Caroll Shelby’s Biggest Failure Or Greatest Hit? - The 1999 Shelby Series 1

In this Rare Cars documentary, we go deep into one of the most underappreciated sports cars in American history, the 1999-2005 Shelby Series 1 Roadster. This car was Caroll Shelby;s first bespoke car that he ever built 100% from the ground up, it is also the ONLY car that he ever did this with.

The Shelby Series 1 was light, fantastic to look at, and packed a very unique V8 power plant. But with just 249 cars made it is a very car, and there were actually supposed to be way more of these made. So what happened that caused the Shelby Series 1’s to fade away into obscurity?

Stay tuned to the end to find out all there is to know about this Shelby Series 1.

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