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Without Carroll Shelby's mad genius, American track and street performance would be in a sad state of affairs.
It was Lee Iacocca, then head of Ford Motor Co., who had assigned Shelby the task of designing a fastback model of Ford's Mustang that could compete against the Corvette for young male buyers.
A post shared on Facebook claims President Donald Trump said automobile executive Lee Iacocca endorsed his tariff plan. Verdict: False Trump praised an unnamed colleague of Iacocca’s at a recent ...
Candice Miller, Macomb County Public Works commissioner and former congresswoman, posted on Facebook: "A Detroit 'car guy' if ever there was one, Lee Iacocca was a true leader for his time.
Carroll Shelby's legacy isn't limited to his high-performance Mustangs; it also thrives through the powerful muscle trucks ...
Carroll Shelby’s Venice workshop birthed some of the most iconic high-performance Mustangs, including the legendary GT350 and GT500. However, a lesser-known chapter in Shelby’s Mustang legacy unfolds ...
Just to have an idea about the kind of company Cobra was: people came from all over the world to work for Carroll Shelby. It was that big! And then, in 1964, the Mustang appeared. Lee Iacocca didn ...
Shelby went on to work with his friend Lee Iacocca, by then at Chrysler, consulting on the Dodge Viper and other Chrysler products.
Just after the Mustang was released to the public, Lee Iacocca, the general manager of the Blue Oval, asked Shelby if he could improve the pony car’s performance in line with Ford’s Total ...
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.
Shelby went on to a long, successful career in design and production. And Iacocca, of course, became the bigger-than-life boss who inspired a generation of corporate leaders.
Jon Bernthal called to talk about ’Ford v Ferrari,’ but we also couldn’t resist asking him about the endearing legacy of ’The Accountant’ ...