While the Petersen Automotive Museum has hyped this video that it pulled from its archives a few weeks ago as test footage of Ken Miles in a Shelby Cobra, it’s really so much more than that. In Septe...
With the release of the Ford v Ferrari movie, there has been renewed interest associated with my 2016 article here on Hemmings concerning Ford executive Leo Beebe and the end of the 1966 Le Mans race...
Given that the first Shelby G.T.350R, which will soon be headed to auction, appeared in the Ford-sponsored “ Shelby Goes Racing With Ford ” video from 1965, it’s an opportune time to sit back and get...
Still from NHRA video. With more than 50 years now separating us from the two historical racing events we discussed this past week – Don Garlits’s transmission explosion at Lions in 1970 and Ken Mile...
With a successful box office run and four Oscar nominations, Ford v Ferrari proved that movie audiences do like car flicks, even if the events of the film don’t precisely match Ford’s quest to domina...
Photo credit: Fox Entertainment Group Does America champion the underdog? The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps tales of the little guy making it big, the evergreen story of heart and determination...
Ford v Ferrari is a story that’s been a long time coming—in fact, it’s been over 53 years since Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It took that long to take the bones of that story and bring it to the big...
Schlangennest (Wir begeben uns hier tatsächlich in ein Schlangennest – die Geschichte der Cobra 289 und 427 ist sehr verworren (die Anfänge beschreiben wir: hier ), wohl kaum ein Automobil ist leicht...
The Ken Miles (L), Allen Grant (C) and Dan Gurney (R) Sebring Edition Cobras. Photos courtesy Superformance. From a results perspective, the 1963 12 Hours of Sebring was a disappointing outing for Sh...
Sebring 1966: Big Ed, driven by Ken Miles and LLoyd Ruby, makes a night pit stop. Images courtesy of Ford Motorsport History. Ford’s GT40 coupes were once the scourge of racing circuits across the Un...
Ford GT40 (5) Das Aufgebot von Ford für das 24-Stunden-Rennen von Le Mans, das am 18./19. Juni 1966 stattfand, war schon ziemlich grob. Allein acht Teams traten mit den 7-Liter-Maschinen an. #1 Ken M...
Ford GT40 (4) Es war ein komplettes Desaster. Die Sonne war noch nicht untergegangen über Le Mans an diesem 19. Juni 1965, als der Ford GT40 mit der Startnummer 15 mit Maurice Trintignant/Guy Ligier ...