Wrecked 2020 GT500: Easy Flip or Ideal Donor?
Front end collision sent this poor Shelby GT500 to the scrapyard, but there’s plenty of meat left on the bones.
It should come as no surprise that someone has already managed to write off a 2020 GT500. With 760 supercharged horsepower and 625 lb/ft of torque on tap, it was only a matter of time before someone ran out of talent.
Instagrammer/performance vendor Dezzy’s Speed Shop have found a black and blue (in more ways than one) GT500 that will be heading to a salvage auction soon. There’s clear heavy front end damage, with most of the sheetmetal forward of the windshield missing.
The hood, surprisingly, appears to have suffered little, if any, damage. Underneath, we can see that the radiator core support is pushed in at an angle. However, the engine itself appears intact.
Fix and Flip or Gut and Swap?
Whoever ends up buying this car will have a difficult choice to make. Do they repair this GT500 and resell it as a salvage vehicle? Given the demand for these cars, they may be able to make a tidy profit off of the sale.
While we personally wouldn’t ever buy a salvage car for anything but parts, many folks just don’t care. Being able to get a GT500 for a bargain price — or even to be able to get one at all — may make it easy for some to overlook the car’s checkered past.
Many cars like this are rebuilt to varying standards of quality and shipped overseas, where the car’s brutal history is less easy to track. By this time next year, this GT500 may be thousands of miles away.
Another option for the prospective buyer is to have the world’s coolest donor car. Everything’s there, with low mileage, in great shape, and more or less intact. You’ve got your full drivetrain, wiring harness, and gauge cluster. Heck, you’ve even got a nice pair of seats, too. There are also plenty of undamaged body and trim parts to sell off to help recoup your investment.
We’d like to imagine seeing this drivetrain between the fenders of a fast Fox — or stuffed into the framerails of a wild retro-modern ’32 Ford hot rod. No matter what this drivetrain ends up in, you can be sure that it will be the toast of the car show circuit for the next few years.
Photos: Instagram/dezzysspeedshop
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