Tag: Carroll Shelby
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The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.
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What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
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I’ve got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I’ve also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.
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Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
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I love horsepower.
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I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
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In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
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I don’t design cars. I’m not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we’ll be working against – but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don’t do anything.
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I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn’t my No. 1 priority.
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It’s a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
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