Look, we have no issue with a government confiscating cars used in the utility of a felony, but when you make driving felonious and profitable for the government, abuse is inevitable. Confiscating private property under weak pretense doesn't sound like the protection of citizens, it seems like a business model. There's a fine line between policing and harassing, and we're not the lawyer types, but this stinks to high heaven. [TheNewspaper]

Price, plain and simple. If you want to buy this RHD Ford GT from Mustang Motorsport, we hear that it would cost you over $500,000AUD. Our calculator says that's about $452,000USD. But don't raid the retirement fund or rob a bank just yet, because word on the street is that they've already pre-sold the planned run of five cars.
[via Australian Ford Forums]

I've always liked the Gulf Livery, and I think it's best iteration was on the original Le Mans GT40. But it really works well on the Ford GT, too. I was at Indy this past year with the Ford GT Owners group (there were about 50 GT's there - made for an impressive group going to the track each day).

Today I put up a little ditty about Auto Futura's "new" GT40 recreation, the Gulf Oil liveried CAV GT. Lighter, faster and better all around than the original GT40, we've been smitten for the past 24 hours over this bad sucker at it's 500 horsepower at the crank 5.6-liter V8. Commenter SRekauqh had only the following to say:

I effing love it.

End of the production for the Ford GTX1

It seems true that all good things must come to an end and so it is with the Ford GTX1 concept car that was designed by Kip Ewing of SVT Division for the 2005 SEMA show in Las Vegas. The car was an instant hit at the show. Plans to build a limited production run of the GTX1 were laid and agreed to between Ford Motor Co. and Genaddi Design Group. Clients could now upgrade their Ford GT Supercars into the GTX1 Roadster version at Genaddi Design Group's facilities in Green Bay, WI. A limited number of 500 GTX1s, built to the customer's request, plus an additional 100 SEMA edition cars, built to duplicate the car that appeared at the SEMA show in 2005, were available.

Only about 100 GTX1s have been ordered and completed by Genaddi Design Group but like the original run of the Ford GT Supercars, the build cycle for the GTX1 was, and is limited to two years. The GTX1 was made famous by numerous magazines worldwide, countless videos and U-tube shows and even famed car aficionado Jeremy Clarkson of the BBC TV Show Top Gear. He claimed while driving the GTX1 that it was one of the best cars he had ever driven. The GTX1 is listed in the NADA book and is a collectible icon that will increase in value and collectability now and in years to come.

The GTX1 is only available for an additional 8 months with orders being taken until August 31st, 2008. If the number is met of 600 units for the build, great, if not the lucky ones that own a GTX1 will see their investment portfolio increase in value by owning one of these rare supercars.

Genaddi Design Group will still offer all options to GT owners after August 2008 like their practical products that make ownership of a normal GT more enjoyable. These options include but are not limited to the Butterfly Doors, performance upgrades, chassis stiffener systems and wild interior and exterior color changes and also the trunk option. In the future, nothing will change between Genaddi Design Group and the GT community except the GTX1 will be in the history books. The bell has rung and being late for class on this one will get you an immediate failure as a collector. [Source: Gennadi Design Group]

Don't adjust your rods and cones; that Ford GT isn't supposed to be black and orange. Sure, Germany's Edo Competition often makes with the Halloween colors on its modded cars, but this time it's playing matters close to the vest. Its Ford GT tuning and cosmetics kit is good for 60 extra horsepower and some additional visual interest. It comprises a sport exhaust, carbon fiber engine bay paneling, rear wing, custom wheels, air-pressure control system (for tires, not passengers), and suspension tweaks. It's good for a reduction in zero-to-62 mph (100 km/h) time from 3.9 seconds to 3.7 seconds and increases top speed to a reported 211 mph from 205 stock. Sometimes in this crazy 'ol Siegfried and Roy car world we live in, subtlety is a virtue. [Thanks to Eric for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli

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Ford GT has shaft woes (sub. req.) [Automotive News]

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Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest and a Ford GT in the Garage: Autoworker buys Supercar; Rally 'Round The Ford! GT Ends Production, Owners Gather In Dearborn; Jeremy Clarkson to Ford: Take My GT Back [internal]

In an era where slapping two turbos on a car with 550 horsepower from the factory is considered a pretty good start. And considering we live in a country lacking unrestricted roadways, the results could be felonious. Still, we're not qualified to determine where going 205 mph in a 55 mph zone fits in the penal sphere. Yes, we just said "penal sphere." – Mike Spinelli

[via VOD Cars]

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With the cheapest "Buy it Now" price of a Ford GT just below $150,000 — and the last GT having rolled off the Saleen Special Vehicles line back in September — what's a speed-craving cheapskate to do? They can write a check for around $70,000 to replicar builder Superformance, and roll out with a new SPF GT40 MKII A (sans engine, of course). Rather than wallowing in Ford's new tech, they'll be getting a car that's closer to the Ford GT's antecedent, the Le Mans-winning GT40. The Superformance car is built from the original blueprints drawn up by Ford Advanced Vehicles, the FoMoCo division responsible for the mid-60s racer. The SPF even comes with a driver-side "Gurney bubble" set into the pressed-steel roof, to accommodate the helmets of those, like big Dan, who happen to be tall in stature. As for the drivetrain, which will cost extra, might we suggest something in a 427? – Mike Spinelli

Superformance SPF GT40 - Familiarity Breeds Perfection [Kit Car]

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Update on Superformance Brock Coupe [internal]

This is the story of a guy named Joe, who has buckets of cash at the ready. Joe likes driving really fast, but he's become disillusioned with the performance of his factory Ford GT. Enter the staff of Stage 6 Motorsports of Jacksonville, Florida, who conspire to build him a twin-turbo kit to boost horsepower into the 1,000 range. The only problem is traction. This cannot end well. [Thanks to Lee for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli

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2006 Woodward Dream Pre-Cruise: The Ford GTX-1 Proves Cruising Ain't Just For "Classics" [internal]

GTX-1 [Genaddi Design Group]

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Genaddi Design Offers Ford GTX1 Package; 2006 Woodward Dream Cruise [internal]

Skiny maneuvers the A6 Avant into proper takeoff position in San Diego.

Generally, when you wake up in the morning at a deluxo hotel in beautiful downtown San Diego and find out that your next destination is in the 909, your first inclination is to break out in hives, go into a seizure, mess yourself, and then put on a straight-brimmed baseball cap, take a hit off the glass dick, climb into a lifted Avalanche, get a slew of tribal tats and crank up any and every Fred Durst-related project you can get your hands on.

Dave Green (left) used to be pretty. Somehow we doubt Richard Rawlings ever was.

Instead, we had eggs that were quite good, drank a fair amount of coffee, and sat down at a table with a group of people, all of whom, except for Jennifer Nicole, had varying models of Motorola RAZRs. Ours was even admired for being "old school," despite the fact that we only bought it last fall. Emil's was gold, Keri's was pink, and Claus had one in some crazy dark finish we'd never seen before which is probably only available to owners of Brabus-tuned cars.

But much in the manner of ninjas during one or another of those Shogunates they had in Japan back in the time, we and our RAZRs would all soon be hurtling toward California Speedway in Fontana. Little did we know, but those of us in the black Audi A8L would also be headed toward our finest hour on the 2006 Bullrun.

The intersection was a madhouse. Danny Coyle was pulling mad donuts and block-long burnouts in the Mallett Corvette. Jen couldn't figure out which way to point the Audi until Emil pointed out to her that she'd be driving out over a curb. Skiny and Bret were about to enter a world of hurt and emerge unscathed, but with their time shattered. Emil was shooting back and forth like a shuttlecock. And Claus? Well, Claus kicked back with his feet up on the open door of his Brabus and made use of his RAZR. Peter Kolb was undoubtedly being more German than anyone else. In fact, we're starting to wonder if he'd actually shrunken the state of Bavaria down to pocket-size when nobody was looking and was carrying it in his pants, simply for added precision. A little extra Weissach never hurt anyone, after all. Except for James Dean.

And then, suddenly, we were off. And miraculously, we were really off. After blowing past Los Matadors on the 163, we didn't see anyone until we got onto the 15, blasting past Skiny and Haller in their A6 Avant. And then the crackle started on the radio. The heavy hitters were quickly moving up behind us. Tove Christensen. the Lehman-Haupt/Ferretti GT with Noah at the wheel. The Team Chris 911. And of course, Danny Coyle wheeling the Chuck Mallett 'Vette.

They blasted past us, with Danny the first to arrive, but not without Jen getting a crack in to Danny over the CB about how it felt to be behind a girl. More chatter, including some worrying news from the well-tuned scanners in the GT regarding Chippies searching for Bullrunners. And sure enough, not long after, the news came over the radio that Team Chris and the GT boys had been snagged. We attempted to get a shot as we drove by, but our imprecise Japanese camera did not allow us such a luxury. We knew we should've bought a Leica. Peter Kolb is no doubt laughing at us as we write this.

Then we flew past Chuck Mallett on the side of the road, refuelling the 'Vette, which only had a 66-mile range. Keri commented, "Watch, in five minutes, he'll come flying past us." Guess what? He did, doing well over a buck on the hard shoulder. Keri put out an APB to all Bullrunners within range, pointing out that in California, the hard shoulders are often filled with tire-and-air-dam-destroying detrius and that we all should be careful.

Meanwhile, just a few miles before we hit I-10, we got stuck in massive traffic. We're not quite sure how we got past Tove, but with the traffic locked in and the GT boys and Team Chris stuck behind us due to their run-in with law enforcement, we knew we had a real shot. Especially if Chuck and Danny ran out of gas again.

On the 10, we made good time, and on the offramp to the Speedway, Jen made use of her looks and got us up in the line. We drove carefully, as the fuzz tend to hang out around the entrance to the speedway, and then hauled ass to the staging area, where we pulled up third behind the Magnaflow RS4 and the Mallett Corvette. The RS4 guys had voluntarily disqualified themselves because they'd left 20 minutes earlier, due to the co-driver not feeling well, putting the nearly bone-stock A8L in behind the 900hp Corvette.

Which just goes to show that on the Bullrun, horsepower is far from everything.

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More on the Bullrun [Internal]

On our first evening on the Bullrun, Murphy was in full effect — at least as far as technology went. The power port on our iBook decided it was no longer going to do its job. So we resigned ourselves to kicking it Colt Seavers-style; watching a documentary on Wayne Newton while smoking cigarettes in our in-room jacuzzi tub at Caesar's Palace. Unfortunately, Heather Thomas and Markie Post weren't there with us to comment on the day's adventure.

The next morning, after approximately two hours of sleep, Emil Rensing, the Los Matadors car owner, hooked us up with Noah Lehman-Haupt for a quick dash in the Gotham Dream Cars Ford GT out to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with us peering at the Garmin GPS, while Noah jockeyed for position with Tove Christensen's Porsche, Richard Rawlings' 750 and the Skiny/Haller A6 Avant. The Garmin took us off the freeway early, and we finished poorly into the track. After a fairly inedible breakfast and a tour of Shelby's rather unremarkable facility, Emil tossed us into the backseat of an Audi A8L 4.2 with a couple of girls: Keri and Jennifer.

At that point, totally disoriented, we were just happy that we had a ride to Lake Havasu, having no idea that we'd hooked up with some of the cream of the Bullrun crop. The co-drivers were Keri and Jennifer Nicole. We were halfway to Havasu before we figured out that Keri was Emil's wife.

Much, much, much more to come.

More on the Bullrun

37-year Janesville, WI truck-plant worker David Leeder just plopped down nearly 176k on a Ford GT, noting that it's three times what he paid for his house. The 57-year-old autoworker has obviously reaped the benefits of UAW membership. Interestingly enough, the Janesville plant is owned by General Motors. We somehow doubt he'll be driving it to work. [Thanks to Scott for the tip.]

Blue-collar auto worker buys $175,600 sports car [Chicago Sun-Times]

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Gettin' All En Fuego at a Florida Ford Dealership [Internal]

* - technically that might not be true.
** - we don't actually know about any other British Ford GT owners, except maybe Jay Kay and in that case we'll take Clarkson.

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Our resident recently-bipolar commentator, one Robert Farago, is throwing a contest. After having snatched up the lascivious and hard-charging Jonny Lieberman, he's on a hunt for more talent. The winner gets the usual 50p-plus-pocket-lint afforded to TTAC writers as well as the attendant glory as being annointed by the industry's grumpiest middle-aged man as an astute commentator on things automotive. Oh, and a piece of a busted Ford GT. The subject? "The Truth About Muscle Cars." The limit? 800 words. Our entry? "Our muscle car got us mad gash. Our SUV doesn't." We win.

TTAC Writing Contest [The Truth About Cars]

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To paraphrase Vince Lombardi, death isn't everything; it's the only thing. Well, it's the only thing guaranteed to stop a supercar owner from enjoying their extreme machine. Okay, that and the IRS. And a messy divorce, which, believe me, makes death look like a pint of H agen-Dazs dulce de leche caramel. But then, the French call orgasm "the little death," and driving a supercar is one of the rare occasions where you can experience a proper orgasm without making a mess. Unless you crash and die in a mangled heap of metal, flesh, bone and blood. On we go...

Let's say you want to drive a car fast enough to finally catch that fucking Road Runner and skin the anorexic bird alive, but you know there's a good chance you'll end up like Wile E. Coyote. So what's the safest fast car a singularity of Benjamins can buy? What ultra-whip won't punish an amateur with the ultimate sanction, in terms of both active and passive safety (i.e. not hitting things and hitting things)?

[NB: this is no joke. I've lost friends to supercar "mishaps." There are plenty of cars with reputations for dubious high speed handling and questionable safety. You have been warned.]

Pagani Zonda F
Price: $741k
Active safety: *****
Passive safety: ***

I've driven a great many cars whose performance capabilities make me feel like a two-year-old fondling a Rubik's cube. The Zonda is the easiest hyperextreme, way-the-fuck-out-there supercar a rookie can drive without playing nudge, nudge; wink, wink with The Grim Reaper. The Zonda may look like a '70's Group C race car, but it drives like a Lotus Elise — only bigger, safer, stronger and four thousand per cent faster. I'm sure it has something to do with the 7.3-liter 620-horse Mercedes V12 nestling in its doublewide rump (with vertical slide out), which offers the same linear throttle response as an S-Class 12-pot, cubed.

Equally important for the financial future of a wealthy driver's scions, the Zonda steers, handles and brakes more predictably than a Bruce Willis movie, at speeds guaranteed to make your eyes bleed. You can keep up with a Ferrari Enzo in this car without really having a clue how you're doing it, and not die once. And best of all, because the Zonda isn't US street legal, you don't have to worry about Boston drivers.

As for passive safety, who knows? I can only find one low-speed smash on www.wreckedexotics.com, and the aforementioned US prohibition means Pagani doesn't have to crash test the Zonda. (Three $741k cars into a wall? That has GOT to hurt.) Sr. Pagani claims up, down and sideways in Argentinean-accented Italian that his carbon fiber supercar is a paragon of passenger protection. Either that or he was saying he knows a great place for charasco in Milan.

Yes, well, it's important to note that carbon fiber may not be the passive safety panacea supercar makers claim. Yes, it absorbs huge forces. But one hit and the material's literally gone. On the race track, where major shunts usually involve a single impact, that's fine. Out in the real world, you do NOT want to hurtle towards a variety of stationary and moving objects in a one-hit wonder. It's something stupid rich people should think about, if they can be bothered.

The Ford GT
Price: $151,245 (and not a penny more)
Active safety: ***
Passive safety: *****

Here we have a supercar with 550hp and no traction control. I reckon that's a good thing: knowing that there's no electronic nanny to save your bacon when the pork hits the fan makes you drive more cautiously. Yes, the car has a Dave Edmunds philosophy — you got yourself in, get yourself out — but you CAN get yourself out of trouble with only a modicum of effort. The Ford GT is as benign at the limit as a symphony hall ticket taker.

Well, that's the theory. As Spinelli points out, I may be full of shit. Admittedly, stupid people generally need as much protection from themselves as a carmaker can give them. And yes, I've got a piece of a Ford GT's front spoiler leaning against my wall that says Spinelli has something of a point. But I didn't crash the thing and the guy who did never touched the brakes once.

Anyway, the Ford GT is a passive safety poster child. Its extruded aluminum space-frame chassis is stiffer than a porn star at a hen party, yet deforms with energy absorbing lan. Like all these hyperspeed sleds (and a Smart Fourtwo for that matter), the Ford GT cocoons its occupants in a good old-fashioned passenger safety cell.

Time will tell if the GT's drivers withstand the test of time, but I've seen enough speed-crazed nouveau riche GT owners emerge from a lunatic thrash intact to believe that the taste police will have their work cut out for them for some time to come.

Porsche 911 Turbo
$141,200 (with every box ticked)
Active Safety: *****
Passive Safety: *****

The Turbo is the stupid driver's supercar angel. When it comes to not hitting shit, it's peerless. Visibility: panoramic. Acceleration: linear. Steering: telekinetic. Handling: flawless. Brakes: as close as you'll ever get to an automotive pause button. Equally important, the Turbo integrates all these dynamic facets flawlessly, combining perfectly predictable mechanical harmony with a manageable stream of mission-critical feedback.

All this and the world's best four-wheel drive system. With PSM (Porsche Stability Management) replacing Jesus in the shotgun-riding department, the new 4WD Turbo can instantly send 100% of power to the front wheels when needed (up from 40%). That means the Turbo won't lose grip on the road even if its driver loses his grip on reality.

Driving the uber-Porker at mind-bending velocities is largely a matter of point and shoot. In the Zonda, the limits of adhesion can only be breached by truly determined hooniganism. In the Turbo, the limits aren't quite as astronomical, but the PSM constantly sorts out the dirty work of maintaining traction. You pretty much have to be blind-sided or aim at something to hit it.

If you're THAT stupid and/or unlucky, the Turbo's brick-shit-house construction may award a bonus life. Its highly evolved, crash-tested structure includes an occupant safety cell made of boron steel. Amazingly, the Turbo is one of the few supercars equipped with side impact airbags (which may have saved the victims of the GT crash linked above). When bad things happen to wealthy people, the Turbo is a relatively good place to be.

Ultimately, the safest supercar is the one that never moves. Consciously or not, that may be one reason why so many exotics are such garage queens. So before you laugh at people who buy a supercar for its safety — puffing your chest out at your machismo, self-restraint and skill — remember: stupid people who know their limitations are smarter than smart people who don't.

[by Robert Farago]

In this installment of the Jalopnik Interview, Farago talks with Paul Allen (not that one) of Fordgtprices.com, who's been tracking the selling prices of Ford GTs since the halo coupe was introduced last year. Since then, the company has sold 45% of its total production run, dealer premiums have eased and hundreds of the cars have showed up for sale on eBay and Autotrader. Allen has become an invaluable resource for GT collectors both engaged in snapping up the coupes and those on the sidelines waiting for signs of value appreciation. They may be waiting a long time.

Nine miles. Nine freaking miles. That's all a Kansas City man had on his brand-new Ford GT when he decided to get all accelerative with it. The result? Just in time for Schadenfriday, a pole through the front end of his supercar. Eh, meh, that trunk wasn't all that big in the first place. And besides, now we can put the engine in a 2CV and square-off against the Enzo-powered LeCar. May the best bastardized French econocar win! [Thanks to everyone who wrote in on this one.]

Dude, What Happened to Your Car? [Across-the-Board]

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Schadenfreude paradise of the Webosphere, Wrecked Exotics, posted what look to be its first pics of a totaled Ford GT, from an accident in New Zealand. Normally such shots would be distressing (for the well adjusted), but these offer some good news. From the looks of the intact cockpit, it sppears GT's steel construction may be a better choice than other supercars' carbon fiber in terms of passenger safety. Of course, a car's structural integrity — or safety for that matter — isn't solely a function of its body stock, but still, check out the difference between the Ford GT and, say, a fibrous Porsche Carrera GT. Obviously the crashes can't be compared directly, but it's something to consider among those in the market for a car whose capabilities outclass their driving skills by like a hundred-fold.

2005 Ford GT [Wrecked Exotics]

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Farago and Jonathan "Sticky" Fingas wax eloquent on whether or not killing the GeeTee was a smart move on Ford's part or another one of the boneheaded maneuvers that leaves the American auto industry evidently responsible for kicking its own ass. While Fingas claims that Ford was right to euthanize the supercar despite selling every one they could build and instead concentrate on vehicles that Joe Schmoe could actually buy (like the Iosis and the Reflex), Farago claims that Ford needs a halo like that to prove their technological savvy and sense of style. What say ye, commenters?

Ford GT: Just Say No; Ford GT RIP [The Truth About Cars]

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Ford GT, Other Models to Fall Under "Way Forward" Axe [Internal]

Noooooooooo! Ford's GT supercar — based on the GT40s that swept LeMans with a 1-2-3 finish in 1966 (among other motoring heroics) — will be cut from the lineup in September amid a broad cost-cutting plan. But that's not all. The Sport Trac Adrenaline, a high-performance pickup that had been due from the company's SVT performance shop won't be built, and the Lincoln LS will be discontinued in April — sooner than had been expected (it;s built at the Wixom plant, due to be closed in 2007). Get those GTs while you can, kids, they may be worth something someday.

Ford axes GT, two other cars [The Detroit News]

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For well-heeled SEMA attendees who just won't wait for Ford to build the GTX1 concept it showed off in Las Vegas, the hotshots at Genaddi design — builders of the Ford SVT-sponsored SEMA concept — are offering an upgrade package to the general(ly rich) public. For a starting price of $38,000 over the cost of an off-the-lot GT, the X1 Status Upgrade offers cosmetic and performance upgrades to turn a standard GT into a closeasthis GTX1. Side note: We hear (from Farago) that Genaddi's build quality is super high, judging from its Rolls-Royce Phantom and Maybach convertibles.

The Ford GTX1[Genaddi Design]

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Camilo Pardo's a scotch-bonnet hot property these days, thanks to his design work on the Ford GT. His art studio is renowned for wild parties, earning odd-but-understandable comparisons to Andy Warhol's Factory. Does that make the GT the three-dimensional equivalent of the Campbell's Soup can? And when's Lou Reed gonna show up with a transvestite? By the way, Camilo, that ponytail thing? More Sterling Marlin than Sterling Morrison, if you ask us.

Chicks and Cars [Detroit News]

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In a daring break-in worthy of a B-movie, some California criminals busted into a Manteca Ford dealership, pushed a Mustang belonging to 50 Cent out of the way, found the keys in a safe, jumped the GT with the battery charger, drove it out the showroom's double doors, used a Navigator to crash through the gate, and then promptly managed to wreck the hot little red number by running it over a curb, causing roughly $30k in damage. But here's our question: What the hell was Fitty's 'Stang doing in Manteca? [Thanks to Punkey for the tip.]

Rare Ford GT Stolen Off Manteca Showroom Floor

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Who else but a multinational corporation would hack up a perfectly good Ford GT and display it like some sort of twisted Damien Hirst installation? Just to satiate showgoers' appetites for what lies beneath the skin of the Ford GT, the House that Henry Built skinned a GT and suspended it on a plexiglas divider. It just goes to show that the avant garde doesn't have the only handle on disturbing, fascinating art.

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While the '40 Ford is a little late for our rodding tastes, there's no denying that this a brilliant pun-based concept and concepts that start with a pun are our stock in trade; they're generally the only kinds of concept cars we ever imagine in our addled little writerly heads. Plus, the body's made out of copper, which seems to be one of the newer trends in the custom bike world, although we haven't seen much of it in the hot rod industry other than in the bed box of Royce Glader's '29 Ford Roadster Pickup.

Of note is the nutball blown 5.4L mod motor plucked straight from a Ford GT. Oh, and the body panels were formed in a former MiG factory in Poland. Kudos to Kirkham Motorsports and Ford for coming up with one of the more original rods we've seen in a long, long time. And no Shonna, we never did quite see up your skirt.

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Bass! How low can you go? Get from in front of it, the crowd runs to it, his DJ is Anthony, he calls him Mike you know... Okay, Chuck D we are not. Hell, we're not even Scott Ian. But we couldn't resist the Gulf Oil schemed Yamaha bass Bonspeed displayed with their Ford GT at SEMA. Bonspeed, of course, is co-owned by Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony. The car itself is nothing particularly special, inasmuch as any Ford GT can be described as non-special; basically a wheel and sticker job with a Borla exhaust system. But that bass...oh, man, that bass. We'd take it over Anthony's famed Jack Daniel's thunderstaff any day.

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New Ford GT Concept Teaser Sketch [Internal]

Okay, we admit it. We're insanely jealous. Wired's Mark McClusky, having only learned to drive a stick the week before, was unleashed upon Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca in a Ford GT, and we weren't. It's interesting to hear a non auto-journalist's take on such a potent machine, although at the same time, we're pouty that we weren't invited. Ford could make amends for such a slight by delivering us a GT for a Jalopnik Review. Oh Willie Clay, are you listening? We need some of that hot blown 5.4L liter mod-motor action pokin' us from behind. God, it's as if just thinking about that car turns us into Wonkette.

My Dream date with the Ford GT [Wired]

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