Doug DeMuro Is Selling His Well-Used Ford GT With No Reserve
We are of the opinion that cars are meant to be driven like this one
Take a long look around different high-end auction sites, and you'll quickly note that plenty of supercar owners simply don't drive their cars. Low-mileage examples tend to fetch higher prices and hold their value better. Doug DeMuro has clearly taken a different approach with his Ford GT, and now, it's going up for sale with no reserve. As supercars go, it might be hard to find one with the kind of records this one has.
The automotive YouTuber and Cars & Bids founder is, of course, selling his 2005 GT on his own auction platform. The Ford has 45,800 miles on the clock, and Doug is responsible for roughly 14,400 of them. As of this writing, bidding is already at $506,000. The auction ends October 17. We get the feeling it'll climb a bit higher before it's all said and done, mostly because of its connection to DeMuro. That said, the car's specifications are quite nice.
Finished in Midnight Blue Metallic, the car still features its original 5.4-liter supercharged V8, but it now has a smaller supercharger pulley for a bit of extra oomph. From the factory, it made 550 hp (410 kW) and 500 lb-ft (678 Nm). The pulley will add some ponies, but there's no dyno sheet to say exactly what it's pumping out today. Regardless, it sends that power to the rear wheels only via a six-speed manual transmission.
A Ford Racing short shifter and Alpine head unit round out the changes. Several original components accompany the sale, including the exhaust, stereo, and shift linkage. That gives the next owner flexibility if they'd prefer to return it to factory specification.
History
Importantly, this GT has had just two owners. DeMuro bought it from fellow automotive journalist Karl Brauer in September 2018, and Brauer had owned it since new. Between them, they've preserved an unusually thorough paper trail.
The sale includes the factory build book documenting production checks, the original order form, two window stickers, and period Ford marketing material. Brauer even kept a notebook recording every fuel stop from 2005 until he sold the car in 2018. That's a level of dedication most of us struggle to apply to keeping receipts for oil changes. On top of that, there are several videos of the car from throughout its life, both before and after DeMuro purchased it.
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Of course, the mileage comes with some visible wear. Disclosed imperfections include front-end and diffuser chips, seat wear, scratches on the shift knob, and clearcoat deterioration on one wheel. Buyers can decide how much those bother them. Personally, a few signs that somebody enjoyed the thing seem entirely appropriate.
When DeMuro initially bought the car, he made the point that he specifically wanted one that he could drive without mileage diminishing its value a bunch. Clearly, he found it, and now, it's headed off to someone else who will hopefully enjoy it just as much. As for DeMuro, he's not getting out of the GT game altogether. He says he's only selling this car so that he can track down a Heritage Edition.