The Ford bloodline is strong, as one owner of a 2006 Ford GT in California found out to their cost. The car, whose rear right side has suffered significant damage in what appears to have been a Mustang-like display of exuberance, is now for sale with salvage auction house iAA.
Created to celebrate Ford’s 100th anniversary, the Ford GT was an homage to the factory racecar that the blue oval took Le Mans in the ’60s. A well-loved (if not universally adored) supercar, the GT was in the opinion of this writer, the most attractive retromodern vehicle of its period.
Its 5.4-liter supercharged V8 and its six-speed manual Ricardo gearbox were known to be a lot to handle, though. With 550 hp (410 kW/ 558 PS) and 500 lb-ft (678 Nm) of torque on tap, the car was capable of reaching 62 mph (100 km/h) in just 3.8 seconds—not an insignificant figure nearly 20 years ago.
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Critics have described it as a “sledgehammer” in the past, and more recently, issues finding fresh tires meant that YouTube’s Throttle House nearly put one in the wall during its review of the car back in 2021. Which bring us back to this particular example.
Photos show that the car is in fine fettle, apart from one glaring exception. The right rear tire and the surrounding body work have been crunched. The location of the damage would suggest, that like the boys at Throttle House, someone looped this GT and unfortunately found the wall (or something equally hard) with it.
As is the case with these listings, a thorough description of the damage is not available but, at a glance, it is evident that the right rear suspension is damaged, as is the rear bumper, and the hood appears to be unseated. How much deeper the trouble goes is unclear, but my guess is that getting it back on the road will not be cheap.
The auction listing on iAA attests that this stripeless, gray example has 23,541 miles (37,885 km) on the odometer, and that the airbags are intact, which may be a positive sign. Regardless of the damage, there’s a lot of good stuff up for auction here. A brave buyer might be able to turn this into something ridiculous. Who knows, it might not even be beyond salvaging. For sale in San Diego, you have until Monday, April 17 to place a bid for this damaged neo-classic from Detroit.
