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Originally Posted by SunDude

Published on the web today.


1. Carroll Shelby, one of the manliest men to ever live, was a hopeless romantic.
Fact-based legend has it that he spent WWII as a flight instructor just outside of San Antonio, and on longer missions he would drop love letters stuffed in leather boots out of his plane when flying over his fiancé's farm.



Source: Carroll Shelby, 19 Things you didn't know about the designer of the Cobra - Supercompressor.com

I would agree that is super romantic... as long as your fiance doesn't get hit in the head by the falling boot! (Not to complain, but I do think pilots have an "unfair" advantage in the romance department...)
That aside, what a story and what a life he had. Shelby was the original (and real) world's most interesting man.
He knew how to live life, and did just that. Rest In Peace, Carroll Shelby.