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The great Mr. Shelby passes at 89. Hope he's up there gearing threw a 427 Cobra as I type. Rest in peace Legend.
Rest in piece sir.
The end of an era.....
One of my favorite cars of all time. RIP Carol.
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Cette une tragic!
There'll never be another like him! R.I.P. Mr Shelby!
Jan "Felicis Tredecim"
"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
"When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"
another one passed me by, didn't he just design the new mustang 1000hp machine. The man could build some d*mn specatacular machines there will never be another.
An instructor in the Army Air Corps and a test pilot with Chuck Yeager
Last edited by mikewint; 05-14-2012 at 06:04 PM.
Motivated, Dedicated, Lethal
Yes he did and he also had his hand on the Plymouth Viper.
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There's not much that deals with horsepower that he didn't have a hand in. I think it's kinda neat that he had a big hand in handing a one, two punch at Le Mans to Enzo Ferrari in 1966 taking first and second place quite handily and winning it the next three years also. Twice with the same chassis.
I just love the idea that you could buy a car off the show-room floor, change the tires and race competivley! What an age to have lived in!
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
I read about the Viper, seems Carol had designed a much smaller agile machine, then Chrysler got it's hands on the car and doubled its weight. As I recall Carol was not very happy with the result
Motivated, Dedicated, Lethal
Bit of a late entry to this thread I know, but being a lover of cars, also wish to salute the legend that is Carroll Shelby
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Andy
I just finished reading a book called "They Also Flew", it was about America's Enlisted pilots from pre-WW1 up to the middle of WW2. Carol Shelby was one of them, a Sgt Pilot. I never knew this.
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