The Chicken Farmer Who STUNNED Ferrari | The Carroll Shelby Story

"Ford GT" shows mustang 😭

Do ferrari

Rest in peace

Lol, he did not stun Ferrari, Ferrari stunned Ford, making them spend millions to beat a small italian team from the North of Italy.
Lol, Ferraris gatage was tge size of Henry Fords Office, yet Ford Needed Shelby, Engkabd and millions to be a little i Italian team that could not invest as they where bankrupt.

Enzo Ferrari hated him.

Just found your Channel. VERY well done! All these years I thought I knew the Carrol Shelby story...

Too much fake, ford only won by luck and even so he took change at home 1, 2 and 3 in Daytona, and other than that ford didn't win what matters is the championship!! Pure bla bla bla typical American, you don't earn anything there, talk about an event decades ago!

I have so much love and respect for Carroll Shelby & Ken Miles and their chemistry together🤩
And the Ford GT40 is without a doubt the Coolest American car I've ever seen thanks to shelby and Miles's brilliant engineering and an advanced aerodynamic design!🏁🇺🇲

Man with an unquenchable spirit for competition and speed. I was always told that the AC Cobra began as a British made AC Bristol which had to be widen, lengthen and modified to accommodate the much larger American V8. And the GT 40 referred to a roof height of less than his belt height which was 40" from the ground. Whatever the motivation, both vehicles look incredible and I dream of owning either one.

Great video and great cars.

Ford didn't do shit

The fact no one liked Enzo. Because Enzo Ferrari was a 🍆

Ferrari got his ass kicked by a chicken farmer and a tractor builder. I'm starting to have second thoughts about Ferrari. - Early Indy cars used to be built and raced by midwestern farmers by the way. Their race garages of course we're Gasoline Alley which may have been in use throughout the year.

Poor video…. Bye

The three cars he made for Chrysler in the 80s were some ugly-ass cars. Then again, about every small car in the 80s was ugly-ass.

The rest of his cars, though. Works of art. Especially the AC Cobra

One car that I always wanted to see, and finally did see it at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale Arizona was the personal Shelby Cobra that he built for himself. It was the last Cobra ever built, and it had the usual Ford 427 side oiler engine, but with twin Paxton superchargers and a Mickey Thompson cross ram manifold with twin Holley 4bbl carbs. . The car also had a Ford C-6 automatic transmission. It is the holy grail of original Cobras. As I remember, it went over the block at $2.5 million dollars, possibly $3 million, and the man who bought it was a collector from the Phoenix area. It was about a 2,000 pound car with about a 700 hp engine, and the buyer would sometimes take it out for a spin. With an out-of-sight power to weight ratio, the owner said the car was scarier than anything he'd ever driven, so it was just about right for Shelby himself.

This is literally a movie script. Beating his rival in his last ever race

The wrong image for thr Ford GT

Its a shame you never mentioned Ken Miles without whose car smarts and brilliance the GT40 would have never made it!

Im telling you i love Ferrari but damn them Shelby's are sexy

The ford gt ….. shows a gt 500

I was Shelby
fan since a child.
The only one I have owned was a 83 Dodge charger.
In it's time. It was a fast light weight
Co-cart. It handled very well.
I could leave a muscle car, in the weeds through a twisted road.
On a straight road I was toast..
I still have the desire to own a Shelby mustang.

Shelby always used Ford motors in his cars, Cobra began with a 260, then 289, and finally 427–all Fords. And the GT40 had Ford V8s. So the day before LeMans Ford had him switch his Ford engines for…Ford engines??

Had he lived, Carroll Shelby would’ve been 100 years old this year! May he rest in peace.

SORRY TO BE. PICKY...
BUT YOU FORGOT. THE CAR THAT FOR ME. HAD MONENT. I WILL NEVER. FORGET...
..THE G T 350 R.....A REGULAR. GT 350. HAD A FEW. IMPROVEMENTS
BUT. IT EAS NOT EVEN CLOSE. TO
A RACE CAR..
..THE GT 350R.. WAS. A REAL. HONEST TO GOD. RACE CAR....
ONE DIVERS SEAT...OVER 300 HORSES.....(JUST MAYBE 400PLUS)
FULL ROLL CAGE....ALUMINUM INTERIOR....PL WE XIGLASS SLOTRED BACK WINDOW
FIBRERGALASS HOOD AND IF I RENEMBER DOORS. ALUMINUM
FENDERS....IT WENT ON AND ON..
I GOT TO GO 165. IN THE SHORT TRACK CAR....THE LONG TRACK CAR. WENT 175.
.HAD A CHANCE TO BUY THE SHORT TRACK....BUT THE ACTUAL RACE DRIVER. WREAKED THE CAR CAUSE
HE WANTED IT TOO....HE TOTALED IT

man Enzo Ferrari got his arse handed to him by the agriculturals twice. once by a farmer the other by Tractor salesman.

I believe Shelby approached Chevy for engines for the AC. They weren't interested in competition for the corvette.

Shelby was behind the Sunbeam Tiger, which preceded the Cobra and was a British 2-seat convertible in which engineered a Ford V-8 engine. However, Chrysler bought Sunbeam 2 years later and it didn't look good selling Chrysler built cars (Sunbeams) with Ford engines and the car was discontinued. So he had a track record when he approached Ford to build the Cobra.

Enjoyed the story, but your use of "less people" instead of "fewer people" at the beginning almost turned me off.

Nitro pills give you a headache equivalent to getting it in head with a baseball bat.

Shelby choose Chevrolet first. He settled or ford.

You think the reason he was out of racing for 10 years is because his best friend died testing his cars????? I mean like the movie.

Why didn’t Shelby stay with Ford after’67 Le Mans win?

Himmler was a chicken farmer too. They say he failed at farming only to become Hitler's right hand man.

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Thanks to Shelby, Ferrari never won a Lemans race again.

good stuff , no BS toothe point, noshit music either haha

I saw Carroll Shelby racing many times during his years with Aston Martin I am pleased to say. I never knew the early history of Shelby, this was very interesting. ❤

Carrol shelby never made hes own car he developed crap English cars he was a kit car maker. He only beat ferrari cause he had a 500million budget from ford.

Interesting, and lots of shots of Willow Springs - if you know what to look for. As for the the origin of the Cobra.... In the 1957 era, Ed Savin (Savin Motors, Los Angeles), bought the first AC Bristol imported to the Los Angeles area. Bob Oker raced the car for Savin. In 23 starts, Bob had 21 wins, a 2nd, and a crash. BTW, Savin's mechanic for the Bristol was Bill Rudd. He would go on to stellar performances tuning Joe Lubin's Aston Martin DB3S's and DBR2 (also driven by Bob Oker), before Rudd became chief mechanic for Bill Harrah, in Reno, NV. But I digress. Shelby, around 1960 was down and out, and had an idea.... He borrowed the chassis (less engine) of the Bristol from Savin, and brought it to his shop, a garage behind Moon Equipment in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. He shoehorned a 260 Ford V-8 engine into the chassis and proved it would fit (and should work), and that's where the association between AC in England and Ford in Dearborn began.... The rest is history.

Finally, Shelby DID, in fact, drive both Ferrari's and Maserati's, besides his LeMans win in an Aston Martin DBR1. The specific Ferrari I'm familiar with (there were others), was a 4.9 liter Ferrari, owned by Frank Arciero and driven by Shelby, Dan Gurney and Bob Oker at different times.

Thanks for keeping the 1950-60 era of motor sports alive. Carl..... Lotus 61 racer.

The whoosh noises are driving me insane jfc.
STOP.

The original Ford Mustang had 6 cylinder and V8 engines available.

As a tall skinny farm boy from Texas ... Shelby was my hero growing up. You forgot about the Omni GLHS, such a nerdy pocket rocket 👍

Um... at 6 seconds that's a Ford Shelby Cobra GT. Not sure of the model, GT350 or GT500 because I can't see what's on the fender. The Ford GT was the GT40, not a Mustang. Just an FYI.

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You ignored the fact that he was a WW2 bomber pilot. Before everything in your prelude.

The first thing I saw was that line on this ear and I thought he's got a heart problem and then the narrator said said it. He's got a poor heart. What a legend. Rip .