Carroll Shelby Passes At 89

[Conan71]

Carroll Shelby, the automotive icon and one of the longest-living heart transplant recipients has died.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/05/auto-legend-carroll-shelby-father-of-cobra-dies/1#.T619wlGUcmQ

DALLAS (AP) — Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89.

Shelby's company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital. He had received a heart transplant in 1990 and a kidney transplant in 1996.

He was one of the nation's longest-living heart transplant recipients, having received a heart on June 7, 1990, from a 34-year-old man who died of an aneurism. Shelby also received a kidney transplant in 1996 from his son, Michael.

The one-time chicken farmer had more than a half-dozen successful careers during his long life. Among them: champion race car driver, racing team owner, automobile manufacturer, automotive consultant, safari tour operator, raconteur, chili entrepreneur and philanthropist.

http://news.yahoo.com/legendary-racer-car-designer-carroll-shelby-dies-195157031.html

[guido911]

Carroll Shelby, the automotive icon and one of the longest-living heart transplant recipients has died.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/05/auto-legend-carroll-shelby-father-of-cobra-dies/1#.T619wlGUcmQ

http://news.yahoo.com/legendary-racer-car-designer-carroll-shelby-dies-195157031.html

Sad to hear this.