Ah, we had a pile of crap. One of them killed Ken Milesout at Riverside. They really...
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Ah, we had a pile of crap. One of them killed Ken Miles
out at Riverside. They really needed a lot of development, and we jumped in
and did in about three months what it had taken Ford a couple years
to screw up back there. Shelby and his team
had to come up with a solution quickly. There was no wind tunnel at the LAX shop, but there was one in Dearborn. Shelby knew what he had to do. Phil Remington returned
to Dearborn with two of his chief fabricators, and they took the first J-Car chassis, and they took it into the wind tunnel, and they started literally
cutting away at the bodywork to try to improve
the aerodynamics of the car. They came up with a shape that was so dramatically
different than the J-Car that they dubbed the new car the MKIV
out at Riverside. They really needed a lot of development, and we jumped in
and did in about three months what it had taken Ford a couple years
to screw up back there. Shelby and his team
had to come up with a solution quickly. There was no wind tunnel at the LAX shop, but there was one in Dearborn. Shelby knew what he had to do. Phil Remington returned
to Dearborn with two of his chief fabricators, and they took the first J-Car chassis, and they took it into the wind tunnel, and they started literally
cutting away at the bodywork to try to improve
the aerodynamics of the car. They came up with a shape that was so dramatically
different than the J-Car that they dubbed the new car the MKIV
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Ah, we had a pile of crap.
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One of them killed Ken Miles
out at Riverside.
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They really needed a lot of development,
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and we jumped in
and did in about three months
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what it had taken Ford a couple years
to screw up back there.
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Shelby and his team
had to come up with a solution quickly.
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There was no wind tunnel at the LAX shop,
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but there was one in Dearborn.
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Shelby knew what he had to do.
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Phil Remington returned
to Dearborn
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with two of his chief fabricators,
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and they took the first J-Car chassis,
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and they took it into the wind tunnel,
00:00:36.536 --> 00:00:40.001
and they started literally
cutting away at the bodywork
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to try to improve
the aerodynamics of the car.
00:00:43.767 --> 00:00:44.419
They came up with a shape
00:00:44.502 --> 00:00:47.026
that was so dramatically
different than the J-Car
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that they dubbed the new car the MKIV.
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Movie Summary
The story of automotive icon Carroll Shelby who started as a chicken farmer and went on to become one of the winningest racing drivers in American motorsports, and the only man in history to win in Le Mans as a driver and a manufa...
