Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Arizona car collectors remember Carroll Shelby Legendary racer designer dies Thrillseeker was a man of many talents Car Builder Dead At 89 Shelby's Death Mourned By Company And Friends at Racer Cobra Sports Dies legendary and Auto 'icon' Pit Pass Pod Rods A legend is gone; some concepts head to Villa d'Este; Chevy paces this year's Indy 500

Carroll Shelby, legendary car designer and racer dies at 89 Decades after retiring from racing, Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars and testing his last Mustang Shelby GT500, which sets a new record for horsepower and hits a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour. Vale Carroll Shelby: father of the muscle car Failed chicken farmer went on to carve an enviable reputation in the car industry. Carroll Shelby: Racing driver who won at Le Mans for Aston Martin Carroll Shelby," the great American racing driver Dan Gurney said, "was an automotive visionary and leader. His West Texas down-home bib overalls style had a huge emotional impact on me and when he launched his now legendary Ford-powered Cobra team, I found myself a very willing volunteer to lend my driving ability to his quest to take on the established European teams on their home turf." Legendary car designer Carroll Shelby dies at 89 Carroll Shelby stands next to the 2006 Ford Shelby Cobra GT500 at the Auto Show in New York in 2005. DALLAS — Decades after a heart condition forced him to retire from racing, Carroll Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars. Like the Cobra, Carroll Shelby was a classic From chicken farmer to muscle car designer, automotive legend dies at 89 Carroll Shelby: Barrett-Jackson Looks Back at a Friend, His Iconic Life and a Legacy for the Hobby SCOTTSDALE, AZ-- - The world lost an automotive icon, Barrett-Jackson lost a friend.Carroll Shelby, who passed away on May 10, was more than the namesake manufacturer behind some of Barrett-Jackson's most ... Henny's Fond Memories of Carroll Shelby THE HAGUE, May 14, 2012. The news that auto legend Carroll Shelby passed away last Thursday, did not come as a big shock. It did make me feel very sad indeed, but when I last spoke to mr. Shelby at the Los Angeles auto show, I realized he was very frail. Carroll Shelby dies at 89; champion driver, famed designer gave sports cars their muscle Carroll Shelby, a failed chicken farmer who roared out of the hills of East Texas to become a champion race car driver and the father of the muscle car, building some of the fastest and sleekest sports cars ever to hit the highway, died May 10 at age 89. Carroll Shelby's LA connections and the Cobra Kevin Roderick: Carroll Shelby, the auto racing legend who died last week in Dallas at age 89, apparently divided his time recently between Texas and Beverly Hills. The Southern California chapters of his career, though, are a pretty important part of the story. Like the Cobra he created, Carroll Shelby was a classic From chicken farmer to muscle car designer, automotive legend dies at 89
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