The only car Carroll Shelby designed from scratch. The Shelby Series 1 was Shelby’s first and only fully original production car that was designed from ground-up —not a modified Ford. Under the hood sat a 4.0L Oldsmobile Aurora–based DOHC aluminum V8. Lightweight, advanced for its time, and built in extremely limited numbers, the Series 1 represented Shelby’s attempt to define a new era of American performance. The original non-running prototype design model used during development —the car Carr

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