January 24, 2009: We’re back from a great weekend in Scottsdale where we enjoyed watching the action at Barrett Jackson, RM Auctions and Gooding & Co. We were very disappointed at RM when they announced the GT90 had been pulled from the event. We were looking forward to seeing the car and watching the bidding. If we find out any more info, we’ll post it here.

December 22, 2009: On Friday, January 22, 2010 RM Auctions will auction off a truly unique Ford. The 1995 Ford GT90 was unveiled in January 1995 at the Detroit Auto Show as a successor to the legendary GT40 which Ford, with help from guys like Carroll Shelby, employed to beat Ferrari at Le Mans throughout the second half of the 1960’s. The auction house claims $3million dollars was spent in developing the carbon fiber panel, honeycomb aluminum chassis, 720hp quad-turbo V12 supercar. While RM Auctions is not currently providing any estimates, we doubt it will be bid up nearly that high. In the meantime, do any readers have estimates of their own?

In our minds, this thing is super cool; it’s an icon of the 90’s with lineage deep into the 60’s and it’s shaped and formed to mimic the old while still looking forward. That said, it’s got some pretty big downfalls in being a ‘concept car.” Besides being impossible to register, it’s got a bunch of one-off parts. Those that aren’t one-off are shared with the Jaguar XJ220 supercar so it’s not like they’ll be easy to source either. Additionally, the tester in Motor Trend said Ford engineers were concerned about working the chassis too hard so the car is detuned to 400hp and sharp corners (loading the chassis) must be avoided!

The verdict on this one is that we’d love to have it in our garage. However, for most normal car guys, it’s just not possible. We’d love to see this one go to someone who is a true car enthusiast and custodian, like James Glickenhaus or Jay Leno, who would let the car out into the wild every so often; it’d be a shame to have such a great piece of history sit in a museum someplace. For the rest of us, looks like we’ll just have to aspire to a dark blue Ford GT.