Carroll Shelby's gone...

[Matt43]

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012...ary-race-car-driver-carroll-shelby-dies-at-8/

 

[thrashingcows]

A lot of the legends have been passing on in the last couple years...sad to see them go.

 

[Dr.Jass]

Didn't know the man personally. I admire what he did, but as much as I hate it for his family, I see no reason to grieve personally. Yeah, I'm a jerk but I don't fawn over celebrity of any stripe.

 

[Fishy]

I don't fawn over celebrity either but this sucks!
R.I.P. Carroll!

:vroom:

 

[71ChargerRT]

We're losing the generation that created tbe cars we love.

I don't fawn over or grieve for "celebrities" either but, like you Doc, I admire the accomplishments and creations of guys like Carroll Shelby.

 

[68R/T]

We're losing the generation that created tbe cars we love. .

Not only on the "national celebrity" level, but also on the local level. There's very few of the "car" guys that I grew up with left. Us original "hot-rodders" are the ones that gave people like Shelby and the rest of Detroit a reason to build muscle cars. We were doing what the non-mechanical public wanted to buy.

Our reasons for doing it was usually economics. We couldn't afford a "nice" car, so we would buy 2-3 pieces of "junk" and build "our" nice car. Even more often this was done just to provide us with a daily driver. Numerous times, over the years, i've done just that, not only to provide me with a driver, but also to supplement my income as I was upgrading vehicles.