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  1. Apr 26, 2024 · September 27, 1944 – Sharon Anne Shelby is born. August 1945 – Carroll leaves the Air Corps for civilian life and starts a dump truck business in Dallas, TX. November 2, 1946 – Michael Hall Shelby is born. October 23, 1947 – Patrick Bert Shelby is born. 1949 – Carroll goes into the chicken raising business.

  2. 1 day ago · Ford v Ferrari introduces Matt Damon's Carroll Shelby as the first American to have won Le Mans, doing so in 1959 in an Aston Martin DBR1. While this audacious win did indeed help develop Shelby's pedigree to an enourmous degree, he can't claim to have been the first American to take home the gold in the grueling 24-hour race.

  3. Apr 16, 2024 · After the GT350 H’s were “spent” in their rental lives, they were returned to Ford and sold to customers. Carroll Shelby himself kept an automatic transmission GT350H, which was recently sold. 1967 Shelby GT500. When reflecting on the ’67 GT500, Carroll Shelby said, “This is the first car I’m really proud of.”

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  5. Apr 9, 2024 · 9th April 2024. Carroll Shelby’s magic was worked on the Ford Mustang in 1965 to create the race-ready Shelby GT 350, a car that literally could be ordered from Ford dealers and driven straight to the race track. James Maxwell recounts the extraordinary story and looks at a continuation version that arguably offers a modern take on this ...

  6. Apr 17, 2024 · Carroll Shelby's story is one of guts, grit, and gumption. It is a tale of high speeds and higher risks, of winning-and losing-on the world's biggest stages. It is a primer of international motor racing, a case study of ingenuity and entrepreneurship, and a treatise of American performance cars.

  7. 14 hours ago · When Carroll Shelby silenced his critics by transforming a modest British sports car, the AC Ace, into a competitive race winner, he knew that despite the huge injection of power the newly installed Ford 4.7-litre V8 provided, his Shelby Cobra would soon be left behind by the opposition.

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