Jack Habben well said!!

you just brought a tear to my eye bro

Underrated comment.

Amen

He’s boutta over lap us all

Awesome movie!

Me

Me

Yo

Saw the movie last weekend, great movie!

T U that’s right suckah

🙌🇺🇸💪

or Ken Miles

I would say he's an American Treasure and belongs with that list of American Treasures like Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Einstein, Thomas Edison, Wright Bros, Sargent York, Audie Murphy, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Mark Twain, Duke Ellington, etc.

Yes... Or Ken Miles

Well stated. I overlooked this humble but all important point.

AMEN .... R.I.P. Mr Shelby

I AGREE

With his Texan drawl, I can close my eyes and picture James Garner. Nice interview, laid back and a joy to listen to.

Agree, he remembered and gave credit to the engineers and specialists, too many these days are “I did this” and “I did that” and he says at the end no one is good at everything. He recognised he was good at creating a vision that people related too, he created the drive and environment that capable people wanted to be a part off, so he had a great team, and he gave them credit. A visionary, a leader, doing what he loved .... that’s a powerful mix

Me neither! Except for Eleanor Rigby. But that’s the only one!

Me 3, never was big on Beatles

That's cool... would love to build one as close to spec from the 60's Amazing handling I'm sure....

I wonder where all the rugged Texans have gone today? Austin? Beto O'Rourke anyone? Lol!

@@alfee9411 that's what we did for our customers. Shelby American supplies its dealers with Cobras that are called Turn Key minus The minus refers to the fact that Shelby does not ship the roller with engine or transmission. We bought and installed Shelby FE side oiler engines that are based on the 427 FE family. They were all-aluminum close to 500 cid for the base engine with an average of 500 hp 500 # trq. Tremec 5 or 6 speed. We put together a decal package that used every label, decal on the engine and under the hood, just like the old days. My Cobra was the 427 S/C with the FE Shelby engine, 5 spd trans, and no race stripe. It was a monster. It weighed around 2000# and weight means a lot in performance, more weight less performance. If I did it again I would opted for a 289 Street or 289 FIA Cobra.Much more civilized. Where ever I drove the car people would gather around when we would stop, come up and ask to take pictures of the car. It was fun seeing their faces, smiles. They are a blast, no power steering, brakes, or windows. Nothing of power except the engine. :)

Richard C Texas born. And Texas raised. Nobody does it like us Texans!

@@alfee9411 the CSX series Cobra by Shelby has 98 present interchangeability of parts to the original Cobras. I had been doing a package using decals that were reproductions of all the original Rotunda, and other factory labels under the hood just as they appeared in photos of the day.. Our customers loved them. The original Cobras were all-aluminum bodies which is still available for a higher price over the glass bodied Cobras. . My Cobra was a 427 S/C CSX 4000 with the Shelby Manufactured aluminum block and heads FE Side oiler just like the old days, just far more HP and Trq. If I did it again I would go with a CSX 8000/ 9000 Cobra, it was the 289 powered street Cobra. Far more civilized to drive. The 427 S/C is the wider body with the exhaust pipes down the outside. People burned their legs all the time getting out. I always showed people how to get in and out of the car without hurting themselves but in the excitement of the drive ( I always drove because these Cobras are monsters to control ) that they would burn a leg getting out. It's so common it was called " being Snakebit" The power out of the Shelby built FE which was closer to 500 cid than to 427 pulled over 525 HP and 550 Trq on the engine dyno. The car's curb weight was around 2000 pounds. You had to have the car straight ahead, same with the front tires and carefully apply the throttle or you went places you didn't intend to go. At 75 mph you can light up the rear tires with little effort. These were race cars and when driven with that understanding were an E-Ticket ride. After several new owners crashed their Cobras we put together a Driver package with Bondurant School of Racing in Phoenix, AZ The owner Bob Bondurant is a Race legend from the 50s, 60s who drove for Carroll at Shelby. When I met with Bob at his facilities to put the training package together he told me that he had never driven the 427 S /C only the 289 Cobras. I told him I could have my 427 there the next day. His personal assistant flipping through Bob's day planner said " Sorry Bob, but you are booked solid for the next 3 months." " The hell I am. Have the car here tomorrow after 10 if that's okay?" It was. It was a pleasure to see him light up when I offered him a chance to drive it. He took It out on his road racecourse and promptly ran off the track In the 1st turn. But after that he lit up the track. He apologized stating that he was used to driving the Corvettes (Chevrolet, Corvette Division provided his school with there cars ). He was all smiles.

Thank you brother

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Me too

Same

yep...he sounds just like my dad (without the Texas accent).

Truly fascinating to listen too

Like listening to my grampa

Spoken by a pure racer😅

7000+ RIN LIKE HELL

I want to make sure I push it past 7,000. Damn rev limiter. I want to be just a body floating through space and time. I’ve been into Le Mans and the great man himself Carroll Shelby since this movie has seemingly made racing “cool” again.

you watched it too!

He said am i on god damn fire? Lol laughed my ass off

More then a legend. A god.

The Manager Behind the Pony!!!!

Take me back to 1965 before he died please. Back when he was at his prime.

Ahh it's fine. I believe death is not the end.

I get that, but I wouldn't be mad if you named her after a car... it's what a Dad would do that made Mom really Mad.

You have no idea how many times men would tell me that, or the number of women who would come up to me at events and tell me there name was Shelby.

Brandon Schwab most people think my daughters name is after the movie “ Marley “ and it’s actually after the legend ,reggae bob Marley ! Big ups to that cool name Shelby !

I know how you feel sir, I named my daughter Shelby for the same reason, my ex wife wanted to name her "autum" I said that's not a name, that's a season, when the hospital gave her an epidural for the birthing , she was passed out , I told the nurse the girl's name is Shelby....I won. (Lol)😄

MrChopp3r 👏👏👏👏

John Richards God Bless him

Secret most Americans grew up poor. The American dream doesn't happen frequently

Not true, back than anyone who gets their picture taken in a toy car is not poor .

John B you were in the presence of true greatness. Like Jesus level greatness, and I mean that as a devout Catholic.

For 4 years straight

that'd be me!!

Same here. 👏🏾

yup

Hell yeah 🤯

dustin lee Yep

Oh yes, I am!

Me! Haha. 😆

Go like hell... Go read the book it's a very good book they originally bassed off it

NOT THE FERRARI GUYS. LOL

Not me love shelby cobra's all my life.

As great as he was I don’t think GM is kicking themselves. Zora did great with the corvette beyond their wildest dreams. Ford has nothing today from the factory that can touch a corvette. Period. That said Shelby was a great man.

@@EasternElectric2012 And Ford NEVER needed the Welfare Assistance...I meant "Bail Out" like GM did either. They're not called Government Motors for nothing. I'll take Mustang Shelby Cobra over Any Vette...Any day.

Yup truly

@@EasternElectric2012 GT40?

@@drew63215 I’m from Detroit and that’s a total lie!! Ford had gotten loans a year before the bell out !! Check those facts.

Those are true words of wisdom....

I felt a little choked up as well

A wise soul who was charming and so full of energy. He was an original until the end who knew how to enjoy life.

Mustanglvr007 - seriously a complete legend for sure

I am an engineer by degree. But some of the best engineers I have seen didn’t have one. But they could walk in and clear any engineering test. They were on the right side of dunning kruger.

You don’t need to be an engineer to employ top engineers.

Really awesome! Thanks for that too. The Viper was my childhood dreamcar. 70 Road Runner now. The 64 cobra daytona csx2287 will always be my favorite

Viper was my first love of american cars. It was good when I heard he's a consultant on the project.

Charlie, was that in OC and did you know Martha A? I believe she worked there.

Damon was breathtaking as shel

It's crazy I realized that I also see sports car and it supposed to be sport car... Thank you for pointing that out 😬💯

I have started saying' sport car' now. Lol

You guys are forgetting the Viper is the successor to the Cobra Daytona. Those were the real deal modern Cobras, not the GT500s

@@CaptainFALKEN well duh, the GT500 is a Mustang after all.

Mach1club. My grandpa (big ford person) owns a 2013 GT500 as well he bought it as soon as it was released. He never drives it because we live in Canada. And if he even gets a scratch on it. He has to send it back to Texas to get fixed. I own a 2011 Camaro SS, and a 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE. I’m a big Chevy person. But I still love Shelby and all his work. One of the reasons why I love cars and motorsports.

One hundred percent same here

@@CaptainFALKEN The cobra isn't the only legacy Shelby left us though, his Mustangs were very important too, whether it's the 350, 500, or the super snakes.

They have it? THEY JUST STEP ON IT!! YOU CAN'T THINK OUT OF THE BOX... John DeLorean is good example. Showed up for meeting. No suit and tie? . You thought GOD was coming to take everybody to HELL!!!.. YOU CAN'T BUILD A GTO? NOBODY IS going the buy that crap. One million later. So who was right??.. Just stepped on the guy!!..

The Ford people IE; Lee Iacocca knew he was going to build something one way or the other, if Ford turned him down he would have built something to blow Ford off the tracks.

Ford made Stock car racing before Shelby. Ford has a lot to do with it. Shelby did make them faster.

Bobby Tucker that’s probably the absolute simplest, most accurate way to put it. 🤙🏻👌🏻 man was destined to go fast, and looked at automobiles through a lens that no one else seemed to be able to see through. God bless. Merica

@@joshmiller1928 Actually Holman-Moody was Ford's NASCAR builder.

@@glenn1035 A fellow I worked with 30+ years ago in a garage had a massive H&M engine in a 71 or 72 (can't remember which year) Mustang, here's the backstory; Shortly before discharging from the military he ordered a Mustang with a big engine and suspension package through the Army PX system that was waiting for him at our hometown Ford dealer when he got home, not long after returning home and picking up the car him and his dad went down to Daytona to put it on the track during an open track day (his dad was buddy's with the France's, the people at the track at Daytona and H&M, how somebody who owned a gas station in a small town in Pennsylvania was friends with all those people I don't know) and a guy in a Corvette toasted him on the track, well that was it for him, the gauntlet had been thrown down. On the way back to Pa they stopped at H&M and were chatting with his dad's buddy's there and my friend saw an engine sitting in the corner with a rod sticking out of the block (this was one of those massive 550 or 600 ci engines that had been outlawed by NASCAR a year or two before), he inquired about buying it and they said no problem and off it went with them back to Pa. After returning home he got a GI loan and purchased his own gas station with a couple of service bays and went to work shoehorning the engine into his car in one of the bays after buying a new block and rod from H&M, after a year or two of sorting out problems (including taking the car down to H&M to have the front modified to accept the engine) he got it sorted out and was the local terror in our area, (much to the chagrin of the local police). In the 80's after monster trucks became a big thing the local Ford dealer had one of the big name trucks (I think it was The Virginian if I remember correctly) at their dealership on a promotional tour, there was a pretty big crowd checking the truck out when I got close to it and saw it had one of those huge H&M engines in it and I mentioned to the owners that I knew a fellow that had one of those engines in a street Mustang, their reply was kinda snotty and was something like "Not one of these kiddo", now the gauntlet had been thrown down on me, so I called my buddy and had him bring the car up to show to them, when he opened the hood and they saw those massive rocker covers with the H&M logo their checkbook came out and they said "How much will it take", his reply was "Not in a million years". To this day I regret not sticking my tongue out at those guys before I walked away from them (they really did act like arrogant jerks when I tried to talk to them).

it's called confidence