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maxemus
GT Owner
Love the RS Dave. Riviera is a gorgeous color. What other PTS colors would have been your choices had you not selected RB?
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STORMCAT
GT
I have many, many PTS colors stored in the old grey matter. Currently have successfully gotten 3 PTS colors on new GTs...
jlhoyt
GT Owner
My two favorite cars in one of my favorite colors..... plus I also like the idea of more GT3's (RS and non-RS) in SE Michigan 
That’s a wrap on H040.
You may have seen the car is going to auction at RM next month. It's not me - the person I sold the car to is auctioning it. I'm not surprised. I mean, don't get me wrong - I was very clear - I wanted the car to go to an end user for personal use, I wanted the transaction to occur discretely to avoid the circus of me selling it, and I was willing to take a discount for these two things to happen. Otherwise, I’d just have auctioned it myself. But as you may have realized, I've been at this Arby's for a loooooong time now, so I'm still not surprised. Are you?
Unfortunately the buyer chose to misrepresent his intentions to Nate and Marv Rose in the course of buying it. They did what I asked on their end, so kudos gentlemen. Much appreciated. The buyer and I ended up talking and I explained my irritation to him, which he said he respected, but he explained that he was mad at Ford for not selling him one, so he wants to flip mine, and it's just business. Fair enough. I do think me assembling all my memorabilia shit from ordering the car to go with it was pretty unnecessary though. I offered to give him his money back, which the Rose's were supportive of, but he declined. Obviously the cake is baked and RM is auctioning it no matter what, and I talked to them and they were very cool about the whole thing, so we'll see what it brings. Could I materially alter the value of the car? Sure. Will I? Arby's.
Yeah, I'm bummed to sell it, but I have another much, much more expensive GT to pay for. I still think it is the best spec, even though there are like 7 Riviera Blues now.
You may have seen the car is going to auction at RM next month. It's not me - the person I sold the car to is auctioning it. I'm not surprised. I mean, don't get me wrong - I was very clear - I wanted the car to go to an end user for personal use, I wanted the transaction to occur discretely to avoid the circus of me selling it, and I was willing to take a discount for these two things to happen. Otherwise, I’d just have auctioned it myself. But as you may have realized, I've been at this Arby's for a loooooong time now, so I'm still not surprised. Are you?
Unfortunately the buyer chose to misrepresent his intentions to Nate and Marv Rose in the course of buying it. They did what I asked on their end, so kudos gentlemen. Much appreciated. The buyer and I ended up talking and I explained my irritation to him, which he said he respected, but he explained that he was mad at Ford for not selling him one, so he wants to flip mine, and it's just business. Fair enough. I do think me assembling all my memorabilia shit from ordering the car to go with it was pretty unnecessary though. I offered to give him his money back, which the Rose's were supportive of, but he declined. Obviously the cake is baked and RM is auctioning it no matter what, and I talked to them and they were very cool about the whole thing, so we'll see what it brings. Could I materially alter the value of the car? Sure. Will I? Arby's.
Yeah, I'm bummed to sell it, but I have another much, much more expensive GT to pay for. I still think it is the best spec, even though there are like 7 Riviera Blues now.
- Jan 10, 2008
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Apollo
GT Owner
daytrayd
GT Owner
What a circus, on to better and faster things, so... congrats in that regard! Will you be locking this next color Whatever you choose, I'm sure it will be awesome.
Cheers.
Whatever you choose, I'm sure it will be awesome.Cheers.
Stef
GT Owner
We should have a moment of silence for good ole H040.
I hope it winds up in a forum members possession. I too am looking forward to what the replacement is!
I hope it winds up in a forum members possession. I too am looking forward to what the replacement is!
SYCO GT
GT Owner
BtwoG
GT Owner
nautoncall
GT Owner
- Apr 6, 2014
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TO AWSUM
Ford GT Owner
SYCO GT
GT Owner
A man's word will always mean everything.
The rest are living foolishly.
The rest are living foolishly.
While we're on the topic of fun and exciting things for me...
Yes, the last major GT event I put on was 2017. This event sold out quickly due to space constraints. A member here, after roughly 12 years of never attending an event, registered.
Most of you will have received a PM notification via email at some point that clearly states *DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL* at the top. It says this because it is automatically generated and any replies to it just get sent back to the site, aka me. Despite this warning, as people tend to do periodically, a different user responded to the PM notification from the aforementioned owner. It was then I learned the mind-blowing/mind-numbingly stupid fact that he was trying to scalp his registration for Ford GT Rally 12 to various members...for $5,000.
Of course I immediately refunded his money, which triggered a barrage of calls and e-mails stating he didn't want a refund. I explained that this event is clearly non-transferable, as you register with your name, vehicle information including the VIN, all the way down to your clothing size. I also said my brain was literally melted at the prospect an owner would try and cash in on some people's desire to do some Ford GT application credential-burnishing by scalping a registration to a car community event. You. Have. To. Be. Kidding. Me. He insisted that I un-refund his money, so I counter-offered that he could shut up and take his money back, or we could just post his offer on the forum directly and let the court of public opinion judge this clever idea.
What was the predictable aftermath of this sequence of events? Months of threatening certified letters and demands from his attorney sent to my home address telling me all the reasons I was now going to be sued by him for extortion and this and that. Turn over your cell phone and hard drive and any communications regarding this event, litigation is imminent blah blah fucking blah. Luckily, I have irritatingly good attorney pals willing to crush idiots of this nature, and eventually they went away. But...not fun.
So while it's not the totality of the necessity of a break in GT events, it's illustrative of the nature of lying, scheming idiocy a lot of GT stuff has been plagued by recently.
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