When Ford rolled out the Mustang for 1965, Carroll Shelby’s team immediately went to work building a road-racing version called the Shelby GT350. The GT350 still stands as one of the pinnacle American performance cars […]
The Shelby GT350 was the result of a unique collaboration between the Ford Motoring Company and Carroll Shelby. Starting in 1965 in a factory in Southern California, Shelby took semi-completed Mustangs and boosted them from […]
The 1965/66 Shelby cars were quick on the track but not really tame enough for city streets and Carroll Shelby’s audience is growing so the new 1967 Shelby’s are more road friendly vehicles. The Shelby […]
We’re looking at a 1965Â Shelby AC Cobra with a 427 engine. This is not a kit car, this is the REAL DEAL. This is Carroll Shelby car is a CSX 4000 Series. To make this […]
If you’re into cars, you’d love seeing a muscle car on the road. Classic-looking, they were built for anything but nimbleness as they were all rather big and heavy. However, they came with attitude, were […]
The two seater British hand built, AC Cobra Roadster had original been powered by an out of date BMW pre-WWII designed straight six engine.  Caroll Shelby was pleased with the outcome when he had a Chrysler […]
We’re looking at a 1965Â Shelby AC Cobra with a 427 engine. This is not a kit car, this is the REAL DEAL. This is Carroll Shelby car is a CSX 4000 Series. To make this […]
The now coveted California Special or Mustang GT/CS arrived at dealers in the middle of February 1968, and Ford assembled the last unit in early August of the same year. The original production order called […]
The story goes like this: One day in 1966 Bill Cosby bumped into Carroll Shelby at a department store. Cosby was in the series I Spy. Shelby liked the show and Cosby. Shelby chewed Cosby […]
He is known for creating some of the world’s most popular automobiles, but who is the father of the Shelby muscle cars? Aside from being an automotive designer, Carroll Shelby was also a former racing […]
The name Shelby is usually associated with high-performance Ford cars, an association that goes back decades. Carroll Shelby started hot-rodding cars, with Ford Motor Co.’s blessing in the 1960s. He passed away five years ago, […]
Who holds the record for top speed in a vintage Ford Mustang? If you guessed Carroll Shelby, you’d be close. The racing legend once hit 170 miles per hour in the 1967 GT500 Super Snake. […]
