Prototype 1 to be purchased on Bring A Trailer: “2004 Ford GT” Confirmed.
The mid 2000s Ford GT is an uncommon machine, however this specific GT is significantly more extraordinary. That is on the grounds that it’s a model, worked to approve the GT in front of its creation run for the 2005 and 2006 model years. It’s currently available for anyone on Bring a Trailer.
Formally known as Confirmation Prototype 1 (CP-1), this vehicle wears chronic number 000004. It is the primary running and driving GT model, and was utilized for emanations testing and street accreditation purposes, as per the posting.
This vehicle is recognizable by its interesting carbon-fiber back clamshell, uncovered metal guard with incomplete exhaust tips (required for outflows testing, per the posting), and aluminum main event. It’s anything but a port only in front of the traveler side back tire, which was utilized for testing various evaluations of fuel, as indicated by the posting.
Under the carbon-fiber clamshell sits a similar 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 utilized in the creation GT. That motor pushed creation models to an asserted maximum velocity of around 200 mph, yet CP-1 was electronically restricted by Ford to 5 mph.
The vehicle additionally wears the marks of 13 GT advancement colleagues, including boss architect Camilo Pardo, boss specialist Fred Goodnow, Ford administrator Bill Ford Jr., and surprisingly the late Carroll Shelby.
The odometer right now shows 1,212 miles, with 217 working hours on the motor, as per the posting. This vehicle was bought by a gatherer straightforwardly from Ford in 2008, who then, at that point advised it to the current merchant (a New York business) around five years prior, the posting said. That was possible when this equivalent vehicle crossed the square at a 2017 Russo and Steele closeout in Scottsdale, Arizona.
It’s important that this vehicle isn’t street lawful, so you’ll require a flatbed to show it off at the neighborhood vehicles and espresso meetup. All things considered, it should make an incredible discussion piece. Models are once in a while offered to the overall population—most are obliterated..
The GT is by all accounts a special case for that standard, however. Another GT model turned available to be purchased in 2018. This vehicle, CP-4, didn’t have a speed limiter and was obviously street legitimate. A third vehicle, from an alternate model arrangement, was made available for purchase in 2014.
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