PANDEMONIUM MOVIE 1966 FULL

PANDEMONIUM MOVIE 1966 FULL

He relished the abundance of new technology for data acquisition and processing, the astonishing computerised dynamometer that could recreated every lap of Le Mans for a full 24 hours.Īnd he loved caressing the wheel with his fingertips as the results came back in laps driven faster and more reliably than ever.īy the start of 1966 the work was almost completed – at a development cost of something like $15 million per year, or $116 million in modern currency… an unprecedented sum for the mid-Sixties. Miles himself spent countless days tramping around the circuit at Riverside, often with NASA-spec equipment to measure airflow and temperatures. The first 7.0-litre Ford Mk.II appeared in 1965, developed by Miles Meanwhile Miles and the engineers sweat blood to make the new car work. There was precious little improvement in Ford’s racing fortunes in 1965, despite the massive hike in engine power, but The Deuce and his men in Detroit gave Shelby the benefit of the doubt. The spending increased dramatically in the winter of 1964-65 when the decision was taken to freeze development of the original 4.7 litre GT40 cars and plough resource into a monstrous new 7.0 litre Ford GT Mk.II. Both the Cobra and the GT40 were British cars with Detroit muscle, so a decisive move was made to ramp up the stars and bars attached to Ford’s racing endeavours.Ĭarroll Shelby and Ken Miles were given the GT40 project, lock, stock and barrel, to rework for the 1965 season under the Shelby American banner.

Not only were the GT40s struggling to be competitive, but also Chevrolet’s racing programme had an unalloyed American blood line. This led to another concern for the men at Ford… one that grew through 1964. GM-backed Chaparral came after Ford’s motor sport programme with every resource at its disposal And it had done so with a Ford V8 under the hood. Fundamentally it had achieved all that Shelby had set out to do: it had beaten the Chevrolet Corvette to become the dominant force for outright victories in American GT racing.

He was respected… although everyone agreed that kid gloves were needed to handle him on occasion. The man in question was called Ken Miles, and this is how the rest of his story went…īy the end of 1963, the AC Cobra that Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles had built was riding high.

Either that or ‘Sidebite’ in reference to his habit of speaking out of the corner of his mouth. In 1963, the mechanics in Carroll Shelby’s workshops – the famous ‘Snake Pit’ – called the angular Englishman in their midst ‘Teddy Teabag’ because of the endless British brew-ups with which he sustained himself. Part 1 of the Ken Miles story took us past the 1961 cut-off for our yarns so let’s blaze onward unrepentantly, in the manner of the subject of this double-header. We’re going to venture beyond the S&G’s remit here, ladies and gentlemen.

Pandemonium movie 1966