Jay Leno's new Ford

[pwd72s]

Question. Would Ford put Seinfeld on the list?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-MCdfqL61E

[drcoastline]

I am not as excited about the new Gt as the last generation or the original but very cool. It's amazing that the engine is based on the F-150 V6.

[flipper35]

The new one is not very pretty.

[stomachmonkey]

He can afford a $500,000.00 car, in fact multiple 6 and 7 figure cars, but he can't pony up a coupla few K to fix his driveway?

Really Jay?

[kach22i]

Watched the first 1/3rd of the video, pretty good so far.

Nice car, a real history to it, not a poser.

[masraum]

I would love one of the new GTs if one was given to me, but if I had a choice, I would prefer one of the previous gen or an original or even a good copy of an original.

[pwd72s]

Actually, it takes more than money to buy the new GT. People actually had to fill out a form, perhaps make a video as an application to buy one. As Jay said, Ford hoped to cut out the flippers & pimps of the collector car world. I can imagine Jay's application: "Hey, you know I'm not a flipper."

More people failed to make the list than got one of those boxes in the opening of the video. Only 500 got the box out of the thousands who applied.

[doug_porsche]

But it won Le Mans.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by doug_porsche

But it won Le Mans.

Actually, so did the original. You're probably too young to remember that...

[pwd72s]

[doug_porsche]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Actually, so did the original. You're probably too young to remember that...

I wish it were so.

Actually this is the car that ruined barrett-jackson for me.

As a wee lad, the family was in downtown Denver and there, just parked on the side of the road, was a road legal brand new GT40. Not a Ford GT (that was 30 years yet to come), not a VW with a fiberglass body, but a real, wire wheel GT40.

Now when I watch Barrett-Jackson and I hear "One of three Cuda's or Camaro or Mustang or whatever in this color", I think "So What? Earl Scheib can fix that! I have seen a real GT40. That is a limited product car"

To whoever parked their GT40 on the street in downtown Denver in the late 60's early 70's, Thank You. You made an 8 year olds day/month/year.

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by doug_porsche

I wish it were so.

Actually this is the car that ruined barrett-jackson for me.

As a wee lad, the family was in downtown Denver and there, just parked on the side of the road, was a road legal brand new GT40. Not a Ford GT (that was 30 years yet to come), not a VW with a fiberglass body, but a real, wire wheel GT40.

Now when I watch Barrett-Jackson and I hear "One of three Cuda's or Camaro or Mustang or whatever in this color", I think "So What? Earl Scheib can fix that! I have seen a real GT40. That is a limited product car"

To whoever parked their GT40 on the street in downtown Denver in the late 60's early 70's, Thank You. You made an 8 year olds day/month/year.

*drops mic*

[pwd72s]

Now I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps you spotted Grady Clay's 904? He drove it on the streets of Denver back in the day...

[sc_rufctr]

What a car!

[doug_porsche]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Now I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps you spotted Grady Clay's 904? He drove it on the streets of Denver back in the day...

Nope. Was a GT40, with wire-wheels.

Side note. I was at a Denver Pcar meet and was talking with Grady. I had commented that (at that time) I had never heard a 4 cam motor run.

Grady casually commented, Grady always casually commented, "I have owned over twenty 4 cam motors in my time."

Wish I had gotten to know him better.

[onewhippedpuppy]

The new GT is an incredible looking car, I love that form follows function and it has a legitimate racing pedigree. I suspect that these will turn out to be $500k well spent for a few lucky owners.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by doug_porsche

But it won Le Mans.

Well, the new one won it's class... hardly the same feat as the originals, which won the event four times overall, breaking a six-year Ferrari streak of success.

While we are at it, the original name of the original car was a Ford GT, not GT40.

There was indeed a street version, with wire wheels, although there were very few of them build (7, I think.)

I don't find the newest car particularly interesting, either aesthetically or technically, and I certainly wouldn't throw a half million dollars at it.

[legion]

The coolest thing about this car, IMO, is that it basically has two suspension systems: a street system and a track system. The street system makes the car a livable daily driver and uses coil springs. The track system is much stiffer and is a no-compromise race car setup that uses torsion bars. There is a hydraulic system that compresses the street coils, lowering the ride height considerably, that switches to relying solely on the torsion bars.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

The new GT is an incredible looking car, I love that form follows function and it has a legitimate racing pedigree. I suspect that these will turn out to be $500k well spent for a few lucky owners.

I had an opportunity to buy half of one. I had a partner, he had a very good friend who was a Ford dealer that had one car coming in, and we could have bought it at list price.

My wife thought is was a bad idea.

[DaveE]

Originally Posted by doug_porsche

But it won Le Mans.

LeMans GT class rules obviously aren't what they used to be.