The Ford Motor Company is known worldwide as the preeminent automotive manufacturer for the everyday citizen. To this day, Ford is the top selling American car manufacturer by a healthy margin. However, that doesn’t mean that this prestigious automaker hasn’t had its fair share of exceptionally valuable rides over the years.
Outside of Ford’s pension for the “working man,” this Michigan-based manufacturer has produced a variety of ultra-rare, ultra-premium, ultra-valuable cars that have fetched hundreds of thousands, and sometimes even millions of dollars a piece.
Without further ado, here are five of the most valuable vehicles ever produced by Ford.
2016 Ford GT
Although it serves mainly as a modern-day tribute to the legendary Ford GT40 race cars of the 1960s, the 2016 Ford GT was designed to compete on the same level of power, performance, and class as some of the most famous European supercars from companies like Lamborghini and Ferrari. As a result, the Ford GT is valued in the same price range as many of those models.
Wrapped in a premium carbon-fiber chassis and packing a twin-turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 engine capable of producing 600 horsepower (yes, we said a V6), the 2016 Ford GT is among the most desirable modern American sports cars of the 21st century.
The 2016 GT is valued at around $400,000. To this day, only 250 Ford GT models are produced each year, and demand is still exceptionally high.
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429
A healthy majority of Ford’s most valuable vehicles come from the prestigious Mustang family, but the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 is in a class all its own.
Introduced in the late 1960s, the Mustang Boss 429 was an especially high-performance breed of Mustang.
When new, this vehicle generated 375 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque from its namesake 429-cubic-inch V8 engine. It was the most powerful factory-made Mustang vehicle in existence at the time.
One 1969 model, which was one of the first 50 built by hand, sold for over $600,000 at a Barrett-Jackson auction in 2007.
1967 Shelby GT500
This extremely sleek and sexy Shelby Mustang model took the world by storm in 1967, when Ford offered this ride with a standard 390 V8 engine.
1967 was the last year that Shelby vehicles were built at the original Shelby facility in Venice, California, and many classic muscle car enthusiasts consider this model to be special for that reason.
That said, the true way this ride earned its high price tag was by starring alongside Nicholas Cage in the popular 2000 film Gone in 60 Seconds, in which this mid-60s pony car was featured as one of the 50 high-end vehicles targeted by the film’s leading gang of professional car thieves.
The exact model used in the film, nicknamed “Eleanor,” sold at an Indianapolis auction in 2013. The price? A clean $1,000,000.
1967 Ford GT40 Mark III
While the modern Ford GT is one of the most expensive and highly sought after supercars of the modern age, it is still only a tribute to the incredible Ford GT40.
The Ford GT40 first gained prominence as a result of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race, in which designer Carroll Shelby, driver Ken Miles, and the rest of Ford’s team participated in one of the most controversial and unique racing finishes of all time.
As the middle child of the prestigious GT40 family, the 1967 Mark III was a road-only car which was not specifically designed for use on the race track. Even still, this incredibly rare model can fetch a pretty penny.
Of the seven 1967 GT40 Mark III models made, a handful have sold at auction at undisclosed prices in the millions of dollars.
1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt
In 1968, the world was introduced to the fast-paced action film Bullitt, which starred beloved car-obsessed actor Steve McQueen as San Francisco Police Detective Lt. Frank Bullitt.
One hour and five minutes into the film, McQueen can be seen participating in a heart-pounding car chase scene that has been called one of the most exciting and revolutionary in film history.
A uniquely-green 1968 Ford Mustang serves as this scene’s centerpiece, and Ford Mustang sports cars saw a serious boost in popularity following the release of the film.
Bullitt quickly became one of the most successful films of the 1960s, and the iconic Bullitt Mustang changed owners three times. In 1974, the original Mustang Bullitt went into hiding with it’s long-time owner, New Jersey native Robert Kiernan.
To the surprise of many, the incredibly famous ride was put on display at the 2018 Detroit Auto Show. Shortly thereafter, the original Ford Mustang Bullitt sold at Mecum auctions for the highest price of any Mustang ever: $3.74 million.
Ford has no doubt had its fair-share of incredibly valuable vehicles, but at Brian Hoskins Ford, we offer some of the most affordable deals around.
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