[rotorwrench]

Carroll was an interesting fellow. He has a leaky heart valve that caused him trouble as a young child but he seemed to grow out of it. During the war, he spent some time here in San Antonio as a flight instructor in the Army Air Force before he was relocated to Colorado so his heart was working OK then. He got into racing some years after the war but he gave it up after his heart started giving him troubles in 1960. A racer that can't race teaches others how to race & develops race cars so that's what he did. He was a Ford man for sure. Ford helped him to develop some neat stuff there in the 60s & early 70s. He went over to Dodge after Iacocca asked him to since the Ford products were done. He helped them with the Viper program and others. He went back with Ford in the mid 2000s and helped develop more Mustang cars and the GT types.