Every year, Ford rolls out a special edition one-piece Mustang for the very purpose of auctioning it off at the EAA AirVenture in July for the benefit of the EAA Young Eagles program. These babies - as with all one-off edition cars - are exceedingly rare for the very simple reason that there’s only one of them being made.
This year, the one-off, aviation-themed Mustang GT was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of naval aviation. It comes with a specific blue-and-yellow color scheme that takes itself from the colors of the ’Blue Angels’ fighter group with a yellow "Blue Angels" script and crest on the doors. Likewise, the crest can also be found on the interior of the car, where they are stitched into the leather Recaro seats.
On top of that, Ford also upgraded the Mustang’s powertrain, improving the output of the car’s 5.0-liter V8 engine from 412 horsepower to 500 horsepower. There’s also a Ford Racing handling package, a new performance exhaust, and race-track capable brakes.
Last year, Ford was able to auction off the Mustang SR-71 "Blackbird" for $375,000. Judging by the enthusiastic turn out for these events, we wouldn’t be surprised if the Mustang GT "Blue Angels" Edition hits that mark again, maybe even exceeding it.
If you’re interested in bidding for this one-off bad boy, you need to pre-qualify by calling Matt Miller at the EAA Development Office at 1-800-236-1025 before July 25, 2011.
In the meantime, hit the jump to check out a short preview of the one-off Mustang.
Ford Mustang "Blue Angels" Edition originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 29 June 2011 13:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/ford/2012-ford-mustang-blue-angels-edition-ar111951.html
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