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Carroll Shelby transformed ordinary cars into extraordinary machines. The Shelby Cobra, GT350, and GT500 are among the most valuable and sought-after American performance cars ever made.

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1998 Shelby Cobra

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Frequently Asked Questions about Classic Shelby

Carroll Shelby, a racing driver from Texas, founded Shelby American in California in 1962. He had won the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Aston Martin DBR1 shared with Roy Salvadori, then retired from driving in 1960 because of a heart condition. His first car was the Cobra, a British AC roadster fitted with a Ford V8, and his first shop was in Venice, California.

Carroll Shelby was from Texas. He was born on January 11, 1923, in Leesburg, in East Texas, and moved to Dallas with his family as a boy. He entered his first race in 1952 and later set up his car company in the Los Angeles area. Shelby died in Dallas on May 10, 2012, at the age of 89.

Yes, according to Shelby American's own history, which lists the B-29 Superfortress as the last aircraft Carroll Shelby flew in World War II. He joined the Army Air Corps and served as a flight instructor and test pilot on Beechcraft AT-11 and Curtiss AT-9 trainers. The company says he asked for combat duty but never went into combat. He left the service in 1945, after the war ended.

The first Shelby Mustang was the GT350, which came out for the 1965 model year after Ford asked Carroll Shelby for a high-performance version of the Mustang. Shelby American took fastbacks from Ford's San Jose plant, upgraded the suspension and brakes, and tuned the 289-cubic-inch V8 to 306 horsepower. The cars had no rear seat. Shelby American built 562 that first year, all in Wimbledon White. The big-block GT500 followed for 1967.

The first Shelby Cobra was chassis CSX2000, a prototype built by AC Cars in Thames Ditton, England, from its AC Ace roadster. It arrived in the United States without an engine in February 1962, and a Ford 260-cubic-inch V8 was installed at Dean Moon's shop in Santa Fe Springs, California. The car made its public debut at the New York Auto Show in April 1962. About 1,000 Cobras were built through 1967.

Shelby cars of the 1960s were built first in California and later in Michigan. Shelby American's original shop was in Venice, California, and during 1965 the work moved to larger hangars at Los Angeles International Airport. Cobras came from AC Cars in England without engines, and Mustangs came from Ford's San Jose plant. For 1968, Shelby Mustang conversion moved to the A.O. Smith plant in Ionia, Michigan, using cars built in Metuchen, New Jersey.

Yes. Shelby American won the over-2-liter division of the 1965 FIA International Championship for GT Manufacturers with the Cobra, in roadster and coupe form, and sealed the title on July 4, 1965, at Reims in France. The Cobra Daytona Coupe was designed by Peter Brock, and six were built. Carroll Shelby also managed Ford GT entries that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, when Ford took the top three places, and in 1967.

The original Shelby Mustang line ended with the 1970 model year. Production had moved from California to Michigan for 1968, and Carroll Shelby ended his agreement with Ford in the summer of 1969. No new cars were built for 1970. Instead, the unsold 1969 cars, 789 by most counts and 788 by others, were given new serial numbers, a chin spoiler and hood stripes, and were sold as 1970 models. The Shelby name returned on Ford Mustangs in the 2000s.

The 21 Shelby listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $45,895 to $3,200,000, with a median asking price of $108,995. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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