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Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.. Best known as a designer for his involvement with the AC Cobra and Mustang for Ford Motor Company, he also developed the Ford GT40 with racing legend Ken Miles, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969.
He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. As an automotive engineer, he is known for developing the Ford GT40 along with driver and designer Carroll Shelby, which won at Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969. His and Shelby's efforts at Le Mans were dramatized in the 2020 Oscar-nominated film Ford v Ferrari.
When Shelby and O'Shea got into a disagreement about who would work for who, O'Shea left. Shelby hired Brock as his first paid employee, running the Carroll Shelby School of High Performance Driving. [2] Brock worked at Shelby American until the end of the 1965 season on the Shelby American brand, creating the logos, merchandise, ads, and car ...
Automotive Legend and American Icon Carroll Shelby Inducted into SCCA Hall of Fame LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Carroll Shelby, founder of the Carroll Shelby Foundation, Carroll Shelby Licensing ...
Carroll Shelby Foundation Honors Founder's Birthday with $25,000 Donation to Children's Organ Transplant Association GARDENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In honor of the late Carroll Shelby's ...
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Carroll Shelby's personal 1965 427 Cobra could fetch over $2 million when it crosses the auction block in January 2021. ... Although Shelby's name is commonly associated with high-performance ...
He's certainly known for the Cobra, and Ford put his name on a limited-run Mustang produced with his advice (the Shelby American GT 350 model of 1965-6, most of which were sold to Hertz for rental and thrashed to death by the customers in fairly short order), but he also won Le Mans in 1959 as co-driver of the Aston Martin DBR1 with Roy ...