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Category Archive: FORD, Videos

Archaeological Dig: Dragging A 1966 Shelby GT350H From It’s 40-Year Rest…In Ohio.

Excepting half a year in Pennsylvania when I was a very young child and a few scattered years in southern Illinois between birth and early grade school, most of my life has been spent well west of...

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Built Ford Tough: This 1974 Ford Galaxie Has Seen Tornados and A Lot Of Downtime!

If there is one weather phenomenon that scares me more than anything else, it’s a tornado. You have time to run from a hurricane. You can prepare for a blizzard or flood conditions. What the...

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Best of 2019: This 1976 Ford Hauler Is Everything In One: Ramp Truck And Hotel Room!

Go to a race pretty much anywhere, any time and you’ll see them. Diesel trucks hauling flatbed trailers. Toterhomes with stacker trailers. It’s kind of nuts what many deem necessary for a...

Best of 2019: Brazil’s Angriest Ford Maverick At The Strip

The Ford Maverick and it’s twin, the Mercury Comet, did well enough in the United States market. They were decently sized, fit the small-car segment well without being too tiny, and with the...

Best of 2019: Check Out This EcoBoost-Swapped Fox Mustang!

Even though there will always be the V8-or-die group in the world of Mustangs, a four-banger with a turbo from Ford isn’t something to sneeze at. Ford seriously gave turbocharged 2.3s a shot...

Best of 2019: FoxKart – How An Ohio-Rotted 1986 Mustang Convertible Got A Second Lease On Life!

The first words that came out of my mouth once I exited the car were as straightforward as it gets: “How the hell do you have a car like this in a neighborhood that has to have the HOA from...

Best of 2019: This 1981 Mercury Cougar Keeps The Sleeper Vibe Going!

A quick question for you, readers: which was worse, the Ford LTD II-based Cougar or the square-Fox version that was built from 1980-82? If you are asking me, I’m going to go with the Fox...

Best of 2019: The Ford SVT Thunderbird Proposals – When Ford Decided Give The ‘Bird The Bird

In the mid-1990s, a horsepower war was firing off that consumers couldn’t quite access. Yes, there was the usual Mustang vs. Camaro/Firebird deal that was heating up, but those cars were still...

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Unveiled: 2020 Ford Mustang Mach-E – You Be The Judge, Is This The Future?

For the first time in the Ford Mustang’s 55-year history, Ford has decided to give the Mustang not only a new model, or a new design, but an entirely new class of vehicle, powered by an...

SEMA 2019 Unveiled: Shelby American Shows Off “Dragon Snake” GT500 and “Super Snake” F-150 Concepts

If you get confused between the Shelby-badged Fords that already exist and the ones you are seeing here, don’t be. Look at it like this: Ford has the right to use the Shelby...

Unveiled: Ford Bronco R Baja 1000 Prototype – And It’s Going To Baja Later This Month!

Well, hello there. We’ve known for a while that Ford was planning a return of the Bronco nameplate on a boxy four-wheel-drive style vehicle, but we weren’t expecting to see much about it...

Unveiled: 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – 760 Horsepower, Can Hit Tens In The Quarter

I can imagine a scene in an office somewhere near Detroit: a photo is thumb-tacked to the face of a dartboard. The image: a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. 707 horsepower of “America, F-...

Random Car Review: The Ford GT-70 – Where Do You Go After LeMans? Rallying!…Or Not.

(Photos: via XCAR) By 1970, Ford has quite successfully shown Ferrari two bold and brazen middle fingers, to the delight of Henry Ford II, and had won LeMans four times over. Spool in successful...

Historical Footage: When The Peanuts Gang Hawked The Ford Falcon!

For fifty years and the majority of his life, Charles Schulz brought Charlie Brown and his pals to America via comic strips in newspapers. He is considered to be the example to which many comic...