thank you so much for having me and thank you to the barrett-jackson family particularly steve
and darlene ramsey the johns hopkins chemical cancer center is one of the country's great
cancer research and clinical career organizations we often hear from our
patients and families that the scariest three words that they hear are you have cancer
however at hopkins we are singularly focused on the next three words and those next three words
are there is hope so with this car today a true golden ticket help us fuel innovation accelerate
discovery for pancreas cancer research at johns hopkins and thank you so much for having us here
give a round of applause folks please tell you something about the car real quick all of you
folks out there know what the 2020 shelbys were all about incredible cars absolutely the best you
could get was the carbon fiber track pack not all dieters got an acquisition therefore they
became known as the golden ticket cars this is one of those steve has connected with the ford folks
he was the proud recipient of this car and because this situation you want to give something that was
very personal and close to him and his wife this is it it's the real deal it's like brand new bid
from your heart not from your wallet it's going from before a great cause from one of our extended
barrett-jackson family members i don't know where steve and his if his wife's here but god bless him
let's raise some money folks let's get her joseph all right here we go all right away we go with the
2020 ford shelby gt500 remember every penny will benefit cancer research to fight pancreatic cancer
now even without the golden ticket but this one has all the carbon fiber goodies the
track pack these are really special cars 760 horsepower dual clutch transmission
out of a mustang this is probably the top of the mountain when it comes to pony cars
ever now just as the original gt50d had a big brother the gt500 same thing here now
they both share the 5.2 v8 but this one has the supercharger which is why it's over 600 horse
one criticism was you couldn't get one of these with a manual transmission like
a gt350 but with 760 horsepower i don't know if you would i tried one of these all the time
and the dual clutch is so good on these they've actually programmed it to shift
before you completely touch the paddle so it's the quickest shifting dual clutch i have ever felt
like today with a corvette you can't buy a manual transmission because the computer is so much
faster i remember several years ago with ferraris they were doing tests and you simply couldn't keep
up and that's the case with this car the carbon fiber track pack of course includes carbon fiber
wing that's not a day day two boy razor add-on that's factory stuff and that is absolutely
wind tunnel verified all the stuff down here the gating down below the strakes the place where the
air comes in goes out that's all validated to increase downforce nothing there for look sony
this is all about function now the msrp on these starts at about 80 thousand dollars but with
all the options like this you can get close to 100 000 obviously we are well above that for a great
cause but they also do sell on their own for well above msrp and as they point out the thing that
happens here with these charity cards is the check is written directly to the charity there is no
commission taken out every single penny currently bit at 170 000 now continuing to climb is going to
help pancreatic cancer research at the kimmel's cancer center with john hopkins university
and i can tell you pancreatic cancer a very difficult cancer to battle those who've been
affected by it know it so it's great to see good money being raised we're closing in on 200 000
185 000 all of it going to help cancer research at john hopkins university for a 2020 ford shelby
gt500 we called it the golden ticket because it's so rare another very exciting charity oxen here
at barrett-jackson i have to say to you michael i wasn't sure that this was going to take place
like this just before we were about to sell the car i saw craig out here and he said it's going
to rain we can't be out here and i said craig it's a charity auction the sun always shines on
barrett-jackson charity options and craig the sky broke there we go but in all seriousness the the
work that barrow jackson doing the money that they have raised over 50 years now is extraordinary
how does it make you feel this is your first time it is my first auction it's incredible
the barrett jackson family has been remarkable to work with steve and darlene ramsey came to us with
this idea and then i was had didn't know what to expect the entire time the barrett-jackson
family unbelievable and to be here today to support pancreas cancer patients in this way
a remarkable day for hopkins for pancreas cancer and and for our new friends of bear jackson and i
believe this is the first donation you've taken from for for your part of the business it is
remarkable that this community is standing up to make a difference at johns hopkins and
we're really grateful that barrett-jackson is leading that charge for us well you're
very welcome cancer is one of our core things we raise money for i do a lot of stuff with t-gen
and we have a research center at t-gen for colon cancer so we've raised a lot of money for that
cancer touches everybody so you guys are on the forefront and we're proud to help well and maybe
craig a couple of words on behalf of the buyer who uh isn't able to make it um well uh he was up in
the skybox i think he's got his eyes on something else but thank you very much hopefully dave hirsch
will come down and come see his car in a little bit excellent we'll take it back up to the block
you