Carroll Shelby International, Inc., (OTC: CSBI.PK) announced today that Carroll Hall Shelby, a man whose vision for performance transformed the automobile industry, has died at age 89. Mr. Shelby passed away yesterday at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. The cause of death was not disclosed.

Born on Jan. 11, 1923, Carroll Shelby was one of America’s greatest success stories. Championship-winning racecar driver, “flying sergeant” wartime pilot, philanthropist, entrepreneur, car manufacturer and racing team owner, he embodied the ingenuity, tenacity and grit to overcome any obstacle. He is perhaps the only person to have worked at a visible level with all three major American automobile manufacturers. Carroll Shelby founded Carroll Shelby International, a publicly held corporation involved in many industries. His licensing arm has agreements with industry giants, such as Mattel, Sony, Ford Motor Company and Electronic Arts. His car company, Shelby American, has a thriving parts business as well as a line of muscle cars including the Shelby GT500 Super Snake, Shelby GT350 and Shelby GTS. The Las Vegas-based company also manufactures a limited number of the 1960s Shelby 289 “street,” 289 FIA, 427 S/C and Daytona Coupe Cobras.

Shelby considered his greatest achievement to be the establishment of the Carroll Shelby Foundation™. Createdin 1992 while Shelby was waiting for a heart transplant, the charity is dedicated to providing medical assistance for those in need, including children, educational opportunities for young people through automotive and other training programsandbenefitting the Carroll Shelby Automotive Foundation.

Shelby remained active in the management of each of his companies and the Foundation until his death, even though he endured both heart and kidney transplants in the last two decades of his life.

“We are all deeply saddened, and feel a tremendous sense of loss for Carroll’s family, ourselves and the entire automotive industry,” said Joe Conway, president of Carroll Shelby International, Inc. and board member. “There has been no one like Carroll Shelby and never will be. However, we promised Carroll we would carry on, and he put the team, the products and the vision in place to do just that.”

Shelby is survived by his three children Patrick, Michael and Sharon, his sister Anne Shelby Ellison of Fort Worth and his wife Cleo. Funeral plans are not currently available. Donations to the Carroll Shelby Foundation are encouraged in lieu of flowers.

Information about the Carroll Shelby Foundation is available at www.carrollshelbyfoundation.org.

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Hier gibts schonmal das Video.

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Der Mustang Clube do Paraná hat ein schickes Video gedreht und es unserem Vize Stefan Arendt mit folgender Mail zukommen lassen:

Dear Friends from Europe,
My name is Mauricio and I am the communications director of Mustang Club of Paraná - Situated 400 kms south from São Paulo, we come to you to register our club in your website. Please, check out our website at: www.mustangparana.com.br We have more than 80 registered Mustangs from 1965 to 2012 (including a 2011 Daytona Pace car ). We would like to get in touch with you in order to make a partnership. Please reply to me whenever is possible. The Mustang Club of Paraná, completing its 11 year history decided to celebrate this date with our club members in a unique way! In partnership with some companies, we developed a sponsorship to run a video commemorating the club history, featuring most of all its members, their cars and the passion that moves us when it comes to the Ford Mustang. Following the example and inspiration of our friends from Mustang Klub of Poland, we decided to address this subject in a professional way and we created the "MUSTANG PASSION BRASIL." This video was filmed for three months in various locations of Curitiba and the coast of our state, located in southern part of Brazil. The result you are about to see has been achieved with much sweat, dedication and above all PASSION. Made just with our local members´ cars, the video seeks to identify the different styles of this same passion, showing the cars and their owners, with the idea that just by having a Mustang to automatically be infected by the virus of the "Mustang Passion", establishing a forever record of our actual moment and immortalize, not just the owners or their cars, but above all, that each style is unique, such as this car, for nearly 50 years now! We would like to thank the sponsors, colleagues and friends of the Mustang Klub Poland and the Mustang Club of America who participated indirectly in making this dream come true. So turn up the volume, relax and above all enjoy this visual record, this is our present for this racing legend who is the Ford Mustang!

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Thank you. Mauricio Sebastiany Communications Director – MCP Hope to get in touch soon. Mauricio B. Sebastiany Comunications Director Mustang Clube do Paraná