Le Mans Letter from Ford

moody um curtis turner joe evely marvin panch bill amy there's a little letter right there from don fry we were under team orders not to pass a shelby car unless a ferrari passed to shelby carr that's why we finished third really is that the the real letter like that's not a photocopy that's wonderful i showed it to the guys today is it don fry signature on the bottom june 30 1965. that's so cool that's insane we've got all the old race records all the old details and stuff signed checks fred lorenzen's win at darlington and 61 paid 2 400 bucks to win what was the dynamic like between you guys and shelby back then you're like technically in the same team but you weren't how did that work well the history goes back farther than that um at the first race at riverside my dad was talking to his former employer employer um arkis dundoff and my dad was a tool and die maker and machinist and he worked for dundov on some of his projects and we were standing i was like 11 years old and we're standing uh talking to mr dundoff and carol shelby walked up and my dad said come on me let's go over here and as we walked away he said that damn texan's a crook i can't stand me around the song and um it was a hundred percent shelby nothing for anybody else you never could get him to pay 100 of an invoice and so knowing that when i needed three thousand dollars for the patterns for the girling cr breaks i charged him four he paid three but he still owed me a thousand dollars according to the invoice two years later he called up oh man you got any 427s yeah i got a couple yeah should be one i need one no you haven't paid me for the last invoice the last stuff i sold you