At age 7, Carroll Shelby moved to Dallas. He was the son of working-class parents, balanced precariously on the poverty line. He had a leaky heart valve that reminded him that life could end any day.

Founded in 1962 in Venice, California, Shelby American is a high performance vehicle manufacturer started by Carroll Shelby. The Texan race car driver and chicken farmer started a Maserati dealership ...

When you're invited to pilot Carroll Shelby's 1957 Maserati 250S, a 1760-pound 230 horsepower Italian sports car, the first of only two 2.5L four cylinders delivered from the factory, you promptly ...

On this episode of Wide Open Throttle, Jessi Lang pays homage to automotive icon Carroll Shelby and takes a look at his life and legacy. Though he was born in a small and humble Texas town and worked ...

One of only two Ford GT40 Mk.I sports cars known to have been driven by the late, great Carroll Shelby will be up for grabs in January with Mecum Auctions. This particular model – chassis P/1018 – is ...

Whether called the “Essex Wire Cobra” or “Ollie the Dragon,” the car being referred to is revered as the winningest Shelby Cobra of all time. This legendary racer tore up America’s racetracks for over ...

Mustang aficionados will remember the limited edition V6 Terlingua Mustang in 2007, designed to pay homage to Terlingua Racing Team created in the 1960s. More than just racing, the Terlingua Racing ...

DALLAS — Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89.

In the history of the automotive industry, few cars have managed to win the hearts of so many people as the Shelby Cobra. This iconic car has one of the biggest fandoms of any American sports car, and ...

PITTSBURG, Texas (KLTV) - It seems East Texas has a connection to nearly anything you can think of and that includes the world of automotive racing and design. Carroll Shelby hails from Leesburg, ...

Back in 2011, Electronic Arts, the publisher of the Need for Speed video game franchise, teamed up with Carroll Shelby and his crew at Shelby American to create a one-off Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake ...