Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, if I recall my years correctly, 69 went down to the wire with Ickx only just scraping a win from Porsche. After that Ford were "represented" by the legendary Gulf Mirage-Fords into the early seventies. The formula did change - in my opinion a great shame - but the reason wasn't simply that Ford had trampled all over Ferrari, although no doubt politics was involved. Frank can undoubtedly provide more detail than I can! Peter GREG LORENZO wrote: > Adam Bridge writes: > > >>I bought "Le Mans" back in March - a really good transfer to DVD. More >>a semi-documentary than a work of fiction. Some fine photography. I >>gather Porche paid a lot of bucks to be featured. Not that they didn't >>deserve to be at that time. >> > > > Hi Adam, > > By chance I just watched Le Mans on DVD last weekend. Great dialog! The > connection, I believe, was not with Porsche but with their sponsor Gulf > Oil. Le Mans was filmed in 1970 and released in 1971. In 1968 and 1969 > Gulf had sponsored the winning Ford GT40 cars, which were ultimately > outlawed via rule changes after their class domination (over all European > comers) at Le Mans in 1966 through 1969. This was in the days prior to > blatant product placement in motion pictures. > > Steve McQueen financed the movie himself and was expecting Gulf and the > GT40 to reappear and wins Le Mans in 1970. > > Regards, > > Greg > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >