Too often these "tributes" end up as dour recitations of ones resume and a wish for one to rest in peace, rather than paying tribute to ones personality and how they lived.
It's been said he died of pneumonia but it appears instead he passed due to a motor boating accident.
http://jalopnik.com/5909688/the-prob...carroll-shelby
If not entirely true, certainly Shelby would approve of such a legend.
It was an interesting character who keep pushing along and like he said, he had many bombs in the marketplace that were unprofitable, but it only took a few hits to make his legacy live beyond his lifetime.