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  • I'm riding with Jackie Oliver, who won Lamont in 1969 driving a GT 40.

  • Jackie.

  • This is a bit of a homecoming for you, isn't it?

  • Driving a Mark Warren T T.

  • 40 absolutely brilliant to be back behind the wheel of it You won in wasn't Shelby version.

  • It was the British.

  • They lovely version, wasn't it?

  • Explained to me the difference in philosophies between the two.

  • Selby was older.

  • They turned the engine into a seven.

  • Lisa from the five.

  • Liza J.

  • W.

  • Told the car over.

  • They refine the chassis to make the car go quick around the corner for the drivers to be more comfortable driving them.

  • Differences between the two cause.

  • Tell me about the differences between the two men.

  • Shelby think that hell was a hard charging American.

  • That's the way you went racing.

  • Wait, you called him Doc because there was some scary about him.

  • I mean, I know you said to me that these cars were comfortable to drive.

  • How could it be that tomorrow, when you get accepted 300 miles an hour, these things were comfortable?

  • Well, it's an easy car to drive.

  • Very lie on the steering very comfortable driving position.

  • That was the most satisfying thing about racing a GT.

  • You never gave up.

  • Even though Henry Ford took project away from him.

  • What was the feeling in the camp when they got another shot?

  • I'm actually what that very satisfying with John.

  • Why on the driver's a drug for them, I'm sure.

  • Shelby what crisis when they got to the success.

  • But I think when he got back home, he was saying, Damn it.

  • The Brits did it.

  • Far from landing on the scrap heap of history, the five litre British GT 40 finally had its day winning Lamont in 68 69 rivaling it's American cousin Jackie.

  • I'm sat next to a lamone winner in a mark won t.

  • T 40.

  • Please tell me I can have a go.

  • You can have a go.

  • Come on, It's alive.

  • Alive is a tiger.

  • All right, what's an opportunity?

  • And what's a car?

  • I can't believe this thing is more than 50 years old.

  • Responsive, isn't it?

  • Absolute animal.

  • It's actually quite refined.

  • I want to open up a bit.

  • Carroll.

  • Shelby, I'm sorry, did a fantastic salt, but I mean, this stayed up with you.

I'm riding with Jackie Oliver, who won Lamont in 1969 driving a GT 40.

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