Carjam Car Radio Show — A Car Show About People Website: www.kclr96fm.com Twitter: www.twitter.com Youtube: www.youtube.com "Carroll Hall Shelby" (born January 11, 1923) is an American retired "automotive designer" and "racing driver". He is most well known for making Mustangs for Ford Motor Company known as "Mustang Cobra"s which he has done since 1965. His company "Shelby American Inc"., founded in 1962, and currently sells "modified Ford" vehicles, as well as "performance parts". Carroll Shelby has had an impressive impact on automotive racing and design over the last 50 years. Starting out amateur, he soon became a driver for the Cad-Allard, Aston Martin, and Maserati teams during the 1950s. Driving for Donald Healey, in a streamlined and supercharged, specially-modified, Austin-Healey 100S, he set 16 US and international speed records. Teamed with Roy Salvadori, and driving for Aston Martin, he won the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans. He drove in the Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race in a specially prepared Ferrari roadster, to a record run of 10:21.8 seconds on his way to victory in 1956. He was Sports Illustrated's driver of the year in 1956 and 1957.[7] He competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1959, participating in a total of eight World Championship races and several non-championship races. He obtained a license to import a successful British Sports racing car manufactured by "AC Motors" of England, installing an "American Ford engine" rather than its original <b>…</b>

Source: AC Cobra Carroll Shelby Classic Car Commercial – New Carjam Radio 2011 (Youtube).