --> 01:26:55,919
A few hours from the finish,
1655
01:26:56,002 --> 01:26:58,671
it looked like the car
wasn't gonna break anyway.
1656
01:26:58,963 --> 01:27:01,382
-Ken was gonna win the race easy.
-[engine revving]
1657
01:27:01,466 --> 01:27:03,259
[Baime] Miles is now in first place,
1658
01:27:03,343 --> 01:27:05,303
and he's lapping at amazing speeds,
1659
01:27:05,386 --> 01:27:07,722
faster than they told him
he should be going.
1660
01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:08,932
Miles has won Daytona.
1661
01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:11,517
[suspenseful music playing]
1662
01:27:11,601 --> 01:27:13,019
[Baime] Miles has won Sebring.
1663
01:27:14,354 --> 01:27:16,814
So, if Ken Miles wins Le Mans,
it'd be the Triple Crown.
1664
01:27:17,732 --> 01:27:20,193
No driver had won
the three premier
1665
01:27:20,276 --> 01:27:22,362
long-distance
endurance races of the year.
1666
01:27:22,820 --> 01:27:25,782
The word came down,
presumably from my grandfather,
1667
01:27:25,865 --> 01:27:28,534
that he wanted this 1-2-3 finish.
1668
01:27:29,118 --> 01:27:30,578
[engine revving]
1669
01:27:30,662 --> 01:27:32,956
[Agapiou] A lot of it was people
were saying that Miles wins again,
1670
01:27:33,039 --> 01:27:35,250
and Ford wanted "Ford wins again."
1671
01:27:35,750 --> 01:27:39,629
Henry Ford told Carroll, he said,
"You got to slow him down."
1672
01:27:42,799 --> 01:27:45,510
[Agapiou] He's leaning on the pit
while waiting for his stint on the drive,
1673
01:27:45,593 --> 01:27:48,304
and that's when he first told me,
"They want me to back off."
1674
01:27:48,888 --> 01:27:50,181
[engine revving]
1675
01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:53,059
[Agapiou] They talked
to the Le Mans officials
1676
01:27:53,142 --> 01:27:55,103
saying that we can do a dead heat
1677
01:27:55,186 --> 01:27:57,063
which still meant
that Ken had to slow down
1678
01:27:57,146 --> 01:27:59,649
to let Bruce catch up, which he did.
1679
01:28:00,233 --> 01:28:03,444
[heroic music playing]
1680
01:28:09,075 --> 01:28:11,327
[Bondurant] Ford won 1-2-3.
1681
01:28:12,787 --> 01:28:16,791
And Henry Ford was so happy
he beat Ferrari.
1682
01:28:17,458 --> 01:28:18,793
[Ford III]
It was a relief for a lot of people
1683
01:28:18,876 --> 01:28:22,839
because this was a Herculean effort
to make this program a success.
1684
01:28:23,214 --> 01:28:26,884
[Shelby] I felt wonderful about us
winning one, two, and three.
1685
01:28:27,969 --> 01:28:30,179
If our people at Shelby American
1686
01:28:30,263 --> 01:28:32,849
hadn't developed a way
to change the rotors
1687
01:28:32,932 --> 01:28:35,560
in 20 seconds,
we would have never won the race.
1688
01:28:35,643 --> 01:28:37,562
We would have never blown
the Ferraris off.
1689
01:28:38,146 --> 01:28:41,024
That quick-change brake system
was a huge jump,
1690
01:28:41,107 --> 01:28:43,526
and that would never
have come out of corporate.
1691
01:28:43,860 --> 01:28:45,320
They would have never allowed it.
1692
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,450
It was a shock, of course,
but that's auto racing.
1693
01:28:50,533 --> 01:28:52,744
One day, you lose.
1694
01:28:53,202 --> 01:28:55,204
[dramatic music fades]
1695
01:28:55,288 --> 01:28:56,789
[Agapiou] And when it came to the finish,
1696
01:28:56,873 --> 01:29:00,251
it was actually considered a dead heat,
but when Ken came out of the pit lane
1697
01:29:00,335 --> 01:29:03,671
to head for the circle, they kept
waving him off, yelling in French,
1698
01:29:04,255 --> 01:29:05,882
and we didn't know what was going on.
1699
01:29:06,299 --> 01:29:10,011
And then the FIA got involved and said,
1700
01:29:10,094 --> 01:29:11,596
"Well, just so you know..."
1701
01:29:11,971 --> 01:29:15,058
[referee] If there is a dead heat
across the finishing line,
1702
01:29:16,100 --> 01:29:19,062
the car that started farthest back
1703
01:29:19,562 --> 01:29:23,733
on the starting line must have covered
the greatest distance,
1704
01:29:23,816 --> 01:29:26,361
-so number two becomes the winner.
-[crowd chatter]
1705
01:29:26,569 --> 01:29:28,154
There wasn't gonna be a 1-2-3 finish.
1706
01:29:28,237 --> 01:29:29,280
Bruce was gonna win.
1707
01:29:29,364 --> 01:29:31,783
[speaking French]
1708
01:29:31,866 --> 01:29:35,370
[crowd cheering and applauding]
1709
01:29:38,664 --> 01:29:41,834
[Shelby] We made a horrible decision
with Ken Miles
1710
01:29:41,918 --> 01:29:45,088
and seeing the three cars
come over exactly together.
1711
01:29:45,379 --> 01:29:48,299
It was good politically
for Ford, so I couldn't argue with it.
1712
01:29:48,382 --> 01:29:50,259
Besides that, I worked for Ford,
1713
01:29:50,343 --> 01:29:52,720
and I'm not gonna go against Henry Ford.
1714
01:29:54,180 --> 01:29:56,808
[Agapiou] Ken ended up
getting cheated out of it.
1715
01:29:57,350 --> 01:29:59,018
[Bondurant] And it broke his heart.
1716
01:29:59,936 --> 01:30:03,356
[Shelby] I wish Ken Miles had won it
because he earned the win of the race.
1717
01:30:04,816 --> 01:30:08,986
I've always felt guilty about that,
but you can't change history.
1718
01:30:09,070 --> 01:30:11,614
That's what happened
and we'll have to live with it.
1719
01:30:14,075 --> 01:30:16,911
[Lerner] When they win the race,
Henry Ford is asked,
1720
01:30:16,994 --> 01:30:18,287
"Well, what happens now?"
1721
01:30:18,371 --> 01:30:21,040
Henry Ford says, "Well, we're gonna
come back next year and do it again."
1722
01:30:21,124 --> 01:30:23,459
[ominous music playing]
1723
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,462
[Chance] At the latter part of '66,
1724
01:30:26,546 --> 01:30:29,090
Carroll Shelby, Phil Remington,
1725
01:30:29,173 --> 01:30:33,761
and the Shelby experts
were making a faster, quicker MKII-B.
1726
01:30:34,512 --> 01:30:36,806
[Ford III]
So my grandfather was determined
1727
01:30:36,889 --> 01:30:39,767
to make sure that people knew
that this was not some kind of fluke.
1728
01:30:39,851 --> 01:30:41,727
And so, development of the cars,
1729
01:30:41,811 --> 01:30:44,772
that continued in '66 with the J-Car.
1730
01:30:45,398 --> 01:30:46,858
It was a prototype that they had used
1731
01:30:46,941 --> 01:30:49,735
this kind of honeycomb pattern.
1732
01:30:49,819 --> 01:30:51,279
So, they sent it out to testing.
1733
01:30:51,654 --> 01:30:53,239
[engine revving]
1734
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:56,659
[Chance] The car was being tested
by Ken Miles.
1735
01:30:58,786 --> 01:31:02,832
[engine roaring]
1736
01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:06,919
[somber music playing]
1737
01:31:07,003 --> 01:31:08,796
[Chance] The car broke.
1738
01:31:09,672 --> 01:31:12,425
He was doing 180 miles an hour.
1739
01:31:12,508 --> 01:31:14,760
It careened wildly.
1740
01:31:15,428 --> 01:31:17,138
It was unsurvivable.
1741
01:31:18,014 --> 01:31:19,932
They pointed to where
he was laying in the dirt,
1742
01:31:20,433 --> 01:31:23,603
and I could see
he was in pretty bad shape.
1743
01:31:23,686 --> 01:31:26,397
And then I started to go over there,
and they said, "Don't go."
1744
01:31:28,399 --> 01:31:30,193
[Shelby] I've never had a loss
that hit me as hard
1745
01:31:30,276 --> 01:31:31,986
as when we lost Ken.
1746
01:31:32,737 --> 01:31:34,864
[somber music continues]
1747
01:31:34,947 --> 01:31:39,368
[Shelby] Not only a friend
but he was a good engineer.
1748
01:31:41,412 --> 01:31:44,081
He was a good test driver.
1749
01:31:45,708 --> 01:31:47,752
As good a race driver as I ever knew.
1750
01:31:48,753 --> 01:31:53,132
And I can't say what a void
I felt when we lost him.
1751
01:31:54,967 --> 01:31:58,638
[somber music continues]
1752
01:32:02,975 --> 01:32:04,852
The loss of Miles was difficult to bear,
1753
01:32:04,936 --> 01:32:07,730
but losing Shelby,
that would destroy the company.
1754
01:32:08,272 --> 01:32:09,941
It was 1966.
1755
01:32:10,024 --> 01:32:12,693
This was six years after Shelby
was told by doctors
1756
01:32:12,777 --> 01:32:14,946
he only had five years left to live.
1757
01:32:16,239 --> 01:32:18,407
[Shelby] Jesus Christ, they told you
you weren't gonna live
1758
01:32:18,491 --> 01:32:21,244
five years in 1960, and every five years,
1759
01:32:21,327 --> 01:32:23,788
there's a new pill or a new operation.
1760
01:32:23,871 --> 01:32:26,499
He, in my opinion, knew more
than a lot of his doctors.
1761
01:32:27,083 --> 01:32:30,044
At his bedside,
there were stacks of medical journals,
1762
01:32:30,127 --> 01:32:31,629
and he would read
those things voraciously,
1763
01:32:32,046 --> 01:32:35,591
looking for something that could help cure
whatever ailment he had.
1764
01:32:36,050 --> 01:32:38,678
[Shelby] The doctor said,
"You had 40 heart attacks."
1765
01:32:38,970 --> 01:32:40,513
I used to get an angina attack.
1766
01:32:40,596 --> 01:32:42,473
I'd just sit down
and rest for five minutes.
1767
01:32:42,556 --> 01:32:44,267
And he said,
"You were having a heart attack,
1768
01:32:44,350 --> 01:32:46,811
all those... probably 40 times."
1769
01:32:47,436 --> 01:32:51,065
[Shelby]
And I'm a walking chemical depository.
1770
01:32:52,191 --> 01:32:55,027
At this point,
Shelby had routinely cheated death,
1771
01:32:55,111 --> 01:32:56,862
which was good news for Ford Motor Company
1772
01:32:56,946 --> 01:32:58,864
because they needed him now
more than ever.
1773
01:33:00,950 --> 01:33:03,995
[Lerner] In 1967,
when the season began at Daytona,
1774
01:33:04,203 --> 01:33:08,249
Ford showed up with, you know,
a full array of upgraded MKIIs.
1775
01:33:08,916 --> 01:33:11,502
[Chance] Ferrari wanted revenge after '66,
1776
01:33:11,794 --> 01:33:13,713
and he-- he brought, like, six cars.
1777
01:33:14,964 --> 01:33:17,258
[in Italian] Ferrari came to me
and told me:
1778
01:33:17,341 --> 01:33:20,303
"Mauro, the P3 lost.
1779
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:22,471
Can you improve the P3?"
1780
01:33:23,055 --> 01:33:25,725
[in Italian] If we win, we'll come
1781
01:33:25,808 --> 01:33:29,895
to the wrong evaluation
1782
01:33:29,979 --> 01:33:33,816
of the factors that determine victory.
1783
01:33:33,899 --> 01:33:35,318
If we lose,
1784
01:33:35,401 --> 01:33:37,737
the reasons are always very clear.
1785
01:33:37,820 --> 01:33:39,739
Every time we lose,
1786
01:33:39,822 --> 01:33:42,158
we learn how to build new cars.
1787
01:33:43,451 --> 01:33:47,163
Ferrari shows up with a brand-new car.
It's called the 330 P4.
1788
01:33:47,246 --> 01:33:50,333
It's just... it's beautiful;
it looks stunning.
1789
01:33:50,416 --> 01:33:52,084
It's got a new engine that's derived
from their Formula One engine,
1790
01:33:52,168 --> 01:33:55,379
and it just kicks ass.
1791
01:33:57,214 --> 01:34:02,636
It's easy to think of the GT40
as being the iconic car of the time,
1792
01:34:03,137 --> 01:34:04,972
but the Ferraris
that were racing against them
1793
01:34:05,931 --> 01:34:08,225
were, in their own way,
1794
01:34:08,309 --> 01:34:11,228
the most sophisticated
sports cars ever built.
1795
01:34:11,896 --> 01:34:14,315
This was gonna be
a real showdown and a real race.
1796
01:34:14,398 --> 01:34:17,693
-[suspenseful music playing]
-[engines revving]
1797
01:34:17,777 --> 01:34:20,863
[engines roaring]
1798
01:34:20,946 --> 01:34:24,033
Ford had all these entries,
and they were all big blocks.
1799
01:34:24,116 --> 01:34:25,826
They started coming in one after the other
1800
01:34:25,910 --> 01:34:27,328
with broken transmissions.
1801
01:34:28,454 --> 01:34:30,915
[Baime] Only one out of six GT40s
1802
01:34:30,998 --> 01:34:33,334
finished at Daytona in 1967.
1803
01:34:34,335 --> 01:34:36,670
Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Daytona
1804
01:34:36,754 --> 01:34:38,923
with a 1-2-3.
1805
01:34:41,342 --> 01:34:44,011
[Lerner] Early in the career, they had
not been as durable as the opposition.
1806
01:34:44,095 --> 01:34:47,473
This is the first time the Ford
had ever been slower than the opposition.
1807
01:34:48,974 --> 01:34:51,519
Something needed to be done,
and it wasn't clear
1808
01:34:51,602 --> 01:34:55,022
how to make the MKII decidedly faster
1809
01:34:55,106 --> 01:34:56,315
in a short period of time.
1810
01:34:57,566 --> 01:34:59,110
[Shelby] Ah, we had a pile of crap.
1811
01:34:59,193 --> 01:35:01,862
One of them killed Ken Miles
out at Riverside.
1812
01:35:02,780 --> 01:35:04,865
They really needed a lot of development,
1813
01:35:04,949 --> 01:35:08,744
and we jumped in
and did in about three months
1814
01:35:08,828 --> 01:35:11,831
what it had taken Ford a couple years
to screw up back there.
1815
01:35:13,249 --> 01:35:16,001
[Baime] Shelby and his team
had to come up with a solution quickly.
1816
01:35:16,085 --> 01:35:18,254
There was no wind tunnel at the LAX shop,
1817
01:35:18,337 --> 01:35:20,172
but there was one in Dearborn.
1818
01:35:20,256 --> 01:35:22,133
Shelby knew what he had to do.
1819
01:35:22,591 --> 01:35:25,719
[Lerner] Phil Remington returned
to Dearborn
1820
01:35:25,803 --> 01:35:28,431
with two of his chief fabricators,
1821
01:35:28,514 --> 01:35:31,225
and they took the first J-Car chassis,
1822
01:35:31,308 --> 01:35:33,018
and they took it into the wind tunnel,
1823
01:35:33,102 --> 01:35:36,605
and they started literally
cutting away at the bodywork
1824
01:35:37,064 --> 01:35:39,483
to try to improve
the aerodynamics of the car.
1825
01:35:39,567 --> 01:35:40,985
They came up with a shape
1826
01:35:41,068 --> 01:35:43,571
that was so dramatically
different than the J-Car
1827
01:35:43,779 --> 01:35:45,990
that they dubbed the new car the MKIV.
1828
01:35:46,574 --> 01:35:47,950
And they went out and tested that,
1829
01:35:48,033 --> 01:35:50,536
and it proved to be faster
right out of the box
1830
01:35:50,619 --> 01:35:52,413
than the existing MKII.
1831
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:56,000
It was decided to race the MKIV
at Sebring,
1832
01:35:56,083 --> 01:35:57,460
and if it did well at Sebring,
1833
01:35:57,543 --> 01:35:59,545
they would go ahead
and take that to Le Mans.
1834
01:36:00,129 --> 01:36:03,507
After Daytona,
Enzo Ferrari's P4s were so dominant,
1835
01:36:03,591 --> 01:36:05,718
he didn't even bother
sending them to Sebring.
1836
01:36:06,051 --> 01:36:10,222
The competition would be
between the old GT40 MKII-B
1837
01:36:10,639 --> 01:36:12,224
and the brand-new MKIV.
1838
01:36:12,308 --> 01:36:14,018
[announcer] By the Esses,
the Fords have gobbled up
1839
01:36:14,101 --> 01:36:15,186
the quick starting outfit,
1840
01:36:15,269 --> 01:36:17,771
and McLaren has assumed command
with Foyt second.
1841
01:36:17,855 --> 01:36:19,773
We go out there, and we're running seven
1842
01:36:19,857 --> 01:36:22,526
to ten seconds a lap faster.
1843
01:36:23,527 --> 01:36:26,489
[Baime] By nightfall,
the redesigned GT40 MKIV
1844
01:36:26,572 --> 01:36:29,867
is a full 12 laps ahead of the Ford MKII.
1845
01:36:30,826 --> 01:36:33,704
[Andretti] We raced it at Sebring
the first time and won,
1846
01:36:33,787 --> 01:36:37,416
and MKIV became the envy
of the competition.
1847
01:36:37,791 --> 01:36:40,836
[announcer] It's race week, and along
with nearly every Jean Barme
1848
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:42,046
in the south of France
1849
01:36:42,129 --> 01:36:44,632
comes the world's finest racing machinery.
1850
01:36:44,715 --> 01:36:48,844
[Lerner] It would be the first time
that the MKIV and the P4
1851
01:36:48,928 --> 01:36:50,304
would face each other on the racetrack.
1852
01:36:50,888 --> 01:36:52,765
[announcer]
Ferrari has three of their factory P4s
1853
01:36:52,848 --> 01:36:55,392
in the top ten, and they finished 1-2-3
1854
01:36:55,476 --> 01:36:58,354
in the only other 24-hour race
of the season at Daytona.
1855
01:36:58,437 --> 01:37:00,689
The candy-colored Fords are the fastest
1856
01:37:00,773 --> 01:37:03,108
with six of the top ten
starting positions.
1857
01:37:04,193 --> 01:37:07,238
-[suspenseful music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]
1858
01:37:14,078 --> 01:37:17,498
[Chance] And as the race progressed,
the Fords took the lead.
1859
01:37:17,581 --> 01:37:19,583
The Ferraris were not too far behind.
1860
01:37:21,210 --> 01:37:23,170
[engine roaring]
1861
01:37:25,923 --> 01:37:28,968
[announcer] Now, from the air,
we see Gurney quickly accelerating
1862
01:37:29,051 --> 01:37:31,470
to become the leader on the 48th lap.
1863
01:37:34,557 --> 01:37:37,017
Foyt begins his two-hour stint
behind the wheel,
1864
01:37:37,101 --> 01:37:39,353
his first appearance
in competition at Le Mans
1865
01:37:39,436 --> 01:37:41,897
and with only ten practice laps
under his belt.
1866
01:37:43,774 --> 01:37:46,902
A.J. Foyt, the rookie
everyone was worrying about,
1867
01:37:46,986 --> 01:37:49,446
has charged into a seven-lap lead.
1868
01:37:50,197 --> 01:37:52,283
Fifteen cars have already dropped out
1869
01:37:52,366 --> 01:37:54,493
trying to keep up
with the bright red Ford.
1870
01:37:55,619 --> 01:37:58,289
[Baime] Ford was ecstatic
about the MKIV's performance,
1871
01:37:58,372 --> 01:38:00,833
but they kept a watchful eye on Shelby.
1872
01:38:00,916 --> 01:38:03,127
[Nowland]
Mr. Ford had his sergeants with him,
1873
01:38:03,419 --> 01:38:05,379
but they would come through
every two or three hours
1874
01:38:05,462 --> 01:38:07,298
and that happened all night long.
1875
01:38:07,381 --> 01:38:10,009
[Agapiou] I was in the pits
performing a pit stop.
1876
01:38:10,092 --> 01:38:12,052
I turned around to dart around
the other side of the car,
1877
01:38:12,136 --> 01:38:14,763
and I bashed into this one guy
standing there.
1878
01:38:14,847 --> 01:38:16,307
I said, "Move out of the way!"
1879
01:38:16,390 --> 01:38:18,559
I went to Al Dowd,
our team manager, I said,
1880
01:38:18,642 --> 01:38:20,060
"Can you get all these fuckers
out of the pits?"
1881
01:38:20,144 --> 01:38:21,854
I said,
"There's a great big guy down there.
1882
01:38:21,937 --> 01:38:24,440
I bashed straight into him.
What's he doing standing in our pits?"
1883
01:38:25,566 --> 01:38:28,277
-[playful music playing]
-Turns out it was Henry Ford. [chuckles]
1884
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:30,529
And I thought, "Oh my God,
what have I done?"
1885
01:38:30,613 --> 01:38:32,281
So, I went and apologized, and he says,
1886
01:38:32,364 --> 01:38:34,033
"Don't worry, son," he says, "It's OK.
1887
01:38:34,116 --> 01:38:35,701
I shouldn't have been there.
I shouldn't have been in your way."
1888
01:38:36,952 --> 01:38:38,704
[announcer]
Roger McCluskey and Jo Schlesser,
1889
01:38:38,787 --> 01:38:39,788
both in MKIIs,
1890
01:38:39,872 --> 01:38:43,250
complete a five-car team
of Fords that are leading the way.
1891
01:38:44,126 --> 01:38:47,087
At 3:30 in the morning,
the whole complexion of the race changes
1892
01:38:47,379 --> 01:38:49,965
when Andretti spins his car,
bounces off the wall,
1893
01:38:50,049 --> 01:38:51,842
and stops in the middle of the track.
1894
01:38:51,925 --> 01:38:54,553
Seconds later, McCluskey
and Jo Schlesser spin out
1895
01:38:54,637 --> 01:38:55,846
trying to avoid Andretti.
1896
01:38:56,305 --> 01:38:59,475
No one is injured,
but all three cars must be retired.
1897
01:38:59,767 --> 01:39:02,144
[Laban] Ferrari hadn't given up,
1898
01:39:02,227 --> 01:39:04,021
and Ford did everything they could
1899
01:39:04,104 --> 01:39:05,939
to help Ferrari stay in the race.
1900
01:39:06,023 --> 01:39:07,775
They lost three cars in one accident.
1901
01:39:07,858 --> 01:39:10,069
[suspenseful music playing]
1902
01:39:11,820 --> 01:39:15,449
There was only one Ford left,
and that happened to be ours.
1903
01:39:16,450 --> 01:39:18,786
[announcer] Two factory Ferraris
are in hot pursuit,
1904
01:39:19,078 --> 01:39:21,372
now in second and third position.
1905
01:39:22,915 --> 01:39:25,501
Less than four hours to go,
Dan Gurney drives
1906
01:39:25,584 --> 01:39:27,795
the number one Ford for his last shift
1907
01:39:27,878 --> 01:39:29,838
before turning it over to A.J. Foyt
1908
01:39:29,922 --> 01:39:33,008
waiting in the pits,
who is scheduled to finish the race.
1909
01:39:33,759 --> 01:39:35,678
[engine revving]
1910
01:39:35,761 --> 01:39:37,346
[announcer] The Ferraris begin
to pick up the pace,
1911
01:39:37,429 --> 01:39:39,598
hoping to push the leading Ford
into a breakdown.
1912
01:39:41,684 --> 01:39:44,395
The Ford was
about three miles an hour faster
1913
01:39:44,478 --> 01:39:46,313
than the Ferrari.
1914
01:39:46,397 --> 01:39:47,981
Even though he was in the draft,
1915
01:39:48,065 --> 01:39:51,652
I could walk away from him down
the straightaway a little bit.
1916
01:39:57,199 --> 01:40:01,203
Ferrari were always fairly close
to the pace but never close enough.
1917
01:40:01,662 --> 01:40:04,790
[Laban]
It was the steamroller again. Ford won.
1918
01:40:06,542 --> 01:40:08,210
[announcer] There's the checkered flag.
1919
01:40:08,293 --> 01:40:10,337
-[heroic music playing]
-[crowd cheering]
1920
01:40:12,047 --> 01:40:15,467
[announcer] And Gurney climbs atop
the Ford MKIV.
1921
01:40:15,551 --> 01:40:17,261
It's an all-American win.
1922
01:40:19,096 --> 01:40:22,182
Fully American ethic
from tires to drivers to the car.
1923
01:40:23,434 --> 01:40:25,102
Gurney did a beautiful job
1924
01:40:25,185 --> 01:40:28,689
of not showing
Foyt how fast the car would go,
1925
01:40:28,772 --> 01:40:33,026
and Foyt did a fabulous job
in driving within his limits,
1926
01:40:33,110 --> 01:40:35,571
realizing that 24 hours is a long time,
1927
01:40:35,654 --> 01:40:38,824
taking care of the engine,
taking care of the gearbox.
1928
01:40:40,409 --> 01:40:44,121
[Baime] Ford went on to win
the 24 Hours of Le Mans again in 1968.
1929
01:40:46,331 --> 01:40:48,625
And again in 1969.
1930
01:40:51,253 --> 01:40:55,716
[Laban] Only two makes ever won Le Mans
in the 1960s.
1931
01:40:56,341 --> 01:40:57,926
Ferrari won the first half.
1932
01:40:58,385 --> 01:41:00,262
Ford won the second half.
1933
01:41:01,430 --> 01:41:04,808
[Baime]
In 1968 and 1969, the GT40 won Le Mans
1934
01:41:04,892 --> 01:41:09,813
without any factory support
from Ford or Carroll Shelby.
1935
01:41:13,942 --> 01:41:15,486
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
1936
01:41:15,569 --> 01:41:17,488
[Baime] By the end of the 1967 season,
1937
01:41:17,821 --> 01:41:20,949
Henry Ford II had achieved
what he set out to do:
1938
01:41:21,033 --> 01:41:23,952
dominate Le Mans and dominate Ferrari.
1939
01:41:25,078 --> 01:41:27,790
Racing hadn't had the effect
in terms of sales
1940
01:41:27,873 --> 01:41:29,041
that he had hoped for,
1941
01:41:29,374 --> 01:41:31,752
which made it easier
to terminate the racing program
1942
01:41:31,835 --> 01:41:33,837
and everything that was related to it.
1943
01:41:34,671 --> 01:41:37,466
[Holman] They shut Shelby down
in August of '67.
1944
01:41:37,549 --> 01:41:40,427
And when the shutdown came,
1945
01:41:40,511 --> 01:41:45,098
Ford just shut his operation off.
They just closed it.
1946
01:41:45,766 --> 01:41:49,102
[Patrick] So, by 60, late '67,
1947
01:41:49,186 --> 01:41:51,855
Dad didn't have any production cars there.
1948
01:41:52,815 --> 01:41:54,733
[Shelby] I was out of business at Ford.
1949
01:41:55,484 --> 01:41:59,488
It's almost surreal because there was
no real activity going on in the shop.
1950
01:41:59,780 --> 01:42:01,615
He really wasn't doing that much at all.
1951
01:42:02,157 --> 01:42:03,534
[Baime]
And then, seemingly out of nowhere,
1952
01:42:03,617 --> 01:42:05,702
a new opportunity shows up for Shelby.
1953
01:42:05,786 --> 01:42:08,372
The Sports Car Club of America
is gaining notoriety.
1954
01:42:08,455 --> 01:42:11,208
Major manufacturers
are now fielding teams.
1955
01:42:11,667 --> 01:42:16,046
Porsche, Triumph, Datsun, Toyota,
1956
01:42:16,129 --> 01:42:17,130
they were all in.
1957
01:42:17,631 --> 01:42:20,092
Unfortunately,
Shelby was a little late to the game.
1958
01:42:20,175 --> 01:42:22,636
He had a connection
at the Toyota factory team.
1959
01:42:22,928 --> 01:42:25,722
The only problem was
Toyota had already signed on
1960
01:42:25,806 --> 01:42:28,183
with his former employee, Peter Brock.
1961
01:42:28,267 --> 01:42:32,104
Peter got the job
of running the Toyota GTs.
1962
01:42:32,187 --> 01:42:34,398
Shelby got the deal out from under him.
1963
01:42:35,065 --> 01:42:37,568
So, Shelby became the Toyota team
1964
01:42:37,651 --> 01:42:39,695
with the 2000GT.
1965
01:42:40,612 --> 01:42:42,781
[Brock] I was really pretty upset
that he had gotten
1966
01:42:42,865 --> 01:42:46,535
the Toyota program
after they had originally given it to me.
1967
01:42:46,952 --> 01:42:50,080
After he'd been rejected
by the American Datsun,
1968
01:42:50,414 --> 01:42:52,499
Peter approached Datsun Japan
1969
01:42:52,583 --> 01:42:55,377
'cause he wanted to beat Shelby's Toyotas.
1970
01:42:55,460 --> 01:42:57,296
I ended up running against Shelby.
1971
01:42:58,171 --> 01:43:01,383
The competition was so stiff
on the West Coast
1972
01:43:01,466 --> 01:43:04,303
with the Triumph team and the Porsche team
and our team
1973
01:43:04,386 --> 01:43:06,722
that Shelby didn't really have a chance
1974
01:43:06,805 --> 01:43:08,557
at getting too many points
of winning anything
1975
01:43:08,640 --> 01:43:09,641
on the West Coast.
1976
01:43:10,642 --> 01:43:13,478
He tried to sneak off
to Stuttgart, Arkansas,
1977
01:43:13,562 --> 01:43:16,148
or someplace else to pick up
some cherry-pickin' points
1978
01:43:16,231 --> 01:43:17,900
in a region that wasn't too strong,
1979
01:43:17,983 --> 01:43:20,444
and my guys in his shop
would call me and say,
1980
01:43:20,527 --> 01:43:21,945
"We're going to Stuttgart."
1981
01:43:22,029 --> 01:43:24,406
And we'd load up and go to Stuttgart
to race against him
1982
01:43:24,489 --> 01:43:26,366
to make sure
that he didn't get any points.
1983
01:43:28,869 --> 01:43:31,371
We won pretty much every race that we ran.
1984
01:43:31,914 --> 01:43:34,291
[Brock] Shelby didn't qualify
for the national championship
1985
01:43:34,374 --> 01:43:35,626
in his first year.
1986
01:43:35,709 --> 01:43:39,004
And Toyota was so embarrassed,
they quit racing.
1987
01:43:39,087 --> 01:43:41,798
And then, we went on to win
all the championships with the Datsuns.
1988
01:43:46,011 --> 01:43:48,639
For Shelby, the racing business
had given him so much,
1989
01:43:48,972 --> 01:43:50,974
but now all it did was take.
1990
01:43:51,475 --> 01:43:53,310
Abandoned by Ford,
1991
01:43:53,977 --> 01:43:56,813
humiliated by his old employee,
Pete Brock,
1992
01:43:57,064 --> 01:43:59,733
and having achieved everything
he ever wanted to,
1993
01:43:59,816 --> 01:44:01,693
Shelby knew what he always knew
1994
01:44:02,027 --> 01:44:03,570
and that was when to move on.
1995
01:44:04,363 --> 01:44:05,906
[engines revving]
1996
01:44:07,908 --> 01:44:09,534
[Shelby] After we won Le Mans...
1997
01:44:14,247 --> 01:44:16,083
after we won the world championship...
1998
01:44:18,460 --> 01:44:19,711
I lost all interest.
1999
01:44:22,631 --> 01:44:24,299
There weren't any interesting cars
you could build.
2000
01:44:25,258 --> 01:44:26,969
It just got to be too much.
2001
01:44:28,929 --> 01:44:30,555
We were ready to fold our tent.
2002
01:44:36,144 --> 01:44:38,480
[Shelby] That little company
had a heart and soul
2003
01:44:38,855 --> 01:44:40,899
that no company that I've ever known
2004
01:44:40,983 --> 01:44:42,693
or seen around racing had.
2005
01:44:42,776 --> 01:44:46,822
It's, uh, it was something that
nobody was paid a lot of money.
2006
01:44:47,406 --> 01:44:49,491
Nobody gave a shit
how many hours they worked.
2007
01:44:49,574 --> 01:44:51,284
Just get it done.
2008
01:44:52,661 --> 01:44:54,997
There will never be
another little company like that.
2009
01:44:58,417 --> 01:45:00,168
[Baime] With Ford losing interest
in racing
2010
01:45:00,252 --> 01:45:02,546
and the entire industry
focused on emissions
2011
01:45:02,629 --> 01:45:05,132
and safety at the expense of performance,
2012
01:45:05,215 --> 01:45:07,926
Shelby decided to withdraw completely
from racing
2013
01:45:08,010 --> 01:45:09,594
for the next decade.
2014
01:45:10,637 --> 01:45:15,559
The automobile industry was putting
all kinds of demands on safety.
2015
01:45:15,642 --> 01:45:17,352
Dad wasn't wild about taking a Cobra
2016
01:45:17,436 --> 01:45:20,647
and running it into a wall
to see what it would do.
2017
01:45:20,981 --> 01:45:23,275
Kind of took the fun
out of the game for him.
2018
01:45:23,483 --> 01:45:25,861
[Shelby] Uh, you had to fool
with environmental problems,
2019
01:45:25,944 --> 01:45:29,614
emissions, and so forth
that we had to clean the environment up,
2020
01:45:30,157 --> 01:45:32,284
but there was nothing to do.
2021
01:45:32,743 --> 01:45:34,119
Performance went away.
2022
01:45:34,202 --> 01:45:37,122
We were introduced to the dismal '70s.
2023
01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:40,167
Shelby's frustration
with government interference
2024
01:45:40,250 --> 01:45:42,878
in the auto business made him
want to take a break from racing.
2025
01:45:43,086 --> 01:45:46,089
This gave him time
to pursue other ambitions.
2026
01:45:46,548 --> 01:45:49,009
Carroll had a propensity for women,
2027
01:45:49,092 --> 01:45:51,011
and he liked to be married
for some reason.
2028
01:45:51,094 --> 01:45:52,971
We don't know exactly
how many times he was married,
2029
01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:55,766
but it was probably north of seven
and south of ten.
2030
01:45:55,849 --> 01:45:58,643
Every time my brother
and I went out to California
2031
01:45:58,727 --> 01:45:59,686
and went into his house,
2032
01:45:59,770 --> 01:46:00,896
there was somebody else new there,
2033
01:46:01,271 --> 01:46:02,355
and they were all knockouts.
2034
01:46:03,648 --> 01:46:07,819
I was the photographer
at one of his weddings
2035
01:46:07,903 --> 01:46:10,447
that he denied ever took place.
2036
01:46:10,530 --> 01:46:12,866
He married a girl in Nassau.
2037
01:46:12,949 --> 01:46:15,911
Every time I mentioned it,
he said, "Dave," he said,
2038
01:46:15,994 --> 01:46:17,370
"I never married her."
2039
01:46:17,454 --> 01:46:20,582
But I said, "Carroll,
you want to see the pictures?"
2040
01:46:20,665 --> 01:46:23,210
I think Carroll was married
between five and seven times.
2041
01:46:23,293 --> 01:46:24,878
It was probably more than that.
2042
01:46:24,961 --> 01:46:28,799
At least, the ladies thought
they married him,
2043
01:46:28,882 --> 01:46:31,051
if that tells you anything. [chuckles]
2044
01:46:31,134 --> 01:46:36,014
He took her to a friend of his,
a justice of the peace in San Diego.
2045
01:46:36,306 --> 01:46:38,016
He wasn't a justice of the peace.
2046
01:46:39,101 --> 01:46:40,519
But she still got a divorce.
2047
01:46:41,186 --> 01:46:44,815
[Patrick] Nobody knows how many times
he was really married.
2048
01:46:47,818 --> 01:46:51,279
When he and Ford split up
in the late '60s,
2049
01:46:51,363 --> 01:46:53,532
he didn't look back. He was going on
to his next project.
2050
01:46:53,990 --> 01:46:57,702
As an entrepreneur,
he got into many different businesses.
2051
01:46:57,786 --> 01:47:00,497
He started
the Carroll Shelby Chili Company
2052
01:47:00,580 --> 01:47:03,041
along with
the International Chili Society.
2053
01:47:03,125 --> 01:47:07,462
[Shelby] I had 200,000 acres of rocks
down in West Texas that I'd bought,
2054
01:47:07,546 --> 01:47:09,965
so I needed to sell it,
and I didn't know what to do with it.
2055
01:47:10,340 --> 01:47:12,008
I went to a friend of mine
2056
01:47:12,092 --> 01:47:15,011
who was in the PR business
in Dallas, and he says,
2057
01:47:15,095 --> 01:47:18,640
"We're going to have the first
world championship chili cook-off."
2058
01:47:19,307 --> 01:47:22,352
[Shelby] It was only meant to be
a one-time event.
2059
01:47:22,435 --> 01:47:26,982
Lo and behold, it took off,
and it's gotten so big,
2060
01:47:27,566 --> 01:47:31,194
there's chili cook-offs
all over the United States.
2061
01:47:31,611 --> 01:47:34,197
[Oliver] He was just able to take an idea
2062
01:47:34,447 --> 01:47:36,825
and promote it and make it work.
2063
01:47:37,784 --> 01:47:40,078
[Baime] Shelby had left
the automobile business behind,
2064
01:47:40,162 --> 01:47:43,456
but the automobile business
had not forgotten about Carroll Shelby.
2065
01:47:43,540 --> 01:47:47,294
So, in 1982, an old friend comes calling.
2066
01:47:47,586 --> 01:47:52,340
Iacocca decided he needed
to jazz up Chrysler a little.
2067
01:47:52,424 --> 01:47:53,341
[Baime] In the early 1980s,
2068
01:47:53,425 --> 01:47:55,760
Chrysler was desperate
for a performance product.
2069
01:47:56,052 --> 01:47:58,388
[Shelby] Iacocca called me one day
and says,
2070
01:47:58,471 --> 01:47:59,848
"Hey, I need some help."
2071
01:48:00,557 --> 01:48:02,976
We put this thing together
and we sold 8,000
2072
01:48:03,059 --> 01:48:05,270
of those things the first year.
2073
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:07,272
[Baime] The innovations
that Shelby was making
2074
01:48:07,355 --> 01:48:09,816
under Iacocca's leadership at Chrysler
2075
01:48:09,900 --> 01:48:11,943
were boosting the company's bottom line.
2076
01:48:12,485 --> 01:48:15,947
Shelby and Iacocca
were working on what would become
2077
01:48:16,031 --> 01:48:19,826
Chrysler's most exciting
performance vehicle ever,
2078
01:48:19,910 --> 01:48:22,287
but halfway through the design of the car,
2079
01:48:22,370 --> 01:48:24,748
Shelby's old nemesis caught up with them.
2080
01:48:24,831 --> 01:48:27,751
His heart was failing,
and this time for good.
2081
01:48:27,834 --> 01:48:29,502
[Aaron] When he was with Chrysler,
2082
01:48:29,586 --> 01:48:31,922
his health was going down pretty fast.
2083
01:48:32,005 --> 01:48:34,257
And his doctor said he needed a new heart
2084
01:48:34,341 --> 01:48:36,259
if he was gonna continue on much longer.
2085
01:48:36,343 --> 01:48:38,929
[Shelby]
It finally got so bad in about '86
2086
01:48:39,012 --> 01:48:41,264
that I have to sleep sitting up in bed
2087
01:48:41,348 --> 01:48:44,434
with my lungs filling up, and I was told
2088
01:48:44,517 --> 01:48:49,648
that I'd have to, uh, have a transplant
if I was to survive.
2089
01:48:50,232 --> 01:48:51,441
[Baime] Without an appropriate donor,
2090
01:48:51,524 --> 01:48:54,027
this was a man who was
coming to grips with the fact
2091
01:48:54,110 --> 01:48:55,987
that he was probably about to die.
2092
01:48:56,988 --> 01:49:00,617
And here comes the 34-year-old
in Vegas somewhere
2093
01:49:00,700 --> 01:49:04,287
that falls over with an aneurysm.
2094
01:49:04,913 --> 01:49:05,997
He's brain-dead.
2095
01:49:06,748 --> 01:49:09,167
[Shelby] My coordinator,
she came in and said,
2096
01:49:09,251 --> 01:49:12,754
"Shelby, I think we might
have found you a heart."
2097
01:49:13,129 --> 01:49:15,840
There will never be words
2098
01:49:15,924 --> 01:49:17,801
that are any sweeter than that.
2099
01:49:17,884 --> 01:49:20,679
[Patrick] So, Dad gets
a 34-year-old heart.
2100
01:49:20,762 --> 01:49:23,598
Not a 60-year-old, not a 70-year-old.
2101
01:49:23,682 --> 01:49:26,434
A 34-year-old gives him a new heart.
2102
01:49:26,518 --> 01:49:28,395
[Aaron] And it really just gave him
a new lease on life,
2103
01:49:28,478 --> 01:49:31,564
and it allowed him to want
to go function and succeed
2104
01:49:31,648 --> 01:49:34,025
at some other projects
that he had in mind.
2105
01:49:34,651 --> 01:49:37,821
[dramatic music playing]
2106
01:49:37,904 --> 01:49:40,031
[Shelby] We're coming out
with a very interesting car
2107
01:49:40,115 --> 01:49:43,576
called the Viper
that I just drove last week.
2108
01:49:43,660 --> 01:49:45,412
-[crowd applauding]
-I can tell ya for sure
2109
01:49:45,495 --> 01:49:48,248
that it's a worthy successor to the Cobra,
2110
01:49:48,540 --> 01:49:51,293
and it's a hell of an automobile.
2111
01:49:52,377 --> 01:49:56,506
I think the name Viper
was Chrysler's version of Cobra,
2112
01:49:56,589 --> 01:49:58,174
you know, a snake.
2113
01:49:58,717 --> 01:50:00,176
[Baime] Shelby was healthy again,
2114
01:50:00,260 --> 01:50:03,888
and he brought to the Viper the same
enthusiasm which he used decades earlier
2115
01:50:03,972 --> 01:50:06,975
to charm the world with the first vehicle
he ever sold.
2116
01:50:07,809 --> 01:50:10,145
Chrysler's homage to Shelby was a hit
2117
01:50:10,228 --> 01:50:13,898
and a fitting end to his reunion
with his old friend, Lee Iacocca.
2118
01:50:14,691 --> 01:50:17,569
[Baime] Back to his old self,
Carroll set out to do something
2119
01:50:17,652 --> 01:50:19,154
he'd never done before.
2120
01:50:19,237 --> 01:50:22,741
Carroll began to dream
of building another original car.
2121
01:50:23,658 --> 01:50:26,953
[Shawn] He really wanted to produce a car
2122
01:50:27,037 --> 01:50:29,205
that had the same kind of impact
2123
01:50:29,289 --> 01:50:31,333
that the Cobra did back in the day,
2124
01:50:31,416 --> 01:50:34,085
and I think one that
he could look at and say,
2125
01:50:34,169 --> 01:50:37,547
"I made this. It didn't come
from another company.
2126
01:50:37,630 --> 01:50:39,007
We produced this."
2127
01:50:39,090 --> 01:50:42,010
No one was designing
and building their own car
2128
01:50:42,093 --> 01:50:44,971
from the ground up
as an independent company.
2129
01:50:45,055 --> 01:50:48,433
And so he started designing
the Series One in the early '90s.
2130
01:50:48,850 --> 01:50:52,062
We just put down some designs.
2131
01:50:53,063 --> 01:50:56,691
He got a deal with Oldsmobile,
so he used their engine.
2132
01:50:57,400 --> 01:50:59,069
[Shelby] I went on to build
the best sport car
2133
01:50:59,152 --> 01:51:01,237
that I ever built out in Las Vegas.
2134
01:51:02,072 --> 01:51:04,157
It's a beautiful car, it really is.
2135
01:51:04,616 --> 01:51:07,869
It cost him a lot more money
than he made out of it.
2136
01:51:08,536 --> 01:51:14,000
[Shawn] It's a good example
of Carroll putting everything he has
2137
01:51:14,084 --> 01:51:18,338
into a project, which he's done,
I think, throughout his life.
2138
01:51:18,421 --> 01:51:21,674
[Baime] In true Shelby fashion,
Carroll put everything he had
2139
01:51:21,758 --> 01:51:23,134
into the Series One.
2140
01:51:24,094 --> 01:51:26,346
[Shawn] Unfortunately, as can often happen
2141
01:51:26,429 --> 01:51:30,016
when you leverage everything that you have
towards a particular business,
2142
01:51:30,308 --> 01:51:33,436
he faced some struggles
that nearly wiped him out.
2143
01:51:35,980 --> 01:51:38,149
[Baime] Carroll had survived
the pursuit of a dream
2144
01:51:38,233 --> 01:51:39,818
that would prove costly.
2145
01:51:40,110 --> 01:51:41,820
[Baime] Luck was in the cards for Carroll.
2146
01:51:41,903 --> 01:51:44,322
He would have the opportunity
to end his career
2147
01:51:44,406 --> 01:51:47,283
the way he started it:
by returning to Ford.
2148
01:51:47,742 --> 01:51:49,828
Edsel Ford was instrumental
in that, quite frankly.
2149
01:51:49,911 --> 01:51:53,081
He'd known Carroll
since the '60s, and they were close.
2150
01:51:53,665 --> 01:51:56,292
[Edsel] My father decided that
I should work for a summer,
2151
01:51:56,376 --> 01:51:57,502
so he said to me, "You know, Edsel,
2152
01:51:57,585 --> 01:51:58,670
you've got to figure out
where you want to work."
2153
01:51:58,753 --> 01:52:00,046
I said, "I want to work
for Carroll Shelby."
2154
01:52:00,839 --> 01:52:03,091
[Ford III] He hired my dad
as like an intern for the summer
2155
01:52:03,174 --> 01:52:05,260
'cause I think my grandfather
probably made him,
2156
01:52:05,343 --> 01:52:08,763
but my dad loved it.
And-- And I think, in many ways,
2157
01:52:08,847 --> 01:52:11,474
Carroll was
like a father figure to my dad.
2158
01:52:11,850 --> 01:52:13,143
I reached out to Carroll, and I said,
2159
01:52:13,226 --> 01:52:15,437
"You know, we got to get you
back in the family."
2160
01:52:16,396 --> 01:52:20,066
In 1962, he had to come with them
2161
01:52:20,150 --> 01:52:23,611
and sell them the ideas,
and he had spent his lifetime
2162
01:52:23,695 --> 01:52:25,989
coming to and selling his ideas.
2163
01:52:26,739 --> 01:52:29,242
To have somebody come to him and say,
2164
01:52:29,325 --> 01:52:32,745
"You've got the name,
you've got some of the expertise,"
2165
01:52:32,829 --> 01:52:35,915
really kind of put
a half a step in his walk.
2166
01:52:36,666 --> 01:52:40,837
[Shelby] I never dreamed
that I'd still be in the business
2167
01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:44,757
and working with Ford again
at 82 years old,
2168
01:52:45,175 --> 01:52:48,803
and I couldn't be happier.
2169
01:52:49,596 --> 01:52:51,347
[Aaron] Ford was introducing
in '05 and '06
2170
01:52:51,431 --> 01:52:53,600
the new Ford GT which was, again,
2171
01:52:53,683 --> 01:52:56,144
a retro view of the GT40
back from the '60s.
2172
01:52:56,227 --> 01:52:59,314
And so, you know, Carroll was there
for the introduction of that.
2173
01:52:59,397 --> 01:53:01,649
And then shortly thereafter followed
2174
01:53:01,733 --> 01:53:05,361
the new Shelby Mustang
that Ford produced in 2007.
2175
01:53:06,196 --> 01:53:07,655
[Baime]
Millions of car fans were psyched to see
2176
01:53:08,156 --> 01:53:10,867
the Shelby logo on Ford cars again.
2177
01:53:11,451 --> 01:53:13,203
[engine revving]
2178
01:53:13,286 --> 01:53:16,706
[Edsel] He came back, and I kept on
asking him, "Are you happy?
2179
01:53:16,789 --> 01:53:18,917
Are you happy with where you are today?"
2180
01:53:19,209 --> 01:53:20,251
And he always said, "Oh, yes."
2181
01:53:20,335 --> 01:53:22,629
He said, "This is where
I always wanted to be, Edsel."
2182
01:53:23,213 --> 01:53:26,132
It was always meant to be
that Carroll Shelby
2183
01:53:26,216 --> 01:53:27,550
would always be somehow connected
2184
01:53:27,634 --> 01:53:29,886
with the Ford Motor Company, always.
2185
01:53:30,720 --> 01:53:32,972
[Shelby]
I couldn't be happier than to be with Ford
2186
01:53:33,056 --> 01:53:35,517
and know that I'm going to be there
the rest of my life.
2187
01:53:37,185 --> 01:53:38,978
[Michael] In the last year of his life,
he said,
2188
01:53:39,062 --> 01:53:41,147
"I want to drive down to the lake
2189
01:53:41,231 --> 01:53:43,733
and the timberland one more time."
2190
01:53:43,816 --> 01:53:46,402
And he said, "I want to drive.
It's important that I drive."
2191
01:53:47,111 --> 01:53:49,906
This was the lake
that he had built, a 30-acre lake.
2192
01:53:49,989 --> 01:53:52,158
But he drove all the way around that lake
2193
01:53:52,242 --> 01:53:54,160
and all the way around the property,
2194
01:53:54,244 --> 01:53:56,996
and he got to see a thousand-acre property
2195
01:53:57,080 --> 01:53:58,748
and a 30-acre lake.
2196
01:53:59,123 --> 01:54:02,043
[somber music playing]
2197
01:54:02,126 --> 01:54:03,378
[Michael]
Going back to the house, he said,
2198
01:54:03,461 --> 01:54:07,173
"This is probably the last time
I'll drive down here to the lake."
2199
01:54:08,591 --> 01:54:12,637
Every American kid who grew up
loving cars lost a giant today,
2200
01:54:12,720 --> 01:54:16,224
and for some of us hardcore car guys,
he was a hero.
2201
01:54:16,307 --> 01:54:18,476
His name was Carroll Shelby.
2202
01:54:20,353 --> 01:54:23,773
I really enjoyed...
I loved Carroll Shelby; I really did.
2203
01:54:23,856 --> 01:54:27,318
He was... he was a magical person,
just magical.
2204
01:54:28,069 --> 01:54:32,574
This guy is such an icon,
such a hero to so many people.
2205
01:54:32,657 --> 01:54:34,576
[engine roaring]
2206
01:54:34,909 --> 01:54:37,412
[Neale] I think he appreciated
the good things
2207
01:54:37,662 --> 01:54:40,665
that happened to him,
but they weren't given to him.
2208
01:54:41,541 --> 01:54:45,295
He sure worked at it,
and I admired that a lot.
2209
01:54:46,629 --> 01:54:49,048
[Michael] He could bounce back
from almost anything.
2210
01:54:49,632 --> 01:54:52,302
I saw him do that over,
and over, and over again.
2211
01:54:52,385 --> 01:54:55,889
And if he had a bad race,
it was the same thing.
2212
01:54:55,972 --> 01:54:59,976
He'd put it behind him. "You know,
you had a bad play, but that's OK.
2213
01:55:00,393 --> 01:55:02,061
The next play is gonna work."
2214
01:55:02,687 --> 01:55:04,522
Well, I think when you say "Shelby,"
2215
01:55:05,064 --> 01:55:08,902
I think you think of the Cobra.
That car was so dominant.
2216
01:55:08,985 --> 01:55:11,404
[Agapiou] Mainly 'cause it was built
from a bunch of hot rodders
2217
01:55:11,487 --> 01:55:13,907
into a world championship winning car.
2218
01:55:16,534 --> 01:55:20,038
I feel privileged that
I was there when it started.
2219
01:55:21,372 --> 01:55:24,042
[Chance] He has always given
everybody else credit,
2220
01:55:24,250 --> 01:55:27,045
and he's never ever tried
to take credit for something.
2221
01:55:27,587 --> 01:55:29,714
And when he came to the shop,
2222
01:55:29,797 --> 01:55:34,177
he was a father and a friend
and a fun guy.
2223
01:55:35,053 --> 01:55:36,304
[Clinard] An inspiration.
2224
01:55:36,387 --> 01:55:39,390
He provided the vision
on how things could be done,
2225
01:55:39,474 --> 01:55:43,102
and Ford said,
"Yeah, we trust you. Go do it."
2226
01:55:46,648 --> 01:55:48,650
I just think it's fantastic
that the Shelby name
2227
01:55:48,733 --> 01:55:51,903
continues to move forward,
especially with the Ford brand.
2228
01:55:53,112 --> 01:55:55,615
I know that that was one
of Carroll's biggest wishes,
2229
01:55:55,698 --> 01:55:57,367
uh, before he passed away.
2230
01:55:57,450 --> 01:55:58,910
They appreciate the brand
2231
01:56:00,244 --> 01:56:01,621
and the man more than that.
2232
01:56:02,413 --> 01:56:05,166
[Michael] Come out of a little bitty
Leesburg, Texas,
2233
01:56:05,500 --> 01:56:07,377
son of a rural mail carrier,
2234
01:56:07,794 --> 01:56:12,340
and be a powerhouse in a huge industry...
2235
01:56:15,176 --> 01:56:18,763
That's how I'd like to think
of my dad from now on.
2236
01:56:19,806 --> 01:56:24,102
[Shelby] But I want to be known
as someone that loved what I did,
2237
01:56:25,061 --> 01:56:26,646
that loved my family.
2238
01:56:27,897 --> 01:56:30,274
I think the most important thing in life
2239
01:56:30,358 --> 01:56:31,776
is never give up
2240
01:56:32,652 --> 01:56:38,324
and never forget
how thankful you should be.
2241
01:56:42,412 --> 01:56:46,624
[engine roaring]
2242
01:56:47,583 --> 01:56:51,587
[tires screeching]
2243
01:56:53,131 --> 01:56:56,551
[mid-tempo music playing]