Just Call Me Carroll (Hardcover)

by Phil Henny (Author)
Key Phrases: racing shop, race shop, Shelby American, Carroll Shelby, Ken Miles (more...)

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Product Description
The author came from Switzerland in 1966 and joined the Shelby team as a mechanic in time to work on the 1967 Le Mans winning cars. His stories of the American racing scene and particularly the Shelby era are fascinating. Strongly recommended. A hard-to-find book not generally available in the conventional book trade.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 148.0 pages
• Publisher: Editions Cotty (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976524716
• ISBN-13: 978-0976524717
• ASIN: B000BYT3TE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #193,185 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Motorsports Literature At Its Best, October 4, 2007

By	William I. Brown "VMI Cadet 76" (Bedford, VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book purely on a whim having little idea who Phil Henney was. It didn't take completion of the first chapter before I realized I'd hit a gold-mine in automotive literature. It represents some of the best value in overall content and packaging of any motorsports book I've read, and I've been collecting and reading books about sports car racing for over 40 years. There are scat few memoirs out there written by the men who turned the wrenches, and a number of these frankly have little of substance to say- not so with Henney's book. With unparalleled access to the world of the great Carroll Shelby, Phil presents an engaging look at an incredible era in racing. To his credit, he doesn't gloss over any aspect of what he saw, either within or outside of Shelby's organization. His comments about drivers are particularly insightful. In many respects, this is as good if not better than the vast majority of driver memoirs or books by leading authors in the field (on par with Eoin Young, Anthony Pritchard, Dave Friedman, etc). Phil's just-released companion work about the great Bob Bondurant should make a welcome addition to the Shelby story. I don't mean it lightly when I say this is an absolute "must have" book if you're remotely interested in sports car racing from the 1960s (follow the purchase of "Just Call Me Carroll" with Phil's book on Bondurant if you wish a more complete picture of Bondurant's contributions to Shelby's successes against the might of Ferrari).