I wanted a heritage edition until I saw this. Now I can't unsee it.

[mavisky]

This was brought to my attention listening to Matt Farah's The Smoking Tire podcast today and it's ruined the heritage edition for me.

First, I totally understand the point of the GT350 Heritage Edition. I honestly wish this is what they had built with the limited run of 50th anniversary 2015 cars, but alas we're not celebrating the 55th anniversary I suppose. I love the Wimbeldon White paint with the Guards Blue stripes and the heritage feel of that color combination.

However, I not can't unsee the following. In Ford's infinite wisdom they chose to not only exactly copy the color of the original GT350 package, but also elected to retain the font used on the decals from 1965. This might be forgivable, but the original 1965 GT350's didn't also have a fender badge 12" away saying the exact same thing in a separate font.

This is why I've never liked the aftermarket lower stripes I see people put on their cars as the duplicate badging in separate fonts looks terrible, it just hadn't dawned on me until today that Ford did this straight from the factory. They should have either replaced the fender badge with the GT500 snake emblem or updated and modernized the stripe font to match the existing badge font.

For those interested in Matt's take (and his complete and utter praise of the GT350R as a vehicle outside of this one decision) the audio/video starts here at 21:23 and runs until 28 minutes in.

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[Scoobs]

Matt has always loved the GT 350. He did a review of it when it first came out.

 

[HEP#15]

That's it.....I'm selling my HEP. All kidding aside he has a good point and you really can't unsee this.

 

[L8APEX]

That is why I'd remove the stripes on the side

 

[stanglife]

WW with no stripes would be clean looking.

 

[RPDBlueMoon]

This was brought to my attention listening to Matt Farah's The Smoking Tire podcast today and it's ruined the heritage edition for me.

First, I totally understand the point of the GT350 Heritage Edition. I honestly wish this is what they had built with the limited run of 50th anniversary 2015 cars, but alas we're not celebrating the 55th anniversary I suppose. I love the Wimbeldon White paint with the Guards Blue stripes and the heritage feel of that color combination.

However, I not can't unsee the following. In Ford's infinite wisdom they chose to not only exactly copy the color of the original GT350 package, but also elected to retain the font used on the decals from 1965. This might be forgivable, but the original 1965 GT350's didn't also have a fender badge 12" away saying the exact same thing in a separate font.

This is why I've never liked the aftermarket lower stripes I see people put on their cars as the duplicate badging in separate fonts looks terrible, it just hadn't dawned on me until today that Ford did this straight from the factory. They should have either replaced the fender badge with the GT500 snake emblem or updated and modernized the stripe font to match the existing badge font.

For those interested in Matt's take (and his complete and utter praise of the GT350R as a vehicle outside of this one decision) the audio/video starts here at 21:23 and runs until 28 minutes in.

It does look pretty dumb now that you point it out lol

 

[MNGT350]

even if font matched, doesn't work to have 2 badges/script "gt350" so close together.

 

[HEP#15]

Agree that removing the badge would make most sense if you are going to use the '65 font stripe.

 

[mavisky]

even if font matched, doesn't work to have 2 badges/script "gt350" so close together.

Agreed which is why the only real option is to remove the standard GT350 badge on the fender and replace it with an old school Powered by Ford badge or a Snake or something else entirely.

 

[MNGT350]

Agreed which is why the only real option is to remove the standard GT350 badge on the fender and replace it with an old school Powered by Ford badge or a Snake or something else entirely.

Looking at it now, I think it would look fine just removing the upper badge. More in line with original that way as well.

 

[mavisky]

Looking at it now, I think it would look fine just removing the upper badge. More in line with original that way as well.

I believe there are locating pins behind the factory badge, otherwise I totally agree.

 

[dpAtlanta]

the only real option is to remove the standard GT350 badge on the fender and replace it with an old school Powered by Ford badge or a Snake or something else entirely

I noticed this the first time I saw it a also agree that it's redundant.
If I had one of those beauties, I believe I would purchase replacement stripes from Ford, and cut the center out of the donor door stripe. You would need to copy the overall length as well as the shape at each end... that would not be difficult.
The donor stripes would also serve to allow you to put it back to factory stripe configuration.
Just my thought...!


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[dom418]

could be worse, they could have put 37 snakes on it like the GT500 lol

 

[gmuffley]

Honestly it doesn't bother me. The 2020 HEP doesn't look like the 65 GT 350.

 

[Labradog]

I've said this multiple times. Rip the stickers off.

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