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Re: RIP Mr.Shelby
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2012, 10:59:42 AM »
RIP Mr. Shelby.  He is up there racing with the other greats!

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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2012, 11:25:36 AM »
Interesting sidenote. He was the longest living heart transplant patient in the world, got his ticker in 1990. Stubborn SOB!

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Re: RIP Mr.Shelby
« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2012, 08:35:43 AM »
Interesting sidenote. He was the longest living heart transplant patient in the world, got his ticker in 1990. Stubborn SOB!

And in those 22 years, his work for the Carroll Shelby foundation helped raise a lot of funding for childhood disease.

I think it's appropriate that we acknowledge the unknown family whose tragedy granted Mr. Shelby the opportunity to become one of the great philanthropists of our time.

We don't know who you are, but thank you.
















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« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2012, 09:25:19 AM »
All models are wrong, but some are useful! G.E. Box (1967) www.designdreams.biz

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Re: RIP Mr.Shelby
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2012, 12:46:40 PM »
Poor Carrol!  May you one day Rest In Peace.

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