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Carrol Shelby was born on January 11, 1923 in Leesburg Texas
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Carrol joined the US air force in 1941 and flew trainer planes training new cadets for fighting in the war
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after the war ended Carrol started a dump truck buisness
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The dump truck business did not last long, so after the dump truck business Carrol went to chicken farming
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Carrol began racing in 1952 where he took a small British roadster to a road course against super fast jaguars, and he won
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in 1954 Carrol placed top 10 in a 1,000 km race in a dull sports car, he was racing against Ferraris, jaguars, and Aston martins. The head of Aston Martin at the time was so impressed that he hired Carrol to race for him.
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Carrol Shelby had his last race in December of 1960, a heart condition he had as a child returned and forced him to retire at the age of 37.
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in 1962 Carrol had a dream of a small British roadster powerd by a big American V8, and the name of that car was, Cobra
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in 1964 with the help of ford Carrol saved a huge 7 liter v8 into the tiny British roadster. The cobra 427 weighed 2800lbs had 500 horsepower and got from 0-60 in 3.2 seconds
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in 1965 Carrol Shelby revealed the first Shelby Mustang gt350 it produced 306 horsepower at 6000 RPM
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after working with ford and dodge for many years Carrol took a break, then he came back to ford right when he was coming to the end of his life. the last mustang he would touch would make 1000 horsepower and would go 200 miles per hour.
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Carrol Shelby passed away on May 10th, 2012 in Dallas Texas at baler university hospital.
