The Ken Miles GT40 rollin out of Riverside Cars & Coffee Dec 2019 meet
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- Yes that IS the actual car used to film the epic motion picture Ford v. Ferrari! The owner brought it out to join us at the December meet of Riverside Cars & Coffee, hosted by the legendary J & M Speed Center in the heart of the historic Riverside Auto Center! Meets are on the third Sunday each month from 8-10 am, join us for an awesome morning of hot coffee and cool cars!
Despite it’s age, the GT40 is still a much cooler than most modern day supercars. It really has aged so well.
I 100% agree
@Maciek Gembiak - Not 100% - Miles' GT40 #1 did not have a Gurney bubble in the roof. The owner of this must be very tall!
@@Loulovesspeed that thing on the roof is damage from those broken door
@@rtomas47 - No, it is the Gurney Bubble - read about it if you haven't. Besides, this is a replica car, not the original Miles car which is in the Shelby American Museum in Colorado.
@@Loulovesspeed ok
The fact a car from the 60s look like modern super and sports cars is amazing
I'm a Chevy guy but I won't deny that this car is cooler than any Chevy ever made hands down
I think of it like, this car was so crazily influential that cars of today take after it
One of the greatest car in racing history.
The true winning car from the leman that year. Stunning
Bruce mclaren only won because of the gap taken into consideration after the final lap
@@RockySagadevan Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon
Facts. I never did care for what the rules were then. First car across the line won that race.
Bruce McLaren crossed the line first. Believe the original photos, not the movie.
@@stevejones8660 all for a publicity stunt what a shame
sometimes the old girls are the better looking ones 🔥
Well latest science doesnt look pretty but works Greater.. so the older cars are cool science..
out of context this would sound a lot weirder
And still very powerful.
I've never been a Ford man. But this has been my all-time favorite car for more decades than I'd like to admit. Even before I knew the history and achievements- it just looks FAAAST- and gorgeous (Gulf livery is also my favorite, even though my model was red with a white stripe).
@Souper Nutt - I was 17 years old when this race was run and I can tell you most every teenager, and younger, had a Ford GT40 poster on their bedroom wall, no matter what car company they favored! It was more than just Ford, Chevy or Chrysler that won......it was America that won.
It saddens me he passed away he was one of the greatest race car driver that ever lived .
That race at le mans was truly one of the coolest
That color scheme is absolute magic. Sky blue with red accents and white lines on that absolute spaceship of a body.
It really does look straight out of a superhero comic book (in a good way).
GT40 nothing compares. RIP Ken Miles. True Brit.
A true legend 😍
Man that must’ve been so awesome to see that car in person
I have been around a track in one! I cannot explain the experience enough to give it credit( bloody awesome) giddy up doesn't quite cut it!
Beautiful car with beautiful colors💕😍🔥
It really is!
All these years and it's still turning heads
Just beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful
That's royalty baby absolutely amazing!!!!
The one car I'd love to have.
Such a timless design! My all time favourite car
I don’t think they’d risk scraping the front lip on a 30 million dollar original.
It can be fixed.
@@Peel5000 Not the point. You don't take a historical vehicle to a jabroni coffee shop meet and greet. To risk driving that on the road and damaging original parts and body would be the most moronic thing to do. Risking this vehicle around idiots is asking for it to get damaged. Some jackass could walk up and try to take something off of it, just to say they have a piece of history. Nope, this is a remake for sure.
It’s probably made by superformance in South Africa , great cars.
But fixing the door with a hammer is okay 😊
@@swizzy6010 Lol - Good one!
Wow... amazing beautiful car.
Imagine having the privilege to be able to own the car Ken Miles and Carrol Shelby built together and won the Le mans. Thats something to be proud of. Very cool
Uh-huh...well the original GT40s had a Holman-Moody factory ID tag on the chassis, and Kar-Kraft did most of the body fabrication.
Beeeuuutiful Car
I just had a dream that I was driving one of these but I had the new gen one lol and tried to race it on the highway and nearly slid off the road 😅
Nice looking replica. There are some nice ones out there. The original is worth $20M+. There’s a YT video with Adam Corolla looking at the original.
Carol Shelby kept that baby
@James DellaNeve - You can't put a value on a one off car that will never be sold, so saying it is worth $20M is pure conjecture,and just plain ignorant.
@@Loulovesspeed Actually sales price is always a WAG. If I remember correctly, they stated that this was their estimate.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 Yes, and estimates can be way off the actual price sold. My point is you can not definitively say that this car is worth $20m. First of all, there is no precedence to compare it to. I'm not arguing that auction sales estimates are somewhat pie in the sky, all I'm saying is you can't say a car is definitively worth a certain amount with any accuracy. It is only WORTH what someone paid for it, and this car hasn't been and won't ever likely be sold, so any estimates are just that.....an estimate.
@@Loulovesspeed fair enough. Whether it’s $3M or $20, a replicar is a safe replacement.
Muira and ford gt 40 looks sooo beautiful
Beautiful machine
“Bloody Hell!”
Piece of Art!
Thanks , I need new shorts now
i frickin love this car
🖤THE BEST.....!!!🖤
Love it.
Ahh look they’ve closed the door
If you haven't yet.... please watch Ford versus Ferrari; you won't regret it.
Wow! The Ken Miles/Denny Hulme Ford GT40!
Never was there a finer car
A legend.
I have never been a chevy guy ! But the gt40 is the best of the best
That's good because it's a ford
Better than any modern painted Tupperware!
Ken Miles was an great race car driver ❤
Miles car never had the gurney bubble which this one does.Its a good clone but not used in the movie.
I think it’s from superformance the same people who made the prop car for the movie
This is in fact the Ken Miles hero car used in FvF, built by Superformance. The driver's door with the Gurney bubble was removed for filming and replaced with an MKII door from another Superformance GT40 MKII I gave the studio without a Gurney bubble. Then the Gurney bubble door was placed on an RCR GT40 and then wrapped in McLaren livery. The Superformance hero GT40 in McLaren livery used in filming was built with a Gurney bubble. Cars from both companies were used in filming the movie.
Man the gladiator been out since 2019 where’s time went
*7000+ go like hell*
Alrighttttt 😎
nice!
I got a little something in my eye 🥲
Gt 40 the best
How is this thing not in a museum with bullet proof glass all around it with 24/7 security??
@Will Peeler - Because it is not an original, but a copy from Superformance.
Una Maravilla
To all you "supercars" - This is THE CAR.
Hey man! Lemme drive that thing!
NICE CAR !
I WISH IT HAS AIR CONDITIONER !
This is a superformance gt40, they make licensed cars
Probably Superperformance GT40 replica. Still an amazing car tho
I didn’t think the fenders had red stripes on them, at least they got the drivers door closed on this one…
@Joseph Donnelly - Blue with red front fender tops are the exact colors of the original.
My wallet hurt hearing that tiny scrap on the gt40’s front bumper
ayo someone tell the guy who drives it that the brakes are gonna be busted when he stops heavily for fast and hard turns and also tell to just ease the driving under 8,000 RPM cuz hes gonna break a line
I swear to God...every once in a while I see one of these on the suburban streets of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan....this is Ford country...keep in mind that the historic Edsel Ford Mansion is just down the road in Grosse Pointe Shores. When I see the car on the road I always wonder ...who owns that car ???
He really babied that thing for 50m.
The real car used to be about 4 miles from where i live at the Larry H Miller NASCAR Museum.
I have a picture of me standing alongside the original Miles car in the Shelby Museum in Boulder Colorado a few months ago. Still owned by the Miller family. The gold third-place GT 40 from 1966 is sitting alongside of it. They also have one of the original six cobra Daytona coupesI believe it is CSX 2299 there also among many other fabulous Shelby vehicles
Without stating the obvious, the GT, 40,40 inches high
Isnt the real one on display in the shelby Museum with the other two & worth like 50 million each? Are we sure that isnt a modern Superformance replica?
yes, it is the Superformance vehicle, the one that was used in the film.
That is just too sick. This is the car from the movie. Is the actual Le Mans car still in existence?
The actual car is in the Shelby museum in Colorado.
Shelby Owner: PPPPfffftttt..... whatever
Looks like it wants to lift off for a flight to hawaii
Tbh it aint the original ig it must be a performance copy
So that’s what 210mph looks like… Not bad for over 50 years old….
Try 230
Hate to say it but that's a replica, has a plate on it. Still amazing
Why is this car so quiet?
it sure wasnt quiet in person!
Que the chevy hillbillies!
Its that the one???
No it’s a replica
Replica
Am I high or in the first few seconds it looks like a lizard with mouth open lol
I don't think that is Miles actual car.
It's a Superformance GT replica. They are licensed by Ford to produce replicas and the cars are a continuation of the GT40 series cars. They are also licensed by Shelby to produce replica Cobras.
ehaust sound recorded so> 15 yrs from nowwhen electric cars race it will be played over a sound system.
Race cars don’t have nor can they get plates.
I believe up until the late sixties, every sport/racing (prototype) car had to be street legal to compete. That's why you see turning signals, luggage compartments, passenger seats, spare tires, ... fitted onto top tier race cars such as the GT40.
This also means they sometimes came with license plates. Take the Cobra Daytona Coupe for example. Normally, all six of them can still be seen wearing their original California 013 plates.
@@KammtailCobra - Sorry, but none of the Daytona Coupes came with license plates. Those were added after the 6 cars finished their racing careers and were then street driven. Actually, the exhaust system on the Daytona would be illegal for street use in the majority of states in the U.S. I have heard more than one of them at Goodwood with packing stuffed into the side exhausts to meet local requirements. By the way, I'm curious as to why you think it would be possible for more than one car to have the same license plate? It isn't, as that would defeat the main reason that they have plates, for police identification. Lol
Yooo
Why do we care if a car is used in a mere movie? A better first sentence would be 'look at this cool replica of the car that Mile's drove in the 1966 Le Mans race'
Somehow I don't think that's the real car
Talk all you want that's not Ken miles car!!!!! Look at the roof has a head bump on top of car!! They only had 1 driver over six foot, they named the bump after the driver!!! It was called a Gurney bump!! If I'm not mistaken he was 6' 3"
PUTTING THAT ASIDE THIS CAR GIVES ME AN ERECTION!!!
@Michael C. - Close, it was called the Gurney bubble.
Ken Miles was shorted out of his Victory! But we will remember him with the GT40 hopefully that can be rectified. FORD you owe him big. You stupid FORD people screwed him out of his victory he left you a car that outlast everything you make in that factory!!
No he wasn’t
@@kylebuschhasover200winsinn5 He was the Victor at Le Mans it was his to take they Fucked him. He gave them the 3 man win then it went to 1 of the Factory Ford Guys yeah that is called Fucked over. Get the fuck out of here.
Nope. Not true. If you're looking for a villain, you might want to try the ACO (Automobile Club de l'Ouest) - the people who run the LeMans race. They originally told Ford that a dead heat would be an acceptable finish. Instructions were given to the drivers based on that assurance from the ACO. Sometime later, the ACO came back and changed their original determination. There were no radios between the drivers and crews in those days, and the decision was made, that short of calling the cars into the pits, trying to communicate through the pit board system would only cause confusion with the drivers. So, the original directions to the drivers, based on ACO assurances of a tie being acceptable were allowed to stand by Carroll Shelby as they had to win the race. But, I'm guessing that the facts and truth don't matter to you - you're just looking to be pissed off at Ford.
@@buckhorncortez I don't think there is any record of that. At least I cannot find any. Ford wanted that finish. That was it. This only came from Ford - Leo Beebe. (I believe they lied to cover themselves)
corporate.ford.com/articles/history/ford-gt40-origins-le-mans-committee-victory.html
"The ACO ruling is a matter of some debate as there was nothing written in the sporting regulations from that year that accounted for the rules in the event of a tie.
The decision to notify the drivers of the change in ACO policy rested with Leo Beebe and Carroll Shelby. As the two conferred, there were a number of considerations. While Ken Miles had done the bulk of the race prep work on the Mark II to prepare it for competition since his first drive in February, 1965, Bruce McLaren had been with the program since its inception in 1963 and had always been a true team player driving at the assigned speed. Both drivers felt they could win in a race to the finish as neither had more than a lap or two lead during the second half of the race. Leo Beebe ultimately made the decision to not notify the drivers and let the dead heat occur, which would make the McLaren team the victor. Beebe later noted that “to have Ken win would have been more expedient and popular, but the extent to which McLaren and Amon had played exactly according to our rules mitigated against Miles. The result was not necessarily even popular with me.” Ultimately, Beebe felt that Ken Miles trying to push the Dan Gurney car at Sebring was a big enough strike against him to give the nod to the McLaren/Amon team."
This sheds another light on the controversy. Notice Caroll never said anything about the ACO Rule change. Infact, nobody else mentioned it!
www.dailysportscar.com/2020/04/28/from-the-archives-who-really-won-le-mans-66.html
Carroll Shelby: “In 1966, Ford didn’t cost Ken Miles the race at Le Mans, I did, and I regret it to this day. Leo Beebe came up to me and said ‘ Who do you think should win the race?’ I thought, well hell, Ken’s been leading for all of these hours, he should win the race. I looked at Leo Beebe and said ‘What do you think ought to happen Leo?’ He said ‘ I don’t know, I’d kind of like to see all three of them cross the finish line together.’
Leo Beebe did not tell me what to say or do so I said: ‘Oh hell, let’s do it that way then,’ not knowing that the French would interpret the rules the way that they did. Ken should have won the race, and in most everyone’s mind, he did win the race. That was my fuck up, I take full responsibility for it, and I’m very sorry for it because, as you know, Ken was killed at Riverside two months later. Every time you go racing, you put your reputation on the line.”
Carroll Smith - Shelby American Race Team Manager: “I knew the ramifications of a dead heat at Le Mans. My job was to know all of those things, but I wasn’t consulted when the decision was being discussed.”
@@buckhorncortez - Excellent description of who the true villain really was! I'm so tired of adolescent Dilberts blaming the fiasco on Ford. They are dumb enough to think the movie is the gospel!
Drivin it like an Asian Ken miles, almost hit that jeep
J
Go SPEED RACER!!
#1 Ford GT 40
Only Ford beat ferrari 3 years in a row!!!! Fact.
Only one American car manufacturer Ford went out to prove american excellence in racing.
Road racing not 1/4 mile.
The craftsmanship in a road RACER is perfection.
All the best cornering acceleration bracking ..
Hour's of dependability not seconds.
Oh well I'm going on and on,. Good day
@REDLION - For the record, Ford GT40s beat Ferrari 4 years in a row - 1966-1969.
@@Loulovesspeed thanks for the info, I forget because of head trauma from a car wreck.
My memory sucks.
I got it mixed up when they came in 1st 2 nd 3 rd
The first year..
Bless you
@@redlion9199 - Bless you too sir and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Could you go a little slower? Ken would be embarrassed.
so it a movie car not the actual Ken Miles car
This is a continuation (cinema series) car, meaning that it's a near exact replica of the car that raced at Le Mans in 1966.
All others paled in comparison.
The fretful blade only thaw because amusement unfortunatly share unto a alleged colt. energetic, thirsty chair
Not real car
The needless starter consquentially tip because thing scilly fade plus a entertaining manager. bouncy, special shorts
@Matt Skenyon - Want to try that again in English!
He probably votes democrat
its a fake
@Tommy - No, you are the fake! Lol
Nice car but not original
@Christopher Clark - So what! They are not going to be stupid and risk the one and only original car to make a movie. If you must see the original one, go visit the Shelby Museum in Colorado!
Ah ....the Ford GT40......the great American (it's actually a British) Supercar.......I can't believe that Ford take any credit for it......it's just Grand Theft Auto!
@antony michael - Oh how you enjoy posting that same, ignorant, false comment in every damn video of the GT40! Get a life Dude.
epic car and driver Ken Miles made for look dam good even thought ford has morons as management