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    March 7th, 2007 05:50 PM #1
    I'm currently watching a show called Million Dollar Auctions on Discovery Channel HD. This blue GT40 (I think it's #79) went for $2,275,000 :shocked: I wished I had the money to burn......when will I win the lotto?
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    March 7th, 2007 06:02 PM #2
    Quote Originally Posted by n2knee View Post
    I'm currently watching a show called Million Dollar Auctions on Discovery Channel HD. This blue GT40 (I think it's #79) went for $2,275,000 :shocked: I wished I had the money to burn......when will I win the lotto?
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    March 8th, 2007 03:42 AM #3
    I think the GT only costs like..125,000 dollars...
    why did he buy that particular 2million+ GT? whats so special about that particular one??
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    March 8th, 2007 05:02 AM #4
    Quote Originally Posted by KrisKros View Post
    I think the GT only costs like..125,000 dollars...
    why did he buy that particular 2million+ GT? whats so special about that particular one??
    The Ford GT40 is different from the Ford GT.

    The GT40 was produced in the 1960's and won the 24hour of Le Mans 4 years in a row from 1966-1969. It was produced by Ford after Enzo Ferrari backed off from a merger with Ford. Henry Ford II wanted to win Le Mans at the time so he built the GT40. It was called GT40 because 40" was the hight of the car and only a limited number cars were produced for public sale. Models of the GT40 was the MkI, MkII, MkIII, and MkIV to my knowledge one of these models(may be the MkIV) only three were sold to the public, so $2 million may be cheap all things considered. The current GT is a homage to the GT40 and ended production in 2006.

    Edit: It was the MkIII and only seven road going version was made. BTW in 2005 at RM's Monterey a GT40 sold for $2,502,500 so this is still cheap if you can call it that.
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    March 8th, 2007 05:12 AM #5
    ahhhh the original Ford GT40 kaya pala. I think I saw the history on it on Top Gear heheh. heheh thats right..it was only 40inches in height..i remember that part. Thanks for the info, that car is just a classic. Definitely a collector's items dream.
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    March 8th, 2007 05:26 AM #6
    Quote Originally Posted by KrisKros View Post
    ahhhh the original Ford GT40 kaya pala. I think I saw the history on it on Top Gear heheh. heheh thats right..it was only 40inches in height..i remember that part. Thanks for the info, that car is just a classic. Definitely a collector's items dream.
    Just imagine if you had bought it at it's original list price of $16,000 back in 1964-1967. 40 years later and it's worth $2 million, I wonder what the current GT and the GT500 will cost in 40 years.
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