Posted on 05/11/2012 1:46:49 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
Prayers up... RIP
Over the years since 1975 I have owned 5 Shelby Mustangs ranging from My first one a GT500KR fastback to the 1966 GT350 that I still have. I just might get it out this weekend and raise a little hell with it in his honor.
Rest in peace Carrol.You will be missed.:(
A true legend in a sport where that word is thrown around loosely.
Most excellent. If God is in a good mood, may see that in the liberal media soon...........
I saw a cobra on the road the other day coming home from church - pointed it out to my kids, but told them I couldn’t tell if it was real or not.
It had the single roll bar for the driver - but I’m not sure that means anything.
Condolences to Carroll Shelby’s family and friends. R.I.P., sir.
I think that’s the sketch where Cos gets into the car and it asks him (deepening his voice and swallowing the mike):
“And where would you like to go today?”
“A legitimate con man”
What a fine description of a great man
RIP Mr. Shelby, you’ll be missed.
The next Barrett-Jackson auction should be very interesting when one of his cars goes on the block!!
If you have a spare 100K there are plenty of recreations being made.
not many “real” ones running around, loads of replica’s..real ones are going for millions.....sooo, most likely replica
RIP Carroll Shelby .
Mr. Shelby sure had an interesting life.
To quote St. Paul: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race”.
Another business that he got involved with was buying a motel
on the South shore of Lake Tahoe back in the mid sixties... nice little motor on inn, but a dive by today’s standards.
You might remember it Jim... on Highway 50, West side of the road near the Bijou/Stateline border!
I used to drool when some of those cobras would gather there on a run!
ROFL
I think that he built two 1966 427 Cobras with twin turbochargers and automatics. He gave one of them to Bill Cosby which he made the album 200MPH about. Great man. RIP.
If there was any name that the legendary Enzo Ferrari (who founded the famous sports car company named after him) cursed, it was Carroll Shelby. The AC Cobra, the Shelby Daytona coupe, and the Shelby-maintained Ford GT40’s pretty much ended Ferrari’s nearly-hammerlock reign in sports car racing in the 1960’s.
Two. The other was built for Cosby:
"It'll have 'automatic shift,' don't hafta worry 'bout no clutch. I'm havin' one built for me..."
http://activerain.com/blogsview/1475714/bill-cosby-200-mph-its-a-real-car
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