SHELBY 6 images Created 18 Jun 2020
Carroll Hall Shelby (Leesburg (Texas), 11 January 1923 - Dallas (Texas), 10 May 2012) was an American driver and designer/builder of cars.
After finishing high school, Shelby joined the U.S. Air Force. During the Second World War he was active as a flight instructor and test pilot.
Shelby has had a great influence on motor racing and design during the last fifty years. He started as an amateur driver, but quickly became a driver for Aston Martin and Maserati teams in the 1950s and 1960s. After his career as a racing driver, he started a racing school and also the Shelby-American company. In this company, he designed and built the famous AC Cobra cars, with the chassis of AC cars and engines from Ford.
Through Lee Iacocca (of the Chrysler Corporation) he started working with Ford. He helped to design some sports cars that were known as classic, such as: the Ford GT40, the Shelby GT350 and the Shelby GT500 and of course the Shelby Cobra. He left Ford and started working (again at the request of Lee Iacocca) for the other two of the three major American car companies: Dodge, Oldsmobile. Here he worked, among other things, on the Dodge Viper.
After finishing high school, Shelby joined the U.S. Air Force. During the Second World War he was active as a flight instructor and test pilot.
Shelby has had a great influence on motor racing and design during the last fifty years. He started as an amateur driver, but quickly became a driver for Aston Martin and Maserati teams in the 1950s and 1960s. After his career as a racing driver, he started a racing school and also the Shelby-American company. In this company, he designed and built the famous AC Cobra cars, with the chassis of AC cars and engines from Ford.
Through Lee Iacocca (of the Chrysler Corporation) he started working with Ford. He helped to design some sports cars that were known as classic, such as: the Ford GT40, the Shelby GT350 and the Shelby GT500 and of course the Shelby Cobra. He left Ford and started working (again at the request of Lee Iacocca) for the other two of the three major American car companies: Dodge, Oldsmobile. Here he worked, among other things, on the Dodge Viper.
