Reviews

I love this book! When I first thumbed through it, I noticed the captions. They are like little mini stories of each photo. This is a well written book that has heart, humor and honesty. I have never actually found a car book, until now, that appealed to me. Most car books are nuts and bolts, facts, and boring tech stuff. Not this one. You will love it, too. I have learned a lot while enjoying lovely photos and wonderfully told stories. A great coffee table book, to be sure.

This book is such a great automobile enthusiast book. If you are a fan of Shelby you will love this book. There is not many books out there that have as much information as this book does. I collect many of the Mustang and Shelby books, but by far this is my most favorite. As a fellow Shelby enthusiasts I strongly recommend this book to everyone. I think Colin Comer did a great job putting this book together and look forward to much more of his work. Hope everyone enjoys it.

I always take a book called "The Complete Book of..." with a grain of salt. I have never seen a book that really was complete. Until now, that is. This book is unbelievable. Either Mr. Comer has a crack team of researchers in his employment, or else the man possesses a freakish amount of knowledge about Shelby automobiles. Either way, the end result is the first "Complete Book of..." that really is the complete book on the subject. But the stellar quality of this book doesn't end with it's completeness. Normally I'd expect a book like this to read like an entertaining encyclopedia, and I wouldn't be disappointed with that. What I got instead was an extremely well-written--gripping, even--narrative that was as much fun to read as it was to look at, if not more so. It certainly functions as the repository of information that I expected (more-so, actually, since, for once, it really was complete, as advertised), but it also tells a hellaciously good story. As a whole package, this book is absolutely astounding.

This is the best book on the complete subject I have read. Highly recommended for the Shelby owner, admirer, or collector of authenic automobilia.

This is a book about Carroll Shelby and his cars. The author does a fantastic job writing about the Shelby legend of cars during the 1960's. There is not much about Mr. Shelby's racing world but the book focuses mostly on the 1963 to 1970's Shelby cars. I did not know much about Mr. Shelby before reading this book and now have a greater understanding of what he went through in building his cars. But, wanting to know all I could about Mr. Shelby and having the book titled, "Shelby", I was left wondering what happened to Mr. Shelby and his car company during the period of 1970 to 1980's. This book will not give you that information. I was left with lots of questions as to how his business ventured from 1970 to the early 1980's. How did he end up in Las Vegas? These answers are not in this book. Even though I loved reading the book and would recommend it easily, I was left at the end of the book with some disappointment. It seems the author ran out of paper to write what happened after 1970. I know Shelby Automotive is still operating in Las Vegas, but not much is said, in relative comparison with the first 2/3's of the book, about what happened after 1970. The author seems like he was rushing to get it over with. It is a very positive and glowing report of Mr. Shelby and his cars up to 1970's. Sure there are chapters about the 1980's to present but they felt rushed and incomplete.