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Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« on: May 11, 2012, 03:37:12 PM »
A sad day for motorheads everywhere.



Updated May 11, 2012 4:14 PM ET

DALLAS (AP)

Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89.
 
Shelby's company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital. He had received a heart transplant in 1990 and a kidney transplant in 1996.

He was one of the nation's longest-living heart transplant recipients, having received a heart on June 7, 1990, from a 34-year-old man who died of an aneurism. Shelby also received a kidney transplant in 1996 from his son, Michael.
 
The 1992 inductee into the Automobile Hall of Fame had homes in Los Angeles and his native east Texas.
 
The one-time chicken farmer had more than a half-dozen successful careers during his long life. Among them: champion race car driver, racing team owner, automobile manufacturer, automotive consultant, safari tour operator, raconteur, chili entrepreneur and philanthropist.


RIP, Mr. Shelby.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2012, 04:13:26 PM »
Now him and Smokey can build God's race car. RIP fellows.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2012, 04:20:23 PM »
As you can see by my avatar, I lusted after that car since I was sixteen.  I finally built my replica 45 years later & am having a blast with it.  That said, his litigiousness in the last decade or so has tarnished his image for a lot of us. Cheers,  Mike
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2012, 05:12:32 PM »
A true innovator...

RIP, Mr. Shelby.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2012, 08:27:39 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on May 11, 2012, 04:13:26 PM
Now him and Smokey can build God's race car. RIP fellows.

Ford vs. Chevy, the classic matchup.

RIP, Mr. Shelby.  You and Ford broke the Ferrari stranglehold on the 24 Hours of LeMans.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2012, 08:30:40 PM »
 :bawl:

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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2012, 08:33:29 PM »
They don't make them like they used to.

RIP, Mr. Shelby.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2012, 11:27:00 PM »
RIP Mr Shelby.

Your designs and desire to go fast effected a few generations of gear heads, for the better!
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2012, 11:32:45 PM »
Sorry to see you go. You will be missed. Maybe while you are up there you can inspire someone, or more. RIP.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2012, 12:28:55 PM »
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2012, 02:03:37 PM »
Sad day indeed. My favorite car ever, AC Cobra.  His Chili Mix isn't bad either
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2012, 10:50:57 PM »
Damn.....

In high school, I wished my dad was Carroll Shelby.

RIP.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2012, 10:52:05 PM »
Hooniverse has been doing a Shelby retrospect all weekend.  I've enjoyed reading it.
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Re: Car designer Carroll Shelby, 89, dies
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2012, 06:26:15 PM »
Iowahawk posted this on Facebook.  Great stuff.

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