Tag: Carroll Shelby
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My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
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I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that’s their ambition, and I don’t know very many of them that are happy.
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I’ve had a good run. I’ve built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn’t work.
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I didn’t have time for my children much. I wasn’t a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
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I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
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The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.
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I’ve always been asked, ‘What is my favorite car?’ and I’ve always said ‘The next one.’
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The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
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I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
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