
By Deepa Seetharaman
DETROIT (Reuters) -
Carroll Shelby, designer of the
Shelby Cobra and other sports cars that placed him in the pantheon of auto industry legends, has died at age 89,
his company said on Friday. He died on Thursday at Baylor Infirmary in Dallas, according to the accompany, Carroll Shelby Licensing. The firm did not disclose the make of death. A post on his Facebook page last month broken he had been hospitalized for pneumonia. Shelby was one of the few prominent designers to work with all three major American car companies, starting with Ford Motor Co in the 1960s. His last collaboration with Ford was on the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500. 'My name is Carroll Shelby and execution is my business,' he said in an small Cobra commercial. Shelby was born in Leesburg, Texas, in 1923. He started racing cars in the 1950s, and in 1959 he gained the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a marathon race
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