The Ford GT Succeeded After 7 Failures to Exploit the GT40 Legend - Jason Cammisa Revelations Ep 22 

One of the best looking cars ever made.

Any time you see one at a show, there’s always a crowd around it. Just that speaks volumes about how much of an icon this car is

Easily the biggest regret in my life. First year it came out they had one just sitting in the showroom in my small Texas town, unsold. I could have afforded 150k doing some financial gymnastics. I didn’t pull the trigger and I regret it to this day. What a beauty.

I’ve driven one of these with a 4.0L Whipple and it is the best car I’ve ever had the pleasure of driving, by such a huge margin and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

Now I can't stop seeing the 100 in the headlights. Amazing job Jason!!!

Cammisa once again knocks it out of the park. And I still can't believe once upon a time these were 'only' $100K Edit: Yes, I'm aware the original MSRP was not $100K. But several journalists have noted that the GT sold slowly enough for dealers to offer significant discounts in-period.

BBC needed 3 guys to make the greatest car show ever. Hagerty needs only one.

The RHD part was more about generating an advantage on clockwise race tracks, which covers most road racing tracks including Le Mans. Those tracks had a bias towards right hand turns, so RHD provided two advantages on right hand turns - better weight distribution (the drivers weight was on the inside of the car) and slightly better sight lines for the driver for the prevailing turns. The Mark IV also had RHD, as did the Ferrari 330 P4 and the Porsche 908/917.

This series continues to knock it out of the park. Every. Single. Time. When I see a video with Jason Cammisa, I watch it because I know it will be excellent.

Got to hand it to you. This was the first car ,I ever passed a wrench on, in the early 1970's. Two guys from NY were driving to Cape Cod. When their racing motor ,gave up the ghost. To continue their vacation, they rented a garage space in an old 1940's storage garage. It had two wood slat doors , reinforced with a diagonal wire to keep them from going out of square and each door had a heavy tubular weight, that traveled up and down in the door frame, to ease opening and closing . My best friends, Dave and Johnny, lived next door to this storage garages, with a stockade fence separating their ,property line. A perfect place as a kid , to set up a bow and arrow target. We had the target, a safety, plywood back drop. With Arrows two Bows and Dave and I, aiming for bullseye's. The old man, that owned the storage garages, every single kid in the neighborhood, was afraid of, he would call the police or your parents and complain your ball was in his yard, your balsa plane was on his roof, maybe your bicycle chain broke on his side walk, and you turned your bike over to jimmy it back on the sprockets, he would be irate. His property was to be avoided at all costs , cross the street, walk by in the street not on his side walk! Everybody knew " The Old Man ". So when my arrow did some unplanned aero ,in flight missed the target and also the ply wood safety zone, and pried it's way in flight RIGHT thru the Old Man's fence into his storage unit drive way. David and I looked at each other, turn white as ghosts! What to do, wasn't even a thought, I told David ," I've got to get that arrow or we are DEAD! Between a young tree, and the horizontal runners on the stockade I climbed, heart pounding in my throat, I looked around, No Old Man , I told David, I see it , I'm going over, I'll walk around the fence fast as I can so he doesn't catch me. I jumped down , mind and body, electric at the thought of getting caught, I saw my arrow, I ran for it ,I grabbed it and squeezed it, I'm not dropping this now. I looked back at the stockade fence, the entire length was smooth, nothing close to it to boost me back over, my only way out, the front gate! If the Old Man was around ,sweeping his broom as usual, I'll hide till he is not looking then run for it ,was , my plan. Ok, here I go...then I heard the sound clear as a bell of a hand box wrench bong then bing then jaggle on a concrete floor. What ever in the Universe ,stopped me in forward motion, to go investigate THIS ,sound, as I faced peril, I couldn't explain , then or now! But I went toward the sounds , of voices and mechanical sounds clacking wrenches ,and bouncing wrenches. The two dark green painted doors were half open , trying to be undetected, I snooped around the door to see, what was going on. I saw a bundle of exhaust pipes on the floor, I stretch myself more around the door. I saw a corner of the rear of the car ,door was open, roof was attached partially to it the tire was twice as wide as any Corvette, and it was lower, the roof was as low as most mustangs front hoods. Over in the corner the entire rear body work , leaning against a wall white with two wide blue stripes....I thought to myself , ah Space Ship ?!? I leaned in full of curiosity, thoughts of the Old Man faded as THIS was a discovery ,far more important! I could have stumbled on ,something Big ! As I leaned in the big door squeaked in that , screen door, give away sound! I froze so they thought it was the Wind! Then one of the two guys said," it's ok you can come in, just, please DONT kick anything, or Step on anything , we need to put this back together ,with only the parts we have here." I said ,Hi and Sure, I'll be careful! One guy stood hands on hips a rag in his hand and a large wrist watch. The other guy, the one ,dropping the wrenches was sitting on the tire and unbolting parts and pieces.... What is This! It's a FORD. A Ford , not like any FORD, I've seen before, looking at the V8 between the wheels and the back seat fire wall.....!?? It's a racing Ford ,from England ,a Ford GT . The wrench fell again . I jumped to the ground into push up position and I crawled and retrieved the wrench lightning speed, here you go! Thank you uh....what is your name ? Oh George ! Thank you George, I just keep dropping it for some reason, thanks I'm working in tight places That is how ,I found these two guys and the Ford GT back in the early 1970's. For the next four days ,I'd run home from school, change real fast into play clothes, tell Mom I'd be home for dinner, I'm going to Jonny and David's house! But I didn't, I went to the garage, held bolts nuts brackets, asked a MILLION questions like why is the engine right back here, how can it work with no Drive Shaft? Where is the transmission? How do you fit inside the car, why is the roof stuck to the doors???.......... They said the race engine quit on the high way ,they found this guy in the news paper ad, and had it towed there. They would pull this motor ship it back to NY. And get a used motor from the salvage yard from a Ford mustang or truck to finish their trip to the Cape, and drive back to NY. That fourth day I ran up the hill to their storage unit they had boards on either side of the door floor sill, trying to ease the car over with out scrapping parts on the bottom side. I just sprung into action me on one side one guy on the other and the driver with the loud headers as we tried to lead him over the floor sill. Finally managed out on to the lot and those loud headers ,stopped every body in the neighborhood, they came running, like it was a car accident, BARAP pap PAP PAP!. They gathered across the street, they knew the Old Man too. There were kids with basket balls, on Sting Ray bicycles even girls with Hoola Hoops, all curious about the rumbling Noise ,and then the car ,so low so wide, ONLY two SEATS!!! We were all station wagon kids! A car with two SEATS ????! The car was so low I had to put my hands on my knees to bend low enough to say good bye, the Driver on the right hand side I was on the passenger side shaking hands ,Thanks for all your help George, Sure thanks for the Soda ,I mean " Pop" as they called it in NY ! They slowly edged into the street careful not to scrape. And as I walked into the middle of the street to watch that FORD Space Ship, gurgle, blat and rumble over the road toward the highway the gathering of kids sprawled into the street to get a better view as well ..one kid asked . " What kind of car is THAT? Everybody pressing to hear. " That That is a Racing Car From England a FORD, a Ford GT 40.. I've owned Sports Cars All my life since I got my License, I always bought them needed repair, I always repaired them later restored them before I daily drove them, from Lotus Europa's to Mini Cooper's, to Porsche 356, 912, 550 replica's ,many Datsun Z cars, Healey's 100-4 and Bugeye sprites, Datsun Z cars many S30's. Matter of fact at 66 yrs old I'm resto modding 2 Datsun Z cars today, every week end and most nights. All because of ONE Ford GT 40. And two cool guys with large wrist watches from NY!

There isn't a single show on youtube that I click on faster than Revelations. As a petrolhead interested in basically any exciting car, I cannot think of a more interesting car show than this. Maybe the old top gear had this effect on me, but I love how Jason treads the line between deep technical information and humorous delivery!

60 years later and that is still one of the most beautiful looking cars ever made. Another thing that gets missed is that out of the three Ford teams that won the 1-2-3, fully half of the drivers were from New Zealand. Denny Hulme, who raced with Ken Miles, Chris Amon, and some guy named Bruce...McLaren.

Even as a Ford fan, I didn't know about half of this stuff. This is the very best car content produced not just on RU-vid, but generally speaking only TGT can match this quality. Keep'em coming'!

To explain how they got it to turn over and not start: the GT is dry-sumped so after an oil change, you can hold the gas and clutch to the floor and it will turn over but not start. It does this to build some oil pressure and lubricate the engine. You can do this for as long as you want until the battery dies but once you release the gas pedal, it will start right up.

Jason Cammisa does automotive history of legendary cars complete justice. I can't see anyone else present this kind of content flawlessly. Friggin bravo. Not only an amazing automotive journalist.. no.. an AMAZING master-level historian journalist. All people who want to be a media-type historian should use Jason as a reference. He's putting on an absolute CLINIC on what a top-tier historian journalist is like.

I went to the Concours d’Elegance on Amelia Island once, and I was looking at the GT40 they had on display. It just so happen, at that moment, they decided they were going to start it. And I was near the rear. By god that really cemented me into car culture. It changed the atmosphere around me. I felt this thing rev in my heart. It sounded. Epic. I will never forget it.

At roughly 13 mins in, I finally got the meaning of the license plate. FU ENZO. 😑

I can't get enough of Camissa videos. Love how Hagerty lets him go uncorked and pairs him with such gorgeous cars with luscious histories. Keep it up Hagerty's!

If college history classes was half as well prepared and entertaining as Cammisa and this show, I’d have graduated.

There’s nothing like that sound of a healthy V8 engine revving out. Pure music to my ears.

Secret revealed! Crank the GT with the accelerator pedal mashed to the floor and the engine won't start. This was by design to crank the engine and get oil moving around before actually starting it 👍

Hagerty has been on a roll with the Ford GT content, first with Magnus and now Jason Camissa following up with yet another banger.

Jason and the Hagerty team, this is so amazing. Truly a work of art by you all.

This presenter is the best one on RU-vid ever. He makes me like any car he presents.

I saw a GT IRL once in a Ford dealership... so cool. As much as I love the GT, it would've been nice if the GT90 went into production

I loved the GT90 concept when I was a kid.

I love the twitch in the steering wheel coming out of corners. Amazing throttle control and great control not oversteering just countering that bit of spin. Low end torque is a monster but when done right it's quite a thrill.

by far the greatest automotive presenter on earth, The GOAT

Ken Miles was give the nickname by fellow racers as "side bite" because he talked out the side of his mouth. Always felt Ford is missing a great opportunity in not offering the Ford GT "Side Bite" edition.

Your production team is killing it! The editing, lighting, color grading and the shots in this video are absolutely beautiful! 😍

Love the POV driving clips at the end of these videos! Thanks Hagerty and Jason!

Great work as always! Mr Cammisa and team's videos are always a master class in automotive journalism. As an '06 Ford GT owner I truly appreciate the effort in this. It's an event every time I get behind the wheel and is the last of the true old-school analog cars where the only traction control computer is the one between the driver's ears. As a side note: it should always start on the first crank unless something is wrong.

The GT has grown on me like a bad mole. It has been there for nearly 20 years, has become more pronounced, has garnered more of my attention, and has become part of my life in terms of car history. I honestly appreciate and love every aspect of this vehicle more now than I even cared to think about back then. It is a classic already and I just love seeing them at car shows and out and about.

Finally I've been waiting for a new video from Jason Camisa I love watching him I wish they could make a show with him more often

Cammisa you're the GOAT. Love your videos, you combine knowledge, passion, humour and carisma like no other. Best car journalist i've ever watched.

Jason, and crew, thank you for this, it was great fun.

Revelations is my favorites series on this channel . Need more vids

Jason is becoming the Ryan F9 of the car world!

Jason Cammisa Revelations needs it's own sub-channel - these are the ones that I seek out.

I think I speak for a majority of people when I say we never tire of watching you Jason. You keep people tuned in on what your saying with great enthusiasm always…never boring!🙏

Jason's history lesson + American Icon = Another world class production can't wait for the next one!

Damn Jason is the best at this. GIVE THIS MAN HIS OWN CHANNEL….wait he has one.

Thank you Jason for another well researched Video. I cannot imagine the amount of hours that goes into such a professional production. I love your sense of humour.

Outstanding, highlight of my month long worth of car vids. Thanks to Mr Cammisa and Co.

I had the rare opportunity to sit in one at a cars an coffee years back, and was absolutely stunned at how wide the cabin is, and how tiny that wheel is. It's a glorious achievement that shows what Ford can do when they put their best on the job.

As always, Jason does an amazing job with this video.

I saw a gunmetal gray GT when I was driving in traffic to the Carnegie museum in Pittsburgh, rather I heard then saw. Everyone on the sidewalks were just staring at it... it was gorgeous and sounded beautiful.

It’s cute that Jason tried to convince us he’s old enough that he drove carburetor cars in the time that they were all that was available. Maybe in your car collection, my friend, but I’m roughly your age, and all we’ve got claim to is missing the smell of leaded gas (god, I miss that smell). My 1984 Thunderbird was a POS but it always started (even though I didn’t have A/C, power door locks or windows, or even a passenger mirror… oh, and I was only able to rock tunes with an AM/FM radio… it didn’t even have a tape deck). Absolutely LOVE these videos, despite my jokes. Please keep it up!!! ❤❤❤

I had the great opportunity to drive a Gt while working for a local FORD dealer! It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had! My dealer also owned 2 427 Shelby cobras and a Daytona coupe

This level of writing and presentation for free ! I would gladly pay Netflix subscription rate just to see Jasons content.. Keep it up. And 25k views in 5 hours does not do justice to the supreme quality of this content.

Jason Cammisa is one of those guys I would listen to and watch nearly anything he was on......his brand.....his style is one of a kind.....I hope he goes on forever......the car is a work of art......

Great job again, Jason. I'm glad there are ppl like you that can navigate this new media world to continue putting out amazing content. I think Davis and Yates would've failed miserably with the fast changing media landscape we have today. You and Derek Tam(hyphen)Scott are the next generation of great auto enthusiast content providers.

I’d love to see more of that GN34/Ford Allegro! Also, an addendum to include the latest Ford GT. They actually managed to improve on the beauty of the original IMO

The POV driving clips at the end of these are the icing on a delicious cake! Always puts me in the mood to jump in the car (currently a Cayman R) and just enjoy the drive!

Revalations are the REASON I’m subbed to this channel! Bravo as always Jason!

So glad you mentioned Lola. Thank you! 👍

Why do I feel like that episode could have been 10 minutes longer and I wouldn't have noticed. Great job, as always.

Fantastic episode, from Jason on down! I love your production values and the obvious quality you put into each episode. I loved the original, and was lucky enough to get a ride in this version. A fantastic car for Ford to have actually built. I wish they still did! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦

Jason has become my new favourite auto journalist. The e36 M3 and ZR1 Videos were awesome. Great job, please keep it up.

jason, thank you for this, your story telling is unparalleled.

As a kid in the 1960's with an Aurora HO scale race set my favorite car was a scale model Ford GT, it just looked fast and pretty cool with the ass end hanging out on the speed corners. Its one of those cars that refuses to look dated and that's pretty rare.

I love that license plate! Lol… “FUENZO” 👍😆

I’ll never forget one of these sitting new at my local dealer for over a year after it was delivered. It was listed under MSRP

Another amazing content! Thank you Jason for this!

LOVE these - Jason's stuff is so good - the knowledge shared and entertainment values (not to mention production quality!) is through the roof. Great work all around.

Cars that I would love to see in the future Revelations episodes (feel free to add more) Ferrari 288 GTO Honda NSX R Audi RS2 Fiat Panda Pajero Evolution BMW M1 Alfa GTV / GT Junior DeTomaso Pantera Volvo 850R Citroen SM / DS Honda Beat (Kei Cars History) VW Phaeton Vector W8 Lotus Carlton Maserati Shamal SLR Mclaren

I absolutely love this series and the driving clips at the end are absolutely awesome. I hope you all keep making revelations forever

Never been fortuned to have driven one, but it seems that they're awesome on that too. It did the final 5 of the 200th issue of EVO magazine called, "The Best Car we've ever driven". Another awesome episode Jason, Thank you!

Loved that car, Always wanted one amazing how the prices keep rising and rising

The GT is such a timeless car! Surely gonna skyrocket in value some time soon

Been waiting for an episode on this beauty forever ! Great work !!

Just saw the Story about Lamborghini Miura and now Ford GT(40) on your Channel. Without any doubt, the 2 most beautifull Automobiles ever created by mankind (with Miura in 1st place).Subscribed

I'm a Chevy guy forever, but the Ford GT and GT40 will forever live in my top 5 all time cars

Please do a video on the C6 Z06. Similar performance for less than half the price just a year later. I'd love to know more about how it was developed.

This has easily become my favorite show on cars

Stories like this are why I subscribe. More of this, please.

I’m not a Ford guy but I would own one of these! Now the Prices are so high it is now only a dream

The thing about that generation of Ford GT that really resonates with me, is that to this day, twenty years later, it still looks sharp and fresh and aggressive. This really speaks to the design of the original. When you look at the contemporary Ferrari or Lambo, they look dated. The 360 has that hallmark early 2000s round, bubbly styling. When you look at it, you think it looks like an early 2000s car. The GT's design, on the other hand, is timeless.

that detail about the 100 in the headlamps is dope.

Your videos are amazing. I truly appreciate the information and production value.

That sound! EV’s are great, but that sound stirs something in places we don’t talk about in public.

It was probably worth differentiating the mk1 from the mk3. The mk1 was essentially a race car for the road (in the most literal sense) with only 30 built in street-legal guise. The mk3 was intended to be a road car from the outset and capitalize on the success of the Mk2 (and, subsequently, Mk4). It wasn't quite as tame as the 1st or 2nd gen Ford GTs that would follow, but it was substantially quieter, softer, and more accommodating than the Mk1 road car.

I’ll never forget seeing an article about this when it first came out. I turned around and told my wife “we should get one of these, it will be worth a fortune someday”. She didn’t agree, and we missed out on an icon for $150,000 at the time. This is one of the coolest cars on the planet

Dude you awesome I love that you do these videos and very thankful for them I hope you will be around with videos like this for awhile I'm sooo jealous not only do you get to sit in look at in person but you get to drive and experience them grrrr you sir are one lucky sob thank you for the content keep it coming please 🙏

Cammisa really is in a League of his own(not the movie. But I can see him playing baseball in drag) nobody else comes close to the videos he makes.

The GN34 looks very much like the inspiration for the Ford Probe as well? (has to win the award for best worst car name) Great video!!! Love these history deep dives!

Whaoo, this is another level of production rarely found on youtube. Great great great.

The perfect number plate for the attitude of this car.

Best looking car ever built and i cant fit in it....dream car.

Nice coverage! Though I feel super guilty about the Mk II now, I will now look at the Mk IV with a lot more passion. Same might be said for the AC cobra, such a beauty, but looking at all the previous vehicles that looked like it was derived from and that it was more of a British adventure that ford paid for....welll

Honestly an artpiece of a video, loved and enjoyed every second of it!

Jason, well told story!!! Here's mine I had my cash and walked into Sunrise Ford in Fontana CA to buy the GT that they had sitting in the showroom. Dropped $25K on the sales manager desk just to show I was serious enough to warrant a test drive........ We all got excited and walked over car to make it happen.... The bad news, at 6'4", I didn't fit, not even close... Had the seat pushed back, laid back and my head was still imbedded into the roof... The engine wasn't even started.... I left broken hearted... The good news, a friend of mine bought the car. It spent most of its life in his garage or enclosed trailer. Sold it for more than he paid with only 1600 miles on it. He used those funds to buy a Gen 2 GT, it sits in his garage or enclosed trailer....

It is still one of the most beautiful cars ever built.

I've wanted one of these, since you could get them for sub $100k. That Gulf livery takes it to the next level!

This was brilliant! Keep them coming!!

Nice video, congratulations, keep giving us more to see!

I was always amazed by sounds of Mazda 787B and Ford GT. And always respected Ford Motors. Now I have long time to overthink some moments...

1) love the Hagerty guidelines! 2) Ford could still be making this GT and selling them. Imagine this with the Voodo or GT500 engine! This is the one to get! I don’t understand the draw of the Hoover v6 gen 2 GT.

Never Stop Making These Videos!

man your videos are always a pleasure to watch