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Jan 9, 2020 · The major antagonist of the film is the character of Leo Beebe, an executive within the Ford Motor Company who was a real person, but not the type of person the movie portrays, according to those ...
Oct 13, 2022 · With the release of the Ford v Ferrari movie, there has been renewed interest associated with my 2016 article here on Hemmings concerning Ford executive Leo Beebe and the end of the 1966 Le Mans race. Comments, around 200 in number four years after initial publication, show the passion of people on both sides of the dispute.
Ken Miles stepping into Dolphin Mk.2, March 1961. ... Miles was leading the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans in the #1 car, but Ford Motor Company executive Leo Beebe, ...
Oct 2, 2023 · Leo Beebe. Ford v Ferrari, Defending Leo Beebe!-. David Greenhalgh @Dailysportscar.com. DSC historian David Greenhalgh ventured from Sydney to New Jersey to see what light can be shed on the famous finish at Le Mans in 1966. Ford v Ferrari is probably one of the better motor racing movies. As with the Lauda v Hunt contest in Rush, it helps that ...
Leo Beebe was the senior vice president at the Ford Motor Company, and a Michigan native born in 1917, growing up and going to school in the same state as the automotive giant (via Hemmings).Beebe ...
And that's a fucking terrible car. [Henry Ford II reads the newspaper headline of Fiat buying Ferrari before dropping the paper and picking up his glass to pour a drink] Leo Beebe : He played us. Old Man Enzo had no intention of selling to us. He used us to up his price, embarrass our company and insult your leadership.
Ford v Ferrari grossed $117.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $107.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $225.5 million. [1] In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Charlie's Angels and The Good Liar , and was projected to gross $23–30 million from 3,528 theaters in its opening weekend ...
