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| My 1970s Ferrari: a cheap extension telephone for my shed shaped as the classic Testarossa |
Have no feeling of how good or bad the production is but what I do know is that it is based on the clash of titans between Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II on the Le Mans racetrack. It was a revenge match: Ferrari had pulled out of a buyout by Ford and Ford wanted to crush his company. It cost Ford millions in a high stake and dirty game between 1966 through to 1969 but they did win big time. The commercial outcome was that Ford shrugged off the old people's car image it had developed over the years and created the right environment to make the Ford Mustang a hit with the younger car buying Americans. Even in Australia, the win by three supercars carrying the Ford Mustang badge at Bathurst this year(see winner above) is a continuation of that policy.
The Youtube videos about the history of the real assault are pretty trashy: lots of America self-congratulation with very little on the technical and tactical reasons for the wins.
How much might be said however, is shown by this lovely story told by writer and editor of Mad magazine, John Ficcaro, He in this interview he tells how Ferrari won against the brute force Yankee effort in the year before. It ends with a wonderful little vignette of how the race-winning Ferrari 250LM was many years later, found and resuscitated. In all, 20 minutes of your life you won't mind losing to a good yarn.
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