Ford Rare Parts Auction Features Modern Racing Artifacts

Ford Racing (formerly known as Ford Performance) has enjoyed its fair share of motorsports success over the years, which is certainly worth celebrating if you’re a Blue Oval fan. In that same vein, many enthusiasts tend to gravitate toward memorabilia and collectibles from various forms of motorsport, which make for great keepsakes, not to mention decor for one’s garage or home. Thus, we imagine that plenty of folks will be pleased to see that Ford itself is currently auctioning off a variety of modern racing artifacts, too.

Formally known as the “Ford Rare Parts Collection,” these goods can be found here, which is also where one can bid on a variety of cool things. It includes goods like signed posters, race-used number panels and quarter panels, an actual racing suit, a visor, diecast, and even a signed windshield taken from Bob Tasca III‘s NHRA dragster. Bidding on all of these things is open now, and will remain that way until November 10^th, at which time the high bidders will be scoring some cool kit.

Previously, Ford Rare Parts sold off some rare and notable Mustang-exclusive items for fixed prices, which generated quite a lot of interest from pony car fans. This time, however, the same venue is being used for the very first time in an auction format, with the hopes that The Blue Oval can offload a few pieces of motorsports memorabilia in exchange for cash – and 100 percent of that money will be going to a great cause, too.

That cause is Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization. Ford has partnered with that organization for over 25 years now via the Ford Global Action Team for Breakthrough T1D (FGAT). Founded in 1998 by Edsel B. Ford II in honor of his son Albert, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for more than two decades, FGAT has become one of Breakthrough T1D’s largest and most impactful corporate fundraising groups. With more than 90 teams across 11 countries, FGAT has raised over $85 million in the fight to cure, prevent and treat type 1 diabetes.