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| Thread ID: 124675 | 2012-05-12 03:10:00 | Carroll Shelby Dead At 89 | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1274723 | 2012-05-12 03:10:00 | By Shav Glick and Jerry Hirsch May 11, 2012, 1:04 p.m. US Pacific Time Carroll Shelby, the charismatic Texan who parlayed a short-lived racing career into a specialized business building high-performance, street-legal cars, died Thursday. He was 89. Shelby died at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, according to an announcement by his company, Carroll Shelby Licensing. A cause was not disclosed. LINK::: www.latimes.com |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1274724 | 2012-05-12 05:07:00 | What did she look like? :rolleyes: | tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1274725 | 2012-05-12 05:14:00 | HE designed, built and raced cars. en.wikipedia.org This is pretty big --- www.jukeboxcruisers.com |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1274726 | 2012-05-12 05:14:00 | In my younger days I sent to America and got a Shelby Cobra sticker and put it on the back window of my mini. From memory it looked something like this. www.mustangsunlimited.com That was the decal for the Shelby Cobra Mustang. Yeah tuiruru stop showing your ignorance. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1274727 | 2012-05-12 23:38:00 | Wondering if he also designed the car in the movie "Gone in 60 seconds" they drive a Shelby in that? | beetle (243) | ||
| 1274728 | 2012-05-13 01:43:00 | Beets - I know it's an American rite of passage to see that movie at least once - but I never have. American Graffiti, Yes! Gone In 60? No. I have drooled over. at. around and near Cobras - but never owned one -- nor could I afford the insurance for one even. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1274729 | 2012-05-13 06:46:00 | From the NZ Herald.Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1274730 | 2012-05-13 07:10:00 | From the NZ Herald.Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) :) An impressive CV - no doubt about it! |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1274731 | 2012-05-13 16:12:00 | I never liked his association with Iacocca, and I thought Lee would be noted as the Phineas T. Barnum of the automotive world - still do, as a matter of fact. I dislike everything MOPAR (Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth, DeSoto) and absolutely EVERYTHING from FORD. IIRC, Shelby ran the AC-Bristols too - right? I seem to remember them running Chevy V8s in them and absolutely eating every other car in Watkins Glenn, Seneca and The Isle of Wight. There was a neighbor who had a Bristol Cobra in Huntington Beach and it had a 302/5 liter Chevy small block with a single-speed automatic transmission in it that had won many races in the Unlimited SCCA Class at Riverside and Ontario Speedway events. I loved hearing that engine at 12,000+ RPM on a hard pull in the back straight at Riverside Raceway. They were formidable vehicles. I still lust for a real Cobra though - even if it has a Ford 289 in it. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1274732 | 2012-05-13 20:33:00 | I too loved the Shelby Cobra, looked good from wo to go. | Cicero (40) | ||
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