, 1963-09-20
Sports .

after peace was restored, he Sought a Queter existence as a chicken
raiser. 1t wasn't such a change at that for q man who had his
wings But Carroll hadn't reckoned with the Newcastle disease
This had nothing to do with carrying Goals to that English port
He had been raising several hundred thousand brolers year for
the market until one morning in 1851 he noticed that the chickens
necks. were webbing as if made Of rubber. Could these be rubber
chickens, he asked. Within three days, 10000 fryers turned UP
their toes, victims Of timber neck better known as the Newcastle
disease. At this point having laid an egg at it Shelby chickened
out Of the poultry business and returned to auto racing. He won
the national championship in 1856, 1857 and 1850.
While competing in the last Mexican road race in 1854 Shelby
lost control Of biss Car and Il AEatlad eRaaOveEzsnd FIVE times shat.
panied him to all his races and before each event, would take the
plaster cats off the smashed elbow, replace it viii 4 fiber glass cast
and attach the arm to teh steering wheel, Incredibly, the smashed
part Of the elbow,meantime, was resting against his exposed hip
bone, as a slow grating process was taking place.
In this condition, he-won 81 out Of % races. six months after
the accident, with the elbow still attached by he knitting bone to his
hip, he al d his partner, Phil Hill, were announced as winners of the
l2=heurf Sebring classic. Alas, somebody aid goofed IN the figure
department Fifteen minutes laAc, it was announced that a recheck
showed that the Shelby-HIl combination had fnishedssecond. A
hipstcr Dy 1859, who could beat i'm Mccoy onsthe draw if his new
Glow were put to the test, Shelby won the big LeMans race. But,
along about that time, Carroll began to get pains IN his le1t ARM
not the one that had been attached to his hip ii sthe bone grating
operation-and his doctor broke the news to him that he had angina
pectoris, osrnething unusual in one of hi sage.
Il WAS A HOT FODDER at heart and the racing game was in
my blood Carroll recalled yesterday. II decided then and there.
that If 4 couldn't race cars, / would try to produce one SO much
better than the others that the world would beat a path to my door,
as Mr.. Emerson remarked about the mousetraps. Well, that seems to
be what is happening. have a backlog of orders for six months. /
buld $50 cars a year and that's all I g.AI ever produce. Ny car,
you might say, is an American hotrodders dream
The personable Texan, six feet and 165 pounds Of lean cowboy
material handsome enough to land a movie role in Hollywood if
he cared to- prefers Venice, down the Coast from Movietown,
where he assemblies his Cobras. The aluminium bodies are hand
tooad.n England. The new Fairlane engines which power them
are made by Ford. This type motor is similar to the one which
easapulted the car that ran second in the Indianapolis 500 last
l-esaorlal Day and recently beat the O~fenhausers at Milwaukee.
The advantage Of aluminium bodies is that they are lighter than
ether metal or plastic bodies and the appeal they carry is the pres
tige Of having a car that is built by hand instead Of mass produced.
OF the $50 Shelby turns out per year, about 10 per cent are for
lad racing. The rest are street cars and, considering the de-
naaad they, too, must be named desire The street models are
gared for a maximum speed Of $50 MP.H The model will remain
the same as Shelby believes it can't be improved upon.
AT Bridgehanpton this weekend, five SheIby-Cobras viii be
competing. Bob Holbert, Warrington Pa, driver who is this years
national road racing champion Ken Miles Of Hollywood, who man
ages Shelbys competition department, and, at As, has won more road
races than man alive, and possibly Dan Quincy, Americas cock-of-
the-walk in the Formula I field, will be Shelbys entry. Also com
peting will be Bob johnson, the Columbus, Ohio, driver who has
Just won the production championship by coming out on top seven
times IN races where he has met factory prepared cobras. Yippy-LO
kyay! That cowboys Cobra must have something special under the
hood which is even more VenemouS to ANYTHING that comes II ic