The man was a legend in more ways than one.
Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died. He was 89.
Shelby’s company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital. He had received a heart transplant in 1990 and a kidney transplant in 1996. […]
The one-time chicken farmer had more than a half-dozen successful careers during his long life. Among them: champion race car driver, racing team owner, automobile manufacturer, automotive consultant, safari tour operator, raconteur, chili entrepreneur and philanthropist.
“He’s an icon in the medical world and an icon in the automotive world,” his longtime friend, Dick Messer, executive director of Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotive Museum, once said of Shelby.
“His legacy is the diversity of his life,” Messer said. “He’s incredibly innovative. His life has always been the reinvention of Carroll Shelby.”
Going for a drive.
I use his chili seasonings, don’t even doctor them up.
A real-life Randian character.
Same here BT.
Government made America great, BHO ?
No, men like Carroll Shelby made America great.
Government couldn’t have made a pimple on Mr. Shelby’s ass.
Carroll Shelby is something of a legend in Terlingua, where we spend the winters.
By the way, Shelby also founded the Armadillo Breeders Association!
Drug-sniffing armadillos.. Hmmm. And now you know the rest of the story.
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Carroll Shelby truly was a Great American.
God must have got tired of waiting on a Cobra.
Death by boobies. I knew those things were dangerous.