Southern California locations play a key role in 'Ford v Ferrari,' starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale as American race car builder Carroll Shelby and English race car driver Ken Miles.
When director James Mangold’s new movie “Ford v Ferrari” hits theaters Nov. 15, car nuts may find themselves asking where the filmmakers found all those classic Carroll Shelby race cars from the 1960s, which sell for millions of dollars when they become available.Movies for grown-ups are in short supply. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ aims to prove they still work
With the tracks shot, Mangold and his crew were left to figure out what to do with the surrounding Le Mans locations — grandstands, pits, garages and other key areas around the tracks, most of which have been replaced by more modern facilities. Some of the non-racing locations proved equally difficult to find. Shelby did a lot of his development at a hangar inside LAX. But no such hangar is available any more. The film’s location manager, Robert Foulkes, found an empty National Guard hangar at Ontario International Airport. By coincidence, there was even a vintage 727 parked nearby.
That was where Mangold shot the most expensive scenes in the movie, Audouy said. “We built three 330P3s and three F1 race cars, from scratch, but there were also several real Ferraris in those shots, valued from $6 million to $30 million each.” Perhaps the most complicated physical location was the neighborhood garage where racer Miles tries to make a living between races, fixing other people’s cars. Mangold insisted that the garage be physically right across the street from the little bungalow where Miles lives with his wife and son — so that, literally, Miles can see his house from the shop, and his wife can see him working from her front porch.
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