AUTOMOTIVE - AUTOS: Shelby GT500 Winner Named

AUTOS: Shelby GT500 Winner Named

A SPEED fan from nearby Tucson, Arizona, has his name picked at random to win the top Hagerty Fantasy Bid Prize.

The winner of the biggest sweepstakes prize ever in Hagerty Fantasy Bid history ? a one-of-a-kind Ford Racing Champions Shelby GT500 Special Edition Mustang ? was announced today after the last of the week?s 28 Fantasy Bid cars went over the block at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction.

The lucky winner is Chris Cherryholmes of Tucson, Arizona, which is about 100 miles from the Scottsdale auction site, whose user name in the Fantasy Bidding was ?Papcholmes.?

The ecstatic Cherryholmes, who calls himself a huge SPEED fan and regular Fantasy Bidder, had to call his wife to the phone when he received the call from SPEED to make sure nobody was playing a trick on him.

The sweepstakes was open to every participant in the Hagerty Fantasy Bid game during SPEED?s nearly 40 hours of live broadcasting of the Scottsdale event with the name chosen at random. A record 1,591,910 bids were received in the game, compared with about 699,000 during last year?s Scottsdale auction.

The 2011 GT500 Special Edition is described as a ?one-of-one? high-performance version with a Ford Racing Supercharger boosting the 5.4-liter V8 engine to 750 horsepower, and a six-speed manual transmission. Collaborating on the build were 2011 Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne and 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and an autographed plaque signifies their involvement.

Bob Golfen, Automotive Editor for SPEED.com, is a veteran auto writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, with a passion for collector cars, car culture and the automotive lifestyle. SPEED.com fans can email Bob Golfen at

Source: http://automotive.speedtv.com/article/autos-shelby-gt500-winner-named/

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