Overview
New for 2011! In 1962 a successful race car driver named Carroll Shelby, a man with an itch to build a sports car, unleashed the Shelby Cobra on the world. The Cobra soon proved to be the hottest thing on four wheels, both at the racetrack and in production form. With the introduction of Shelby’s modern cars (including the new GT500), that legend continues, and in Shelby 2011, you’ll find both old and new Shelby favorites. It doesn’t matter if you’re a European car enthusiast, a drag racer, or a NASCAR fanatic, or if you’re not even a car person at all, there is something about Shelby that appeals to us all.
Synopsis
New for 2011! In 1962 a successful race car driver named Carroll Shelby, a man with an itch to build a sports car, unleashed the Shelby Cobra on the world. The Cobra soon proved to be the hottest thing on four wheels, both at the racetrack and in production form. With the introduction of Shelby’s modern cars (including the new GT500), that legend continues, and in Shelby 2011, you’ll find both old and new Shelby favorites. It doesn’t matter if you’re a European car enthusiast, a drag racer, or a NASCAR fanatic, or if you’re not even a car person at all, there is something about Shelby that appeals to us all.
Darwin Holmstrom has written or co-written many books on cars and motorcycling, including the best-selling BMW Motorcycles, GTO: Pontiac’s Great One, Hemi Muscle Cars, Camaro: Forty Years, Muscle: America's Legendary Performance Cars, Billy Lane Chop Fiction: It’s not a Motorcycle, Baby, It’s a Chopper, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles. He lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota.