It's Getting Real Now!

[Shmee150]

Really ? Parking it at Klassikstadt ?

I don't normally keep any cars there but do go to various events that are on during the year. Do you use the storage up top?

 

[roketman]

Congrats! You just joined the coolest forum and club!
Wait till you experience a Ford Gt rally!

 

[Brombear]

No, I don‘t. A few years ago I was trying to find out the prices but failed. I guess they didn’t know what a Ford GT is. In the end it wouldn’t be practical for me driving 30 minutes to get to my old GT so I found a closer less glamarous space.

Usually I am a regular visitor as I love the venue and the restaurant, but this year I only made it to the season opening in april and an Italian car event in September. Hopefully I‘ll be there more often again in the future.

If you’ll go there, you might want to drop me a note, meeting fellow GT owners in germany is a rare encounter that I don‘t wanna miss.

Have fun at Multimatic

 

[Shmee150]

I'm not sure if I'll have any visits prior to next year's season opener but there's a very good chance I'll bring it to that if I'm able to be there at the time.

 

[MTV8]

Hi all,

The feeling is now well and truly getting real for me as my car with chassis J211 will be arriving on the production line in Markham tomorrow morning!

I've been lurking on the forum for a while but only recently joined. However, I've been reading many threads over time and have truly enjoyed following the processes of so many forum members receiving their cars and using them. As per many of you, I am beyond excited for the new car and I think even more so as the number of them from the allocations so far that we will be receiving in the UK are looking to be limited to approximately two handfuls.

I'll be making the voyage across the Atlantic to Toronto next weekend, which coincidentally is Canadian Thanksgiving, and then making a visit to Markham to see the car in build - which I believe at the time will have engine and chassis in place but awaiting body panels. They had a number of dates available but I was very keen to choose one where there will be distinguishable panels available, in this case I understand the roof will already be in place with my fairly unusual colour scheme of choice on show.

The base colour is Liquid Red; I've not seen a physical car in the paint in person but from the images and then later the sample as part of the Ordering Kit, I don't think one can possibly go wrong with it. The stripes are then from the Extended Palette, or rather a colour I have chosen for a specific reason - Alan Mann Racing Gold. I set about to recreate an old racing livery, with a modern twist, and pay tribute to the Alan Mann Racing team of the 1960s who at the time competed with GT40s, F3Ls and Escorts. In my garage, the GT will sit alongside my Focus RS Heritage Edition (1-of-50 for the UK market only) which itself pays a 50th anniversary tribute to the 1968 Escort as its spiritual predecessor, and coincidentally in that year the winning car of the British Touring Car Championship was operated and wearing the colours of Alan Mann Racing. I'm also a big McLaren fan, currently with a 675LT Spider that's soon to be joined by a Senna, and as it happens Bruce McLaren himself also raced for Alan Mann back at the time. As such I got in contact with brothers Henry and Tom Mann, who operate Alan Mann Racing's heritage activities and they very kindly made it possible for me to source a sample of the paint used on their original cars to be matched for the stripes on my new GT, and for that I cannot thank them enough!

Naturally, words cannot really describe my excitement to see how it turns out next week. In any case I'm really looking forward to both the personal experience but also the opportunities I have to share this car and what it really means across my social media platforms going forward - and believe me when I say that 2019 will be a big year for my car.

Thank you for taking the time to read my thread, I look forward to sharing more of it in due course.

Did anyone else read that in a Shmee voice?

Congrats and welcome aboard.

 

[Brombear]

Looks like the Season is done for me as well.

 

[Ed Sims]

Welcome Shmee! I'm looking forward to the photos & videos.

Ed

 

[Hennessey Performance]

Congrats Tim!

 

[tpraceman]

Welcome

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[Stef]

Congrats and welcome. I too look forward to seeing you're photos and vids. Great choice with using Alan Mann color scheme!

 

[GTMD]

Yes, congratulations and welcome Shmee!!

 

[Shmee150]

Thanks all! Just landed in North America, a few days in the US first then heading up to Toronto at the weekend and cannot wait to see it all.

 

[Shmee150]

In the air on the way to Toronto now, but I've been asking the team at Ford Performance and Multimatic for a few months now if it would be possible to film a YouTube video around the build of my car in any form but sadly the final answer, at least for my visit next week, is no.

From my understanding I originally received an allocation in order to get my car out there and seen which makes it rather frustrating that the doors are closed on it. Alas it may not work from a 'Shmee' perspective but for 'Tim' it will be fantastic nonetheless to see it being put together and have a first look at the colours painted onto the car.

 

[Specracer]

We have ALL BEGGED endlessly to have taken our own pictures. It has for all of us been NO. That has been one of the very few disappointments, through the entire process, of getting the acceptance, delivery, and support after delivery.

Enjoy the process.

sadly the final answer, at least for my visit next week, is no.

 

[Shmee150]

We have ALL BEGGED endlessly to have taken our own pictures. It has for all of us been NO. That has been one of the very few disappointments, through the entire process, of getting the acceptance, delivery, and support after delivery.

Enjoy the process.

For sure, I'm very familiar with that having filmed cars of mine in the factories at McLaren, Aston Martin, Porsche and more, and heard similar from others. I had been under the assumption since allocations over 24 months ago that part of the reason I was allocated a car was to give it publicity via the scale of my social media pages - although it is equally a relief the other way around if it clearly wasn't quite so dependent upon that!

My audience have been expecting a video so it will be up to me to diplomatically explain why they aren't getting one but there's always away around that.

 

[texas mongrel]

For sure, I'm very familiar with that having filmed cars of mine in the factories at McLaren, Aston Martin, Porsche and more, and heard similar from others. I had been under the assumption since allocations over 24 months ago that part of the reason I was allocated a car was to give it publicity via the scale of my social media pages - although it is equally a relief the other way around if it clearly wasn't quite so dependent upon that!

My audience have been expecting a video so it will be up to me to diplomatically explain why they aren't getting one but there's always away around that.

Since they fired Ron you can now take pictures at the MTC

 

[Shmee150]

Since they fired Ron you can now take pictures at the MTC

I'm having exactly these chats to cover multiple different stages of my Senna build, which so far is seeming to be heading positively.

 

[Blue Moose]

My audience have been expecting a video so it will be up to me to diplomatically explain why they aren't getting one but there's always away around that.

There is always the story telling magic of Clay Animation! :biggrin

 

[Shmee150]

There is always the story telling magic of Clay Animation! :biggrin

I believe there is some stock footage I could potentially use in some form but that comes with needing the original copyright owner to sign a contract authorising use etc, it's a bit of a headache

 

[Triheart7]

Cool following your story Shmee. I’m looking forward to seeing pictures of your GT in London when you get her home.