American - Designer | January 11, 1923 - May 10, 2012
I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'
Carroll Shelby
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I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
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I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.
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The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
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I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
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Every morning I wake up with new ideas.
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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
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I love horsepower.
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I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
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It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
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I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.
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Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
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