Photo: Mecum
When the Blue Oval started making the GT back in 2005, it was, of course, hoping for the car to be a hit. Little did it know, however, how much of a hit it would be and how fast the moniker would turn into a collectors’ must-have.
There’s a great deal of GTs doing the rounds on auction and sales websites, repeatedly changing hands, so their value constantly increases. Most of them have something special to warrant their sale and always attract new buyers. In the case of the one we have here, there’s more than one special something.
The first is not the way it presents itself in the photos (although that’s a great look, we admit), but the fact it’s a first-gen example with just 7,100 miles (11,400 km) on the clock.
Then, the car we have here is allegedly number 320 of the 2,022 units produced during the first year out for the GT line. It is also one of just 19 to have been specced back then in Speed Yellow with full stripes and gray painted calipers.
The GT will go under the hammer at the end of the week in the hands of auction house Mecum during its event in Kissimmee, Florida, and the seller hopes to fetch as much as $300,000 for it. Compared to how much the thing was selling for back when it was new, that would be more or less double the money.
Part of the confidence comes from the fact this particular GT is fully specced, packing all four factory-available options: the McIntosh stereo system, forged aluminum BBS wheels, the stripes, and the painted brakes calipers.
No changes have been made to the Ford, visual or otherwise, so it’s still the stock supercharged 5.4-liter V8 working its magic and moving the vehicle along with the help of a 6-speed manual transmission.
The first is not the way it presents itself in the photos (although that’s a great look, we admit), but the fact it’s a first-gen example with just 7,100 miles (11,400 km) on the clock.
Then, the car we have here is allegedly number 320 of the 2,022 units produced during the first year out for the GT line. It is also one of just 19 to have been specced back then in Speed Yellow with full stripes and gray painted calipers.
The GT will go under the hammer at the end of the week in the hands of auction house Mecum during its event in Kissimmee, Florida, and the seller hopes to fetch as much as $300,000 for it. Compared to how much the thing was selling for back when it was new, that would be more or less double the money.
Part of the confidence comes from the fact this particular GT is fully specced, packing all four factory-available options: the McIntosh stereo system, forged aluminum BBS wheels, the stripes, and the painted brakes calipers.
No changes have been made to the Ford, visual or otherwise, so it’s still the stock supercharged 5.4-liter V8 working its magic and moving the vehicle along with the help of a 6-speed manual transmission.
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