A traditional Ford idea automotive was destroyed in a hearth on Sunday evening in Monterey, California following the Pebble Seashore Concours d’Magnificence. The Ford Probe I idea automotive from 1979, penned by Ghia, met a fiery finish behind an enclosed automotive trailer.
The Scott Grundfor Firm, a California-based restoration store that owned the idea, printed a set of photographs to Instagram on Monday exhibiting the injury. The whole lot apart from the automotive’s fundamental body has been torched.
An announcement from the corporate launched alongside the photographs displays the store’s immeasurable loss.
“It’s with utter unhappiness and a heavy coronary heart that we have now misplaced our 1979 Ford Ghia Probe I Prototype in an accident on the freeway late within the day on Sunday after exhibiting the automotive on the Pebble Seashore Concours d’Magnificence,” the assertion reads. “We’re a family-oriented firm, and it seems like we have now misplaced a member of our household at the moment.”
Tiktok person Exoticsimage shared a video of automotive trailer on fireplace.
No one was damage within the incident, although it appears the automotive is not going to be rebuilt, going by the store’s assertion.
“We’re perpetually fortunate to be part of this automotive’s historical past, nonetheless tragic this occasion was, and we’ll carry what stays of the automotive residence to Arroyo Grande so the automotive can stay subsequent to the Ghia/Ford bodied prototypes in our assortment,” the Instagram caption reads.
The Ford Probe I by Ghia is one in every of a number of Probe ideas constructed from 1979 by 1985, designed to showcase superior aerodynamic designs with an emphasis on gas effectivity. The Probe I wasn’t only a mock-up both. It used a modified Fox platform that was barely longer versus the then-new 1979 Mustang. A turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine was beneath the hood, driving the rear wheels. Inside, the Probe I idea had a full inside littered gloriously digital Eighties tech.
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Ford would ultimately construct 5 Probe ideas with Ghia styling, pointing the way in which to a extra aero-focused future that finally influenced the Ford Taurus and the Probe manufacturing automotive—a automobile initially meant to be the brand new Mustang. All of it started with the primary idea in 1979, and now the automotive is gone for good.
