Can't blame him for trying. It is a nice car. I'd pay $90k or so for it. I paid $85k for a non R Heritage. Holding on to cars, not driving them and keeping them garaged, insured, charged, and in mint condition is a lot of work and not cheap. Driving them is my game. I already put R type wheels on mine and would love to find a nice R wing and splitter for cheap. God bless the person who can afford to pay $230k for it.
There has been and will be much speculation about the long term viability of replacement parts for today’s car’s electronics. It’s sheer speculation at this point and I for one won’t be around to know the actual outcome. But this much is true: if there’s a profitable market for them then that demand will be met. These parts may not be available down at your local EV Zone parts store, but they’ll be available if the demand is there. I personally think it will be, given the sheer number of these cars extant today.
I agree that availability will be demand driven, but the problem with electronics that are unique to a particular application is that there is no way to one-off or even small run manufacture them. The tooling costs are astronomical and need to be amortized over extremely high volumes. The costs to reverse engineer such components is also significant, and once again would need very high volumes to justify (and it is doubtful Ford or other manufacturers would ever open source their designs).
You make a good point as I bought a beat-up non-running 65 Mustang with a 289 in the past as a project and got it to a running condition. It was simple enough that I was able to get a generic wiring and fuse box combo to replace all the frayed and cracked under hood wiring, in addition swapping to an aftermarket small block ford intake manifold and carb.
Agreed.
I don't get it. We recently had a '14 GT500 that only had 1,320ish miles. It stilled smelled new.
