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He approached then-president Lee Iacocca with the proposition that if Iacocca gave him $25,000, ... Carroll Shelby. Chock full of great archival footage, ...
Without Carroll Shelby's mad genius, American track and street performance would be in a sad state of affairs.
Carroll Shelby's legacy isn't limited to his high-performance Mustangs; it also thrives through the powerful muscle trucks ...
What do you do with a world without Carroll Shelby and Lee Iacocca? How do you go on knowing these guys aren't here anymore to shake up the joint and inspire those fortunate enough to be around them?
Ex-Carroll Shelby 1969 Shelby GT500 Shows Less Than 250 Miles Since Restoration. Published: 13 Oct 2022, 19:15 UTC • By: ... Lee Iacocca, the general manager of the Blue Oval, ...
Carroll Shelby is an automotive icon: "Driver of the Year" in 1956 and 1957, ... Lee Iacocca was chairman of Ford Motor Company back then, and he and the maverick Texan were friends.
As Halberstam tells it, in 1971, race driver Carroll Shelby was offered a big Toyota dealership in Houston. He asked his friend Iacocca whether he should make the investment. “Let me give you ...
Shelby: It's the same philosophy I started with Shelby American when I walked into [Ford president Lee] Iacocca's office in 1962 to ask him for $25,000 to build two Cobra prototypes.
Carroll Shelby's legacy includes the first Shelby Cobra and the Le Mans–winning Ford GT40 program, ... Shelby went on to work with his friend Lee Iacocca, by then at Chrysler, ...
Jay Leno's Garage managed to pull a very special interview this week with Lee Iacocca, ... success with the Mustang and direct involvement with the creation of Carroll Shelby's first cars in ...
Jon Bernthal plays Lee Iacocca in “Ford v Ferrari.” As the movie goes on, Iacocca takes a backseat to another Ford executive, Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas), who clashes with both Shelby and Miles.
Lee Iacocca, who died Tuesday, sold America on the Mustang, the minivan and Chrysler, ... 26 photos that show Mustangs are as hot as the 2020 Shelby GT500. The death of an auto icon: ...