Carroll Shelby RIP

[detmatt1]

A true legend! R.I.P.

 

[Richard Cranium]

No one can take away what he's done, however, his latest Mustang conversions are priced into the Stratosphere, which has soured me on the new stuff. WI remember a story of a guy who had a slight fender bender on his new GT500 Mustang & it was like 18 grand for a replacement GT500 Mustang hood. Also, he was trying to sue Factory Five a few years ago.


Edit: here's the links....

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...hit-with-31000-repair-bill-for-minor-accident

http://jalopnik.com/5475568/sue-like-hell-shelby-loses-factory-five-forum-lawsuit

 

[1stBxMopar]

Gone but will never be forgotten..... R.I.P..............

 

[QTR MILE]

RIP An American Muscle Car Icon!!!

 

[99ss]

RIP Mr Shelby ....Veteran of WWII, American Icon

 

[Budnicks]

63 Cobra Shelby

Here's 1 more car, I still can't get the others to load... Bruce Larson 63 SB Cobra drag car

 

[alleyoopmgv]

R.I.P. Carroll Shelby

 

[kdtjb]

RIP Carroll.

 

[Propwash]

Wow...Sad news indeed. God bless Mr. Shelby.

 

[RoadrunnerRod]

Hell of a great guy... RIP Carroll! Here's a couple pics of him and I from back when I worked at speedway motors

 

[65 Plymouth Satellite 426]

R.i.p. C.s.

 

[moparsteve636]

Prayers & my condolences go out to the family! R.I.P Carroll

 

[roadrunnerman]

R.I.P. mr. shelby. i've always loved and wanted to buy one of your cars.

 

[1badstroker]

RIP Carroll, He was for sure a living legend and will be missed. He seemed so excited on a show thursday night where he was talking about the day he could build a streetable 1000 horsepower mustang the way he did them today.

 

[TBONE]

On top of everything he has done for the automotive business, he seemed like a very personable and down to earth guy! RIP Carroll

 

[Sonny Black]

guess he was on borrowed time for some years.
I like that he
was so active while the inevitable was "put off" for years...

 

[Budnicks]

Shelby RIP

Heres a couple more for the Shelby lovers out there

 

[Budnicks]

More from the Icon Carroll Shelby

More cars for the Shelby fans, RIP Carrol Shelby

 

[Ron 73]

Hell of a great guy... RIP Carroll! Here's a couple pics of him and I from back when I worked at speedway motors

That must have been cool, Please, tell us more! I always heard he was just one of the guys...

 

[RoadrunnerRod]

Well, at the time I think we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of Speedway Motors. Bill Smith (the owner) had a bunch of his friends come down to tour the machine shop and Carroll Shelby just so happened to be one of the guys visiting! So the night before I prepared a picture of a Cobra for him to sign. Carroll seemed pretty into all the stuff I was showing him (when I worked there I was the windshield frame fabricator and also did rollcages... got pretty good at bending tubing! ) We talked for maybe half an hour or so. Sure, most of it was off-topic stuff (mustangs and cobras), but you could tell he loved what he does (and knew so much!) This was about 10 years ago, but he was sharp as a tack! Still have that autographed picture of that Cobra hanging on my wall