Carroll Shelby Quotes
100 Carroll Shelby Quotes
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[In 1986] We never expected to get this sort of performance out of it… But there’s a lot of technology out there today that wasn’t out there 20 years ago. I guess we’ve got a real little pocket rocket on our hands.
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[In 1986] We’re trying to get our production line cranked up like we had it back in the 60’s when we built the Shelbys…
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[In 1986] I’m just not into racing now at all, because I think to be successful in racing it has to be your number one priority… At 63 years old I think I’m stretching it a little bit to think that I could keep up with the young boys in that business.
Carroll Shelby
I’m sorry to say. Well, I’m happy to say I guess, that they were sold out before we ever built the first one.
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[In 1986 on how the car business has changed in the last twenty-five years.] The performance car business has changed tremendously, we used to just have V8’s… and now we have an electronic engineer who puts a new chip into the computer… That’s one of the way’s it’s changed. A lot of technology now, a lot of electronics, an integral part of the automobile. In five years the computers will be running the whole thing.
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My name’s Carroll Shelby and performance is my business.
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I’m a hot rodder, I’m an innovator.
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Lee Iaccoca called me in 1964, right after the Mustang came out and said ‘We want to make a racing car out of this.’ And I said the thing is a secretaries car, I don’t think it can be done. Let’s take the V8 and pop it up to 300, 315 or 320 horse power and let’s change the breaks, let’s change the suspension, let’s take the rear seats out, and let’s turn it into a sportscar.
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History is forgotten.
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For three years now my guys have been playing with engines. You know, heads, pistons, turbos, superchargers, the whole range, just looking for ways to make that 2.2-liter engine think it’s a 5-liter V8. Turbos, which I’ve been telling you guys for years, are the only way to go in a small-displacement vehicle.
Carroll Shelby
We had to plan ahead. I wanted a car that a young couple could afford to buy, but would enjoy getting’ out in. Turned out it could blow the doors off cars that cost four or five times as much.
Carroll Shelby
I would have been sorely disappointed if I hadn’t been able to build a faster, more efficient car today. It’s a sign of the times. It’s a lot of little car for the money.
Carroll Shelby
We’ll be able to respond quickly to the latest thinking. Our group is already developing hardware for the Lancer and the Daytona. We’ve got some slick stuff coming down the pike for you.
Carroll Shelby
I can’t do anything in particular except pick people. During the depression, I learned that you better learn to work with people because they’re the only thing you have to make anything work. That’s the thing I’m most proud of, out of everything that’s happened in my life outside of my children.
Carroll Shelby
We had the same thing 40 years ago when we took some hot rodders and just welded them together. Most of them didn’t have an education as far as engineering goes. But enthusiasm and luck will do a h*ll of a lot more than education sometimes.
Carroll Shelby
[In February 2011] When we built the first Cobra in 1962 I couldn’t conceive of having five more anniversaries of anything, let alone fifty. I feel lucky to still be here and still be building Cobras. It’s just as much fun now as it was then.
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I couldn’t have done it without the right people, and I was lucky to have the best in the business help me do it. They took that little car and made it a World Champion, something I am very proud of.
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[In February 2011 at the age of 88] It’s been a great ride…
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You can’t ever give up.
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Whatever the problem is, you’ve got to drive through.
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