{"id":64559,"date":"2012-05-19T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64559"},"modified":"2012-05-19T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:54:45","slug":"how-carroll-shelby-and-a-gang-of-nerds-beat-enzo-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64559","title":{"rendered":"How Carroll Shelby And A Gang Of Nerds Beat Enzo Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you only know the late Carroll Shelby for his tuner cars, you&#8217;re missing an amazing story of how, during the mid-1960s, his little, nerd-filled race shop in Los Angeles helped Henry Ford II exercise his famous vendetta against Enzo Ferrari. Playboy editor A.J. Baime tells that story in his book, Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- %JUMP:More &raquo;% --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s an excerpt from Baime&#8217;s book that picks up from the day Shelby American assumed responsibility for building Ford&#8217;s racing sports cars, just about one year out from the company&#8217;s 1-2-3 victory upset at Le Mans:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5910453\/how-carroll-shelby-and-a-gang-of-nerds-beat-enzo-ferrari?tag=carroll-shelby\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you only know the late Carroll Shelby for his tuner cars, you&#8217;re missing an amazing story of how, during the mid-1960s, his little, nerd-filled race shop in Los Angeles helped Henry Ford II exercise his famous vendetta against Enzo Ferrari. Playboy editor A.J. Baime tells that story in his book, Go Like Hell: Ford, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64560,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64559\/revisions\/64560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}