Carroll Shelby said this about the evolution of racing from the Cobra to the Shelby GT 500's and the end of Ford racing

"When you get tied up with any big company, it has the tendency to change your perspective.

Getting involved with Ford was kinda like asking a big gorilla to dance. You start off leading, but before very long, you're being swung all over the floor, and pretty soon you lose sight of the fact that all you wanted to do in the first place was dance.

The Cobra led to the Mustang GT350, and that led to the GT40, and before and before I knew it, our goals had changed.

Ford didn't want us to race the Cobra because they were afraid it would beat their GT40.

By the end of the 1960's we weren't building Cobras at all, we weren't racing GT40s anymore, and our biggest competitor was in the Mustang business was Ford itself.

You didn't have to be Einstein to know it was time to pack it in."

Carroll Shelby, in his own words, interviewed by Gary Witzenburg

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Have you been to San Antonio's Lackland AFB?

Then you were walking through the same paths that Carroll Shelby trod when we was stationed there.

He was there during WW2, starting in November of 1941, Carroll began training at San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (now Lackland AFB) and then was promoted to instructor. While flying training missions he dropped messages to his fiance at her farm from the plane. That's cool

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Shelby Mustangs at the Dana Point Concours

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Carroll Shelby remembrance at JBA, an awesome display and experience of dozens of Cobras and Mustangs roaring their engines all at the same time

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Some cars have a story to tell, some, only clues without answers. CSX 3239 has a 1975 El Salvador sticker on the window

from what I can find on the internet, this car was restored in 1982, has a Holman Moody 427 side oiler http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=662&aid=23 used to have white stripes http://www.cobracars.be/csx3239.html

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El Cid CSX2248, one of the five Shelby Cobra dragonsnakes, built for the dragstrip, not the road course. Winner of the 1964 Winternats in Daytona

Above photo from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=920

4 page feature in Muscle Car Review Feb 2010

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