Most of Shelby’s employees looked as if they were straight out of high school. They weren’t college types, but they were street smart. Shelby called them “hot-rodders trying to prove that they weren’t the dipshits everyone in the world thought they were.” They knew how to weld, how to fabricate, how to make cars go fast. Walking around the shop, hearing the hiss of air hoses and smelling the sweat and oil, Iacocca knew that Shelby had tapped into something very real and powerful.
