Well, for those of you who know me you know I really appreciate the nuts bolts and mechanical bits of these wonderful machines. So with the offer from Ford to visit my new GT in production there was no way I was going to pass that up.
My tour was yesterday and the timing was perfect for me . I got to see #56 with the engine and all of the subsystems installed prior to receiving the body panels. I'll have years to gaze at the body of this beautiful machine so it was really nice to see everything underneath , bare at one time...
Photography is strictly prohibited inside the plant. They do have this cool GT art work in the lobby which I was able to photograph. Some of you may recognize this as the art work on that early GT shirt that was released.
The GT team is taking pictures throughout the build process and will be presented to you at some point. The gentleman narrating my tour did allow me to go inside the work area and they took a picture of me next to my car . I hope to get that soon...
I did chat with the gentlemen at the workstation as they were working on my car I said boys take your time.. :biggrin. I was able to go back a few stations and examine some of the parts of the car after mine and they allowed me to pick up various parts to see the lightness of the carbon fiber bits.
When I was there DBK's car was about to receive it's body panels. There was a Heritage next to Dave's ( I saw the blue belts peaking thru some of the other protective plastc ) I saw a Tomy's car in the works. I saw a completed Liquid Red GT and a Liquid Gray GT that were getting ready for final Dyno testing and shake down. .. There was a liquid silver car just ahead of mine it had the Ingot stripes .. all the combinations as you know are extremely cool.
Things are definitely ramping up there and one of the main plant contacts had to excuse himself he just had too much going on. They were very kind and allowed me to stay as long as I wanted.... I told them go do the important stuff for the program I'll just sit here and observe..
As a side note and a true Testament to the joys of this forum and the members. I went up a little early on the front end of my trip and I was able to spend some time with Terry and his family. They were very warm , friendly and accommodating , we had a wonderful time !!. Terry was kind enough to take me over to Niagara Falls. I had never been there. it's always been on my list of things to do and I had no idea it was so close so .. it was a double bonus trip.. Thanks again Terry !!
Our Ford GT team rain jackets were great for keeping the Falls' mist of our designer threads.. :biggrin
My tour was yesterday and the timing was perfect for me . I got to see #56 with the engine and all of the subsystems installed prior to receiving the body panels. I'll have years to gaze at the body of this beautiful machine so it was really nice to see everything underneath , bare at one time...
Photography is strictly prohibited inside the plant. They do have this cool GT art work in the lobby which I was able to photograph. Some of you may recognize this as the art work on that early GT shirt that was released.
The GT team is taking pictures throughout the build process and will be presented to you at some point. The gentleman narrating my tour did allow me to go inside the work area and they took a picture of me next to my car . I hope to get that soon...
I did chat with the gentlemen at the workstation as they were working on my car I said boys take your time.. :biggrin. I was able to go back a few stations and examine some of the parts of the car after mine and they allowed me to pick up various parts to see the lightness of the carbon fiber bits.
When I was there DBK's car was about to receive it's body panels. There was a Heritage next to Dave's ( I saw the blue belts peaking thru some of the other protective plastc ) I saw a Tomy's car in the works. I saw a completed Liquid Red GT and a Liquid Gray GT that were getting ready for final Dyno testing and shake down. .. There was a liquid silver car just ahead of mine it had the Ingot stripes .. all the combinations as you know are extremely cool.
Things are definitely ramping up there and one of the main plant contacts had to excuse himself he just had too much going on. They were very kind and allowed me to stay as long as I wanted.... I told them go do the important stuff for the program I'll just sit here and observe..
As a side note and a true Testament to the joys of this forum and the members. I went up a little early on the front end of my trip and I was able to spend some time with Terry and his family. They were very warm , friendly and accommodating , we had a wonderful time !!. Terry was kind enough to take me over to Niagara Falls. I had never been there. it's always been on my list of things to do and I had no idea it was so close so .. it was a double bonus trip.. Thanks again Terry !!
Our Ford GT team rain jackets were great for keeping the Falls' mist of our designer threads.. :biggrin
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