Muscle car maestro: Carroll Shelby

Full Story at money.cnn.com

(Fortune Magazine) — Carroll Shelby’s life has always been tinged with an “against all odds” flavor. In the 1950s the young racecar driver shot to the top of his field, until a potentially deadly heart condition ended his career.

In the ’60s he channeled his competitive edge into a business that took European sheet metal (the AC Ace) and married it to powerful Ford V-8s — and the Shelby Cobra was born.

In 1964 he helped Lee Iacocca launch one of the most important American cars of all time: the Ford Mustang GT350. In ’66 and ’67, he oversaw Ford’s two Le Mans wins.

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