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Originally Posted by hotlapZL1
The GT40 is one of the greatest of all time but defending America wasn't the story I've heard. Henry Ford II wanted to piss in Enzo Ferrari's cornflakes.
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Originally Posted by ChrisBlair
Yes, HFII wanted to embarrass Enzo Ferrari after the sale fell through. Even without the GT40, at roughly that time the Ford DFV in the Lotus 49 was embarrassing Ferrari 312s in F1, which must have sorely wounded Il Commendatore.
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i saw an interview with Carroll Shelby the year before he died and while talking about he mentioned that Ford spent $200 million dollars to do it.
and yet the way people talk about it you'd think Ford was the underdog.
