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[Narrator] Running to their cars

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in the traditional Le Mans start,

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51 drivers take off for the 24-hour grind

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that will end tomorrow, almost 3,000 miles later.

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It's a race around eight miles of public roads,

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a grind that always takes a heavy toll

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of both man and machine.

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[Narrator] Since its inception in 1923,

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the 24 Hours of Le Mans has stood

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as the ultimate test of endurance, innovation,

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and sheer willpower in the world of motor sport.

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This race is not just a challenge of speed,

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it's a battle of strategy, resilience,

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and engineering excellence.

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No moment in Le Mans' long and storied history

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is as legendary as the battle that unfolded

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between two automotive titans, Ford and Ferrari.

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This was not just a race, it was a clash of cultures,

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of pride, of vision,

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and of determination.

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In the 1960s, Ferrari ruled
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dominating Le Mans year after year.

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But in 1966 and 1967,

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Ford, a company known more
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came to prove their worth.

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What followed was one of the most dramatic

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and celebrated moments in Motorsport history.

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Ford had a goal, to beat Ferrari at their own game.

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And they did in back-to-back years.

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In 1966, the legendary Ford GT40 claimed victory,

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breaking Ferrari's winning streak.

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But it didn't stop there.

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In 1967, Ford cemented their dominance

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with the revolutionary Mk IV.

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The Mk IV crossed the finish line in 1967,

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not just as a victor,

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but as a symbol of American
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Le Mans remains, to this day,

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the pinnacle of international auto racing.

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And the story of the Ford versus
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will forever be etched in the hearts of racing fans

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as one of the greatest rivalries.

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- I fell in love with a Mk IV and the J-Car

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early on in my life.

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Growing up in Detroit,

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I knew my dad was involved with those cars.

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I always wanted the J-Car or
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for Christmas or my birthday.

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There was never a doubt in my mind,

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since I was five years old,

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I knew that I was gonna be involved in racing.

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I remember seeing the Ford Mk IV in real life

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at the Henry Ford Museum and thinking to myself,

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that is the most beautiful car I've ever seen,

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and it still is.

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I believe Bill had mentioned to me

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the idea of us building a continuation of the Mk IV.

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I thought, that's a great idea,

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I wanted to do it, let's do it,

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where can we start?

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- [Narrator] Few names in
Motorsport engineering resonate

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with the same timeless impact as Bob Riley.

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From the roaring era of the Ford GT40 Mk IV,

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a car he helped engineer to victory at Le Mans in 1967,

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to the precision built coyote chassis

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that carried A. J. Foyt to victory in the Indy 500,

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Bob's fingerprints

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are on some of racing's most iconic moments.

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His innovative designs spanned generations,

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from the nimble Lynx Formula V

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to the ferocious Trans-Am cars

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that dominated circuits in the 1980s.

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Whether crafting the speed

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and agility of the NASCAR machines driven

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by legends like Dale Earnhardt and Ricky Rudd,

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or pioneering the modern era of endurance racing

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with the Daytona Prototype,

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Bob Riley's vision helped
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winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500,

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Daytona 500, and Daytona 24 Hours.

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Bob Riley's legacy extends far beyond the track.

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It lies in the relentless pursuit of innovation

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and the artistry of speed.

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He not only shaped race cars,

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but entire eras of motor sport,

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creating machines that pushed
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and left competitors in awe.

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From the Saturn IB rocket project

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that showcased his engineering genius

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to his groundbreaking work

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with the Riley LMP cars in the 21st century,

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Bob's contributions are etched into

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the DNA of motor sport history.

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His influence continues to inspire designers,

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drivers, and fans alike.

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A testament to a man whose
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for speed and a drive to
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So the first time I even became aware of Bob,

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I worked at Roger Beck Racing
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and we were making Trans-Am air intake boxes,

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I just knew about him, and what the hell,

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the success of that car as a Riley Scott car.

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And I was making those.

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that Roger Beck had been Bob's fabricator

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at Patrick Racing in the '70s.

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So a small group in racing, small family.

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I joined Riley Technology and Bill

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is because the building of
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I mean, it's the opportunity to work

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on a piece of history, and here I am, and here it is.

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It's been quite a project for sure.

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I'd say working on a project like this,

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which is unfortunate, but it's still good for TV.

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So you work on something like this,

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it's where motor racing started.

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I was racing my car and I decided

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I'd just send a resume to Ford, Chrysler, and GM,

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you know, give 'em my resume.

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to come see us, and Chrysler said the same thing.

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And Ford sent me money right away

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to come up and see 'em right away.

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Well, at Kar-Kraft,

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I remember they advertised
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I thought, that's the weirdest thing.

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and that's how I ended up working for Kar-Kraft.

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I think that's really how we were able to beat Ferrari

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is that Ferrari actually had more horsepower

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and a lot of car, but we had
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because we had massaged it quite a bit.

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you see the tub out of a honeycomb,

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and aluminum, etcetera.

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you know, that was very common for 'em

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to use that type structure.

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to have on a car at that time.

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getting the information, basically over the radio,

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'cause it listened to it, the whole world of sports,

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and being in the lead and then winning,

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it was just the greatest thing for me to hear that.

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It was just wonderful that we did it.

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To make a long story short,

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I was Carroll Shelby's first
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Carroll Shelby had just won Le Mans as a co-driver

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with Roy Salvadori driving for Aston Martin.

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any number of business possibilities,

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one of which was to build a sports car of his own.

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Ford's main interest was stock car racing.

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no interest in road racing or anything.

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they began to get some interest on it.

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Henry Ford was looking to
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and realizing there was a whole different,

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much higher level that would be very,

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very important as far as creating an image

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for Ford Automotive Company.

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And he decided the best way to do that

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was simply to buy Ferrari.

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Ferrari was the overall
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So in the end, he turned Ford down,

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and Ford was, of course,

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not used to having his wishes reversed.

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"Okay, we'll build our own car and we'll beat Ferrari."

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the Mk IV Ford came about.

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We were having lunch, Mexican lunch,

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and Jim Matthews, longtime friend,

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longtime competitor that's done a lot of work with us,

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wanted to look at doing
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And he kind of said, "You know,

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boy, it'd be great to build Mk IV's,

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'cause no one does a good continuation

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of a Mk IV right now."

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And that's what kind of started it.

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We were just talking about, you know,

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how beautiful the cars were
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before they started looking at airplanes.

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And so they were still kinda swoopy, and sensual,

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and they were feminine looking.

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And we were talking about the best looking cars.

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Of course, you know,

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there's the Mk IV, the P4,

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the 917, and the Lola T70.

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I'm sure I missed something, but for me,

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that was what was on my wall, you know?

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And Bill, as Bill often does,

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when you start talking about something,

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"I know a guy."

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I know the guy that has all the original blueprints,

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all the castings, and a good amount of spare parts

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"that he picked up from Holman and Moody."

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And I reached out to Tony Ave,

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who worked at Kar-Kraft was at the time.

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And then through that connection I went

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and visited Kar-Kraft and their assets,

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and then they made us a quote, and Jim bought on it.

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So Jim Matthews was kind of the synergy

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that started us down this path

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of building these continuation cars.

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I grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan,

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and my father had a drawing office in our basement.

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So typically he would design one IndyCar a year

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and one sports car project a year.

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he'd be either designing a car for Foyt,

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you know, a coyote,

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or he'd design a Wildcat for Patrick,

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or you know, he did his own IndyCar in '74.

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So he was always designing an IndyCar

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during the fall/winter and then usually

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some sort of sports car program in the summer.

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Whether that would be a Greenwood Corvette,

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or the Kemp Mustang, or something like that.

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was always very strong, he was always teaching me.

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I was also craving to learn.

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it kind of worked out pretty
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and complimented each other.

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Maybe if it's an area thing, 'cause we could cut this out.

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- Yeah. - And go straight across

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and get rid of it,

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'cause I feel like that's gonna crack there anyway.

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that'd be alright because... Yeah, I remember

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that IMSASSA did a poster, you know,

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for their 50th anniversary

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and it had about 10 cars on it,

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the iconic IMSA cars, and six
of 'em Bob was involved with.

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I think overall he's probably been involved

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maybe 70 to 75 in that range.

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Somewhere in there.

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I mean, 30, 35 at Riley & Scott/Riley.

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And then all the stuff before that,

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whether it was Formula vs Super vs Formula Atlantic,

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IndyCars, and then all the Trans-Am cars.

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So it might be closer to a hundred,

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but you know, we've never really counted 'em.

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I mean, we count the big wins,

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you know, like I would say the Daytona wins,

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the Sebring wins, the Le Mans wins,

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but we don't really have counted

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how many overall wins he has.

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And you see some people doing that.

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But I think Bob has more,

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when you look at all the stuff he's touched.

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And then obviously then there's all the NASCAR stuff

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he's been involved with too.

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Riley Technologies is the company that designs

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and builds cars and restores cars.

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And Riley Motorsports operates race teams.

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[Narrator] For nearly three decades,

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Riley Technologies has stood at the forefront

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of professional road racing,
blending engineering precision

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with relentless innovation.

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Founded and helmed by Bill
Riley and his father Bob Riley,

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the company has been

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a cornerstone of motor sport excellence,

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consistently redefining the
boundaries of performance

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and reliability.

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From the grueling 24 Hours of Daytona

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to the storied 24 Hours of Le Mans,

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Riley Technologies' designs have dominated

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the most demanding endurance races in the world.

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Their cars have brought home wins in championships

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in IMSA, ALMS, NASCAR, IndyCar,

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and Grand-Am, earning a reputation for resilience

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and speed that few can rival.

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Under the visionary leadership of Bill Riley,

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the team has masterminded cutting edge race cars

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for Trans-Am, IMSA, LMP,

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and Daytona Prototype categories.

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Leading professional road race teams since 1996,

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their designs have powered
some of the greatest teams

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in motor sport history to victory,

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proving their medal on tracks across the globe.

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With every race and every triumph,

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Riley Technologies has cemented its legacy

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as a leader in engineering
excellence and racing dominance.

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A testament to the power of passion, precision,

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and a relentless pursuit of perfection.

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Riley Tech does a lot of work for Riley Motorsports,

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you know, whether it's carbon repair,

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or gearbox service, upright service,

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or you know, design when needed
and engineering when needed.

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But then Riley Motorsports
runs the teams at the track.

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Typically we have two main programs.

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We have an an IMSA WeatherTech program with LMP2,

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and our lead driver there is Gar Robinson.

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And so we run the IMSA WeatherTech series

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right now with that car.

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And then we run a AMG and SRO for CrowdStrike.

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And George Kurtz is our lead
driver on that program there.

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Well, there's quite a few trophies around here

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from our success, you know,

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mostly at IMSA, and then in SRO,

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and Ferrari Challenge, and what have you.

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But if you look around this room,

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you won't see any second place trophies

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or third place trophies,

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because we're expected to be winners,

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not second placers and not third placers.

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And we pride ourselves on winning races

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and I feel with Riley Motorsports,

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we're kind of expected to win.

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We're not going there trying to win.

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But the philosophy should be that the clients,

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or customers, or our friends are here

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because we win, and that's why they are here.

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When we purchased Kar-Kraft,

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it came with a fair amount of some parts, some tooling,

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mostly body work tooling, and
came with a stack of drawings,

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a lot of drawings.

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And Bob went through the
drawings one by one and could say,

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"Okay, this is a Mk II, this Mk IV,"

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this is a Group 7 car, this was a Can-Am car,

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"this was development, it never got built."

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So he went through every drawing one by one

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to pick out what we needed to recreate the Mk IV,

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to continue it.

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We wanted to make it exactly like,

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I believe the last chassis they made,

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I believe it was 19 I think.

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So this be chassis 20.

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It was just like if we were at Kar-Kraft

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and we built the next chassis.

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So it is exactly the same.

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We went to great length to make it the same,

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with the exception of safety items.

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One of the safety items was the fuel cell.

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So there's been a big improvement

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in the quality of the bag themselves,

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and you know, a lot of bonded in pieces.

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So they're just so much better.

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Bob hates every race car he ever designed.

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Yeah, we had to hold Bob back a bit,

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'cause he really wanted to do a lot of updates.

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You know, he doesn't like any of his designs

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he's ever done, 'cause he always can do better.

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Significant historian in Ford racing, or you know,

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in Mk IV's or Mk II's was talking about how great

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the geometry was on these cars.

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And Bob said, "No, it's not."

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And the historian said, "Oh, yes,

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it's a very good geometry."

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And Bob said, "No, it's not.

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I did it and it's not right."

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So it was pretty hard for him

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not to want to do a lot of updates, I think.

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But then he finally realized
we're making a continuation

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and we need to make it historically accurate.

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The cars today, the only way that they really sell

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is if they win races.

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You know, that's what makes a race car sell.

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So you have to look at the rules

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and you have to make the car best of the rules

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so it wins races, and therefore you sell cars.

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That's the business.

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Because the race cars,

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they're really instruments to win trophies.

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They're tools to win trophies.

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Just like the Mk IV was a tool to win Le Mans,

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and that was that.

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But back then, you know,

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with the aro development where it was, you know,

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the cars still have the beautiful look to 'em, you know,

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it hadn't really got to the point

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where it's all aro driven and so be it, you know,

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they still had the style on 'em.

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Well, the continuation of the car

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is a bit of a blend of some modern tools

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and modern materials.

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The Mk IV is one of the first
race cars to use a fuel cell.

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But obviously fuel cell
materials are a lot better now.

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On the safety side, you know,

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the seat belts are a lot safer
than they were back then.

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On the safety side of the vehicle,

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there's not like a whole
lot that's extremely different

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than what it was on safety for impact.

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You know, you have the big
crush structures on the side.

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The fuel cells, as I mentioned,

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are safer, and the glues a lot better

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and the chassis to hold it together.

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So that's probably the main thing.

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I think the biggest challenge going into it

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was finding the gearbox and then getting

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the magnesium castings redone for the uprights

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and for the wheels, that was a challenge.

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But we have a good source for that.

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To actually getting the
steel brake calipers recast.

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So we try to obtain as many original pieces as we can.

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What you can't buy, we have to make,

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and in some cases that's not always possible.

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So we have to have a good balance

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to make sure the car stays true to its spec.

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So Tim Stephens,

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I'm the parts and inventory
and procurement specialist

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for the Kar-Kraft Mk IV project.

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I do the quality control

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of all of our in-house manufactured pieces.

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And then I am part-time historian,

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because everybody on this project has to be

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to make sure everything is historically accurate.

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Everything that we procure
has to be within the proper era,

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the proper construction, proper color, coding.

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And I make sure everything I get in

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is vetted to make sure it is consistent

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with what we're trying to accomplish.

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I'm very passionate about this program.

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I first learned about the Mk IV

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in the early 2000s as a teenager.

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Read a very, very informative article,

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lots of pictures, and fell in love with it.

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And a couple years later had the opportunity

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to go to the Henry Ford Museum and saw a J-5 in person,

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and just stood there and stared at it.

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I think the rest of my family
went to tour the rest museum.

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I said, "No, I need to stay here and look at this car.

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This is definitely something special."

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And to come here to Riley

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where we are continuing those cars,

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it's an experience that you don't get

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with any other vehicle.

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So to replicate everything that they did in 1966

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and 1967 on this car, if we
didn't already have the drawing,

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if we didn't already have the data,

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we had to recreate it based on the original cars.

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So we had access to the five
race cars that ran in Sebring

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and at Le Mans, and reverse engineered.

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We had Bob Riley's brilliant mind,

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who actually remembers doing these things

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and we could fill in some of
the holes with his expertise,

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and redrew it, recreated it.

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In 1967, racing was very different.

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While safety was at the forefront,

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it wasn't what it was today.

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It was a raw, visceral experience.

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When you drove that car, the sounds,

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the smells, the feeling,

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you can't replicate that in
anything that is made today,

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and that's what we're doing here.

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(cars whirring)

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Hi, my name's Chad Boyd,

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I'm an engineering manager
here at Riley Technologies.

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(upbeat music)

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So I've been working with Bob Riley,

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one of the original designers

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for the 1967 Le Mans winning Mk IV.

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We've been privileged to have
some of the original drawings,

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and you know, copies of the original drawings,

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and to see drawings

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that were literally worked on in the '60s

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that have Bob's name, and then to be going through them

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to convert them into modern day CAD

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so that we can manufacture
the car again in the real way,

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the way it was put together before,

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but just in a more repetitious fashion.

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So this is my full assembly

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that's got pretty much everything, you know,

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some stuff may be hidden here and there,

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but yeah, we had to go through and draw uprights

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and all the control arms, and I mean,

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really, the amount of
original parts on the first build,

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'cause you don't want to use them if they're original,

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you kind of want to keep
those for reference at that point.

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So I think everything on the new car is new.

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A lot of sheet metal parts, a lot of gussets,

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and angles, and things that get fabricated,

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and you know, we kind of went back

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and forth between trying to, you know,

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water jet a panel with the whole pattern in it

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versus putting the pattern in on the shop floor,

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and kind of went with a hybrid

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where somewhere where
there would be an outside angle

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we would maybe put a guide hole,

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and then they would drill through

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the rest of the thicknesses so that it goes through,

519
00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:29,298
just so everything lines up.

520
00:25:29,340 --> 00:25:30,783
It's pretty cool.

521
00:25:30,825 --> 00:25:32,268
It's interesting to see all the old drawings

522
00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:35,623
and old details, and to hear Bob's stories

523
00:25:35,665 --> 00:25:38,088
on how they would've done it back then versus, you know,

524
00:25:38,130 --> 00:25:41,751
minor nuances of what we might do

525
00:25:41,793 --> 00:25:43,308
to end up with the same product.

526
00:25:43,350 --> 00:25:48,350
But yeah, it's kinda like a little bit of a time travel

527
00:25:49,350 --> 00:25:54,350
just to see full scale drawings of things

528
00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:58,713
that worked on however many years ago at this point.

529
00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:02,163
And to get to go down that path again.

530
00:26:03,267 --> 00:26:06,408
(car whirring)

531
00:26:06,450 --> 00:26:09,378
This is more of an aircraft construction, you know,

532
00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:12,606
that this construction on the Mk IV,

533
00:26:12,648 --> 00:26:15,378
it's the same construction that
was used on the Porsche 962.

534
00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:16,783
You know, I mean,

535
00:26:16,825 --> 00:26:18,918
when people talk about the Mk IV, and you know,

536
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,362
where it was, I mean,

537
00:26:20,404 --> 00:26:22,938
the 962 was built the same way.

538
00:26:22,980 --> 00:26:24,858
And I mean, when you look at that car's pedigree,

539
00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:26,448
and the Mk IV's, you know,

540
00:26:26,490 --> 00:26:27,840
that's pretty hard to beat.

541
00:26:29,550 --> 00:26:32,178
- Well, I remember the J-Car when I was a kid seeing it.

542
00:26:32,220 --> 00:26:33,948
I never had a model of it or anything like that,

543
00:26:33,990 --> 00:26:35,148
but I love the shape of it,

544
00:26:35,190 --> 00:26:38,806
and I think, I don't know of anybody that does it,

545
00:26:38,848 --> 00:26:40,969
it's just a beautiful, sexy car.

546
00:26:41,011 --> 00:26:43,594
(upbeat music)

547
00:26:52,140 --> 00:26:55,398
And fortunately, when I started my career in racing,

548
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,578
I got to do Monaco chassis for the fabcar,

549
00:26:58,620 --> 00:27:00,978
the 962, 956 chassis.

550
00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:02,238
And that gave me the skillset

551
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,295
that later on when this came along I knew how to do it,

552
00:27:05,337 --> 00:27:06,588
and I looked forward to doing it,

553
00:27:06,630 --> 00:27:09,288
because we built two frame cars for so long,

554
00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:11,703
and I love this chassis building.

555
00:27:12,810 --> 00:27:14,718
So having that experience in the past

556
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,938
really helped out in figuring this car out.

557
00:27:16,980 --> 00:27:18,408
And this was especially challenging,

558
00:27:18,450 --> 00:27:21,428
because we had to make this just like it was.

559
00:27:21,470 --> 00:27:23,865
It has to be exactly like it was in 1967,

560
00:27:23,907 --> 00:27:25,218
and we did pretty good.

561
00:27:25,260 --> 00:27:29,741
I mean, I don't think we missed out on anything.

562
00:27:29,783 --> 00:27:32,361
And the challenge there too is that every car

563
00:27:32,403 --> 00:27:34,308
is a little different from each other.

564
00:27:34,350 --> 00:27:36,828
So we tried to get the '67 Le Mans winner

565
00:27:36,870 --> 00:27:39,358
as close as we could, and we did pretty.

566
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,191
Okay, well,

567
00:27:40,233 --> 00:27:41,890
this is how we make an aluminum panel,

568
00:27:43,738 --> 00:27:45,948
a bonded honeycomb panel.

569
00:27:45,990 --> 00:27:47,568
And it's one of many panels

570
00:27:47,610 --> 00:27:49,910
that make up the Monaco chassis on this Mk IV.

571
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,848
It's an aircraft technology,

572
00:27:52,890 --> 00:27:56,538
it got adapted back in the '60s for building race cars.

573
00:27:56,580 --> 00:27:58,638
And as you can see, this whole car,

574
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,058
just really lightweight, it
doesn't weigh anything hardly,

575
00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:03,768
but it's super strong.

576
00:28:03,810 --> 00:28:06,078
So what we do, we start out with raw honeycomb,

577
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:08,688
and we water jet this into a pattern that we have

578
00:28:08,730 --> 00:28:10,218
for a certain panel.

579
00:28:10,260 --> 00:28:13,338
And we water jet the two panels, inner and outer,

580
00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:16,743
and then we bond it with
this glue, it's an aircraft film,

581
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,298
got a Gerber machine back over here that cuts it.

582
00:28:20,340 --> 00:28:22,338
It's actually a fabric cutting machine,

583
00:28:22,380 --> 00:28:25,068
but it cuts this glue in any shape we want.

584
00:28:25,110 --> 00:28:29,118
So we cut all that and what
we do is we prep this with a DA,

585
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,298
take all the oxidation off of it, and degrease it,

586
00:28:32,340 --> 00:28:34,308
and wipe it down with MEK.

587
00:28:34,350 --> 00:28:36,228
We put down the glue film,

588
00:28:36,270 --> 00:28:39,127
and then we put the honeycomb on top of that,

589
00:28:39,169 --> 00:28:41,457
and we put another sheet of metal on top of that,

590
00:28:41,499 --> 00:28:43,008
and we bag it all and make it sure

591
00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:45,288
it's all sealed and vacuum it.

592
00:28:45,330 --> 00:28:49,608
And I think we vacuum it as one atmosphere, 15 PSI.

593
00:28:49,650 --> 00:28:51,108
And then we put it in an oven,

594
00:28:51,150 --> 00:28:53,388
cook it at 250 degrees for about an hour and a half,

595
00:28:53,430 --> 00:28:55,008
and it comes out as a panel

596
00:28:55,050 --> 00:28:57,648
that starts out as pretty flimsy components,

597
00:28:57,690 --> 00:29:00,198
but it's a super strong lightweight panel.

598
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,358
And then we trim that up and clean it up,

599
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,518
and we put it all together with these angles in there

600
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,498
and rivet it together with more glue.

601
00:29:06,540 --> 00:29:08,778
And what you get is this end product

602
00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:12,363
of triangulated structurally
strong, lightweight chassis.

603
00:29:14,730 --> 00:29:17,208
Well, being part of this team and company

604
00:29:17,250 --> 00:29:20,133
with Bill and Bob Riley all these years,

605
00:29:21,564 --> 00:29:23,808
you lose sight of it, 'cause I talk to him

606
00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:27,947
on a personal level every
day of what they've achieved.

607
00:29:27,989 --> 00:29:28,788
I mean, I know that,

608
00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:33,153
but it's also a personal interaction that we have.

609
00:29:34,980 --> 00:29:38,598
So you lose touch of how big it is on the outside,

610
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,790
of somebody looking in.

611
00:29:41,970 --> 00:29:44,238
So I don't know what else to say about that.

612
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:48,648
It's just, I know 'em on the
personal level as human beings,

613
00:29:48,690 --> 00:29:50,448
but I also know what they've achieved,

614
00:29:50,490 --> 00:29:53,703
and it's an honor to have
been working here for this long.

615
00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:57,708
It was his shop, he did it his way,

616
00:29:57,750 --> 00:29:59,800
and everybody knew that's what he wanted.

617
00:30:00,870 --> 00:30:02,328
Right, wrong, or indifferent, didn't matter,

618
00:30:02,370 --> 00:30:03,303
it's his shop.

619
00:30:06,210 --> 00:30:09,258
And if he made a mistake, which is rare,

620
00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:11,298
he'd admit it and say, "Let's do something else.

621
00:30:11,340 --> 00:30:13,158
That didn't work quite well, did it?"

622
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,748
And that kind of thing.

623
00:30:14,790 --> 00:30:16,728
He loved designing stuff.

624
00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:18,020
I mean, little stuff too.

625
00:30:19,101 --> 00:30:21,768
Like, he had a whole folder up there of water traps,

626
00:30:21,810 --> 00:30:24,888
to let water or air into the car to cool the driver,

627
00:30:24,930 --> 00:30:26,930
but trap the water in case it's raining.

628
00:30:28,050 --> 00:30:31,578
Building the Mk IV as a continuation car

629
00:30:31,620 --> 00:30:33,468
and knowing the history of that car

630
00:30:33,510 --> 00:30:35,424
and who drove it at Le Mans,

631
00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,758
and the first all-American team to win,

632
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:38,688
and being a part of that,

633
00:30:38,730 --> 00:30:42,738
that's gotta be one of the highlights of my career.

634
00:30:42,780 --> 00:30:44,328
That's just the cherry on top.

635
00:30:44,370 --> 00:30:48,978
I mean, for him to be involved with Carroll Shelby

636
00:30:49,020 --> 00:30:51,408
and all that group back in the day,

637
00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:53,853
and now he's here, was here,

638
00:30:55,623 --> 00:30:57,918
to be able to work with him on that and get his insight,

639
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,168
and little stories about what went on back there,

640
00:31:00,210 --> 00:31:03,198
and how Ken Miles really was, and this and that,

641
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,998
that's pretty cool.

642
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:06,393
It's hard to top that.

643
00:31:07,590 --> 00:31:08,568
You know, you look back on it,

644
00:31:08,610 --> 00:31:10,961
it's hard to appreciate it now.

645
00:31:11,003 --> 00:31:14,208
I mean, I imagine looking back on it in a couple years,

646
00:31:14,250 --> 00:31:15,213
I'll be like, wow.

647
00:31:17,526 --> 00:31:20,778
(cars whirring)

648
00:31:20,820 --> 00:31:23,994
The Mk IV was such a big project.

649
00:31:24,036 --> 00:31:27,228
When we bought Kar-Kraft, we got some of the body molds,

650
00:31:27,270 --> 00:31:28,338
that worked out pretty well.

651
00:31:28,380 --> 00:31:30,588
We scanned quite a few of the original cars

652
00:31:30,630 --> 00:31:32,478
to make sure the molds were correct,

653
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,978
and then we had to recreate the tub

654
00:31:34,020 --> 00:31:35,748
from all the drawings we received.

655
00:31:35,790 --> 00:31:37,188
Bob was pretty up on all that

656
00:31:37,230 --> 00:31:39,318
and recreated all the suspension.

657
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,275
Then the hard part, you know,

658
00:31:41,317 --> 00:31:43,611
is the roof skin on the car is actually aluminum,

659
00:31:43,653 --> 00:31:44,444
so we had to form that.

660
00:31:44,486 --> 00:31:46,668
And then obviously the body work is all built here,

661
00:31:46,710 --> 00:31:47,898
whether it's out of fiberglass

662
00:31:47,940 --> 00:31:50,568
or carbon, whatever the client would want.

663
00:31:50,610 --> 00:31:52,608
This one is all fiberglass.

664
00:31:52,650 --> 00:31:54,918
So it was really just a labor of love

665
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,038
on how much work there was
to make to the continuation

666
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,538
as accurate as possible

667
00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:01,848
and as period correct as possible.

668
00:32:01,890 --> 00:32:02,688
My name's Corey.

669
00:32:02,730 --> 00:32:05,658
I work here at Riley, I've been here for about 12 years,

670
00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:08,073
and I'm the manager of the Composite shop.

671
00:32:09,435 --> 00:32:12,018
(upbeat music)

672
00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:21,618
We make any kind of body parts for the car,

673
00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:25,008
anywhere from carbon chassis to block off hammers,

674
00:32:25,050 --> 00:32:28,998
to helmet visors, anything of that nature.

675
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,908
Yeah, seats, well, you name it.

676
00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:34,218
What it means to me working on the Mk IV projects,

677
00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:35,538
is just a huge honor.

678
00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:37,128
There's a lot of history in this car

679
00:32:37,170 --> 00:32:39,978
and I'm just glad to be a part of it to keep continuing.

680
00:32:40,020 --> 00:32:42,520
So this is our pre-thread, we keep in the freezer.

681
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,394
At that point, we get ready to lay it up onto the molds,

682
00:32:47,436 --> 00:32:48,798
we pull it outta the freezer, let it thaw out.

683
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,863
But this is what the parts originally start out as.

684
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,872
It's just a sheet of fiberglass,

685
00:32:55,914 --> 00:32:58,458
it's woven with epoxy on both sides of it.

686
00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:00,745
As it thaws out, you're gonna see

687
00:33:00,787 --> 00:33:02,658
it becomes a lot more like a piece of paper.

688
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:04,668
This is what gets placed into the mold tool,

689
00:33:04,710 --> 00:33:06,408
then becomes that magical piece

690
00:33:06,450 --> 00:33:08,050
you saw out front with the nose.

691
00:33:09,270 --> 00:33:10,818
So the molds for the tail section,

692
00:33:10,860 --> 00:33:12,858
you see 'em up here on the right.

693
00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:14,568
Those actually make this tail section

694
00:33:14,610 --> 00:33:16,353
that we have conveniently stored.

695
00:33:17,940 --> 00:33:20,268
So what we do, we start out with prepreg,

696
00:33:20,310 --> 00:33:23,868
which it's a pre-impregnated fiberglass.

697
00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:25,248
It comes out soft.

698
00:33:25,290 --> 00:33:26,988
We put that into the mold tools,

699
00:33:27,030 --> 00:33:29,430
and we have the mold tools up here for this guy.

700
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,678
We place that in, we vacuum bag it,

701
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,128
we run it through the oven,

702
00:33:34,170 --> 00:33:36,888
goes through a cure cycle for about 16 hours.

703
00:33:36,930 --> 00:33:38,268
Once it's done, we pull it out

704
00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:40,203
and you roughly get this shape here.

705
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,003
Quite light, but super strong,

706
00:33:46,890 --> 00:33:47,840
tons of durability.

707
00:33:49,479 --> 00:33:52,062
(upbeat music)

708
00:33:58,999 --> 00:34:00,938
(upbeat music continues)

709
00:34:00,980 --> 00:34:04,110
(car whirring)

710
00:34:04,152 --> 00:34:07,308
To work here, it's like the
history of the company itself,

711
00:34:07,350 --> 00:34:08,628
like, of the Riley family,

712
00:34:08,670 --> 00:34:09,573
goes back so far.

713
00:34:11,130 --> 00:34:14,298
You know, much further than I've been around really.

714
00:34:14,340 --> 00:34:18,048
And even from the start when I started working here,

715
00:34:18,090 --> 00:34:19,968
you know, as a kid playing Gran Turismo,

716
00:34:20,010 --> 00:34:21,528
my favorite car was the Viper.

717
00:34:21,570 --> 00:34:23,365
And then coming here and being, like,

718
00:34:23,407 --> 00:34:25,068
"These are the guys that built the Viper.

719
00:34:25,110 --> 00:34:26,838
It is like, that thing was so cool."

720
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,080
My name is Kyle Bussard.

721
00:34:29,310 --> 00:34:32,733
I've been involved in racing
since I was eight years old.

722
00:34:34,698 --> 00:34:37,365
(upbeat music)

723
00:34:43,290 --> 00:34:48,290
It's hard for it to sink in on how much this place

724
00:34:48,810 --> 00:34:50,560
has like affected the racing world.

725
00:34:52,470 --> 00:34:55,788
I don't know how you would
ever get that across to anyone.

726
00:34:55,830 --> 00:34:57,768
And it's like, I don't even
know if I understand it myself.

727
00:34:57,810 --> 00:34:59,603
Like, it is really cool.

728
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,178
Like, it's everywhere,

729
00:35:05,220 --> 00:35:07,758
you're surrounded by history at this place.

730
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,213
So I'm the Mk IV fabricator.

731
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:14,403
I kind of do everything from bodies to outer panels,

732
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:17,418
roll cage, sheet metal,

733
00:35:17,460 --> 00:35:21,423
to I've done the suspension work, the mounting points,

734
00:35:23,490 --> 00:35:24,738
there's really not a whole lot on this car

735
00:35:24,780 --> 00:35:25,680
I haven't touched.

736
00:35:26,970 --> 00:35:29,508
By being a '67, you look at it,

737
00:35:29,550 --> 00:35:32,898
you work on it, and it's like,

738
00:35:32,940 --> 00:35:35,328
everything from the rivets, to the glue,

739
00:35:35,370 --> 00:35:37,368
to the way things are done, it's like,

740
00:35:37,410 --> 00:35:40,036
you're going back to the '60s.

741
00:35:40,078 --> 00:35:41,868
And there's some challenges to that.

742
00:35:41,910 --> 00:35:43,678
It's like on, you know,

743
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,176
on the other side of the building

744
00:35:45,218 --> 00:35:46,848
there's one of the most modern day awesome cars

745
00:35:46,890 --> 00:35:47,958
sitting over there and it's like,

746
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,758
this is kind of what you're used to.

747
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,228
So when you're bringing it back,

748
00:35:51,270 --> 00:35:53,778
you almost have to break yourself of habits

749
00:35:53,820 --> 00:35:55,398
that it's just, like,

750
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,318
this is naturally how you go about something.

751
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,303
But then it's like, no, this isn't what they did.

752
00:36:01,975 --> 00:36:04,548
And so trying to recreate everything

753
00:36:04,590 --> 00:36:06,528
and just the ways they did things

754
00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:08,193
is kinda what we go for on this.

755
00:36:09,583 --> 00:36:11,628
I think whoever ends up with this thing in the future

756
00:36:11,670 --> 00:36:14,613
just understands like the nuance that went into it,

757
00:36:15,813 --> 00:36:20,167
you know, the every little detail picked apart,

758
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,758
and it was never someone was telling us to do it,

759
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,058
it was every individual person

760
00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:33,378
finding that extra little thing,

761
00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:34,211
it's like, "Oh",

762
00:36:34,253 --> 00:36:36,138
yeah, there's one more thing here",

763
00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:37,488
and then going through that extra effort

764
00:36:37,530 --> 00:36:39,543
to make sure it was just perfect.

765
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:42,593
And it's, like,

766
00:36:45,210 --> 00:36:47,560
whoever ends up with his car is a lucky person.

767
00:36:48,751 --> 00:36:51,418
(upbeat music)

768
00:36:53,460 --> 00:36:54,811
Yeah, I mean,

769
00:36:54,853 --> 00:36:56,223
you definitely miss Bob.

770
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,582
And it is the quirks, I guess.

771
00:37:01,624 --> 00:37:06,624
The coming down and just
wanting to change everything,

772
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,678
and having no problem that
it's gotta be done in two days,

773
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:12,108
and he wants to cut the
entire front part of the car off

774
00:37:12,150 --> 00:37:14,403
to make it better, you know?

775
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:22,760
For him to be like that involved constantly,

776
00:37:24,263 --> 00:37:28,358
it was super cool, and it could also be a pain in the ass,

777
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,332
you know?

778
00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:32,868
And you know, my wife,

779
00:37:32,910 --> 00:37:33,925
going home, I'd be like,

780
00:37:33,967 --> 00:37:35,958
"Oh, I got Bobbed today."

781
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,667
And she's like, "I love Bob's stories."

782
00:37:43,055 --> 00:37:46,293
And I'm obviously very fortunate to do that.

783
00:37:48,930 --> 00:37:52,083
Well, to sum up this entire program and this car,

784
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,033
it would be pride.

785
00:37:56,730 --> 00:38:00,108
Not just proud of the history that Bob was able

786
00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:03,723
to achieve when this car was first introduced.

787
00:38:05,958 --> 00:38:09,468
You know, being proud of not just bringing it back.

788
00:38:09,510 --> 00:38:10,668
But bringing it back in a way

789
00:38:10,710 --> 00:38:15,710
that I'd like to think did it justice.

790
00:38:17,563 --> 00:38:20,701
(car whirring)

791
00:38:20,743 --> 00:38:23,178
(video chiming)

792
00:38:23,220 --> 00:38:25,608
Received a text from Bill, you know,

793
00:38:25,650 --> 00:38:28,465
out of the blue, and some encrypted message about,

794
00:38:28,507 --> 00:38:30,978
"Hey, we were thinking about doing a project,

795
00:38:31,020 --> 00:38:31,968
would you be interested?"

796
00:38:32,010 --> 00:38:34,368
And almost before I read through the whole thing

797
00:38:34,410 --> 00:38:35,305
I mentioned, you know,

798
00:38:35,347 --> 00:38:36,228
"Hell, yeah.

799
00:38:36,270 --> 00:38:37,248
I don't know what we're doing,

800
00:38:37,290 --> 00:38:39,378
but Bill, you're calling."

801
00:38:39,420 --> 00:38:41,808
- [Narrator] In the world of
motor sport and engineering,

802
00:38:41,850 --> 00:38:45,348
one name stands above the rest, Jack Roush.

803
00:38:45,390 --> 00:38:49,098
From his early days as a Ford engineer in 1964

804
00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:53,508
to his dominance in pro stock
drag racing during the 1970s,

805
00:38:53,550 --> 00:38:55,008
Jack's innovative spirit

806
00:38:55,050 --> 00:38:57,768
and passion for performance set the foundation

807
00:38:57,810 --> 00:38:59,778
for an automotive legacy.

808
00:38:59,820 --> 00:39:04,068
In 1976, Roush Performance Engineering was born,

809
00:39:04,110 --> 00:39:07,308
delivering cutting edge engines
and components to racers

810
00:39:07,350 --> 00:39:10,038
across drag strips, road courses,

811
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,258
and even offshore waters.

812
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:15,678
What started as a quest for
personal racing success evolved

813
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:18,678
into a powerhouse of innovation and excellence,

814
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:21,438
with every project
embodying the relentless spirit

815
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,108
of a true automotive pioneer.

816
00:39:24,150 --> 00:39:26,688
We've always had a relationship with Roush,

817
00:39:26,730 --> 00:39:29,118
I mean, obviously we raced hard against them also.

818
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,578
So the relationship was rough for a while,

819
00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:34,368
'cause we were competitors, fierce competitors.

820
00:39:34,410 --> 00:39:39,410
But they were the logical
choice for building this engine.

821
00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:43,398
And Bob Corn, Dennis Corn's father,

822
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,308
Dennis Corn is still very
active at Roush Industries.

823
00:39:46,350 --> 00:39:48,078
And so is his father, Bob Corn,

824
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,238
Bob Corn worked at Ford Development.

825
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,808
And at the time we started
Mose Nowland was still alive.

826
00:39:53,850 --> 00:39:55,218
So Mose Nowland, I think,

827
00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:58,128
was helping Roush on the engine side.

828
00:39:58,170 --> 00:40:03,138
So he had that resource on the engine side,

829
00:40:03,180 --> 00:40:05,313
along with Bob's resource on the car side.

830
00:40:06,293 --> 00:40:07,428
(upbeat music)

831
00:40:07,470 --> 00:40:09,798
Well, my name is Bob Corn,

832
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,533
and I'm currently one of the partners in Roush.

833
00:40:14,730 --> 00:40:18,228
And so I help Jack start the engineering side

834
00:40:18,270 --> 00:40:22,286
of what has become Roush Enterprises.

835
00:40:22,328 --> 00:40:24,995
(upbeat music)

836
00:40:33,445 --> 00:40:35,778
As a component design engineer,

837
00:40:35,820 --> 00:40:39,078
I was involved in some of the structural concerns.

838
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,390
I was part of the development
of the Le Mans connecting rod

839
00:40:44,517 --> 00:40:45,983
that got released for racing these,

840
00:40:46,852 --> 00:40:48,108
to doing the experimental stress analysis,

841
00:40:48,150 --> 00:40:50,628
and several other things like that.

842
00:40:50,670 --> 00:40:53,568
Well, at the time the program manager was a guy

843
00:40:53,610 --> 00:40:55,123
by the name of Gus Scussel.

844
00:40:56,812 --> 00:41:00,978
And Gus had done several engine programs,

845
00:41:01,020 --> 00:41:05,763
but he was a kind of a manager of that department,

846
00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:10,248
and he was one of those who was supportive

847
00:41:10,290 --> 00:41:12,378
of putting this big block

848
00:41:12,420 --> 00:41:16,158
in a racing application other than just NASCAR.

849
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,398
At the time they were doing the NASCAR engines,

850
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,088
and now they had to do these road race engines.

851
00:41:23,130 --> 00:41:26,335
And while Dan Gurney was one of the guys that said

852
00:41:26,377 --> 00:41:29,658
"That's what you need to do is put the engine

853
00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:33,588
that ran NASCAR", which he had won,

854
00:41:33,630 --> 00:41:35,643
as you know, Riverside several times,

855
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,838
knew that it could road race.

856
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,718
And so he was one of those who suggested

857
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,843
that they use that NASCAR engine for the powertrain,

858
00:41:46,970 --> 00:41:48,708
because the small block was not good enough

859
00:41:48,750 --> 00:41:50,808
to do what they wanted to do.

860
00:41:50,850 --> 00:41:53,178
And so that's how the evolution then,

861
00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:57,513
and Gus Scussel, who I became
good friends with as well,

862
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,055
was behind saying,

863
00:42:00,097 --> 00:42:01,578
"Yes, that's the right thing to do,

864
00:42:01,620 --> 00:42:04,308
but we don't need to make more power.

865
00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:06,318
We need to make it durable."

866
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,178
And so right from the beginning,

867
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:10,908
his efforts were to push durability,

868
00:42:10,950 --> 00:42:14,658
which evolved into the dynamometer cell

869
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:19,338
that ended up doing the 24 Hour race twice.

870
00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:23,108
They had a 48 Hour Le Mans cycle in the dynamometer

871
00:42:23,150 --> 00:42:25,848
of the engine and transmission

872
00:42:25,890 --> 00:42:29,823
in the dynamometer building
here on campus to do that.

873
00:42:30,690 --> 00:42:32,988
Well, in 1966,

874
00:42:33,030 --> 00:42:38,030
Ford Motor Company did a
bunch of SAE papers that explained

875
00:42:38,610 --> 00:42:43,218
what the 1966 package
was, particularly in the engine.

876
00:42:43,260 --> 00:42:45,378
There's a whole section on the engine itself

877
00:42:45,420 --> 00:42:46,473
in these papers.

878
00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:53,095
Through Mose Nowland who was quite specific, saying,

879
00:42:53,137 --> 00:42:56,637
"The only difference between the 1966 Le Mans engine

880
00:42:57,612 --> 00:43:02,612
and the 1967 Le Mans engine was the implementation

881
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:07,880
"of the 24V Carburetted
Medium Riser induction system."

882
00:43:08,910 --> 00:43:13,338
And so if you had the information
of what a 1966 engine was,

883
00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:18,380
you just simply upgraded
to the 24V induction system

884
00:43:18,540 --> 00:43:20,658
and you had a '67 engine.

885
00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:24,228
Well, that engine is laid out in this book,

886
00:43:24,270 --> 00:43:25,518
and so there's no question

887
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,698
about what the engine was at the time,

888
00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:32,748
and the 24V induction system
was commercially available.

889
00:43:32,790 --> 00:43:35,328
Oh, it's extremely rewarding to work with my son

890
00:43:35,370 --> 00:43:37,518
on projects like this.

891
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,693
My name is Dennis Corn.

892
00:43:40,587 --> 00:43:42,618
I've been employed with Roush Jack

893
00:43:42,660 --> 00:43:45,675
for a number of years since 1981.

894
00:43:45,717 --> 00:43:48,168
And I'm an engineer by training

895
00:43:48,210 --> 00:43:50,778
and get involved with many projects,

896
00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:52,578
both on the engineering side of the company

897
00:43:52,620 --> 00:43:55,216
and through Jack's motor sports efforts.

898
00:43:55,258 --> 00:43:57,925
(upbeat music)

899
00:44:05,100 --> 00:44:07,413
So my father worked at Ford,

900
00:44:08,580 --> 00:44:13,580
I got to see what he brought
from that aspect of his life.

901
00:44:13,740 --> 00:44:14,898
And we also, as a family,

902
00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:17,013
then went sportsman drag racing.

903
00:44:18,245 --> 00:44:20,748
And I thoroughly enjoyed the aspects

904
00:44:20,790 --> 00:44:23,988
of what motor sports brung, the problem solving,

905
00:44:24,030 --> 00:44:25,668
the camaraderie, the people,

906
00:44:25,710 --> 00:44:27,888
and trying new and different things.

907
00:44:27,930 --> 00:44:31,788
As Bill and I started to sort through, you know,

908
00:44:31,830 --> 00:44:35,058
what his vision would be
for this portion of the project,

909
00:44:35,100 --> 00:44:37,398
the engine project, one of the first things

910
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,618
that he had made mention is, "It needs to be durable",

911
00:44:39,660 --> 00:44:41,418
I don't want to build museum pieces,

912
00:44:41,460 --> 00:44:43,638
I wanna build something that really runs.

913
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:48,678
And as it became clear this
was a Le Mans era Ford vehicle,

914
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:52,184
you know, 48 hours of durability at Le Mans

915
00:44:52,226 --> 00:44:55,248
was the requirement, which meant that permeated

916
00:44:55,290 --> 00:44:57,768
a lot of the decisions moving forward.

917
00:44:57,810 --> 00:45:00,918
Bill showed up and we had a good sit down

918
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,338
to go through the requirements
as he saw them, you know,

919
00:45:04,380 --> 00:45:06,258
needed to be durable.

920
00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:10,068
We're going to replicate the
performance of these engines

921
00:45:10,110 --> 00:45:13,323
that are now, you know, from 1967.

922
00:45:14,310 --> 00:45:17,928
Original connecting rods, they
were cutting edge technology,

923
00:45:17,970 --> 00:45:19,188
they were doing everything they knew

924
00:45:19,230 --> 00:45:20,598
how to do up to that point.

925
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,838
They were given materials, given processes.

926
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,688
They had known failures, or weaknesses,

927
00:45:26,730 --> 00:45:28,518
I should say, really not failures.

928
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,248
The Ford engineers were limited

929
00:45:31,290 --> 00:45:35,328
to what they were able to do, what they knew at the time

930
00:45:35,370 --> 00:45:37,638
for how to do pistons, for the materials,

931
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:41,448
the process, skirt design,

932
00:45:41,490 --> 00:45:42,438
you know, the weights,

933
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:46,398
piston ring technology, all
were cutting edge at the time.

934
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,908
Some of the parts that we had to make custom for

935
00:45:49,950 --> 00:45:53,298
and to support what Bob
and Bill Riley have put together

936
00:45:53,340 --> 00:45:56,388
for this Mk IV, just some of the things

937
00:45:56,430 --> 00:45:59,148
that were interesting to us, you know,

938
00:45:59,190 --> 00:46:02,403
working with Peterson for valve springs,

939
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,478
the requirements for today are so much different

940
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:10,520
than what the cars were back then.

941
00:46:11,940 --> 00:46:13,578
So, you know, parts and pieces,

942
00:46:13,620 --> 00:46:17,778
retainers, springs, it's easy
to say it's something to do,

943
00:46:17,820 --> 00:46:18,738
but it wasn't on the shelf

944
00:46:18,780 --> 00:46:20,448
that we could just go off and pick something.

945
00:46:20,490 --> 00:46:23,568
So as we were doing camshafts, everything,

946
00:46:23,610 --> 00:46:24,918
again, is so different

947
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,910
than what the aftermarket offers today.

948
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,748
So performance of the engine was spot on.

949
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:34,863
The metric was 500 horsepower,

950
00:46:35,806 --> 00:46:39,378
as defined by Ford in their own words.

951
00:46:39,420 --> 00:46:42,138
And when we went to finally at the dyno testing,

952
00:46:42,180 --> 00:46:44,628
it was 501, it was remarkably close.

953
00:46:44,670 --> 00:46:46,578
I mean, we followed a recipe,

954
00:46:46,620 --> 00:46:49,905
filled in the blanks, the expectation was there,

955
00:46:49,947 --> 00:46:50,913
and we nailed it.

956
00:46:52,116 --> 00:46:54,949
(engine whirring)

957
00:47:01,985 --> 00:47:05,735
(engine whirring continues)

958
00:47:12,895 --> 00:47:13,998
[Interviewer] How did that work out?

959
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,338
Yeah, making power,

960
00:47:16,380 --> 00:47:20,208
the mannerisms of the engine met the expectations

961
00:47:20,250 --> 00:47:21,768
of what the originals were.

962
00:47:21,810 --> 00:47:22,938
We followed a recipe,

963
00:47:22,980 --> 00:47:25,548
there was a lot of documentation that was available

964
00:47:25,590 --> 00:47:28,068
through Ford, through the SAE papers,

965
00:47:28,110 --> 00:47:30,438
through the memories of my father, Mose,

966
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,208
and people like that.

967
00:47:32,250 --> 00:47:35,808
So when we finally got to going on the engine testing,

968
00:47:35,850 --> 00:47:37,338
it was almost a given that it would do

969
00:47:37,380 --> 00:47:39,030
what it needed to do, and it did.

970
00:47:40,710 --> 00:47:43,998
Bill invited us down, we had to create a carb kit.

971
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,028
Because no one had this stuff
anymore to adjust carburetors.

972
00:47:47,070 --> 00:47:49,938
It's kind of a bygone era.

973
00:47:49,980 --> 00:47:52,878
So we were down in Kershaw, South Carolina,

974
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:57,920
and Jarett Andretti was behind the wheel.

975
00:47:59,970 --> 00:48:02,118
Car had never run, this was just out of the box.

976
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,208
Everything on paper said it would do really well.

977
00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:06,498
And he got on it,

978
00:48:06,540 --> 00:48:10,758
and the sound that it made was reassuring to all

979
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,618
that were in attendance it was doing the job.

980
00:48:12,660 --> 00:48:14,318
In fact, I overheard

981
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,135
some of the mechanics nudging each other saying,

982
00:48:16,177 --> 00:48:18,483
"Did anyone tell him how expensive this car is?

983
00:48:18,525 --> 00:48:19,316
Be careful."

984
00:48:19,358 --> 00:48:21,543
But Bill wanted to run it, and it was running.

985
00:48:23,003 --> 00:48:25,753
(cars whirring)

986
00:48:27,897 --> 00:48:32,088
And to see the car at the track at its first shake down,

987
00:48:32,130 --> 00:48:35,074
it was pretty emotional to see that car run,

988
00:48:35,116 --> 00:48:36,048
hear it go through the gears,

989
00:48:36,090 --> 00:48:38,891
hear the driver feedback on it, you know,

990
00:48:38,933 --> 00:48:40,278
I mean, it brought back a lot of memories

991
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,608
and kind of put yourself in a little bit of the shoes

992
00:48:43,650 --> 00:48:45,528
of people that came before you, you know,

993
00:48:45,570 --> 00:48:47,688
and what they went through and that type of thing.

994
00:48:47,730 --> 00:48:50,958
'Cause we were doing it again.

995
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,783
So it was pretty emotional to see it go.

996
00:48:55,954 --> 00:48:57,948
Yeah, Bob obviously was involved

997
00:48:57,990 --> 00:49:02,990
in a lot of very important motor sports projects,

998
00:49:04,230 --> 00:49:06,348
cars that he designed, you know,

999
00:49:06,390 --> 00:49:08,688
the Mk III, the DP,

1000
00:49:08,730 --> 00:49:13,730
I think this was probably
one of the early achievements

1001
00:49:16,620 --> 00:49:20,478
that he was involved in that I would think probably

1002
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,690
helped propel his career afterwards

1003
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,068
and gave him opportunities

1004
00:49:25,110 --> 00:49:27,888
that maybe he wouldn't have gotten, you know,

1005
00:49:27,930 --> 00:49:30,063
except for the Mk IV project.

1006
00:49:31,980 --> 00:49:36,980
So to be in a position to know Bill and Bob,

1007
00:49:38,460 --> 00:49:43,460
to help Bill and Bob bring this car back to life,

1008
00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:49,008
to continue the legacy of the Mk IV and Bob Riley,

1009
00:49:49,050 --> 00:49:51,858
you could tell how pleased Bob was with it,

1010
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:56,178
and that made everybody happy

1011
00:49:56,220 --> 00:50:00,440
to see Bob that full of life at his age,

1012
00:50:03,180 --> 00:50:05,193
just like a teenager.

1013
00:50:06,750 --> 00:50:11,118
The last time I saw this tub on the track

1014
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,988
was we had just completed the car at Kar-Kraft,

1015
00:50:15,030 --> 00:50:20,030
and we took the car to a Ford test track.

1016
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,118
So the Mk IV was built specifically to win Le Mans,

1017
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,448
obviously a lot of people are familiar with that,

1018
00:50:26,490 --> 00:50:29,037
the storyline in the movie "Ford v Ferrari",

1019
00:50:29,987 --> 00:50:32,238
but this is kind of a continuation of that.

1020
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:33,828
Kind of where that movie ends

1021
00:50:33,870 --> 00:50:35,628
is kind of where this picks up,

1022
00:50:35,670 --> 00:50:37,668
at least is my understanding of the history.

1023
00:50:37,710 --> 00:50:40,908
But yeah, this was built to win Le Mans,

1024
00:50:40,950 --> 00:50:45,950
and it ended up winning
Seabring with my grand uncle Mario,

1025
00:50:46,290 --> 00:50:50,268
and then Bruce McLaren, and then it won at Le Mans,

1026
00:50:50,310 --> 00:50:52,300
I believe it was with Gurney and Foyt.

1027
00:50:52,342 --> 00:50:54,708
So it's win two for two.

1028
00:50:54,750 --> 00:50:58,248
And so it's got a lot of history.

1029
00:50:58,290 --> 00:51:00,332
Really, really cool.

1030
00:51:00,374 --> 00:51:01,968
It is a really cool program

1031
00:51:02,010 --> 00:51:04,488
and it's honorable to have, you know,

1032
00:51:04,530 --> 00:51:06,858
Bob here that helped design the original car

1033
00:51:06,900 --> 00:51:08,800
and here while we're running the test.

1034
00:51:10,859 --> 00:51:13,442
(upbeat music)

1035
00:51:20,984 --> 00:51:24,401
(upbeat music continues)

1036
00:51:29,985 --> 00:51:33,402
(upbeat music continues)

1037
00:51:37,261 --> 00:51:39,928
(car whirring)

1038
00:51:45,388 --> 00:51:46,788
Yeah, the first time on the
track was just this morning,

1039
00:51:46,830 --> 00:51:48,783
and it was so fun to drive.

1040
00:51:51,162 --> 00:51:53,898
And it's got a lot of power, a lot of torque,

1041
00:51:53,940 --> 00:51:54,978
which is really fun to drive.

1042
00:51:55,020 --> 00:51:57,828
I mean, it's like a big go-kart,

1043
00:51:57,870 --> 00:52:01,548
and you know, it's got the H pattern still,

1044
00:52:01,590 --> 00:52:03,168
which is not something that we're used to anymore.

1045
00:52:03,210 --> 00:52:04,488
You know, we have the paddles,

1046
00:52:04,530 --> 00:52:07,068
and you know, it does all
the shifting basically for you.

1047
00:52:07,110 --> 00:52:08,358
So this is really fun.

1048
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,038
It's more manual,

1049
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:10,968
you feel like you're driving it,

1050
00:52:11,010 --> 00:52:13,068
probably more than some of these other cars of today.

1051
00:52:13,110 --> 00:52:14,415
And it is cool.

1052
00:52:14,457 --> 00:52:16,908
And you look at the seat, and
you look at all the switches,

1053
00:52:16,950 --> 00:52:18,253
and everything, you know,

1054
00:52:18,295 --> 00:52:21,318
it's a step back in time,

1055
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,478
and it's just really cool to be a part of that,

1056
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,448
you know, anymore and you have stuff flashing

1057
00:52:26,490 --> 00:52:27,768
at the dash all the time at you,

1058
00:52:27,810 --> 00:52:29,568
and this you don't have anything.

1059
00:52:29,610 --> 00:52:30,648
If you have oil pressure problem,

1060
00:52:30,690 --> 00:52:32,358
there'll be a light that comes on, but that's about it.

1061
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:33,918
And so, just go out there and drive it.

1062
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,763
And so that's pretty cool.

1063
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:41,028
For me, what was as special as sitting in the car,

1064
00:52:41,070 --> 00:52:44,448
driving the car was having, you know,

1065
00:52:44,490 --> 00:52:47,118
a couple of the original folks involved, you know,

1066
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,188
Bob Riley, obviously,

1067
00:52:49,230 --> 00:52:51,453
and then the guys from Roush came down.

1068
00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:57,500
So bringing these guys together is,

1069
00:52:57,773 --> 00:53:02,773
you know, that's as special
as actually sitting in the car.

1070
00:53:03,300 --> 00:53:04,818
Having said all that, you know,

1071
00:53:04,860 --> 00:53:06,048
it's fabulous.

1072
00:53:06,090 --> 00:53:10,773
I mean, it's the beginning of the end,

1073
00:53:11,786 --> 00:53:13,428
you know, we had a dream,

1074
00:53:13,470 --> 00:53:15,483
we gathered all the materials,

1075
00:53:17,104 --> 00:53:20,208
Bill and all the guys at Riley, you know,

1076
00:53:20,250 --> 00:53:22,068
put the car together.

1077
00:53:22,110 --> 00:53:24,318
I watched and asked stupid questions, you know,

1078
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,298
and they'll patiently answer 'em.

1079
00:53:26,340 --> 00:53:31,340
And here it is, you know, it's alive.

1080
00:53:31,530 --> 00:53:36,530
And now the next big milestone
is when the next person says,

1081
00:53:38,407 --> 00:53:39,897
"I'll have one of those."

1082
00:53:40,909 --> 00:53:43,492
(upbeat music)

1083
00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:49,638
You know, to see this thing actually come to life.

1084
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:52,083
Here it is, in the flesh,

1085
00:53:53,970 --> 00:53:58,970
to fire it up, to drive it to the track with Bob there,

1086
00:53:59,130 --> 00:54:04,130
you know, I can't describe how that feels.

1087
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:06,363
I don't have enough superlatives.

1088
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:11,388
It's literally a once in a lifetime,

1089
00:54:11,430 --> 00:54:12,888
once in a many lifetimes.

1090
00:54:12,930 --> 00:54:16,158
I can't imagine many people

1091
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,483
ever got to do anything like that.

1092
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,658
And you know, how lucky I personally am.

1093
00:54:23,700 --> 00:54:27,648
How lucky everybody at Riley Technologies,

1094
00:54:27,690 --> 00:54:30,063
Bill, Bob, everybody involved,

1095
00:54:31,048 --> 00:54:32,733
all the Roush guys.

1096
00:54:32,775 --> 00:54:37,458
(car whirring) (upbeat music)

1097
00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:40,128
What a great, fun project.

1098
00:54:40,170 --> 00:54:41,868
Especially, like I said,

1099
00:54:41,910 --> 00:54:42,810
to come, you know,

1100
00:54:44,910 --> 00:54:47,789
near the end of Bob's life,

1101
00:54:47,831 --> 00:54:52,831
and to have something so awesome to be involved in,

1102
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,213
there's no describing it.

1103
00:55:01,369 --> 00:55:03,952
(car whirring)

1104
00:55:05,042 --> 00:55:05,833
(upbeat music)

1105
00:55:05,875 --> 00:55:09,918
- Yeah, we have 50 full-time employees,

1106
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:11,538
and a lot of them touched this car,

1107
00:55:11,580 --> 00:55:13,098
you know, in our building.

1108
00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:16,248
And it really showed all the craftsmanship,

1109
00:55:16,290 --> 00:55:19,608
all the craftsmen that we have, and all the people

1110
00:55:19,650 --> 00:55:24,019
in the composite department and in the metal fab,

1111
00:55:24,061 --> 00:55:25,158
and to be able to make the aluminum skin roof,

1112
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,248
and make the chassis again, and duplicate the parts,

1113
00:55:28,290 --> 00:55:29,568
and go through the assembly shop,

1114
00:55:29,610 --> 00:55:32,628
and have everything assembled
correctly, and you know,

1115
00:55:32,670 --> 00:55:34,578
all the way to the design office

1116
00:55:34,620 --> 00:55:38,223
to all the contractors that came in and helped.

1117
00:55:39,118 --> 00:55:41,268
So it was a lot of people
pulling in the same direction,

1118
00:55:41,310 --> 00:55:43,788
which kind of gave the project the same feel

1119
00:55:43,830 --> 00:55:46,503
that it probably had a little bit back into the '60s.

1120
00:55:47,568 --> 00:55:48,588
(upbeat music)

1121
00:55:48,630 --> 00:55:49,908
It's pretty incredible.

1122
00:55:49,950 --> 00:55:52,818
I mean, when you see the car at the shop

1123
00:55:52,860 --> 00:55:53,651
and you walk by it,

1124
00:55:53,693 --> 00:55:57,048
it's hard not to feel a little
something for me to feel it.

1125
00:55:57,090 --> 00:55:59,508
I drove it around our industrial complex

1126
00:55:59,550 --> 00:56:01,068
just to make sure it shifted.

1127
00:56:01,110 --> 00:56:03,096
And I was in it and I'm like going,

1128
00:56:03,138 --> 00:56:05,058
"This is it, this is real."

1129
00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:06,228
So it was kind of interesting

1130
00:56:06,270 --> 00:56:07,578
all of a sudden that it's real.

1131
00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:10,158
You know, this isn't a dream any longer,

1132
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,253
you know, we did it.

1133
00:56:13,305 --> 00:56:16,457
And the craftsman we have back at Riley's,

1134
00:56:19,020 --> 00:56:22,788
they just did a great job building this car.

1135
00:56:22,830 --> 00:56:26,628
The fabrication is just great.

1136
00:56:26,670 --> 00:56:29,958
So the car really turned out quite well.

1137
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,553
And it's quite exciting to see it run again.

1138
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,938
- [Narrator] Shortly after
filming for this documentary,

1139
00:56:37,980 --> 00:56:41,358
Bob Riley passed on at 93 years young.

1140
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,148
Loved by friends, respected by competitors,

1141
00:56:44,190 --> 00:56:46,308
and cherished by all who knew him.

1142
00:56:46,350 --> 00:56:49,638
Bob's legacy lives on in every car he touched,

1143
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:53,448
every life he inspired, and
every story he helped create.

1144
00:56:53,490 --> 00:56:55,458
Though he may no longer be with us,

1145
00:56:55,500 --> 00:56:58,750
the spirit of Bob Riley continues to race on forever.

1146
00:57:01,974 --> 00:57:04,557
(upbeat music)

1147
00:57:11,947 --> 00:57:15,364
(upbeat music continues)

1148
00:57:21,940 --> 00:57:25,357
(upbeat music continues)

1149
00:57:31,818 --> 00:57:35,235
(upbeat music continues)

1150
00:57:41,947 --> 00:57:45,364
(upbeat music continues)

1151
00:57:51,903 --> 00:57:55,320
(upbeat music continues)

1152
00:58:01,942 --> 00:58:05,359
(upbeat music continues)