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Category Archive: FORD, Videos

How Good Can A $1,000 Craigslist Mustang Really Be? The Smoking Tire Takes On This Well-Used SN-95!

The Rough Start posts we do, where I go digging through Craigslist while sticking to a five thousand dollar overall budget, is a reasonable approach to low-buck hot-rodding at it’s finest....

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Battle Of The Big Boys: Two Impalas Face Off – Twin Turbocharged Or Blown?

Two 1960s Chevrolet Impalas, facing off against each other at San Antonio Raceway. In one lane, painted bright red, with two sewer-pipe sized turbochargers feeding a 515ci Brodix mill a potential 45...

Really Rough Start: You Can Walk Away With The Cadillac Limo From The LeMons Rally…If You Really Want To.

Here’s the definitive proof that I do not go out of my way to save every last vehicle: If you are willing to plunk down the $500 that is being asked for the 1986 Cadillac limo that became...

Live, Die, Live Again: The “A-Bom” Chrysler SRT-8 Is Getting Rebuilt After It Got Totaled Out!

This past March, the “A-bom”, the blacked-out Chrysler SRT-8 with the blower sticking through the hood from Arizona, got knocked out of commission. A driver who hadn’t slept in over...

Rough Start: Is This Rear-Drive Converted, V8 Swapped Plymouth Turismo Worth The Risk?

In 1985, two Plymouth Turismos were pulled from the production line, stuffed with the surprisingly hot 2.2L turbocharged four, and re-christened as Plymouth Barracudas. The proposal to give Plymouth...

Money No Object: The Mid-Engined 1978 Oldsmobile 442 Is Up For Auction!

What can you say about a car that has been covered front, back, and sideways? This 1978 Oldsmobile 442 has been around the block since it made the October 1978 cover of Hot Rod Magazine. You...

Factory Freak: Take A Closer Look At The Steam-Powered 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle!

In the quest for cleaner, safer energy, experiments have to be undertaken to provide validation to the theory someone has presented. Take turbine energy, for example: works great as a propulsion...

Rough Start: This 1978 Chevy Caprice Is A Great High-Schooler’s Car. Just Don’t Break That Rear Glass!

A while back I read a story on how putting a new driver into an older vehicle was somehow equivalent to child abuse. The line of thinking went something like this: after seeing a couple of old vs....

BangShift Test Drive: 2017 Ram 3500 Laramie Mega Cab 4×4 – Living Large In Every Way Possible

Every generation gets their status-symbol vehicle. Be it the ultimate chrome barge from the 1950s, great Lincoln vs. Cadillac cars from the 1960s and 1970s, 1980s power sedans from BMW and Mercedes,...

Money No Object: The One Thunderbird That Lohnes Would Happily Drive?

Ford Thunderbirds are a kind of polarizing topic around here. Lohnes only likes the two-seaters and wishes the rest were shredded into a fine metallic mist. I’m actually not that big of a fan...

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Rough Start: A Chevelle May Be Pricey, But This 1972 Chevrolet El Camino Is Just Within The Budget!

I want a Chevelle. You may want a Chevelle. My wife wants a Chevelle. Everybody I know wants a Chevrolet Chevelle. There’s just one problem: there were only so many produced, only so many...

Can A Clapped-Out Malibu Run Nines For Under $2,000? This Guy Is Trying!

We love a good budget build around here. Mainly because we all are working underneath a budget. What can we say…we aren’t farmers, we can’t grow cash trees. But you can have fun for...

Picture-Perfect: This 1971 Chevrolet K20 Is As Sharp As They Come!

Yesterday, Lohnes showed you a 1980 Chevrolet 3+3 dually that is jaw-droppingly sweet. 454, crew cab, ready to roll down the road as long as your credit card can pay the fuel bill. I can’t pick...

Slow And Low: Check Out This Backyard-Built 1963 Corvair Lowrider!

Lowriders haunt me. Just when I think I’m past the idea of a slammed cruiser with adjustable suspension, one comes along that makes me take another look at the scene. Any other day, I’d...

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