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Tired, or just bored and wanted to get back out there and drive fast?

Thanks for the info, Charles.  Makes sense.

And yes, I knew it was SA (and not Ford) that did it...but the old mind temporarily slipped a cog today...
Van

Same font and dimensions as mine.
Although on mine they spaced the SFM w greater interval.

I'm no expert, so this is merely a question:  Would the steel of the fender have been so dented in, if it were a Ford factory stamp? 
Looks to me like this pix shows varying degrees of impact dents in the metal.

I'm not talking about the depth of the letter/numbers, but of the metal around the letters/numbers as a whole.

Condolences. Very sorry to hear.

Wow...great!  I have never seen one before.  I want one too.

Message received and acknowledged, and thanks for your comments, Alan, as you're the only one (AFAIK) here who's seen it.

I'm trying to get screening passes through a buddy, and hopefully can add to your impressions soon.
Van

Just curious, and not to be contrary:

How many of us who have given really fast rides to people, on a track or the street, have ever had anyone cry?   

I've had riders screaming, yelling, closing eyes, getting car sick and even getting mad (certain women), but never anyone crying.

+2 on the ridiculous Henry Ford II crying scene.
 
The fact that they put this scene in the trailer, I suppose, is to open up the audience of ticket buyers to people who want a funny action film. 

UGH.  I hope it doesn't have much of that cr*p in it.

(Yes, I'm still interested in seeing it, and it's great for Shelby, Miles, et al, to get recognition.)

I can't imagine why Peter Brock wasn't the technical advisor.  What better living person is there?

Oh yeah, that's right...it's HOLLYWOOD we're talking about.
Who needs an advisor who actually was there back-in-the-day, and knows the intricate details of the story that's being told?

I wonder about that.

Seems to me IF the producers paid him a hefty enough of a "consulting fee" and IF he had actual say over casting and all the stuff we find annoying about the movie, he might have very well taken the $$ and been happy about both the recognition and the payday.

BUT, if the producers ignored him, didn't pay him what he was worth, and so on...yes he'd be a very-pissed-off Carroll.   

You're all a bunch of old bitter women if you're not excited about this movie.

I don't think anyone has said they weren't excited about the movie, in fact the concept is fantastic and could be really exciting on the big screen. I think everyone's bummed about the choice of the lead character, as most of us have our personal experiences with CS and feel Matt Damon falls considerably short in all of the departments.

100% on what Terlingua 11 said.

It is very nice to see Shelby and the Le Mans team get its long-due recognition from Hollywood.  I only wish that CS could've still been alive to serve as the technical advisor.  He would've likely busted Damon's ass over the characterization.  Not to mention calling the producers about the car errors. 

But, this is likely to be the one and only Hollywood movie ever about CS, so I am excited to see it...cringe-worthy moments and all.

Ha...no I meant the 396. 

Just now had the thought that perhaps that race was before the debut of the 1965 Corvette 396 and the '65 Malibu SS396 (RPO Z16) so Ford wouldn't have cared.

Ford felt the destroked 427 would be an advantage because NASCAR gave a weight break for smaller cube engines. They sounded like a chain saw spooled up, the mighty 427 revved up like a chainsaw ... Oh Hell yes.

Racing strategy aside, it's strange to me that Ford would want to advertise the (what would look like to most people) big block Chevy engine displacement on the car.  An engine Ford never put in any production car.  Where were the marketing guys?

Or, was that a requirement in NASCAR back then?

The top photo is the Union 76 gas pumps at RIR.

To use the tone of Senator Lloyd Bentsen responding to Dan Quayle's infamous comment about Jack Kennedy...

"I knew Carroll Shelby.  And you, Mister Damon, ARE NO CARROLL SHELBY!"