Around Ford’s hundredth anniversary, heritage was all the rage. The company had already reintroduced the throwback Thunderbird and the Mustang was returning for the 2005 model year looking as close to the late-1960s units as possible. However, the corner piece of the company’s birthday cake was assuredly the GT40-inspired supercar the Blue Oval had in development.
Getting a little help from Carroll Shelby himself, Ford created the much-hyped car and offered it for sale in 2004 — with the left headlight reading “100” to celebrate the company’s centennial anniversary. Originally priced at $150,000, the first-generation Ford GT can easily go for twice as much on the secondhand market, with superior examples exceeding $500,000 at auction. With prices like that, you probably thought you’d never have an opportunity to own this particular piece of automotive history.
You would also be wrong, because there is a 2005 Ford GT for sale right now that nobody’s bidding on, and it carries an incredibly low reserve.
Spotted by CarBuzz, this lot has been inexplicably ignored by shoppers browsing Copart. Unfortunately, the website specializes in injured vehicles, and this GT is no different. According to its digital health chart, the car has suffered some burn damage that you’ll have to take care of and is missing its keys. Fortunately, the sheet says the transmission is present and accounted for — some of which is visible near the bottom of the pile.
We wish the website had provided additional details, as we don’t know what condition the tires are in or the overall shape of the engine. While Copart provided numerous vanity photographs of the GT’s gorgeous exterior, it would have been nice if they popped the hood and let us take a gander inside. We know it’s anal, but those are the kinds of things you want to check on before purchasing a used car.
What did the CarFax report say?
The carfax report itself is ashes in an envelope.
The CarFax report? You should ask what condition the printing press is in! James Bond threw the guy who crashed and burned that Ford GT into the printing press. The carfax report is a mess covered in blood.
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Are you sure it’s not a Pinto?
I say that’s the ashes of a replica. I’d only pay 1/10th of what they’re asking.
Ran when porked.
What county was it registered in? There could be flood damage.
Right. Is the title clean?
I don’t buy cars that have been smoked in.
Agreed! But..OMG..THAT takes the cake!!
It’ll buff out
Well for $60 I’ll encapsulate it in epoxy. Mount it on a plaque and sell it to some NYC art lover for thousands.
Kind of looks like a melted Galaxy Note 7 phone.
I didn’t know the Ford GT was powered by a lithium ion battery.
It looks like that chunk of Skylab that just missed my house back in 1979.
I wonder what the story behind this is? A fire in the salvage yard? Because it it was a road or garage fire, I’d imagine the debris would just go to a dump or scrap dealer and skip the salvage yard entirely. Or are salvage yards the only places equipped to issue salvage titles for insurance purposes?
Well I’m bummed – “Lot No Longer Exists”. I’d say it ceased to exist some time ago. I’d like to know the story on it.
I see insurance auction ads pop on the Hemmings site, but none as extreme as this one. Some have biohazard stickers on the windows, and there was a ’70 Electra 225 that was a crispy critter, but nothing like this. Wow.
Somebody was probably upside-down on their Ford GT and wanted to trade it in for an EcoSport. They decided to have a successful fire.
Somebody is buying this just for the VIN, for some nefarious purpose. But I doubt there is even a vin plate left in that pile of ash, I guess you get a title or some paperwork with a VIN on it.
You know scammers, they’ll figure out how to wash the title on a wrecked or stolen GT and put this crispy VIN on it to make it look legit somehow.
It was a hot car when new, and guess what…!
Wonder if the previous owner wanted to be buried in the car, and the funeral home confused things on the paperwork?! (After their error, alas, they couldn’t find an urn large enough for the entirety of the cremains! So with a burning desire to bury their mistake and save face, they called someone to remove the evidence, and dumped it in a junkyard in the dead of night! Now this story has vaulted onto the pages of this erstwhile Web site!)
Maybe the cruise switch shorted out!
Well, it needs some work, but I’ve always wanted a GT. I could try to flip it on bringadustpan.com.
Did the engine block burn?
What are you going to salvage out of it – one brake rotor? You Americans give me so much humor…
We sometimes do make ashes of ourselves!