I'm sorry for the rambling post.
After 16 years of lust I am finally the proud owner of a 2005 Ford GT. I traded my 21 R8 after only 3 months of ownership, which wasn't the easiest conversation with my wife but thankfully she came around. I tried to buy this GT a few months ago from the owner and couldn't make the deal work so i went with a totally different car that I also really liked. I knew I made a mistake when we were picking up the R8 and I still couldn't get the GT out of my mind. By sheer dumb luck the owner (a friend and big in our car community) of the GT wanted a new R8 to replace his wife's 2012 convertible. Dumb luck or fate, I don't know how I got so lucky.
I remember in 2005 a nearby Ford dealer got their one and only GT on the showroom floor. My parents and I happened to be in town and stopped in. My 12 year old self spent the next hour just in awe begging my dad to buy it. I had no real concept of how much $150,000 was at the time. Ever since I took ever opportunity to annoy my parents to go see a GT if one was nearby.
Years later it lead me to this car. I saw the ad on Elite Auto's instagram page 69 weeks ago and fell in love with the car. It was everything I wanted, excluding the wheels but as perfect as I could find. I commented, "Thats it. That's the one. Dammit." At the time my business was finally starting to become profitable but I was still pumping too much money in to it to make a deal even possible. Thankfully so since we were shut down a few months later for the pandemic. I saw the car disappear off the website and figured it was gone to hopefully a great owner. A few days later on Facebook I saw a picture on Arkansas Car Spotters of the car. It ended up going to an owner an hour and a half away who I befriended.
So a little over a month before my birthday I decided to finally make my dream come true before the prices got even higher and bought my dream car in the dream spec. Haven't taken a lot pictures since I've been too busy ruining the value and putting miles on it but this is what I have so far.
I do want to thank the people that helped me previously with questions I had about the car. Kendall was kind enough to go over everything about the Heffner kit and things to look out for. A big thank you to y'all.
Yes, I cried on the way home.
Thank you for taking the time to read this long post and I look forward to ask many questions that have already been answered many times.
2005 GT
Heffner Twin Turbo
6400 Miles (going up fast)
After 16 years of lust I am finally the proud owner of a 2005 Ford GT. I traded my 21 R8 after only 3 months of ownership, which wasn't the easiest conversation with my wife but thankfully she came around. I tried to buy this GT a few months ago from the owner and couldn't make the deal work so i went with a totally different car that I also really liked. I knew I made a mistake when we were picking up the R8 and I still couldn't get the GT out of my mind. By sheer dumb luck the owner (a friend and big in our car community) of the GT wanted a new R8 to replace his wife's 2012 convertible. Dumb luck or fate, I don't know how I got so lucky.
I remember in 2005 a nearby Ford dealer got their one and only GT on the showroom floor. My parents and I happened to be in town and stopped in. My 12 year old self spent the next hour just in awe begging my dad to buy it. I had no real concept of how much $150,000 was at the time. Ever since I took ever opportunity to annoy my parents to go see a GT if one was nearby.
Years later it lead me to this car. I saw the ad on Elite Auto's instagram page 69 weeks ago and fell in love with the car. It was everything I wanted, excluding the wheels but as perfect as I could find. I commented, "Thats it. That's the one. Dammit." At the time my business was finally starting to become profitable but I was still pumping too much money in to it to make a deal even possible. Thankfully so since we were shut down a few months later for the pandemic. I saw the car disappear off the website and figured it was gone to hopefully a great owner. A few days later on Facebook I saw a picture on Arkansas Car Spotters of the car. It ended up going to an owner an hour and a half away who I befriended.
So a little over a month before my birthday I decided to finally make my dream come true before the prices got even higher and bought my dream car in the dream spec. Haven't taken a lot pictures since I've been too busy ruining the value and putting miles on it but this is what I have so far.
I do want to thank the people that helped me previously with questions I had about the car. Kendall was kind enough to go over everything about the Heffner kit and things to look out for. A big thank you to y'all.
Yes, I cried on the way home.
Thank you for taking the time to read this long post and I look forward to ask many questions that have already been answered many times.
2005 GT
Heffner Twin Turbo
6400 Miles (going up fast)
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