For Sale: 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania for sale in Turtle Creek, PA
Vehicle Description Car was purchased by current owner/seller from a private individual about 100 miles from his home in Greensburg, PA, in December 2014.
The car had 7,500 miles on it when I purchased it in 2014.
On the window sticker the Destination normally designates a dealership, this one is shown as Diversified.
(Diversified is the location of Ford Chassis design in Romulus, MI.
) At the bottom of the options list has the name Collins.
Mr.
Collins, in 2013, was the person in charge of Ford Chassis design and the car was delivered to him.
The 2013 GT500 was the 20th anniversary of the SVT Group, and the expectations for the car was that it would be the fastest and most powerful production vehicle for 2013.
The car was being advertised to make 200 mph, so the people at chassis design had to reach that mark The final changes to the car to get it to the 200 mark were to remove the grille to reduce drag, and remove the aluminum drive shaft and replace it with the one-piece carbon fiber unit.
Once the specifications for the production cars had been developed, there was no longer any need for the pre-production vehicle.
My car has a VIN number that is 6776 numbers lower than the #1 - 2013 Shelby that sold at Barrett Jackson in January 2015 for $280K.
Basically, what I have been told by Ford is that pre production cars are not sold.
Supposedly, the car was headed for the crusher.
When it left Diversified, Romulus, MI.
, it had 3,500 miles on it.
It went to auction, to a broker, to a dealer in Ohio, finally to a private owner in Pennsylvania.
I purchased the car from that owner in December of 2014, with 7500 on the odometer.
The car is now at 17,084.
The sticker shows the options and they include recaro seats, but the car came out of the factory with power sport buckets as you can see in the photos I sent.
I visited Gary Patterson at Shelby America in 2015, showing him the paperwork for the car.
He said that it was highly unusual that Ford would sell a pre-production car.
He felt strongly that someone had made a mistake letting the car out of Ford.
In discussions with Barrett Jackson and with Shelby America, they both feel that the sticker not matching the seat option is just another plus for the mystic of the car.
In the photos you can see the car has Sport bucket seats, but on the window sticker, the car optioned with Recaro seats.
Both Shelby and BJ feel the car commands a premium price because it is a pre production car of a water-mark model year introduction, being the 20 year anniversary as well as the last year of Carrol Shelby's influence on the car design.
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The car had 7,500 miles on it when I purchased it in 2014.
On the window sticker the Destination normally designates a dealership, this one is shown as Diversified.
(Diversified is the location of Ford Chassis design in Romulus, MI.
) At the bottom of the options list has the name Collins.
Mr.
Collins, in 2013, was the person in charge of Ford Chassis design and the car was delivered to him.
The 2013 GT500 was the 20th anniversary of the SVT Group, and the expectations for the car was that it would be the fastest and most powerful production vehicle for 2013.
The car was being advertised to make 200 mph, so the people at chassis design had to reach that mark The final changes to the car to get it to the 200 mark were to remove the grille to reduce drag, and remove the aluminum drive shaft and replace it with the one-piece carbon fiber unit.
Once the specifications for the production cars had been developed, there was no longer any need for the pre-production vehicle.
My car has a VIN number that is 6776 numbers lower than the #1 - 2013 Shelby that sold at Barrett Jackson in January 2015 for $280K.
Basically, what I have been told by Ford is that pre production cars are not sold.
Supposedly, the car was headed for the crusher.
When it left Diversified, Romulus, MI.
, it had 3,500 miles on it.
It went to auction, to a broker, to a dealer in Ohio, finally to a private owner in Pennsylvania.
I purchased the car from that owner in December of 2014, with 7500 on the odometer.
The car is now at 17,084.
The sticker shows the options and they include recaro seats, but the car came out of the factory with power sport buckets as you can see in the photos I sent.
I visited Gary Patterson at Shelby America in 2015, showing him the paperwork for the car.
He said that it was highly unusual that Ford would sell a pre-production car.
He felt strongly that someone had made a mistake letting the car out of Ford.
In discussions with Barrett Jackson and with Shelby America, they both feel that the sticker not matching the seat option is just another plus for the mystic of the car.
In the photos you can see the car has Sport bucket seats, but on the window sticker, the car optioned with Recaro seats.
Both Shelby and BJ feel the car commands a premium price because it is a pre production car of a water-mark model year introduction, being the 20 year anniversary as well as the last year of Carrol Shelby's influence on the car design.
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