Carroll Shelby is most commonly known for designing and building high-performance cars, but the reason that he was so good at it was that he used to be a high-profile race car driver. He knew what a car needed to perform at the top of the pack, so he put all his knowledge into the cars he helped create. It would be thought that before the Shelby was designed, he would have been proud of his accomplishments, which he was up to a point. He always knew that he could create more, something better, which turned out to be the GT500 in 1967. When talking about his accomplishments, Shelby stated that the 1967 Shelby GT500 was the “first car he was proud of.”
1 The One And Only “Eleanor”
No discussion about the 1967 Shelby GT500 would be complete without discussing the one and only “Eleanor.” It was the final car that Nicolas Cage and his crew had to steal in the movie “Gone In 60 Seconds.” The unicorn that would always give him trouble when trying to drive, which of course, is not the case, but it definitely built up the suspense in the movie. The point is, though, that “Eleanor” was the only car out of 50 that was the main feature within the film, which is when the car became a true legend