Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam Bridge writes: > I bought "Le Mans" back in March - a really good transfer to DVD. More > a semi-documentary than a work of fiction. Some fine photography. I > gather Porche paid a lot of bucks to be featured. Not that they didn't > deserve to be at that time. > Hi Adam, By chance I just watched Le Mans on DVD last weekend. Great dialog! The connection, I believe, was not with Porsche but with their sponsor Gulf Oil. Le Mans was filmed in 1970 and released in 1971. In 1968 and 1969 Gulf had sponsored the winning Ford GT40 cars, which were ultimately outlawed via rule changes after their class domination (over all European comers) at Le Mans in 1966 through 1969. This was in the days prior to blatant product placement in motion pictures. Steve McQueen financed the movie himself and was expecting Gulf and the GT40 to reappear and wins Le Mans in 1970. Regards, Greg