See Carroll Shelby at the height of his car-selling powers in this original FoMoCo spot  promoting the Shelby GT Mustangs for 1967.

Carroll Shelby (1923-2012) was a gifted race driver, constructor, and self-taught vehicle engineer, but as many have noted, perhaps his greatest talent was as a salesman. In the 1960s, Ford Motor Company executives took careful note of the masterful job he had done selling them on his Shelby Cobra program, and duly impressed, they put him to work selling the Ford and Shelby stories to the car-buying public. In the one-minute spot below, he’s pitching the new and improved 1967 Shelby GT Mustangs: the small-block powered GT350 and the big-block GT500.

By the way, the man seen talking to Shelby at the start of the video is none other than Don Frey, Ford vice president and chief engineer. A metallurgist by training, Frey (1923-2010) held multiple degrees including a doctorate and was fluent in three languages. Every bit as much as Lee Iacocca, Frey could be called the father of the 1965 Mustang, and when he retired from industry he took a professorship at Northwestern University. What an amazing place the Ford Motor Company must have been back when people like Shelby and Frey roaming the halls in Dearborn. Video follows.