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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.
For race car fans, Carroll Shelby is a magical name. Those fans include a 12-year-old boy at Live Oak Elementary School in Castaic who recently got the joy ride of his life.
After that, in 1962, he worked for famous race car designer and builder Carroll Shelby on the Cobra. [6] He would go on to become one of the best custom car painters of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and an early pioneer of painting flames on cars. [10] [11] He also developed his own paint, Jeffries Indy Pearl. [10]
Miles was born on 1 November 1918 in Sutton Coldfield, then in Warwickshire, now in the city of Birmingham. [1] He was the son of Eric Miles and Clarice Jarvis. [2] After a failed attempt to run away to the United States, [3] Miles left school at the age of 15 to work as an apprentice at Wolseley Motors, [2] who sent him to a technical school to broaden his knowledge of vehicle construction. [3]
Ex-Carroll Shelby '66 Thunderbird For Sale on BaT Bring a Trailer The mid-Sixties Ford Thunderbird was a full-on luxury cruiser. It's about as far as you can get from a Shelby Cobra or even a ...
Shelby made his name racing Fords, but during the '80s and '90s, he was all about Mopar turbo power. This Charger GLH-S is one of 1000 produced in 1987, and is a true low-volume Shelby collectible.
In 1967, Bill Cosby bought a Shelby Cobra Super Snake CSX 3303 from his friend, company founder Carroll Shelby.The car was a 1965 Cobra Competition roadster, retained by Shelby American as a PR car and then modified with the addition of two superchargers and a Ford C-6 automatic gearbox. [2]
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