In the late 1950s, a young John Morton used to be transfixed with sports car racing. His dreams of competition sooner or later led him to sign up, in 1962, within the Shelby School of High Performance Driving. In a bold moment after the last class, Morton asked Carroll Shelby if he might come to work for the newly formed Shelby American. The answer used to be “Yes, here is a broom.” Thus ended Morton’s college career and started his long racing career. Over the next three years, Morton would be a firsthand witness to the evolution of probably the most iconic sports car builders and racing teams of the 1960s. Inside Shelby American is his personal account of a company overflowing with talent, from designer Pete Brock to fabricator extraordinare Phil Remington to drivers like Dan Gurney, Ken Miles, Bob Bondurant, and Phil Hill. The cars were equally captivating: AC Cobra, Mustang GT350, Ford GT, Daytona Coupe. On this book, Morton’s story is intertwined with the memories of other Shelby staffers of the period, revealing through historic photography and an untold point of view the rousing story of The united states’s most legendary racer and car builder.
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