RIP Carroll Shelby

89 great years of contributing to the performance car world…

Jalopnik has a buttload of Shelby stories, including their hypothesis of how he really died.

I only have one Shelby story from SEMA 2008.  He teamed up with Guy Fieri of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives fame for an event at the Roush booth.  I was late so I missed one of the coveted front row spots for media, and ended up in a corner.  Luckily, that corner was the beginning of the autograph line (Fieri’s, not Shelby’s) but Shelby did walk about 2′ from me.  Enjoy the racetrack in the clouds.