{"id":722,"date":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"carroll_shelby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Carroll Shelby @ 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/2004\/motorsports\/bench\/0112shelby2.jpg\"><br \/>\nTerry Box on the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/money\/autonews\/shelby11e_20041111.htm\">muscle car builder Carroll Shelby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> Sometimes late at night, 81-year-old Carroll Shelby lies awake, thinking about all the cars he still wants to build.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve got 10 different cars in my head,&#8221; said Shelby, the lanky, legendary Texan who created the fierce Shelby Cobras and Mustangs of the 1960s and was a renowned racer in the 1950s.<br \/>\nAt a time when most men his age are settling in for the final chapter of their lives, Shelby is on the move again.<br \/>\nEarlier this year, he and his wife, Cleo, bought a 4,600-acre ranch outside tiny Annona in east Texas. After years of living mostly in Los Angeles, he said he expects the new ranch to become his primary home &#8212; a symbolic return of sorts to east Texas, where he was born.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  He has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrollshelby.com\/\">website, of course<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Box on the legendary muscle car builder Carroll Shelby: Sometimes late at night, 81-year-old Carroll Shelby lies awake, thinking about all the cars he still wants to build. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got 10 different cars in my head,&#8221; said Shelby, the lanky, legendary Texan who created the fierce Shelby Cobras and Mustangs of the 1960s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}