Carroll Shelby
 

RIP Mr. Shelby

The young Mr. Shelby liked to ride along with his father, a mail carrier, on his postal route. He was interested in cars, motorcycles and airplanes and, after high school, joined the Army Air Forces. During World War II, he trained bomber pilots at an air base in Texas. During training flights, he dropped love letters from his airplane over his fiancee’s farm.

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RIP Mr. Shelby

You have left a great legacy and your cars will always be a part of the American Car legacy...

RIP, Sir.

Big fan of your work.

Thank you for your service.

TR

This is from Lime Rock Park in September of 1992. The car owner is Rick Kopec how wrote the know-all book "All things Shelby". The car was found in poor shape in a barn in Canada in 1981. The frame no. is R5098 and it is the 7th of the Shelby R Mustangs.

Carroll Shelby is piloting this Mustang (he was a pilot during WWII flying...Mustangs) identified above. One of the coolest people I ever met.

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Big fan of the Mustangs and his chili mix too. RIP

Rest In God's Peace Mr. Shelby. Your name and influence will be with us decades to come; and thanks.

RIP Carroll Shelby

Read an interview that he gave in Playboy magazine many years ago where he talked about his exploits as a fighter pilot in Europe during WWII. Very colorful and interesting person.

Roger that!

Back in 1965 or 66 I was working at JFK Airport in NY, and a friend of mine said I have something you have to see. We drove on the tarmac to the TWA cargo building and there a sight for sore eyes ......at least a dozen AC Cobras ( all blue) sitting there. After checking them out, he said ...."you won't believe what's inside the building". We went in , and there sat the blue and orange Gulf Oil Company Ford GT40 which had come back to the states from LeMans.
I think we examined every inch (inside and out) of that baby. We were the only people in the building...no TWA employees, and no security guards! I wish we had a camera with us.

:munchin:munchin

Damn. My favorite designer. I got to drive a Cobra about a decade ago. Amazing car.

Best store-bought chili mix you can buy!

Concur, most people open a can and masa flour wouldn't enter their mind anyway, their loss. Damn good stuff.

I think he was, in a way, to Ford what Kelly Johnson was to Lockheed - the kinda guy you just let develop the situation.

WCH: Thanks for the Le Mans anecdote; back then ABC would broadcast the whole thing start-finish. I'd get up in the middle of the night & flip on the TV to see how the GT40's were doing.

Too bad Ford already wasted the model name "Maverick." That would be him to a 'T'.
:)