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Hey everyone,
I bought a low-mile, one-owner, 2006 FGT a few months ago, and am interested in selling the OEM take-off parts that were included. 

Prices are "Or Best Offer", and Do Not include shipping.

I live near San Diego, CA, and much prefer pickup at my location for the large items, rather than having to ship.  However, the transaxle is in its Ford crate, and can be shipped.


OEM Ricardo 6-speed Transaxle. Ford Part #4G7Z-7L073-A. Removed from a second GT (a red car) that my GT's original owner had bought to run in top speed events. The transaxle was removed at about 5,000 miles of street use, before he began the top speed mods. That car's VIN# 1FAFP90S16Y400189 (plus FGT2207 and D69906) is stamped on the transaxle. At that time, he had a second transaxle built with racing parts, and 3.9 gears, for his red GT, and kept this original (with 3.3 gears) transaxle as a spare. It is reportedly 100% stock original.
$12,500.

Set of four OEM Ford GT optional BBS forged aluminum wheels and original Goodyear Eagle F1 P235/45ZR18 and P315/40ZR19 tires mounted. Removed from my car at less than a few hundred miles, as there is virtually no wear on the tires. Even the little tire molding nubs are intact. The wheels are likewise impeccable, with no curb rash or anything else I can see, except for one very tiny chip. These are perfect for a concours show car, or anyone who wants as close to brand new as it gets.
$10,000 set of 4.


The rest of the parts were removed from my street-driven Tungsten GT at around 2000 miles:

Set of four OEM Ford GT coil-over shocks. $7,000 set of four.

Stock OEM Supercharger. $6,500.

Stock OEM Ford GT muffler. $2,000.

Stock OEM Ford GT clutch. $1,800.

Stock OEM Ford 3.30:1 gear set. $1,000.


Remember: All prices are WITHOUT SHIPPING, and I will only charge the actual shipping amount. Never a mark-up.

I am happy to answer any questions, and send you photos, etc., to make for an easy transaction.  Please PM me.

Thanks,
Van

Brett, are you referring to Richie Cline? He was a high-up guy at Imperial Palace, not Caesar's. 

I went with Richie and CS to tour the beginnings of the track, when the dirt was being graded and leveled, so back in 1993 maybe?  Seemed to me to be a huge undertaking at the time.

Yes, then at some point Richie vanished and I can't recall who took over for him. Do you remember?

"...the lack of respect for someone else's property is amazing."

SAM83, you summed up today's world perfectly.  I'd like to think that the elderly parents in the Corolla would've had more common sense and courtesy than they did, but then I remind myself it's 2024, not 1964 or '74 or even '84 or '94, and my head shakes "oh yeah." 

We've probably all had the situation where we park out in the BF Egypt region of a giant parking lot, only to return to find one or more not just regular cars, but big bro-dozer trucks, parked right next to us.

I truly don't understand that mentality. It's a 100-yard walk away from the store's front doors, and there are a hundred open spaces much closer than where I'm parked, but it still happens more often than not. 

Are these people spacially/dimensionally-challenged and can't estimate distances, or do they do it on purpose to piss-off us nice-car owners?

Or, do they just think their vehicle is safer when it's parked next to me?  (It undoubtedly is, but please leave me at least a half-space clearance on all sides, guys.)

As for car insurance, I've had AAA since 1974 (50 years...yikes!) and Hagerty for about 25-30 years.  Never had to make a claim at Hagerty, and only once with AAA (my bitchin car stereo and Recaro seats were stolen. They paid off, no problem.)

As for towing, I've never used Hagerty.  I was a member there for couple years, then figured that it kinda duplicated my AAA towing (with my Premiere level AAA membership.) The AAA towing (always a flatbed, no exceptions, I'll wait the extra time to send one) has 90% been a pretty good experience, with only a couple a-hole drivers over the years.

What I do now, is to not only emphasize over the phone to the AAA person how expensive and rare and perfect my car is, then I repeat that to the driver when I call him en route (always ask the dispatcher for the tow driver's name and cell number.)  Once he shows up, I do a walk-around with him and chat him up to hopefully get him interested in the car and will treat it nice. Then, I'll pull out a $50 or $100 (depending on the car, the urgency, danger of the situation, etc. ) and ask him to please take great care of my baby. That seems to be the charm. Cash still works!

Looks like a '64 full-size Pontiac wagon (Catalina or Bonneville Safari) to me. 

Rough condition after 50 years buried under the ocean, but the polyvinyl chloride turquoise-green LR inner door panel survives!

That is literally the first rap anything that I've liked.  Hilarious!!

Richard, thanks for posting!

Cena's stunt is a ripoff of the PR stunt Chrysler did, circa 1994, when they unveiled the Jeep Grand Cherokee at the Detroit Auto Show at Cobo Hall.  While all the stupefied "journos" stood around by the front of the auditorium, awaiting Jeep to begin its press conference, Lutz and Casting and someone else from Chrysler management drove the GC off of the street, busted through the candy-glass (very well kept secret...no word leaked out ahead of time!) and shocked the sh!t out of everyone. 

That was a true "breakthrough."

So, such people aren't actually people? 

I'm far from any kind of a computer guy, so I truly don't get it.  Who would pay anyone to run up posts on a tiny site like SAAC Forum?

Scott, I didn't know how the price-per-post thing works.  Thanks for the info. 

How would spam-posting a Shelby forum be worth anything?  Who's paying 5-cents for such attacks?  The Corvette Forum?   

Interesting coincidence (?) in the 1966 Santa Barbara race program that Brett posted:  Michael Szabo, Cortina driver. 

Any relation to our own Stephan "Szabo"?

Stephan: Excellent detective work and effort!  Much appreciation for your ability to find previously-unseen photos, and for your skill of creating sight-lines on the photographs, to give us all a better perspective of where the various areas of the S-A facility were located.

Brett, thanks for the thought that some S-A employees (1965-67 era) would've built a Shelby on their own. I'd never actually thought about that, but it makes perfect sense. Why pay full price? Order a K-Code (via the X or A Plan) then get the S-A parts at a discount, and do the conversion work yourself on the weekend, probably utilizing some S-A employees and shop space/tools.

I guess that some small parts may have gone home in lunch boxes. But, I'll bet not much of that happened, because of the small size of the operation and not much extra inventory of parts.  There probably wasn't a lot of "it fell off the truck and got damaged" stories, either. Not unless you wanted Carroll's boot up your azz.

Thoughts?

If it's dirt, it's El Mirage or Muroc, or any other SoCal dry lake.   

If it's salt, it's Bonneville.

The rule of thumb that I always heard was:  "Trade a bad car in to a dealer. Sell a good car yourself."

^^ Riveting commentary from the TV narrator:   "A Mustang Shelby."   Then, "A Rolls Royce."   

Why was the Exhaust done like that?
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My guess would be to quiet it down for street use.  Sure not much space between the pipes and the ground.

Probably didn't take too many steep driveways before it was "self-clearanced."