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Originally the film was going to be based on the book " Go like hell " .
Which were John Wyer , s words to Stirling Moss at the 59 Le Mans , where Stirling drove flat out to make the Ferrari,s chase him & hopefully cause them to not last the race . This tactic worked & allowed the second Aston Martin team car of Roy Salvadori & Carroll Shelby to win .
We had the film producers contact us about possibly borrowing some cars for filming the 59 race scenes .
But that fell through , possibly because for the Hollywood backers & American directors wanted the story just to be about Americans .
So they seem to have invented a story where an American car maker got an American car racer to design & build an all American car to go & beat Ferrari at Le Mans
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