After having lived through two months of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order, I could not take it any longer. Luckily for me, my good buddy – and expert Cobra restorer – Dave Wagner was climbing the walls at his house about as much as I was climbing mine.
Dave suggested that making the 600-mile drive out to his place in Northville, MI might be the perfect cure for my cabin fever. It took about two seconds for me to accept Dave's offer to visit! What I did not tell Dave, at least at first, was that I was going to toss my 2020 Ford GT into my trailer for the trip to MI.
While I was out at Dave's, we managed to get my GT over to some of the companies that had worked on the next gen Ford GT prototype... in particular, Special Projects, Inc. and Roush. Quite a few of the guys who had worked on the prototype had never seen a production GT up close -- let alone ever driven one! As you can see, in one of the photos, the folks at Roush are profoundly serious about social distancing -- although this didn't keep them from jumping into the very tight quarters of my GT in order to see just what the car can do!
L054 approached the 600-mile mark late one afternoon while I was out in MI. I was lucky enough to get my GT into the queue at Pat Milliken Ford for early the very next morning… thanks to Vaughn Koshkarian and his son, Kevin. Expert GT Tech, Joe Sicoli, was wonderful with my GT! He and Jason handled the oil change and a minor rattle that had developed deep in the passenger side dash. The "bad news" is that Joe and the guys at Milliken were so impressive, that I am probably going to drag L054 600 miles out to Milliken Ford for all of its maintenance/warranty work.
We stopped by Rich Brooks’ place. Rich had lots of GTs in his shop; and no shortage interesting of stories, either!
Naturally, we also stopped in to see what Dave B. was up to. As usual, Dave has lots of very cool cars inside of his top-notch facility.
I have pasted a link, below, to some of the photos that I shot while I was in MI. I am certainly not a great photographer, but some of the photos are not too bad.
You will notice that there are a few photos of L054 at Ford's World HQ building. Although the sun was in a terrible position during the time of our visit, I did manage to take a few photos before the security department pounced upon me and Dave and told us that we were not welcome on Ford property. We were invited to leave the property immediately, if not sooner, which led me to believe that perhaps the payment check for my GT might have bounced!
It was wonderful to get out of the house for a week. About 600 miles were added to L054’s odometer while I was out in MI. Unfortunately for me, I was at the steering wheel for only about 50 of those 600 miles. This means that other people have put more miles on my GT than I have!
Dave suggested that making the 600-mile drive out to his place in Northville, MI might be the perfect cure for my cabin fever. It took about two seconds for me to accept Dave's offer to visit! What I did not tell Dave, at least at first, was that I was going to toss my 2020 Ford GT into my trailer for the trip to MI.
While I was out at Dave's, we managed to get my GT over to some of the companies that had worked on the next gen Ford GT prototype... in particular, Special Projects, Inc. and Roush. Quite a few of the guys who had worked on the prototype had never seen a production GT up close -- let alone ever driven one! As you can see, in one of the photos, the folks at Roush are profoundly serious about social distancing -- although this didn't keep them from jumping into the very tight quarters of my GT in order to see just what the car can do!
L054 approached the 600-mile mark late one afternoon while I was out in MI. I was lucky enough to get my GT into the queue at Pat Milliken Ford for early the very next morning… thanks to Vaughn Koshkarian and his son, Kevin. Expert GT Tech, Joe Sicoli, was wonderful with my GT! He and Jason handled the oil change and a minor rattle that had developed deep in the passenger side dash. The "bad news" is that Joe and the guys at Milliken were so impressive, that I am probably going to drag L054 600 miles out to Milliken Ford for all of its maintenance/warranty work.
We stopped by Rich Brooks’ place. Rich had lots of GTs in his shop; and no shortage interesting of stories, either!
Naturally, we also stopped in to see what Dave B. was up to. As usual, Dave has lots of very cool cars inside of his top-notch facility.
I have pasted a link, below, to some of the photos that I shot while I was in MI. I am certainly not a great photographer, but some of the photos are not too bad.
You will notice that there are a few photos of L054 at Ford's World HQ building. Although the sun was in a terrible position during the time of our visit, I did manage to take a few photos before the security department pounced upon me and Dave and told us that we were not welcome on Ford property. We were invited to leave the property immediately, if not sooner, which led me to believe that perhaps the payment check for my GT might have bounced!
It was wonderful to get out of the house for a week. About 600 miles were added to L054’s odometer while I was out in MI. Unfortunately for me, I was at the steering wheel for only about 50 of those 600 miles. This means that other people have put more miles on my GT than I have!
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