Legend has it that you took several nitroglycerine tablets during the race. Did the team know about that? Shelby: I’d had problems with my heart for about a year by then, and I was on nitroglycerine, and I had to take probably five pills during the race. And no, I didn’t tell anybody on the...
Despite an excess of cockpit heat around the pedals, Shelby still donned a jacket to cover his signature bib overalls and ward off the overnight chill as he drove his Aston Martin ever onward toward the victory that would change his life and essentially enable everything he accomplished thereafter.
Photo: Carroll Shelby Collection
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