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
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.
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
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.
Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad
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.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races
There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.
If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.