Documentary about building the gt

[AlohaGT]

Roketman,

That thought made me reflect. This Forum and it's members are a refuge for many of us. An island of self-reliance, personal responsibility, and good fellowship where the concept of honor is still alive and well. Those qualities that make the Ford GT Forum such a wonderful place to spend a little time each day appear to be in retreat throughout the rest of our society.

It is common to witness our members going out of their way, even at personal expense, to render assistance to total strangers whose only connection to them is their interest in this car. They concern themselves primarily with what is right, what is just, and what is fair as opposed to what is merely legal. Weather or crowded conditions may render a legal speed unjust and reckless. Remote and barren conditions may render an illegal speed a harmless diversion.

The code of honor that appears to be the norm here makes me perfectly comfortable running up an unsecured $4000 dinner tab at one of our local functions, and allows Shadowman to ship out $10,000 worth of powder coated aluminum vents to owners without payment or any type of contract, secure in the knowledge that payment will come even though the law doesn't require it.

This type of individual doesn't have pirated music or movies on his computer. He pays his way and then some. He does many things that the law does not require, because he views them as either just, or to assist a fellow man. But he is also aware that in the course of his everyday life, he will probably, often unwittingly, violate dozens of the laws contained in over 100,000 pages of governmental rules.

And so you do the best you can do, secure in the knowledge that, if a man keeps his personal honor intact, he won't go too far wrong.

Chip

Well said, Chip, and the title captured it precisely.

 

[Indy GT]

Well said Chip, and wholly support your eloquent words!

 

[roketman]

kudos Chip !!

 

[centerpunch]

Found a pdf brochure by the folks that produced this DVD, and contact info in the US in Maryland. Maybe they would consider doing a small run?

http://www.beyond.com.au/components...__gt40_261/rebuilding_a_race_car_brochure.pdf

http://www.beyond.com.au/index.php?...=20&Itemid=17&phpMyAdmin=d0c49d2b3a2t72a49e6e

 

[spddmnjay]

Found a pdf brochure by the folks that produced this DVD, and contact info in the US in Maryland. Maybe they would consider doing a small run?

That would be fantastic! I ordered the DVD from SR Publications (link on this thread) and found out that they no longer sell it even though it is listed on their website.

 

[Lorenzo]

Hello fellow GT enthusiast and Forum members. I have been watching this thread with the hope of obtaining a copy of "Rebuilding a race car legend"

Several of the links posted here turned into a dead end so today i called the california location for Beyond publishing and spoke with a lady named Natalie.

Her responce to my inquiry was " Wow your the forth person today"

Long story short i got the impresion we may be in luck.

Her advice was to send an email with a note as to what you want and although no promise's were made she is going to work on it for us.
Her email is natalie_knight@beyond.com.au Worth a try and mabie if there is enough of us something will happen:thumbsup



There is an under score like this _ in front of knight it might not show up if your computer automatically underlines her email address

 

[Gill Jr.]

I just got this response from Natalie @ Beyond Productions:


Hi Gill

Man, I was thinking how on earth is everyone getting my email address.

Would you do me a favour and post this.

Thank you for enquiring about 'Rebuilding a race car legend'.
I have talked to our Distribution department and due to licensing restrictions we can not sell the DVD.
You all will have to contact Discovery directly for any copies.
All the best.
Natalie
Beyond Productions

I would really appreciate it.


Thx Nat

I guess it is back to square one. :frown

 

[Piccola]

Huh. I have the DVD at home. Don't remember where I got it.

 

[Gill Jr.]

UPDATE

Just got another email from Natalie @ Beyond Productions asking me to tell everyone that she is looking into getting us a contact at Discovery.

Stay tuned!!!

 

[CJ428]

cool man,don't you just love this electric newspaper.:rofl

 

[djs]

Natalie replied this:

Hi Everyone

Thank you for enquiring about 'Rebuilding a race car legend'.

I have talked to our Distribution department and due to licensing restrictions we can not sell the DVD.

You all will have to contact Discovery directly for any copies.

All the best.

Natalie

:frown

 

[spddmnjay]

Natalie replied this:

Hi Everyone

Thank you for enquiring about 'Rebuilding a race car legend'.

I have talked to our Distribution department and due to licensing restrictions we can not sell the DVD.

You all will have to contact Discovery directly for any copies.

All the best.

Natalie

:frown

I contacting Discover Channel and had no luck. You have to call this department that sends you to this department that requires you to leave a message on a machine. Major PITA! I finally gave up.

Maybe someone else will have better luck than I did...

 

[Gill Jr.]

I contacting Discover Channel and had no luck. You have to call this department that sends you to this department that requires you to leave a message on a machine. Major PITA! I finally gave up.

Maybe someone else will have better luck than I did...

Natalie emailed me that she would try to find a direct contact at Discovery. I believe this will be resolved shortly. I will post the Discovery contact info as soon as I get it. That is, if I get it. :willy

 

[Superfly]

Natalie emailed me that she would try to find a direct contact at Discovery. I believe this will be resolved shortly. I will post the Discovery contact info as soon as I get it. That is, if I get it. :willy

Just posting so that I will get updates.

Thanks for looking into this.

 

[texas mongrel]

I finally got the Netflix copy a couple of days ago - it''s a great documentary. I made my wife and daughter sit and watch it so they could understand what the car is all about. They actually enjoyed the show, and were impressed by all the 'virtual design' stuff and Camillo talking about 'hips' and 'butts' as he described the styling process. Also cool to see Dan Gurney giggling like a schoolkid as he throws one of the protoypes around a track.
Only down-side was towards the end when they line up the first three production units and the fastest colour (Blue/white stripes) was at the back.

 

[Hammer]

I just read this thread for the first time, and there were many well-made points about this somewhat murky issue of personal use of media versus intellectual property rights, but Chip's clear, well-reasoned, and eloquent view once again reminds me why I'm glad to be a member of this group.

 

[Gill Jr.]

Update

UPDATE

I received this email from Natalie @ Beyond Productions:


They (Discovery) sold this title back in the day, but it looks like it's been
discontinued for over a year. If we have the asset, we can put it up for
manufacture-on-demand sales.

The GT fans can let their voices be heard by dropping us a note @
http://store.discovery.com/productfinder.php

I hope it all works out for you.

Cheers

Nat



So it looks like the DVD may never again be commercially available unless Discovery thinks there is enough interest to produce another batch.

Gill Jr.

 

[AtomicGT]

Well you can always rent it from NetFlix......... and ????????

 

[pauleddy]

Would appreciate the full cataog description of the Netflix GT40 re-build video rental so that we can rent it, enjoy it and then,,,,,

 

[AtomicGT]

It is called "Rebuilding a Sports Car Legend - The Making of the Ford GT"

If it is out of press and no one is selling it, make a copy. Unfortunately, there was some heated discussion on this earlier, but under the circumstances, the choice is up to you.