RIP Carroll Shelby
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- fooler0
I had no idea he had anything to do with the Vier do I do know he was involved with these POS's...
- That's a GLH, turbo, rear wheel drive, fast as fuck and drives like a go cart. What's not to like?spot13
- GLH = Goes Like Hell, classic Shelbyspot13
- yeah i wanted one when I was 14 back when they were new, they were fast for then but only 175 hpfooler
- entry level Kias have more HP these days.fooler
- 80's dude, don't talk to me about a KIA. When KIA first came out, they were utter dogshit.brandon_phillip
- you are correctfooler
- Everything was crippled by restrictions in the 80's. 175hp in a small car like that was great!ETM
- KIA Soul is the shite!robotron3k
- albums0
1986 Dodge Charger Shelby Hatchback
not all cars are great- fucking awesome, what do you mean no great?spot13
- you have to remember what the market was like in the mid 80'sspot13
- not into hatchbacks or that front end, performance rarely trumps appearancealbums
- i do remember, it looks like an escort. much better options that yearalbums
- if you have to go hatchback, plus ut came with a turbo http://i216.photobuc…albums
- *italbums
- spot130
RIP
- albums0
I dug the CSX too fooler, tiny little agile cars, should've became a production line imo
- I wanted a yellow so bad in the 80's.
http://carphotos.car…fooler
- I wanted a yellow so bad in the 80's.
- monospaced0
My first ride was my family's '67 Mustang convertible. My grandfather drove it, then my mother, and I inherited it when I was 15. I worked my first jobs just to raise the money to fix it up. Had the exhaust rebuilt with some engine work and I replaced/fixed many of the other parts myself, from a new radiator and alternator, tubing, wiring to the chrome emblems on the body. I even learned how to do minor body work on this thing, all because I found Carol's design to be gorgeous. When my mother saw the passion I was putting into restoring this beauty, she had the interior restored along with a new canvas top. RIP Shelby, you gave me a cool high school experience.
- +1brandon_phillip
- Donald Frey designed the Mustang.albums
- Carol had nothing to do with the original Mustang concept.ETM
- yeah, we went over that ETMmonospaced
- albums0
Donald Frey designed the Mustang. he passed away in 2010.
- not exactly, but yeah:
http://en.wikipedia.…)monospaced - it was L. David Ash, actuallymonospaced
- not exactly, but yeah:
- monospaced0
Donald Frey was the chief engineer and head of the Mustang project, but did he actually "design" the body? I appreciate your clarification here too albums, I was always told Shelby came up with those gorgeous curves. Wikipedia isn't much help either.
- yeah, he's got a book where he states his kids said their cars were boring, that started it.albums
- It was David Ash, apparently. I guess it was the whole Ford Studio team with Iaccoca and all them.monospaced
- there's this too
http://www.nytimes.c…albums
- monospaced0
"The new design was styled under the direction of Project Design Chief Joe Oros and his team of L. David Ash, Gale Halderman, and John Foster"
- albums0
there's this too from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For…)
As Lee Iacocca's assistant general manager and chief engineer, Donald N. Frey was the head engineer for the Mustang project — supervising the development of the Mustang in a record 18 months[3][4] — while Iacocca himself championed the project as Ford Division general manager. The Ford Mustang I prototype was a two-seat, mid-mounted engine roadster, styled in part by Phil Clark. Stylist John Najjar, in a 1984 interview with David R. Crippen, archivist of the Henry Ford Museum, spoke about the genesis of the two-seat prototype:
"We had a studio under Bob Maguire and in it were; Jim Darden, Ray Smith, plus an artist, Phil Clark, several modelers, and me. We drew up a 2-seater sports car in competition with the other studios, and when they saw ours - saw the blackboard with a full-sized layout and sketches- they said, 'That's it! Let's build it.' So we made a clay model, designed the details, and then built a fiberglass prototype." This car was simply a concept study rather than the final configuration, but it included a lot of the sporty, rakish flair the later showcar embodied"
So yeah Frey was just credited with getting it out the door, but not the actual designer.
Then further down you read "The 1967 model year Mustang was the first redesign of the original model. Ford's designers began drawing up a larger versions even as the original was achieving sales success, and while "Iacocca later complained about the Mustang's growth, he did oversee the 1967 redesign"
- my buddy who lead me down this road said the design was actually a Mercury employee'salbums
- I love the '67 too. I personally feel it was the best year for the body design.monospaced
- 64½ for life™ My grandfather had a red one with a white ragtop that he sold to a friendalbums
- CyBrainX0
I was in Florida last week and saw the Cobra on the left in perfect condition. It was amazing. I'm surprised he was still alive. He must have been close to 100 or just looked very old for his age when he was younger.
- instrmntl0
wow bummer.
- nthkl0
:( Had a NAturally aspirated 332 Cobra. Was a special thing. My son always wanted to go for a ride in "The Snake Car". RIP Mr. Shelby.
- monospaced0
Mine looked like this:
- but it had a black interiormonospaced
- I still think that's one of the best looking cars ever.CyBrainX
- vaxorcist0
he died at 89.. same age as both my grandfathers, the one who ate healthy and never smoked and the one who drank and ate whatever he wanted and smoked like a chimney till the age of 52.....
- boobs0
I'm a bit tired of the Cobra and Shelby name for racing success he had nearly 50 years ago. The most important thing he had done for the last 20 years was this stuff:
- nthkl0
@monospaced. Can't reply to that comment on my iPhone right now for some reason. But it was a 2001 late model. Blew a Conrod after my stage 2 oil pimp failed. So fun haha. Miss it.
- nthkl0
Pimp = pump. But I like pimp better.
