Carroll shelby death

California marriage records They purchased used Mustangs and installed updated versions of the Shelby horsepower cubic-inch V8 engine. In the Rootes Group , manufacturer of Sunbeam automobiles, wanted Shelby to upgrade their Alpine sports car to a more powerful version, using the Ford small-block V-8 engine, as he had done with the AC Cobra. Those "component car" models built in are identified with a seven-digit vehicle identification number VIN and were designated with a CSX series serial number. His parents hailed from Leesburg and Dallas, establishing a Texan heritage with deep American connections going back to the Revolutionary War.

Carroll Hall Shelby ( - )

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Born in Leesburg, Camp, Texas, United States
Ancestors

Son of Warren Hall Shelby and Frances Etoise (Lawrence) Shelby

Brother of Lou Anne (Shelby) Ellison

Husband of Vivian Jeanne (Fields) Shelby — married 18 Dec (to Feb ) [location unknown]

Husband of [private wife (s - unknown)]

Husband of [private wife (s - unknown)]

Husband of Helena (Dahl) Shelby — married 10 Aug (to 1 May ) [location unknown]

Husband of [private wife (s - unknown)]

Father of [private daughter (s - unknown)], [private son (s - unknown)] and [private son (s - unknown)]

Died at age 89in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States

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Biography

Carroll Shelby is Notable.

American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur, best known for his involvement with the AC Cobra and Mustang (later known as Shelby Mustangs) for Ford Motor Company, which he modified from the late s to the early s.[1][2][3]

Carroll Hall Shelby was born January 11, in Leesburg, Texas.[2][4] He was the son of Warren Shelby and Eloise Lawrence.[5][6]

Personal life

Carroll enlisted in the United States Army in April [7] He was an Army Air Corps flight instructor.[3] Story has it he corresponded with his future wife, Jeanne, by dropping letters from his plane as he flew over her farm.[3]

Carroll first married Jeanne Fields in They had three children.[8][9] They divorced in February

He was briefly married to actress Jan Harrison in , but the marriage was annulled in September of

He married Sue Stafford in New Zealand.

They were married for six weeks in about and [10]

In Carroll married Helena Dahl. She died in a car accident in [11]

Later the same year, he married Cleo. They were married until Carroll passed away in [12]

Career

Carroll had several career endeavours throughout life, including dump truck business owner, safari tour operator (during the gas crisis of the 's), raconteur, chili entrepreneur (starting the World Chili Cookoff competition and Carroll Shelby Original Texas Chili), and chicken rancher.

The chicken endeavour failed in the fifties. Carroll then exploded into the automotive world via the racing circuits, winning the 24 hour Le Mans race course in France in with his teammate Ray Salvadori. He had been racing in various circuits throughout the fifties. It started him on the journey he would be best known for for the rest of his life.[2][3]

He soon turned his attention to designing sports cars.

Carroll shelby marriages in california The idea developed that they should build a dual-purpose car based on the solid mechanicals of the Chevrolet Corvette. Imbued with a rich heritage, your Shelby name has become synonymous with American automotive excellence, tracing its roots back to Reese Shelby Sr. As he was hard at work on the prototype, the aging Cobra takes home another SCCA A-production national championship. Retrieved January 3,

Most notable during this era were his Mustang Shelby GT and the Shelby Cobra, the fastest production model car available when it debuted in Lee Iacocca, the then head of the Ford Motor Co., commissioned Shelby to design a fastback Mustang to compete with Corvettes on the sales market, making him one of the best known automotive innovators of his time.

He later left Ford, and regretted it, having built over models while there. He returned in later years to work with the company. In , he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.[2]

In , Carroll started Shelby American Motorsports at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It produced the Shelby Series 1, as well as performance packages for Mustang GTs and Shelby Supersnakes.

The Shelby Museum is housed at the plant.[2]

Carroll was twice named Sports Illustrated's Driver of the Year.[2]

Carroll Shelby passed away at a hospital in Dallas, Texas May 10, [4][2] At the time of his death he had been one of the United States' longest heart transplant survivors.

His heart troubles started early in life.

Neither Shelby concept was built. On the same day, Shelby went on to beat a class of much faster Jaguar XK s. In , Shelby learned that some manufacturers will do about anything to win. Archived from the original on August 30,

He had also received a kidney transplant from his son.[2] Carroll's health experiences led him to start the Carroll Shelby Children's Foundation in to support and assist children and young people with acute heart and kidney issues.[2]

Carroll is buried in the Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, Texas.[4]

Genealogy

Carroll is a descendant of a Revolutionary War soldier, Reese Shelby Sr.

(see Family Tree of Carroll Shelby).

Sources

  1. ↑Wikipedia:Carroll Shelby
  2. ↑ Las Vegas Review-Journal (Nevada) 12 May , obit for Shelby a multifaceted icon, ( : accessed 7 November )
  3. ↑ Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) 11 May , obit for Carroll Shelby - Legendary car designer, racer Shelby dies at 89, ( : accessed 7 November )
  4. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 06 November ), memorial page for Carroll Hall Shelby (11 Jan –10 May ), Find A Grave: Memorial #, citing Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, Camp County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
  5. ↑ "United States Census, ," database with images, FamilySearch (://CQKV-BMM : accessed 27 September ), Carol H Shelby in household of Hall W Shelby, Precinct 2, Camp, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 6, sheet 4A, line 21, family 70, NARA microfilm publication T (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, ), roll ; FHL microfilm 2,,
  6. ↑ "United States Census, ," database with images, FamilySearch (://K4QY-MMK : 29 July ), Carol Shelby in household of W H Shelby, Tract 12, Dallas, Justice Precinct 1, Dallas, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) , sheet 15B, line 75, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, , NARA digital publication T Records of the Bureau of the Census, - , RG Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, , roll
  7. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, ," database, FamilySearch (://KFYK : 5 December ), Carroll H Shelby, enlisted 11 Apr , Dallas, Texas, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca.

    ," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) ( : National Archives and Records Administration, ); NARA NAID , National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

  8. ↑ "Texas Birth Index, ," database, FamilySearch (://V84B-LYB : 1 January ), Sharon Anne Shelby, 27 Sep ; from "Texas Birth Index, ," database and images, Ancestry ( : ); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
  9. ↑ "Texas Birth Index, ," database, FamilySearch (://VD5C-R32 : 1 January ), Michael Hall Shelby, 02 Nov ; from "Texas Birth Index, ," database and images, Ancestry ( : ); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.
  10. ↑ Article about marriage to Sue Stafford,
  11. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, ," database with images, FamilySearch (://QKWRX8 : accessed 27 September ), Carroll Shelby in entry for Ms Lena Shelby, Texas, United States, 04 May ; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries ( - Today)," database, ( : ); citing Dallas Morning News, The, born-digital text.
  12. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (://K49N-KD3 : 20 May ), Carroll H Shelby, 10 May ; citing U.S.

    Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).





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