{"product_id":"9780760343944","title":"Inside Shelby American: Wrenching and Racing with Carroll Shelby in the 1960s","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn 1962, a young, racing-obsessed midwesterner named John Morton headed to Riverside International Raceway to attend the newly opened Shelby School of High Performance Driving. His instructor? Pete Brock. His school car? The Shelby Cobra prototype. What more could you want?\u003cbr\u003eHow about a job with Shelby American?\u003cbr\u003eWhen introduced to Carroll Shelby at the school, Morton had sufficient nerve to ask for a job in Shelby’s race shop. Shelby said, “Come and see me Monday.”\u003cbr\u003eThus began Morton’s tenure with Shelby American, an experience that would see him engaged in tasks from floor sweeping to race driving and would launch his professional racing career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInside Shelby American: Wrenching and Racing with Carroll Shelby in the 1960s\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging look behind the scenes as Shelby ramped up from ex-racer with a vision to all-conquering constructor and race team manager. But it’s also the story of Morton’s formative racing years—his trajectory from a go-kart–racing kid from the Midwest to a professional racer.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Motorbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020271010032,"sku":"9780760343944","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780760343944_p0.jpg?v=1763798634","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780760343944","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}