Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Hall Shelbywas an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur. He was best known for his involvement with the AC Cobra and later the Mustang-based performance cars for Ford Motor Company known as Shelby Mustangs, which he had modified during the late-1960 and early-2000. He established Shelby American Inc. in 1962 to manufacture and market performance vehicles and related products, as well as Carroll Shelby Licensing in 1988, that currently make up Carroll Shelby International...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth11 January 1923
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'
The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.