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AUTOS: Hagerty Fantasy Bid Is Back
One lucky Hagerty Fantasy Bid player will win this 800+ horsepower custom 2013 Shelby GT500…
One Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game player will be chosen at random to win this 800-horsepower, custom black-on-black 2013 Shelby GT500. (Photo: Tom Jensen)
Game On.
The Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game on SPEED starts today, with 28 fantasy bid cars scheduled to go across the auction block between today and Sunday. And on Sunday, one lucky game player will be chosen at random to win an utterly incredible, 800-horsepower, custom black-on-black 2013 Shelby GT500, specially modified by the automotive design firm Ice Nine Group.
Last year, Chris Cherryholmes of Tucson, Ariz., was selected from among 1,591,940 Hagerty Fantasy Bid entrants as the winner of a custom 2012 Shelby GT500. Read about his high-powered experience at: 2012 Fantasy Bid Winner.
This year’s car is even more over-the-top, according to Ice Nine Group owner Keith Strong, as no stone was left unturned in building this car.
“The whole idea of it was to give it that very sinister, very kind-of angry look to it,” said Strong. “Last year’s car was really cool, bright red. We wanted to do something a little bit different for this year’s winner, something that displays that power and is really angry-looking.”
And there’s no mistaking the Hagerty connection on this car, either.
“This one, we needed to something that was 1 of 1, something that was very special for Hagerty and for SPEED and for Barrett-Jackson,” said Strong. “We wanted to make sure that whoever sees the car, years down the road, knows exactly what this is and doesn’t mistake it for another black GT500.”
To that end, there are plenty of custom touches, including a gas cap with the Hagerty name laser-etched into it, and a variety of design touches inside and out on the black-on-black Shelby make it truly memorable to look at.
And the 800+ horsepower make it truly remarkable to drive.
“If the Mayans were right and Armageddon was going to happen, it would sound just like this car,” says Strong of the sinister jet-black creation, which his team built in just two weeks. “The power and the sound are amazing.”
• • •
To enter the Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game and gain eligibility to win the Shelby GT500, log onto http://www.speedfantasybid.com/ to create an entry. Contestants can also enter via mobile device by sending an SMS text message to ‘773333’ (SPEED 3) with a fantasy bid during applicable bidding times. To place a bid, enter the amount of your bid in dollars without punctuation. The winner is determined as follows: the first eligible entrant whose fantasy bid is the same as or comes closest to the final ‘gaveled’ sales price without going over on any of the selected vehicles. Winners are awarded points to determine each daily prize-winner.
For those who want an additional challenge, contestants can invite their friends to play among themselves with the all-new league-play function.
Players amassing the most points over the four days of Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game play will be declared the Grand Prize winner, and receive a 60-inch Samsung 3D LED HD Smart Television. The overall runner-up wins a Microsoft Surface 32 GB tablet while the third-place player receives a 160-gigabyte Sony PS3 Playstation. Four $500 fuel cards are also being awarded for accumulating the most points per day, and a 32-gigabyte Apple iPad mini will be awarded to each of the 28 per-car winners.
On Sunday, the winner of Shelby GT500 will be chosen at random from all the Hagerty Fantasy Bid players.
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
The Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game on SPEED starts today, with 28 fantasy bid cars scheduled to go across the auction block between today and Sunday. And on Sunday, one lucky game player will be chosen at random to win an utterly incredible, 800-horsepower, custom black-on-black 2013 Shelby GT500, specially modified by the automotive design firm Ice Nine Group.
Last year, Chris Cherryholmes of Tucson, Ariz., was selected from among 1,591,940 Hagerty Fantasy Bid entrants as the winner of a custom 2012 Shelby GT500. Read about his high-powered experience at: 2012 Fantasy Bid Winner.
This year’s car is even more over-the-top, according to Ice Nine Group owner Keith Strong, as no stone was left unturned in building this car.
“The whole idea of it was to give it that very sinister, very kind-of angry look to it,” said Strong. “Last year’s car was really cool, bright red. We wanted to do something a little bit different for this year’s winner, something that displays that power and is really angry-looking.”
And there’s no mistaking the Hagerty connection on this car, either.
“This one, we needed to something that was 1 of 1, something that was very special for Hagerty and for SPEED and for Barrett-Jackson,” said Strong. “We wanted to make sure that whoever sees the car, years down the road, knows exactly what this is and doesn’t mistake it for another black GT500.”
To that end, there are plenty of custom touches, including a gas cap with the Hagerty name laser-etched into it, and a variety of design touches inside and out on the black-on-black Shelby make it truly memorable to look at.
And the 800+ horsepower make it truly remarkable to drive.
“If the Mayans were right and Armageddon was going to happen, it would sound just like this car,” says Strong of the sinister jet-black creation, which his team built in just two weeks. “The power and the sound are amazing.”
• • •
To enter the Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game and gain eligibility to win the Shelby GT500, log onto http://www.speedfantasybid.com/ to create an entry. Contestants can also enter via mobile device by sending an SMS text message to ‘773333’ (SPEED 3) with a fantasy bid during applicable bidding times. To place a bid, enter the amount of your bid in dollars without punctuation. The winner is determined as follows: the first eligible entrant whose fantasy bid is the same as or comes closest to the final ‘gaveled’ sales price without going over on any of the selected vehicles. Winners are awarded points to determine each daily prize-winner.
For those who want an additional challenge, contestants can invite their friends to play among themselves with the all-new league-play function.
Players amassing the most points over the four days of Hagerty Fantasy Bid Game play will be declared the Grand Prize winner, and receive a 60-inch Samsung 3D LED HD Smart Television. The overall runner-up wins a Microsoft Surface 32 GB tablet while the third-place player receives a 160-gigabyte Sony PS3 Playstation. Four $500 fuel cards are also being awarded for accumulating the most points per day, and a 32-gigabyte Apple iPad mini will be awarded to each of the 28 per-car winners.
On Sunday, the winner of Shelby GT500 will be chosen at random from all the Hagerty Fantasy Bid players.
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100.
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