[REAL 1]

Rare Iron: There are three camps of Ford GT owners I have seen emerge.

1. Those that buy delivery mile cars, keep them in the wrapper and wait.
2. Those that buy them, drive fairly limited miles and pamper them.
3. Those that buy them, drive them hard and frequently and put them away wet. Point in case, a friend of mine has an '06 FGT with over 50k miles with plenty miles put on at Lime Rock, Watkins Glenn and Pocano and VIR. Many guys have put whipples on and some have put the Heffner Twin Turbo bringing the car to 1100 hp.

Attrition seems fairly high as there are definitely many guys that get in over their head with the car not realizing that its mid engined design makes it an easy car to drive aggressively forgetting it has no handling electrical handling nannies. You are on your own and the car will bite and bite hard. They are viciously fast cars and you better be ready and know what you are doing.

But I agree, they are future classics/collectible if not already.

The article I read focused on two main factors, initial desireability and limited production.

I have noticed that alot of the 60's muscle cars that are now collectible and worth many times their intial window sticker were in many cases manufactured in numbers between 50 examples for such as for example the uber valuable Copo Z28s or Yenko Camoaros, Yenko Chevelles, Hemi Cudas up to the 20,000 or so examples of GTOs, Chevelles, and everything else in between. So it seems that "desirability" even in the face of what most would consider not really limited production figures or more acturatlely fairly high production numbers can still create a "collectible".