"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, ...

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 ...

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 ...