Win a 435-Mile Tungsten Grey 2006 Ford GT — or $400,000 Cash

The car: a 435-mile time capsule

The 2005-06 Ford GT needs no introduction — an aluminum-spaceframe tribute to the GT40 with a 5.4-liter DOHC V8 force-fed by a Lysholm screw supercharger to a factory-rated 550 hp, all of it through a Ricardo six-speed transaxle. What separates this one is preservation: a single owner and 435 miles from new, wearing Tungsten Grey — a 2006-only color the museum pegs at 541 cars — over Ebony leather. The equipment list reads like the full order sheet: painted silver stripes, forged BBS wheels, the McIntosh stereo, and (per coverage of the listing) red calipers, which would make this the coveted four-option spec. Sparco-built carbon-fiber seats and the center-exit exhaust complete a piece of mid-2000s supercar theater that has aged better than nearly anything from the era.

Why it matters

Standard-car GT money keeps climbing: auction medians moved from about $511k in 2024 to $612k in 2025, and a GT brought $605,000 at Mecum Indy this May. Sub-500-mile examples get bought as objects, not drivers, and they rarely surface outside private sales. There's also a story here — the GT is the car that brought Ford's mid-engine Le Mans legend back to the road, and proceeds support the Shelby American Collection, the Boulder 501(c)(3) museum keeping Cobra and Shelby American racing history intact. If the garage-queen life isn't for you, the $400,000 cash election is real money, though notably below what the car would likely fetch at auction — that gap is the price of liquidity.

The fine print worth knowing

This runs on TapKat, the nonprofit sweepstakes platform, with donation tiers starting at $25 (entry counts scale steeply with tier, and promo codes add bonus entries). Legally it's a sweepstakes, not a raffle: the rules provide a free mail-in route via an online form that generates a QR-coded mailer, good for entries without any donation. Entries close July 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm MST, with the GT drawn August 1 at the museum; enter during June and you're automatically in the July 1 flash drawing for a 1965 Mustang fastback. Plan for taxes — on a half-million-dollar GT the bill can easily run six figures. The reported $25,000 kicker for taking the car helps; the cash option exists for everyone else.