How Could Anyone Say Goodbye to This Amazing Porsche GT3?
Circumstances of the heart and wallet push Porsche fan to sell Gelbgrun Porsche GT3. But not before one last drive on the Autobahn.
One day, you find yourself buying a car you’ve always wanted. You build it the way you want it (you might even get to see it built in the factory). You take delivery of your heart’s desire, send it through the bendy backroads, turn a few laps at your local track, and show it off at your local car meet. And yet, you soon find the car’s not for you, that it doesn’t speak to your heart the same way as other cars do. What do you do?
If you’re Tim Burton, otherwise known as YouTuber Shmee, you part ways with your car to make room for something new that does touch your soul like no other. Such is the case with his Porsche GT3.
Burton took delivery of this paint-to-sample Gelbgrun GT3 in March 2018, though he ordered the car a year prior, in June 2017. He took his audience along through the ordering and build process, and picked his car up from the dealership after a helicopter dropped him off. However, he’s also said the car doesn’t pull at his heart as much as the other cars in his fleet, especially the currently camo’d Mercedes-AMG GT R that he compared with the GT3 in a video from April 2018.
After over 6,200 miles on the odometer, Burton decided it was time to move on from the GT3 due to financial reasons. Aside from the car not fitting him, he has a Ford GT coming his way, and needs to make room in his bank account to finance his new ride (though he is losing money on the sale of the GT3, so he’s not exactly flipping one supercar for another).
As he explains in the follow-up video, he originally expected his GT to arrive near the end of 2019, but Ford moved up the delivery time to the end of 2018. He also needed to pay half of the 550,000 British pounds ($721,000) up front to take delivery. Thus, he needed to find a car to let go in order to take delivery of the GT.
But not before a final drive on the Autobahn. Burton says there are a few things he’ll miss about the GT3, such as the magnificent sound its 3.8-liter flat-six makes at full tilt, the ability to hit the revs when the PDK is switched to manual shifting, and its track capability. On the bright side, though, the GT3 has experienced so much in so little time compared to other GT3s in three years. Why keep something as wonderful as this green GT3 hidden away, after all?
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