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You just didn't have any money that week. One time, he brought home a pickup truck full of canned beans that
we lived on for a long time. But when he started racing,
he found out he's good, so that's when he decided that
he would make a name for himself and then use that name
to go develop other things. Shelby wanted to parlay
winning on the track into a bankable enterprise off the track, and by 1954, it was paying off. He was attracting the interest
of the biggest players in the world. He wound up, in 1954,
going over to Europe for the first time, and raced with Aston Martin at Le Mans
we lived on for a long time. But when he started racing,
he found out he's good, so that's when he decided that
he would make a name for himself and then use that name
to go develop other things. Shelby wanted to parlay
winning on the track into a bankable enterprise off the track, and by 1954, it was paying off. He was attracting the interest
of the biggest players in the world. He wound up, in 1954,
going over to Europe for the first time, and raced with Aston Martin at Le Mans
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You just didn't have any money that week.
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One time, he brought home a pickup truck
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full of canned beans that
we lived on for a long time.
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But when he started racing,
he found out he's good,
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so that's when he decided that
he would make a name for himself
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and then use that name
to go develop other things.
00:00:21.813 --> 00:00:23.648
Shelby wanted to parlay
winning on the track
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into a bankable enterprise off the track,
00:00:26.985 --> 00:00:29.487
and by 1954, it was paying off.
00:00:29.057 --> 00:00:32.907
He was attracting the interest
of the biggest players in the world.
00:00:32.991 --> 00:00:35.868
He wound up, in 1954,
going over to Europe for the first time,
00:00:35.952 --> 00:00:38.746
and raced with Aston Martin at Le Mans.
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Movie Summary
The story of automotive icon Carroll Shelby who started as a chicken farmer and went on to become one of the winningest racing drivers in American motorsports, and the only man in history to win in Le Mans as a driver and a manufa...
