For the love of Ford: Carroll Shelby, the muscle behind US muscle cars
Man and machine: Carroll Shelby’s AC Cobra with Ford V8 power helped define the muscle car of the future.
It was a match made in automotive heaven and it was to birth and inspire both a new and subsequent generations of the American ‘muscle car’ as we have come to know and love them.
Internationally credited as “a man whose vision of performance transformed the automobile industry”, race car driver and car manufacturer Carroll Shelby created the best known US sports cars of the 1960s, the AC Cobra and the Shelby Mustang.