Happy 103rd birthday to #CarrollShelby. Racer who later became a car designer for #Ford and other car companies.

These new #shelby cars are not resto-mods. They are continuation cars, built under agreement with Carroll Shelby Licensing.

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲: www.autoevolution.com/news/zacoes-...

𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁: E. Luchian 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼: @shelbylegendarycars (Instagram)

#carrollshelby #superperformance #csx10000 #cobra427supersnake

Carroll Shelby gets lit on fire, put out, and when everyone is gawking wondering if he's okay, he's perplexed and agitated, "FINISH IT! FILL THE TANK!"

Shelby needs everyone onside here, and so he asks the pertinent question (the ONLY pertinent question, he'd have us believe), "AM I ON GODDAM FIRE?" And, as he asks it, the answer is actually no. Once they twig to that, and what that means, he's got them all back on board and working as a team again. Carroll Shelby is driven and maniacal, but he's also a consensus builder (of SORTS; he's sort of more of a bully sometimes, and I think Howard Roark is the natural comparison point, literarily speaking) and a leader, or what he thinks is a leader. He sees the value in bringing people along, however forcefully, to his point of view. Versus Ken Miles who doesn't GIVE A FUCK what you or anyone thinks about anything.

Sheepish, halting, awkward; these people are the opposite of Shelby, who is determined, decisive and a man of action, both in rhetoric and in deed. But he doesn't hate them for being different from him. He knows how to speak to them, even if it's a little harsh for my taste. It was the era, and he is a Great Man, of sorts. We'll meet a few more, too, like Henry Ford II, another Great Man who compares unfavorably to the Great Man we've elected to follow in this narrative.

I read this as "... are you fucking kidding me right now?"

#ShowDon'tTell

#GoodDialogue typically isn't advancing #plot, it's revealing #character & motivations. I think of #exposition as a sometimes-necessary evil, but the joy of #goodwriting & #dialogue is when it's showing, not telling, us

Here, #CarrollShelby so clearly determined, willful

#alttext

This is roughly what a script or screenplay looks like, usually written these days in Final Draft Pro or in my case, a pirated/stolen version of something very close to it, called, like, Fanal Draft Pris that I got off the Pirate Bay, and only works with the right VPN settings.

There's def an #art to #screenwriting, which I'm passingly familiar with, having drafted a few (& sold none) in my #writing career.

Here's the link again: 8flix.com/scripts/film...

Here's what one looks like. Note how Page 1 ends perfectly with introduction of #CarrollShelby. No accident

#script

🎉🎂 Happy 4th Birthday to our beautiful boy Shelby! He’s celebrating iChihuahuas style with a spa day, lovingly pampered by Mira—his fave little groomer. 🐾💖 Four years of snuggles, loyalty & charm! 👑✨
#HappyBirthdayShelby #GT500 #CarrollShelby #iChihuahuas #ChiLove

🏛️👨🏻‍🎨 An American icon with Italian bodywork, created by Scaglietti. Only three such automobiles, elegantly called #ChevroletCorvetteItalia, saw the light of day. One had #CarrollShelby 's name on it.

👉Article: www.autoevolution.com/news/carroll...

✍ E. Luchian
📸 #petersenmuseum

#autoevolution

Ford Shelby Cobra seen at the Deveraux-Kaiser car show in Sarasota FL. #carshow #amateur #photography #sportscar #carrollshelby #carphotography

SOLD! We found this stunning 2006 Ford GT a new home in southern Florida in just 21 days! #fordgt #gt40 #gt #supercharged #fordvsferrari #shelby #carrollshelby #supercar #supercars #classiccars #collectiblecars

It’s Friday, so it must be #FordFriday. Sixty years ago, Carroll Shelby unveiled the iconic Shelby Ford Mustang GT350R at Riverside International Raceway (RIR) Riverside, California.

#Ford #FordMustang #ShelbyMustang #CarrollShelby #mustanggt350r #mustanggt #mustanggt350 #riverside #california

You know my #EV-aversion:
silent w/ AT & high-speeds, a danger to a/o, who just pays attention to the hearing, before crossing the street; in short: USELESS.

But, there were better ones:
the US-made #Electrek #Uncar (1979-83; 53 units) w/ MT(!) & co-developped by #CarrollShelby!

Happy 102nd birthday to #CarrollShelby. Racer who later became a car designer for #Ford and other car companies.