Carroll Shelby:
Carrol Shelby was a very sucessful in designing cars and engines. In the 1950's he was a racecar driver but retired for health reasons. After his racing career he imported a British sports car that was in the works of being created. He made a few changes to the body design and installed a Ford engine. He presented his modified sports car to Ford Motor Company and they aproved of it and added to their newly created Mustang line. His Shelby mustangs usually included two racing stripes right down the middle. His design in the 1960's were so good that only minor tweaks and changes have been made to the body style. He left Ford Motor Company and helped develop cars for Dodge and Oldsmobile.Ford is still useing some of his ideas for production cars and pace cars for Nascar today. His designs added value and quality to the Mustang name. Pictured below is 2008 Shelby GT500KR.
Carroll Shelby:
Carrol Shelby was a very sucessful in designing cars and engines. In the 1950's he was a racecar driver but retired for health reasons. After his racing career he imported a British sports car that was in the works of being created. He made a few changes to the body design and installed a Ford engine. He presented his modified sports car to Ford Motor Company and they aproved of it and added to their newly created Mustang line. His Shelby mustangs usually included two racing stripes right down the middle. His design in the 1960's were so good that only minor tweaks and changes have been made to the body style. He left Ford Motor Company and helped develop cars for Dodge and Oldsmobile.Ford is still useing some of his ideas for production cars and pace cars for Nascar today. His designs added value and quality to the Mustang name. Pictured below is 2008 Shelby GT500KR.