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Inventing the American Sports Car (Inside Line)
And turning the Mustang into a credible flat tracker with the GT350 (not the 500) with a lot of off the shelf parts was another great achievement.
His cars were rough but they sure were fun in the old days.
I got to meet Shelby once up at Lake Tahoe. Some kind of outdoor car show with lots of Shelby vehicles. Just happened onto it by chance.
May he Rest in Peace.......
The brothers behind the mike at Car Talk announced on their website this morning that they will retire from their NPR radio show in October."
Car Talk hosts to end hit radio show (Boston Herald)
Reruns are in the works.
Court fight leaves auto legend Carroll Shelby's remains in limbo (LA Times)
Champion of the Corvette, Feted in the Land He Left (New York Times)
The designer was praised for managing the "inexorable link between Pininfarina and Ferrari," as word of his death spread."
Design Legend Sergio Pininfarina Dies (Inside Line)
“Ferrari would not be Ferrari without Pininfarina,” said Michael Sheehan, founder of the online Ferraris’ collectors newsletter, Ferraris-online.com. “Ferrari built the machines, and basically Pininfarina clothed them.” (NY Times)
New York man nears 3 millionth mile in beloved '66 Volvo (Detroit News)
Ummm...what?
"I ate 50 boxes of Cheerios"....."WELL I ATE 75!)
California Automobile Museum hosts birthday celebration for man and his 100-year-old Cadillac (sacbee.com)
andys120, "Mystery car pix" #34859, 6 Nov 2012 10:16 am
Although Luft and Shelby American CEO Joe Conway declined to provide financial numbers for the company, Automotive News recently reported that Shelby American expects earnings this year of about $2.5 million on sales of roughly $22 million."
Carroll Shelby's spirit keeps car company going (Detroit News)
Lee Iacocca, All-American Automotive Icon
In all fairness, wasn''t that really Hal Sperlich? But then Loewy took credit for those 50's Studebaker transformations. The guy next to Iaccoca is Don Frey I believe.
Showman car salesman Cal Worthington dies at 92 (LA Times)
Interesting guy but his dealerships are still old school. At least the one in Anchorage is, judging by the dealer reviews.
"At one point, the military objected to funding work they believed was outside their purview, but they were persuaded when Stapp gave them statistics showing that more Air Force pilots were killed in traffic accidents than in plane crashes. The culmination of his efforts came in 1966 when Stapp witnessed Lyndon B. Johnson sign the law making manufacture of cars with seatbelts (lapbelts at that time) compulsory."
John Stapp
“A car is a horse. I want to drive a thoroughbred that’s in tune with my heartbeat, but not something that’s too dressed up for someone like me,” Mr. Katayama told the Associated Press in a 2002 interview about the Z’s comeback."
Nissan’s ‘Father of the Z’ Dies, Aged 105 (WSJ)
George Barris, California King of Customized Cars, Dies at 89 (NY Times)
"From a very early age, Zeppo was a demonstrated mechanical prodigy, and even worked as a mechanic at a Ford dealer in Chicago during the 1920s. He was the one who kept the family's car running, no matter what, in the vaudeville days before the Marx Brothers made their break in the talkies circa 1929.
As he later told the story in an oral history, Zeppo was in the shop when a destitute man showed up unannounced and begged him to build a new type of locking clamp he'd penned. Zeppo gave the guy a standard royalty-based contract and thought little more of it, until he realized the new clamp could secure two pressurized hoses together with no drips. For military aircraft, or high-performance cars, that was a prized characteristic."
Why a Clamp? (hemmings.com)
He also had a rebellious streak, which was on display in the early 1970s when he and some colleagues from Car and Driver met for beers at a bar in New York City and discussed the state of racing. They decided that the sport had become staid and that an informal, cross-country race would be one way to enliven it."
Brock Yates, Writer and Rebel Who Created the Cannonball Run, Dies at 82 (New York Times)