Hardly any modern supercar will respond well to sitting in a garage for 15 years, but if you had to pick one that could, it’s probably the Ford GT. With a relatively simple supercharged American V8 in the middle, very few electronic systems to speak of, and a whole bunch of parts plucked from other Ford cars, the GT is maybe the simplest way to go stupid fast. When The Cultivated Collector found this car languishing in a state of illness, everyone knew it wouldn’t take much to get it going again.
“The entire fuel system was pretty much trash,” according to the folks who worked on the car. That checks out, as gasoline has a stable shelf life of about three months. Pretty much anything that was touched by gas was sticky or gummed up and had to be cleaned out and replaced. They managed to source a set of Bosch fuel injectors, because Ford couldn’t find any Motorcraft parts laying around. Once that was sorted, getting the car running was just a matter of replacing all the fluids, mounting a new set of tires, and tightening up the suspension with some new rear toe links. OK, it’s a Ford GT, none of that stuff was particularly cheap, but this is a whole lot less than it would cost with a Lamborghini or Ferrari or whatever.
From this whole video, my favorite part is when Ed says you dorks need to drive your Ford GTs more often. “I know why people have these cars, and I know why the guys that have them tend to keep them. I don’t know why people leave them with delivery miles and don’t ever use them, because that’s really what makes the car cool, is the fact that you can mile it up and everything still just kind of works. If you have a Ford GT, start driving it.” Well said, man.
