As promised, photos of the GT500 from Ernest McCarty Ford in Alabaster, Ala. Thanks to Pat Covert for taking these pix!

 

Looks more Yellow than Orange to me...

 

haha sweet....Pat Covert wrote a book about Model Cars I have....awesome

 

Pat writes books on Mustangs, model cars, and knives. He lives here in Birmingham and we eat lunch at the Silvertron Cafe about once a month. Great guy.

 

wow small world huh??

 

Too many variables to list, but here are a few:

Camera quality, location of sun (ie. time of day), cloud factor, etc. Just look to the left and check out my avatar. A very tricky color that must be seen in person...

 

Pretty nice but it still looks kind of plain with out the Shelby stripes.

 

Not to mention quality and color settings of the computer monitor that is being used to view the pic. It looks orange on my monitor.

 

Brad you really gotta start informing me of when you are doing these shoots.

 

I really want to like the GT 500 but there are a few visual things that just don't work, such as the spoiler and the black bar on the bottom as seen on the v-6.I know they were trying to thin the profile down but I don't know. I think the lines are beautiful, but from a distance, to any non-mustangsource personel, this car will probably look like a v-6. Maybe from the front more than any other angle, because of the absence of fog lights. Just my opinion though. Great pics. Orangs is killer on any s197. Oh, and the Shelby writing in the corner, thats maybe a tad disapointing, especially since ford did it perfectly on the Hertz GT-H's.

 

not my color....i still think ford really dropped the ball on this spoiler

 

Just some quick color correcting as it's obvious these pics are right out of the camera.

Brought a bit more orange back into the equation

 

"Oh, and the Shelby writing in the corner, thats maybe a tad disapointing, especially since ford did it perfectly on the Hertz GT-H's."

I heard that the "Shelby" was moved over to the side b/c on the assembly line the guy that is doing the strips is also doing the emblem or that there is another guy right next to him. Either way there wasn't enough time to put each individual letter on to spell out "Shelby" like on the concept car or the GT-H. Now as far as the 'verts go, I don't know why it could not have been spelled out. Probably b/c there would be a need for two different emblems and Ford thought that would be redundent. All of this is assuming that that is the real reason.

 

If I'm not mistaken those letters could be seperated and the owner could just do it himself. I know one day if I get one that will be my first mod.

 

The letters are off to the side because they wouldn't stick very long on the vinyl stripes. The GT-H's stripes are painted, so it's not an issue.

 

that sure is a good looking car

 

Quick fix - Since everyone has been asking for it all along anyway....get rid of the chincy vinyl stripes and paint them on. Then everyone will have the stripes they want, the letters where they want, the letters won't fall off, the license plate port won't hollow out the stripes, the lines on the back will be more uniform so they will match up with the stripes on the front.....and I can save some serious typing because I won't have to scream and yell for them to quit being cheap and paint the stripes on.

Just my 2 cents.

 

2 words.... bean counters

 

Anyone notice that the rocker panels are black...like the V6. Now that's funny.

 

At least you don't have to worry about the paint chipping