Uhh wow, call me neive, but did you guys know that Caroll Shelby was the first person to professionally race the 2000gt?
Caroll Shelby
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Yes 100% serious. I was just watching Redline TV and they had a little special on toyota and nissan coming into the american market post-war. Toyota call mr shelby in I believe he said 68 and asked him to come race.
yea this is news i always like to bring up to some ford guys when they are talking about how great shelby is
I watched that the other night too. I thought that was pretty cool. Carrol Shelby is a god. Every car that he has been involved with, with a couple exceptions(Dodge Shelby Datona), has been amazing. I swear that his true impact on the automotive industry cannot be truely measured. I bow to the car god that is Carrol Shelby.
SupraChrisMk3 said:
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Even the Charger/Daytona was improved over the crap that those cars was.
my daytona shelby z was a fun car. i heard they made a RWD conversion for it way way way back in the early 90s. so they say. the wiring on the car was possably the worst setup i had ever seen. i had 6 different sources trying to tell me where one this was connected to and none of those sources were close.. fuck those wires!
Another cool Shelby fact. If any of you watched the Barret-Jackson auctions on Speed a couple weeks ago, you probably watched history happen as did I. On Saturday night Carrol Shelby's personal 427" TWIN SUPERCHARGED, 800HP Cobra sold for a record $5 million. The most money that Barret-Jackson has sold any car at. When I saw that I almost lost my mind!
The ironic part is the same guy bought the Futureliner and the Shelby among other car.
The Shelby part was a 1 yr only deal;
http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/sema/112_2006_sema_show/1967_toyota_2000gt.html
There is a poster of both cars that has been reprinted a bunch of times that is easy to find
The Shelby part was a 1 yr only deal;
http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/sema/112_2006_sema_show/1967_toyota_2000gt.html
There is a poster of both cars that has been reprinted a bunch of times that is easy to find
Actually, according to Motor Trend, it was the highest DOMESTIC sale price. They mentioned other cars that sold for higher, but not USDM.