Shelby's Crew Chief and His Philosophy

money than the other team so we were pretty sure to win i would have told you to [ __ ] off years ago i hate you and walked out of the meeting that was his crew chief of 20 years wow so that's kind of what everybody thought about girl shelby wow that's kind of crazy you knew you saw the movie ford versus ferrari yeah leo bibi comes off as a real jerk in the movie he was a very articulate very nice gentleman big hammer he could lop your head off if it was required but he was articulate and my daughter and i were displaying our gt40 and our ferrari up at limerock and mr bibi was the guest speaker at the shelby club banquet and he saw my daughter and i and we knew him quite well and he came over and said lee would it be possible for jan and i to have dinner at your table this evening because i've been with carol shelby for four straight days and the normal lethal dose is only two yeah but that's the way leo bibi would speak bibi was the guy that converted the willow run truck factory into aircraft factory in world war ii and he told me over dinner one night that the problem of building a truck an hour required 30 000 parts be at the right table at the right time before computers the airplanes had a million three hundred thousand individual parts wires and pieces and stuff and getting a million three parts at the right table at the right time so people didn't run over each other was logistically unbelievable but we did it and they produced a plane a day wow and somebody that can do that's a pretty bright sucker you know he was switched on did carol shelby and leo bibi have a bad relationship like they showed in the movie well leo beebe has passed away iacocca's family is still active and promoting iacocca iacocca was the jerk henry ii was a jerk leo bibi was not so that movie was not about the le mans race it was taken from a book about the relationship between ken miles and carol shelby yeah and the race part of it was just part of just part of the ambiance of their relationship it was it was not a feature thing there were lots of better books about the race um but they didn't do that and they didn't talk to anybody anywhere that had ever been