Most of the cars at SEMA are impressive. This one is so incredible that they wouldn't allow it to hang out in the Ford area... because Ford can't make cars this incredible, and didn't want to hear from every single person that saw it how Ford ought to build cars as cool as this Mustang/GT40 melding, the Mach Forty from Eckerts Rod and Custom and Hardison Metal Shaping

 to have the rims resemble the Mach 1 rims is very cool

I don't get why this wing was up, but maybe it's to demonstrate that it exists... if it weren't popped, we'd never realize it's there

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a new GT... with a cool looking paint scheme, and the right decals to look vintage

notice the great group of cars at the car shows in front and behind the GT... they don't get much publicity for having a great car show at Speedfest, but the cars that show up Saturday and Sunday are two different groups of cool cars, and a couple hundred of them... some that don't go to any other car shows in the area... 

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Gran Prix by James Garner

the racing scenes are magnificent

one of the characters in the movie lives or stays at some place that has these representations of the race tracks in the Gran Prix circuit on the 2 storey wall in the staircase

below is the scene where James Garner's character drives some other characters wife home

 Naturally beautiful woman, Jessica Walter

 Hertz Shelby GT350 Mustang that James Garner's character drove as a commuter

below are examples of the multiple uses that VW vans were used for in the 60's... they were used for everything, advertising signboards, mobile mechanics tool boxes,

 this mobile gas station seems to be a converted bus

 more great cinematography

Now to the making of

 cool 1960's French helicopter, an Alouette

director Frankenheimer was a amatuer racer, Ferrari fan

James Garner was in the Carroll Shelby school of race car driving for a couple weeks, and Bob Bondurant was his personal trainer. Lucky!

a real GT 40 was used as a camera car. I've posted photos of this in the archives, and can't find them

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