Shelby American Up Close And Behind The Scenes
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Shelby American Up Close And Behind The Scenes
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Author : Dave Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Release Date : 2017-09-12
Shelby American Up Close And Behind The Scenes written by Dave Friedman and has been published by Motorbooks International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Shelby American Up Close and Behind the Scenes takes readers inside the shop that produced the 289 Cobra, Daytona Coupe, 427 Cobra, Mustang GT350, and more from 1962 to 1965.
Inside Shelby American
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Author : John Morton
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Inside Shelby American written by John Morton and has been published by Motorbooks International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"An account of sports-car builder and racing team Shelby-American through the eyes of John Morton, who worked his way up from shop janitor to team driver to launch a racing career spanning forty years"-Provided by publisher.
Shelby Cobra Fifty Years
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Author : Colin Comer
language : en
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Shelby American
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Author : Preston Lerner
language : en
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Release Date : 2022-08-17
Shelby American written by Preston Lerner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-17 with categories.
Shelby American didn't last long, but it was a flame that burned incandescently before being extinguished by corporate politics. In less than a decade, it created a legacy that will be revered as long as cars still roar around racetracks. Now, on the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of this iconic company, Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the Legend relates how the saga unfolded, as told by the men who were there at the time. For a brief and shining moment at the zenith of the Space Age, Shelby American was the American analog of Ferrari--an artisanal factory that produced both iconic sports cars and championship-winning race cars. Carroll Shelby created the company in Southern California in 1962 to build the predatory two-seat roadster fittingly dubbed the Cobra. Originally fitted with a small-block Ford V-8, it spawned an even hairier-chested version powered by a fire-breathing 427. Later still came Shelby-ized versions of the Ford Mustang known as the GT350 and GT500. But street cars were just a means to an end for Shelby. The first Cobras won road-racing championships here in the States. Then, clothed in swoopy bodywork and known as Daytona Coupes, Cobras steamrolled over Ferrari on the world stage to win the GT Manufacturers' World Championship in 1965. This victory prompted Ford to put Shelby American in charge of the mighty Ford GT40s that swept Le Mans in 1966 and prevailed again in 1967--the apogee of American involvement in international motorsports. Although Shelby was the focal point of the publicity his company generated, Shelby American was staffed by a who's who of racing legends, from Phil Remington and Ken Miles to Peter Brock and Carroll Smith. And while the shop is often depicted as a menagerie of SoCal hot rodders, it also embraced mechanics and fabricators from Canada, England, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Like the Cobra itself, the company magically came together as a whole that was greater than its constituent parts.
The Last Shelby Cobra
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Author : Chris Theodore
language : en
Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-09-15
The Last Shelby Cobra written by Chris Theodore and has been published by Veloce Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-15 with Transportation categories.
Carroll Shelby, legendary driving ace, race team owner, and designer of Shelby Cobra, Daytona, and Mustang GT350 classics is revered by automotive enthusiasts, yet little has been written about the last quarter century of Carroll Shelby’s life. During that time Chris Theodore, VP at Chrysler and Ford, developed a close personal friendship with Carroll. The Last Shelby Cobra chronicles the development of the many vehicles they worked on together (Viper, Ford GT, Shelby Cobra Concept, Shelby GR1, Shelby GT500 and others). It is an insider’s story about how Shelby came back to the Ford family, and the intrigue behind the five-year journey to get a Shelby badge on a Ford Production Vehicle. The author provides fresh insight and new stories into Shelby’s larger-than-life personality, energy, interests and the many unpublished projects Carroll was involved with, up to his passing. Finally, the book describes their unfinished project, the Super Snake II Cobra, and the serendipitous circumstances that allowed to the author to acquire ‘Daisy,’ the last Shelby Cobra. To his many fans, Carroll Shelby was truly ‘the most interesting man in the world.’
Shelby American Racing History
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Author : Dave Friedman
language : en
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Release Date : 1997
Shelby American Racing History written by Dave Friedman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Automobiles, Racing categories.
As official photographer for Carroll Shelby's racing teams in the '60s, Dave Friedman chronicled the wide variety of racing efforts of Shelby American. Friedman's glorious photographic account of Shelby-built cars racing in Can-Am, Trans-Am, sports car classics, and other forms of racing is presented here. Enjoying complete access to the Shelby shop, race pits, and behind the scenes, Friedman recorded the complete scope of this popular racing team's efforts.
Inside Shelby American
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Author : John Morton
language : en
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Inside Shelby American written by John Morton and has been published by Quarto Publishing Group USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the late 1950s, a young John Morton was transfixed with sports car racing. His dreams of competition eventually led him to enroll, in 1962, in the Shelby School of High Performance Driving. In a bold moment after the last class, Morton asked Carroll Shelby if he might come to work for the newly formed Shelby American. The answer was “Yes, here's a broom.” Thus ended Morton's college career and began his long racing career. Over the next three years, Morton would be a firsthand witness to the evolution of one of the most iconic sports car builders and racing teams of the 1960s. Inside Shelby American is his personal account of a company overflowing with talent, from designer Pete Brock to fabricator extraordinare Phil Remington to drivers like Dan Gurney, Ken Miles, Bob Bondurant, and Phil Hill. The cars were equally captivating: AC Cobra, Mustang GT350, Ford GT, Daytona Coupe. In this book, Morton’s story is intertwined with the memories of other Shelby staffers of the period, revealing through historic photography and an untold perspective the rousing story of America’s most legendary racer and car builder.
Snake Bit Inside Carroll Shelby S Controversial Series 1 Sports Car
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Author : Eric Davison
language : en
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Snake Bit Inside Carroll Shelby S Controversial Series 1 Sports Car written by Eric Davison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Transportation categories.
What Carroll Shelby wanted was a 2,400-pound sports car sheathed in carbon fiber that was the fastest road car in the world. What he got was quite a different matter! The Series 1 was one of the most highly anticipated sports cars in living memory. It was a magazine cover story seven times and countless more articles were written about it. The car was eventually produced early in 2000-but it reached its owners well behind schedule, at a higher price, and in smaller numbers than first projected. The story of the Shelby Series 1 "is about everything that could possibly go wrong and then did." It's a drama of gigantic and aspiring egos, petty prerogatives, awesome talent, bureaucratic bungling, and brilliant engineering. Of the many cars Shelby created over his career, none was as controversial as the Series 1. Snake Bit - an apt description of what happened to anyone and everyone involved in the project - is required and captivating reading for the thousands of Carroll Shelby fans throughout the world.
Cobra
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Author : Dave Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks
Release Date : 2002
Cobra written by Dave Friedman and has been published by Motorbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Transportation categories.
A Motorbooks Classic, Cobra tells the story of Carroll shelby's legendary sport/racing car with hundreds of great photos taken by the Shelby team photographer.
Cobra
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Author : Trevor Legate
language : en
Publisher: Motorbooks
Release Date : 2006
Cobra written by Trevor Legate and has been published by Motorbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Cobra automobile categories.
This book tells the complex saga of a sports car that was created in the early 1960s as a result of an unlikely collaboration between a plain-talking ex-racing driver from Texas and a conservative British automobile manufacturer, funded by one of the giants of the industry, the Ford Motor Company. Carroll Shelby, AC Cars, and Ford came together to create a car called the Cobra, based on the AC Ace roadster that had been in production since 1954. When the Shelby Cobra was created, it was far from state-of-the-art, but the use of a new series of Ford V8 engines saw the lightweight car annihilate the Chevrolet Corvette in American sports car racing. By adding aerodynamic bodywork, the Daytona Cobra Coupe arrived in Europe to contest the FIA World Championship and took victory in the GT category in 1965, making Shelby American the first (and only) USA-based manufacturer to achieve this feat. In order to capitalize on this success, even greater power was required and the car was developed to take a huge 7-liter engine that proved to be a triumph of horsepower over handling - thus the 427 Cobra became an overnight legend, establishing new performance records and creating a reputation for being more than a little tricky to drive. The era of the Cobra was brief - production ended at Shelby American during 1966 and at AC Cars in 1968 where they built their own final version, the AC289 Sports. Just over 1000 Cobras were built during that time but the final cars proved difficult to sell, their vintage qualities deterring potential owners. Carroll Shelby closed his company and went to Africa while AC developed other models, but the Cobra was not quite finished yet. Within a matter of a few years, a new market for the car was created as the demand for affordable kit cars grew. The most popular model by far was the Cobra and many thousands were built, with the result that both AC Cars and Carroll Shelby put their own versions back into production. And then the arguments really started... If it was an improbable car over forty years ago, it is even more implausible today, but the remarkable Cobra, in one form or another, is still with us. It may be dead, but it just won't lie down!