RIP Carroll Shelby

Well said, X. You have great insight for such a young man.

 

Sadly..i can identify with xenon. Im only 31 but it really seems like yesterday that i was 21.
I was never a partier..thought it too much of a waste of time. Yet time silently flies past. No matter how slow you try to take life.
All I can say is I wasted a lot of time with ex's and lounging around......i was in a rush to get married and "live life..or what I thought was living..and now that im bolted down...i want adventure. This is why I tell guys like tom...dont rush to be an adult. ...dont be irresposible either. But by that same tolken with responsibility comes a cetian amount...some say just enough, irresponibility.

And mike...you really need to write a book...seriously. At least I hope to have the oppertunity to sit and have a drink..or coffee with you someday.

 

Thanks, Ian. I have thought of a book in the past, but, the days have crept up on me and there doesn't seem to be enough of them left.

 

People die every day everywhere. Not many people leave their mark on history when they go. He did leave his mark by taking a Mustang and mophing it into one of the fastest production car of any motor company. 50 years from now people will still know who Caroll Shellby is.

For a man who lived through the Great Depression part 1 , WW2 , he was old enough to remember Amelia Earheart vanishing .... He did live through some of the most historic times ever.

He will be missed.

 

People remember him as the creator of the high horsepower Mustang but his credentials spoke volumes before that. He drove in the LeMans and won it. He drove for the likes of Ferrari and Maserati and won the sports car championship. Then he built the Ford Cobra that blew the other cars off the track. He was a race driver, race car builder and race team owner over the years. And he won doing all of them.

 

And don't forget the GT40. Here's Ford's 1-2-3 LeMans finish in '66.