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Old 04-08-2003, 09:54 PM
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Default Carroll Shelby Tribute Thread

How about we change gears a bit in order to not fight about whose car is better and whose car is more original and whose car is real etc, etc, etc,
How about us nonviolent, nonvulgar, happily opinionated say a few words to Shel about how he changed their life. No bull about how you lost your family because of the car. Just some good words to that ever effervescent businessman they called Carroll. He fought many wars to get to where he is today and has had more wives than possible he can remember. Lets make this about his accomplishments and the direct effect they had on us.

Me first.
I grew up to love the Jaguar XKE. I couldn't even look at another car until one day in 1965. My dad and I were on Sunrise Highway on Long Island. We visited a ford dealer. my dad wanted to look at the ner Galaxie 500 which in 1965 was said to be quieter than a Rolls Royce. While he checked out the car, there was a rumble coming from the service dept. It was of Course the most beautiful car I had ever seen. I didn't know what it was. It pulled away in screaming smokescreen. I just stood with my mouth open. My dad asked the salesman what it was. He only said one word,
COBRA. That word never left until the day I got mine. Shelby created what no one had done before and in such a way.

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