Extraordinary Ford GT X1 van Bell for sale

It can be difficult to remember all those years later, which had an impact the Ford GT. When £ 100,000 supercars had 400 hp or so, the Ford took 550 hp supercharged Swagger; Even the Lamborghini Gallardo, complete with large V10, could not match the GT for pure muscle. But the real genius of the package was that it was not just some cynical cash-in or just a PK champion-the GT was a straight hero.

Even if an LHD-all front view, and larger than probably ideal for our roads, it was worshiped by those who drove it in the UK. Nobody expected that the Sub-Par would have expected to have calculated a few on Ford who created such a agile, flexible, communicative mid-engine V8. One that, let’s not forget, also looked good. So it is no wonder that GTs are still comfortably worth more than twice (sometimes three times), which those happy British buyers paid 20 years ago – they are pretty special cars. And although we would often associate Limited Editions with the later V6 GT – from Alan Mann to MKIV and Carbon Series to LM – there were undoubtedly some cool spider -offs of the V8. Do you remember the GTX1, for example?

For the first time shown by Ford at SEMA in 2005, the X1 blue oval engineer Kip Ewing’s look at what a modern version of the GT40 X-1 could look like. That original car was an experimental, aluminum chassis’d GT40 Roadster built by McLaren, and which actually won at Sebring in 1966 – a less well -known and very cool part of the GT40 story. That was the understandable reaction to the 21st-century reinvation that about 40 units of the GT production run (it was assumed that it was 38) received the X1 treatment through Gaddi Design Group.

What makes this GT extra interesting is that it looks like an X1, but it is not. Well, not exactly. Because it is very much a homeless GT, complete with lookout panels in the changed aft deck so that the V8 remains on display, it is not built by Gaddi Design Group and it is not one of the 40 GTX1s. For example, there are the carbon roof panels. Instead, this is a GT X1 from Bell, such as in Bell Sport and Classic in the UK. Story goes that this car, originally shipped to New York, arrived in London in 2007, the buyer who missed the original GTX1 allocation, but wanted to do a lot of it. So he had Bell Sport and Classic Build him one.

It is likely to cause a stir where it ends up, the combination of known signals combined with a very rarely seen body configuration that brings it above the enormous amount of attention that a standard GT receives. Chassis 401202 has been off the road for a few years and this year has been cheerful, freshly maintained, recently driven and ready to remind the rest of the world what a good softtop -supercar can do for your soul.

Interesting is that an unofficial GTX1 – also thanks to a healthy mileage of almost 30k – is currently by far the most affordable way to this generation GT. Although cars that have been mollycoddled for two decades can still control almost £ 400k, it is £ 280,000. Still an enormous amount of money, clear and far beyond what are contemporary rivals are worth now, although also a useful amount less than any coupe currently available at PH. Rarer and cheaper sounds like the Jackpot autocollector, right?