Product Information

Title: Just call me Carroll    Autographed Edition Book number 10  out of   20.

Author: Phil Henny

Format: Hardbound  slip case

ISBN-13: 9780976524717

Publisher: Editions Cotty

Number of Pages: 158

Publication Date: 2004 

THIS IS A SLIP CASE IN MEMORY OF CARROLL SHELBY .   Number  12 out of 20 books signed in  2008.

  Autographed by 14 Very Special  Shelby American Employees who gave FORD 2 Victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

  Carroll Shelby

  Phil Remington  Engineer  -   Dan Gurney    Driver   -   A.J. Foyt     Driver  -  Bob Bondurant      Driver  -  John Morton  Driver

  Peter Brock    Designer  -   Steele Therkleson   Mechanic  -    John Collins   Mechanic      -    Jimmy Insolo    Driver

  Bernie Kretzschmar   Mechanic    -    John Stucki   Mechanic     -     Phil Henny    Mechanic       -      Jiggs Garcia    Mechanic

THIS A VERY SPECIAL Numbered book

The author came from Switzerland. In 1967, Phil Henny joined the Shelby American Racing Team as a mechanic, in time to work on "Le Mans winning FORD MKIV", driven by Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt. 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.

 This review is from: Just Call Me Carroll....! (Hardcover)

I bought this book purely on a whim having little idea who Phil Henny 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 Henny'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).