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Carroll Shelby : the authorized biography / Rinsey Mills ; foreword by Edsel B. Ford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Rinsey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelby, Carroll, 1923-2012.
- Shelby, Carroll.
- Automobile racing drivers--United States--Biography.
- Automobile racing drivers.
- Automobile engineers--United States--Biography.
- Automobile engineers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (555 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Motorbooks, 2014.
- Summary:
- Meticulously researched, engagingly written, and complete with photographs from Shelby's personal collection, Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography is a magnificent and lasting tribute to one of the twentieth century's greatest automotive figures.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Publisher's Note
- Foreword
- 1 The Boy from East Texas
- 2 The Army Air Force
- 3 Children, Trucks, and Chicken
- 4 Racing for Real
- 5 Foreign Representative
- 6 Record-Breaking and the Mexican Road Race
- 7 Guiberson's Ferraris
- 8 Italian Summer
- 9 Moving On
- 10 Unrestricted National Champion
- 11 In Hemingway's Footsteps
- 12 Carroll Shelby Sport Cars
- 13 Mainly Maseratis
- 14 Looking to the Future
- 15 Back to The Bahamas and a Kidnapping in Cuba
- 16 A Season in Europe
- 17 The Writing on the Wall
- 18 Works Driver
- 19 Victory at Le Mans
- 20 Aston Takes the Championship
- 21 El Paso by Sundown, Nassau by Night
- 22 "Lucky" Experiences
- 23 The Last Laps
- 24 Starting Afresh
- 25 Out into the Sunshine
- 26 The Cobra is Born
- 27 Let the Racing Begin
- 28 The Watershed Year
- 29 Further Ambitions
- 30 World Championship Bid
- 31 Over to Europe
- 32 A New Era
- 33 Upping the Ante
- 34 Getting the Job Done
- 35 Trials and Tribulations
- 36 The Price of Success
- 37 One More Time
- 38 Fresh Horizons
- 39 Off to Africa
- 40 Dodging Around
- 41 Rejuvenation
- 42 The First One
- 43 Millennium Man
- Author's Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7603-7013-3
- OCLC:
- 1157093753
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