RE: LBC's on TNN

[ingate@shiseis.com (Shane F. Ingate)]

Greg Petrolati wrote:
        [snip]
        > This put the wind up Ford's tail and he determined to make Ferrari
        > eat his words. Ford dumped LOTS of money into race program 
        > development. From this corporate support came the Cobra, Cobra 
        > Daytona Coupe and Ford GT40 which eventually dominated the field 
        > for several years... Of course after the "mission" was accomplished 
        > Ford moved it's money to other endeavors.
        [snip]

What Greg did not mention was that the GT40 Le Mans "mission" cost
Ford a cool $14 million (in 1966 dollars! - Reference Wyss' "DeTomaso -
The Man and the Machine").  Makes the dream of building that cool
SCCA racer you dream of seem inexpensive.

        Shane Ingate in San Diego