BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Over the weekend on a massive Bethlehem estate, car care was taken to the extreme.<\/p>\n
“I wish I had a bucket of water and a rag and just kind of wash it,” said Ed Welburn, former head of Global Design for GM, as he looked at a Ford GT.<\/p>\n
Snakes on the Mountain is an annual private invitation only car show. Nearly 200 classics, race and rare automobiles from across the country rolled in.<\/p>\n
Two roared louder than the rest.<\/p>\n
“All Ferrari’s are for driving. I drive all my cars, people think I’m nuts,” said Len Rusiewicz.<\/p>\n
Len Rusiewicz has owned dozens of Ferraris, including a 1958 model valued at $5 million that he drove to the event.<\/p>\n
He, along with the rest, are celebrating the 60th anniversary of Ford vs. Ferrari.<\/p>\n
“This is the car from the Ford versus Ferrari, the movie,” Snakes on the Mountain Boad Member Bill Caron explained.<\/p>\n
A 2019 movie highlighted the historic 1966 Le Mans endurance race, when Ford’s GT40mk beat the Italian automaker.<\/p>\n
“It was the race of the century,” said Rusiewicz.<\/p>\n
Marking the first time an American manufacturer won the prestigious title.<\/p>\n
“When you see a Ford GT, what does this represent to you?” asked 69 News reporter Bo Koltnow.<\/p>\n
“This is Americana,” responded Sean Serafina in front of a Ford GT.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old drove in from Detroit.<\/p>\n
“Who cares if Ford beat Ferrari 60 years ago? Why does it matter now?” Bo asked him.<\/p>\n
“I think of Ford versus Ferrari, that was engineered here in America by average people. That’s why I love the cars, seeing what people create over time, and how things evolve, and they solve problems. It’s just representative what this country is all about to me,” he said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a ride through history where yesterday’s race still fuels today’s imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Over the weekend on a massive Bethlehem estate, car care was taken to the extreme.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[189165,219651,219648,26095,15485,219646,219647,61,60,219649,36278,219650,82,263],"class_list":["post-514526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-automotive-history","tag-bethlehem-pennsylvania","tag-car-show","tag-classic-cars","tag-ferrari","tag-ford-gt","tag-ford-vs-ferrari","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-le-mans","tag-motorsport","tag-race-cars","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}