Carroll Hall Shelby is an American retired automotive designer and racing driver. He is most well known for making Mustangs for Ford Motor Company known as Mustang Cobras which he has done since 1965. His company, Shelby American Inc., founded in 1962, currently sells modified Ford vehicles, as well as performance parts.
Carroll Shelby was born on January 11, 1923 in Leesburg, Texas

Leesburg, Texas

Leesburg is an unincorporated community in southwestern Camp County, Texas, United States. It lies along State Highway 11 west of the city of Pittsburg, the county seat of Camp County. Its elevation is 397 feet...

, to Warren Hall Shelby, a rural mail carrier, and his wife Eloise Lawrence Shelby.