"I got drunker than s***." Those immortal words were imparted to me by the late Carroll Shelby when I asked him about the victory party after the Daytona Continental 2000 Kilometer sports-car race, ...
The Ford GT40 ended up in first place four straight years from 1966-1969. Carroll Shelby received a heart transplant in 1990 and would go on to reintroduce Cobra 427 S/C continuation cars and 4000 ...
In fact, the GT40 did not finish a race its entire first season. Enter Carroll Shelby. The first GT40 arrived at Shelby American's shop in Los Angeles on a drizzly day in mid-December 1964 ...
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Carroll Shelby beat Ferrari at Le Mans ... to finish the race with its fledgling GT40 race program. With the Daytona Coupe, ...
Whoever the director and whoever the star, we'll be happy if it features lots of GT40 footage and comes off better than the NASCAR classic we so inexplicably loved.