1965 Shelby Daytona: A Texas Chicken Farmer's Homemade Coupe Took Ferrari's World Championship

On the fourth of July, 1965, at Reims in France, a car built by a bankrupt Texas chicken farmer's race team took the World Sportscar Championship away from Enzo Ferrari. This is the full story of the Shelby Daytona Coupe: the heart condition that ended Carroll Shelby's driving career, the young designer named Peter Brock whose strange chopped tail everyone laughed at, the cancelled Monza record run, and the season Ferrari would rather forget. Only six were ever built. One of them became the most expensive American car ever sold. Subscribe for more stories the big teams would rather stay buried.