Ford GR-1 Shelby, on the way!!!

[Condor1970]

I guess some custom shop in California is going to built a few hundred of these. Pretty cool.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/the-ford-shelby-gr-1-concept-is-being-rebooted-as-a-production-car

I just wanna know if the little eyeball shaped center console will greet me when I get in....

...."Good Morning Dave...."

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[908ssp]

Always loved that design too bad it is going to cost way more than I can afford.

 

[jacknifetoaswan]

Superformance is a little more than "some custom shop in California". They build officially licensed reproduction copies of the GT40, Shelby Cobra, etc, and a lot of their vehicles are eligible for registration in owner's registries. Their vehicles are exceedingly precise and very expensive. A guy I used to work with has a Superformance Shelby Cobra with a 572 Ford engine. It's obscene.

Funny story about the GR-1...

When I was visiting dealers to see who would give me the best price on ordering my 2016 GT/PP, I went to Palmetto Ford, in Charleston, SC, and the sales guy had a picture of the GR-1 concept on his wall. He'd gone on about selling Fords for decades and knowing everything there was to know about Mustangs and GTs and Shelbys. I remarked about how I had wished they'd made the GR-1 at some point, and he swore up and down that they'd made several hundred of them that were out there. I pulled up my phone and showed him that it had never been put into production. He told me the internet was wrong. I asked him if he was thinking about the Shelby Series 1 cars, and he swore he wasn't.

I didn't buy from him. He told me X-Plan was going to be more expensive than MSRP. That's when I bailed.

JR

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