Originally Posted by nthfinity
just LOL
The new one is a reflection of the old one in many ways. Where to begin...
1st. Shelby's autograph money goes entirely to his charity.
2nd. The GT is a ground up highly advanced chassis that makes the LP560 look ameturish (according to a lambo chassis engineer)
3rd. The GT is the most drivable supercar... perhaps ever. All with zero aids. Engineering marvel by itself
4th It's faster than the Ferrari/ lambo / porsche of it's time/competitors.
5th The car is racing in ALMS GT2 without factory support better than the other cars w/out such support. A large part of the issue there is drivers
6th the GT3 version of the car is a VERY winning car.(w/out factory support) Pedegree is right there.
The GT is still a very desirable car; even with nearly 4000 produced (read, fewer than F430, or Gallardo) and is faster than anything produced at the time in terms of accel, and top speed.
7th, modifications haven't taken away any value of these cars. Nor much reliability!
8th - it wasn't Jay Mays team that built the GT. It was John Colletti, with Chris Theodore/ , Kip Ewing, Camilo Pardo, Jamal Hameedi, and others....
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I'd like to have a Ford GT. I was hoping they would start dropping like stones, they have not. There are 3500 of them so they will never be rare. They are not like F1's or GT40's where they made only 100 or so. I see them dropping to the 90's or 100's in a while especially if everyone keeps on making newer faster cars. I never thought I would see a Ferrari 355 in the 70's.
I agree this is like a Corvette pace car. Maybe worth in ten or twenty years 30% more than regular Ford GT's
BTW a 1963 Corvette Grand Sport will be auctioned in Phoenix in January. They only made 5. Look out.
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