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WCOTP RIP Carroll Shelby
The Automotive world lost a legend, Carroll Shelby.
Designer of such classics as the Mustang, GT-40,Shelby GT-500, the Shelby Cobra and Dodge Viper.
Mention Shelby among any gearhead anywhere on the planet and you will hear stories of his designs.
Designer of such classics as the Mustang, GT-40,Shelby GT-500, the Shelby Cobra and Dodge Viper.
Mention Shelby among any gearhead anywhere on the planet and you will hear stories of his designs.
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The Shelby Cobra immortalized in anime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXE4wO-Qt48
Also passing on this week:
Game show producer/creator Bob Stewart. ( created Password, To Tell The Truth, The 1950s-1960s Price Is Right for Goodson-Todman and created Eye Guess, Jackpot, Pyramid, and Chain Reaction for his own company)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXE4wO-Qt48
Also passing on this week:
Game show producer/creator Bob Stewart. ( created Password, To Tell The Truth, The 1950s-1960s Price Is Right for Goodson-Todman and created Eye Guess, Jackpot, Pyramid, and Chain Reaction for his own company)
You haven't lived until you've heard when Bill Cosby got a Shelby Cobra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JQksYxgM0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-JQksYxgM0
RIP Carroll... you put more boost and horsepower under the right foot of the American driver than any other person. We will always remember your cars and your work.
--DaPepster, owner of 2 1991 Dodge Spirit R/Ts (was about to be labeled a Spirit ES Shelby, as the 2.2L turbo intercooled engine was carried over from a lot of earlier turbo Dodge vehicles from the mid 80s that had a lot of Carroll's influence, and the DOHC 16-valve head was built by Lotus under his design)
--DaPepster, owner of 2 1991 Dodge Spirit R/Ts (was about to be labeled a Spirit ES Shelby, as the 2.2L turbo intercooled engine was carried over from a lot of earlier turbo Dodge vehicles from the mid 80s that had a lot of Carroll's influence, and the DOHC 16-valve head was built by Lotus under his design)
Just to be a nit-picker...
Carroll Shelby didn't design the Mustang, that was always Lee Iaccoca's baby. Basically it was intended to be a Ford Falcon with a bit more 'pizazz' and it worked brilliantly.. as a secretaries' car. The Mustang likely would have continued on as an excellent secretaries' car for a bit before being cancelled in the 70's and becoming yet another cool but obscure bit of gearhead trivia.
But... in 1965 Ford developed a relationship with Carroll Shelby and his budding race-car empire in a plan to Humiliate Enzo Ferrari after he and Henry Ford II had a bit of a spat. Shelby's involvement in Ford's GT40 program in LeMans prototype racing and his own home-grown Daytona Coupe in GT racing both stunned the racing world and forced Enzo to call in favors with European racing authorities to get last-minute rule-changes implemented to keep the Ford teams out of the championship and ensuring the LMP and GT crowns would go to the Red and not the Blue.. for another year at least.
That same year was when Ford came to Shelby and said, "Well you know a thing or two about track-racing, but ya see we've got this car... we call it the Mustang.. it's good, but not great. ...think you could do something with it?"
And boy did he ever, his efforts would be dubbed the GT 350 and would to flog an oft-overused phrase prove to be a game-changer. The GT350 and later GT500 would go on to achieve cult status (The modern GT500 is a tribute to the GT500 of 1967) but more importantly than that they proved that Pony-Cars aren't afraid of a little Muscle, leading not only to in-house Ford performance variants like the Mach 1 and later the Boss 302 and Boss 429 but also spawn a score of immitators from GM (Camaro SS, Thunderbird Trans-Am) and Chrysler ('Hemi-Cuda, Challenger R/T) as they struggled to play catch-up..
While the Mustang wasn't born and bred in Shelby's stables, without Carrol Shelby there to train it up from a foal it likely never would have grown-up to the the Thoroughbred it is today, the ONLY American Muscle-Car to live on in uninterrupted production since it's inception in the mid-60's to the present day.
Carroll Shelby didn't design the Mustang, that was always Lee Iaccoca's baby. Basically it was intended to be a Ford Falcon with a bit more 'pizazz' and it worked brilliantly.. as a secretaries' car. The Mustang likely would have continued on as an excellent secretaries' car for a bit before being cancelled in the 70's and becoming yet another cool but obscure bit of gearhead trivia.
But... in 1965 Ford developed a relationship with Carroll Shelby and his budding race-car empire in a plan to Humiliate Enzo Ferrari after he and Henry Ford II had a bit of a spat. Shelby's involvement in Ford's GT40 program in LeMans prototype racing and his own home-grown Daytona Coupe in GT racing both stunned the racing world and forced Enzo to call in favors with European racing authorities to get last-minute rule-changes implemented to keep the Ford teams out of the championship and ensuring the LMP and GT crowns would go to the Red and not the Blue.. for another year at least.
That same year was when Ford came to Shelby and said, "Well you know a thing or two about track-racing, but ya see we've got this car... we call it the Mustang.. it's good, but not great. ...think you could do something with it?"
And boy did he ever, his efforts would be dubbed the GT 350 and would to flog an oft-overused phrase prove to be a game-changer. The GT350 and later GT500 would go on to achieve cult status (The modern GT500 is a tribute to the GT500 of 1967) but more importantly than that they proved that Pony-Cars aren't afraid of a little Muscle, leading not only to in-house Ford performance variants like the Mach 1 and later the Boss 302 and Boss 429 but also spawn a score of immitators from GM (Camaro SS, Thunderbird Trans-Am) and Chrysler ('Hemi-Cuda, Challenger R/T) as they struggled to play catch-up..
While the Mustang wasn't born and bred in Shelby's stables, without Carrol Shelby there to train it up from a foal it likely never would have grown-up to the the Thoroughbred it is today, the ONLY American Muscle-Car to live on in uninterrupted production since it's inception in the mid-60's to the present day.
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