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Go Like Hell

Ford, Ferrari, and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans

By Baime, A. J.

Publishers Summary:
By the early 1960s the famed Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken then reigns of the company his grandfather built with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something. GO LIKE HELL tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing--champion--turned--engineer named Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme that would make Ford sexy again and, more importantly, sell a lot of cars. The entered the high stakes world of European car racing where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They designed, built, and raced a car that could beat Enzo Ferrari who epitomized style, lording over the European racing scene, second in notoriety in Italy only to the Pope. In the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, something no American car had ever done, Ford sought to beat Ferrari. When Ford began, it was all about money, but when they finally prevailed at the 1966 Le Mans in a Ford GT, it had become more than that; it was about pride. A white-knuckle, high octane adventure into sports and business, GO LIKE HELL transports readers to a dangerous, glorious time through the brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists on two continents, the cars they built and the "pilots" who drove them to their victory or doom.

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ISBN

978-0-61882-219-5

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin