.Today we lost a legend in automotive history, Carroll Shelby passed

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Carroll Shelby was a race car driver; he was a racing team owner, a chili entrepreneur.. Shelby died yesterday at age 89.. "Twenty-three-year-old Peter Brock was assigned the task of making.

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Carroll Hall Shelby was born on Thursday, January 11, 1923 (age 89 years; at the time of death) in Leesburg, Texas, United States. His zodiac sign is Capricorn. He did his schooling from "Woodrow Wilson High School" in Dallas, Texas. Carroll Shelby during his childhood

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Carroll Shelby was a man of many talents, many interests and, apparently, many wives (seven, to be precise). When Shelby died on May 10, it seems that he may have created the most hotly-contested.

.Today we lost a legend in automotive history, Carroll Shelby passed


1949: Shelby goes into business on a farm raising chickens. His first batch of chickens earns Shelby a $5000 profit, but he goes bankrupt when his second batch of chickens dies from disease..

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Carroll Shelby 1923-2012. The automotive world's most famous failed chicken farmer, Carroll Shelby, died Thursday, May 10, at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, 110 miles due west of tiny Leesburg.

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The 1966 Shelby GT350 was a detuned racecar for road use and is often cited as one of the greatest muscle cars of all time. The 1967 Shelby GT500 had a modified 428cid "Police Interceptor," with 355hp, 420lb-ft torque and 4.8-second acceleration rate. It could reportedly destroy its rear tires in one drag race.

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Carroll Shelby, who died in 2012 at the age of 89, was courted by Ferrari, among others, to race for them. The height of his racing career came in 1959 when he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Aston Martin alongside Brit Roy Salvadori, but he also took three national sports car championships and set land speed records at the Bonneville Salt.

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Carroll Shelby with the 2006 Ford Shelby Cobra GT500. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP. One of Shelby's dreams had been the manufacture of a high-performance American sports car, so when he heard in.

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Auto legend Carroll Shelby died Thursday night at Baylor Hospital in Dallas at the age of 89. Carroll Shelby's shadow stretched out Texas tall across nearly the whole of the world's.

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At 7 years old, Shelby developed a heart condition that resulted in much of his childhood being lived in a bed. After seven years of battling this leaking valve in his heart, Shelby began.

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Carroll Shelby, a man whose name would later be known across the globe, was born in a town with a population of roughly 200 people. On January 11, 1923, Warren Hall Shelby and Eloise Lawrence Shelby welcomed baby Carroll Hall Shelby into the world in the small unincorporated community of Leesburg, Texas. The son of a mail carrier, Carroll.

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One day after the young Carroll took his license, he drove the three-year-old car on a four-lane road, and the boys in blue stopped him. He was doing 80 mph (129 kph) in a 30 mph (48 kph) zone.

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Carroll Shelby was coming up 30 and married with three children when in May 1952 he lined up for his first motor race. He did so at the wheel of friend Ed Wilkins' three-year-old MG TC. He had impressed a few months prior by winning a local quarter-mile drag race in Wilkins' self-built Ford V8 hotrod.

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Shelby's education as a pilot began in the military in November 1941 at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, later known as Lackland Air Force Base. [3] Before racing and building cars, Shelby was a poultry farmer, which was a livelihood he continued until 1952. [6] Pre-racing

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On 1 October 1942, as an armament artificer, he was among the founding members of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), and transferred to the REME Training Establishment. [4] The following year Miles was posted to Guards Armoured Division Workshops, followed by the 29th Armoured Brigade Workshop. [4]

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Shelby 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 aneurysm. Shelby also received a.