I’d like to introduce myself to the GT Forum. After taking Ford GT 101 from Jason Heffner, took delivery of a 2006 Tungsten, four-option GT few months back. Shopped around then went to Shelby at Elite who found me the right car at the right price, and was a pleasure to deal with. Bought it sight unseen, sent check, got GT! Thanks Shelby.
I’ve spent my entire adult life in the auto hobby and industry, starting out as a photojournalist in the late-1950s, then Editor of Hi-Performance CARS magazine in NYC, later launching VETTE, the first regular frequency newsstand Corvette magazine.
For almost 18 years my PR agency, PMPR, Inc. had the GM/Buick account and we represented Buick on the East Coast. I was involved in the 1987 Buick Turbo GNX program and wrote the coffee table book, BUICK GNX, which went with each of the 547 cars. I still do media relations and marketing communications work and run a car guy lunch group in Sarasota, FL, with satellites here and abroad, www.sarasotacaferacers.com
Spent a day in 1967 driving a Ford Mark III GT40 around the NYC area for a cover story in CARS and have lusted for one ever since. Since the Ford GT is a much more civilized and faster car at a fraction of the price of a GT40, I joined the club! That same year I partnered with Joel Rosen at Motion Performance (and Baldwin Chevrolet) in Baldwin, LI, NY, building and marketing brand new 1967-1974 Baldwin-Motion super-high-performance big-block Chevys. In 2010 I wrote MOTION Performance, Tales of a Muscle Car Builder. Since Joel Rosen drag raced both small and big-block Cobras back in the day, there is Ford coverage in my book. Some of you New York guys may remember Baldwin-Motion and our NHRA & AHRA record-holding A/MP 427 and 454 Camaros.
Love my GT and can just sit and look at it for what seems like hours. I have never had so much pleasure washing or polishing a car before. Driving it is an incredible rush. I have GT Joey’s book, which is great, and have learned all the car’s shortcomings. Yes, I had dented my forehead driving my client-friend Nicola Bulgari’s white GT a few years back and hope for no repeat performances!
Plans are to keep my GT stock, but in case that ever changes, I keep the GT less than a half-hour from Jason’s Temple of Testosterone.
As I told Jason the other day, the GT Forum is hands-down the best single marque car guy forum in cyberspace. Hope I get to meet some of you guys. Sorry for being so wordy.
Marty Schorr
I’ve spent my entire adult life in the auto hobby and industry, starting out as a photojournalist in the late-1950s, then Editor of Hi-Performance CARS magazine in NYC, later launching VETTE, the first regular frequency newsstand Corvette magazine.
For almost 18 years my PR agency, PMPR, Inc. had the GM/Buick account and we represented Buick on the East Coast. I was involved in the 1987 Buick Turbo GNX program and wrote the coffee table book, BUICK GNX, which went with each of the 547 cars. I still do media relations and marketing communications work and run a car guy lunch group in Sarasota, FL, with satellites here and abroad, www.sarasotacaferacers.com
Spent a day in 1967 driving a Ford Mark III GT40 around the NYC area for a cover story in CARS and have lusted for one ever since. Since the Ford GT is a much more civilized and faster car at a fraction of the price of a GT40, I joined the club! That same year I partnered with Joel Rosen at Motion Performance (and Baldwin Chevrolet) in Baldwin, LI, NY, building and marketing brand new 1967-1974 Baldwin-Motion super-high-performance big-block Chevys. In 2010 I wrote MOTION Performance, Tales of a Muscle Car Builder. Since Joel Rosen drag raced both small and big-block Cobras back in the day, there is Ford coverage in my book. Some of you New York guys may remember Baldwin-Motion and our NHRA & AHRA record-holding A/MP 427 and 454 Camaros.
Love my GT and can just sit and look at it for what seems like hours. I have never had so much pleasure washing or polishing a car before. Driving it is an incredible rush. I have GT Joey’s book, which is great, and have learned all the car’s shortcomings. Yes, I had dented my forehead driving my client-friend Nicola Bulgari’s white GT a few years back and hope for no repeat performances!
Plans are to keep my GT stock, but in case that ever changes, I keep the GT less than a half-hour from Jason’s Temple of Testosterone.
As I told Jason the other day, the GT Forum is hands-down the best single marque car guy forum in cyberspace. Hope I get to meet some of you guys. Sorry for being so wordy.
Marty Schorr
