Rebuilding a Race Car Legend

[Bill Musarra]

Happened to catch this on late nite TV. 10 PM EST on the Discovery Channel, Sunday night, the story of the building of the new GT with excerts of the GT40 history at Lemans. I believe it is an hour long program. For local listings, check www.discovery.com
Click on TV listings. Don't miss it. Be sure to set your VCRs
Bill

 

Great program

Just saw it and it was interesting watching the design and development progression. I'll give the program two big thumbs up.

IMSA

 

Re: Great program

Now I just have to figure out how to burn this from my Tivo to my computer so I can burn a DVD.

 

[BenL]

It was a good show.

Two of the scenes with Dan Gurney were shot during the Ford Centennial last June. Coincidentally, I was standing a couple of feet behind the camera while those scenes were shot at the Ford Museum (Dan talking about driving the original car and Dan trying the new car on for size)

After he asked for the keys, someone actually handed him the keys and he started up the car. The crowd of fans enjoyed hearing the engine.

The interview with Dan in front of the J Car went on for 20 minutes, but they only used a few seconds of it. The folks who made the program probably recorded a lot more. I certainly would like to see an "extended" version of the show.

 

[D.Berry]

Re: Yea, I saw it too...

Great show with some good footage of the new and old GTs... I particularly enjoyed seeing the F360 getting it's butt kicked by a GT test mule with a lonely little 400 hp Mustang engine...

oh, btw... what was up with the AMX doing the burnouts beside the buidling? Cool to watch, but out of place in a show about Ford GTs..

Thumbs up to D/C!

mardyn

 

[Howard Jones]

Re: Yea, I saw it too...

I think if you give it a couple of days you will be able to download it from KAZAA. You can then convert whatever format was used to DVD with nero 6. Nero 6 in a very nice program with a lot of format conversion tools.

I didn't get the reason for the AMX burnouts either unless it had the GT motor in it as a testmule. Good way to hide a test motor if it was.