For true enthusiasts sitting on the fence.
Last weekend at the rally in Newport Beach, participants attended the cars and coffee event where nearly a thousand high-performance and exotic cars may be viewed. This was my opportunity to examine various exotics to find a desirable make and model to add to my small but growing collection. I had just spent two days driving in groups of 20 plus GTs all over Southern California. At cars and coffee I was struck by a couple things. First, Ferraris from the 1970s to the present do not appear to age very well. The 308's, Testarosa's, and the F50 that looked great to me when they came out, look kind of goofy today. The Ferrari interiors on even low mileage cars all looked worn and disheveled. That super soft leather and wool carpeting doesn't seem to hold up very well. I was standing directly behind a red Testarosa when its owner fired it up. It sounded like a V6 Audi to me. Thoroughly uninspiring. Then, from clear across the parking lot I heard a Ford GT fire up with a snarl that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. To my eye, the car that has aged with the least amount of grace, is the Lamborghini Countach. At the time it came out I thought it looked pretty good too, most exotic. Looking at that car through my 51-year-old eyes today, it looks clownish. Like the car a young boy would draw trying his hardest to tack things on to make it look even more exotic. The red Ferrari Enzo on display there was really cool, but there was nothing classic about it either. Today, I am contemplating buying a second Ford GT.
I have, on three occasions, been rear-ended at an intersection. Fortunately, never in my GT, but this is always a fear every time I drive it. This would result in a true nightmare, the loss of my GT. I've got to have a spare!
So I say to those of you out there sitting on the fence, trying to decide if you would like a Ford GT or perhaps something else. There is nothing else like the Ford GT, there is nothing else comparable to the Ford GT Forum, and there is no other owner group in the entire automotive world comparable to those fortunate caretakers of the "less than 3800 remaining" Ford GT's.
I'm glad you bought your car back. I doubt you'll let it get away again. I possess but a few things today that I know I will still own until the day I die. My yellow GT is one of those few items. It is listed in my will to be passed on to my son Charley.
Chip
