Racing icon Carroll Shelby dies at 89

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.

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Charles Wallace, at wheel, Bethesda, Md., and Carroll Shelby, Dallas, Texas, are shown with the Aston Martin they will drive in the Grand Prix at Sebring, Fla., March 5, 1954. (AP Photo/James P. Kerlin)
Charles Wallace, at wheel, Bethesda, Md., and Carroll Shelby, Dallas, Texas, are shown with the Aston Martin they will drive in the Grand Prix at Sebring, Fla., March 5, 1954. (AP Photo/James P. Kerlin)