Got to see it on Sunday.
As long as you can get past the the Hollywoodization of history, facts, technical details etc, for me it's one of the best, if not
the best, car-guy movies ever.
It tells a great story, just not a precisely accurate one. And they did a terrific job giving it a period look and feel.
... that Miles wasn't driving a GT-40 but the J-Car. It was likely a budgetary restriction to use the black car rather than build a replica J-Car. How and why I knew this particular detail is beyond me, just don't ask me when my anniversary is though! LOL!!
Since we lost Miles in our back yard it's pretty easy to remember out here. Plus, the J was one of my
Hot Wheels "unicorns" when I was a kid. (Every so often I look at them on ebay, the prices vary wildly.)
I do think they should have built one for the movie, though. I would have been pretty easy make a GT40 MK II approximate a J by building a "bread van" rear hatch and just bolting it on for the shoot.