Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: Horrible Photos, Great Deal…A Box-Top Fairmont For $800!
The recipe is simple: yank gutless wonder mill out of a featherweight box-top Fairmont, cram in as much turbocharged LS motor as you are willing to fit, add whatever safety equipment you deem is...
To Innocent To Die: This 1984 Ford Mustang Is Sitting In A Copart Lot As A Donation!
Copart is where I go to see dead vehicles. Pure and simple. For years I’ve associated the site with the mangled remains of what was useful transportation. And in my off time, I occasionally...
Money No Object: Mustang Wagon? Confused Fairmont? We Don’t Care! This Fox Mutt Is Awesome!
The beauty of Ford’s Fox platform is that you can mix-and-match whatever you want to make something truly unique. Unfortunately, it’s not often actually done. We’ve seen a couple of...
Rough Start: This 1995 Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe Is The Perfect Boosted Foundation!
Let’s look at some realities for a second: if you’re looking in the five grand range for a car, and it’s going to be your one and only for a while, you aren’t hunting down a...
Money No Object: You Don’t Have The Guts To Put This 1988 Ford Thunderbird SCCA Racer Onto The Streets, Do You?
The late 1980s Ford Thunderbirds are sorely underrated outside of NASCAR fans. Why is that? The roundy-round folks know why this car rules: 212.809 miles per hour at Talladega Speedway in 1987. Yes,...
The Redemption Find: This 1980 Ford Pinto Wagon, As It Should Be!
The Ford Pinto predates me by at least three years, so I simply have to take older folks’ word on just what the little rolling ball of dynamite from Ford truly meant when sold. Was it supposed...
Morning Symphony: The Sound Of Going Fast By Any Means Necessary
Sorry, Ford fans, but this bitchin’ bumpside is powered by a Rat…one very, very angry Rat, but a big block Chevy nonetheless. I can already hear the hate comments flowing, so let’s...
Howl, Baby, Howl: This Coyote-Powered Mercury Capri Is One Mean Little Ripper!
If you want a silky-smooth wave of torque that flows uninterrupted, get yourself an old-school Cadillac and enjoy having someone else drive for you. When it comes to our track cars, we want violence...
Shop Tease: This 2016 Mustang Might Be The Most Evil Hustler We’ve Met Yet
The message from KingSpeed Race and Repair was loud and clear: if we wanted to see something really cool, we were to head to a quiet little shop just outside of the northern edge of Bowling Green,...
Rough Start: Doubt It Sucks Nitro, But This 1987 Lincoln Mark VII Mad Max Clone Could Be The Duck’s Guts!
I understand the appeal of wanting to build your own V8 Interceptor. Cloning a movie car that you love is understandable, but locating a suitable Aussie Falcon to start with is like finding...
Pure Seventies: This 1977 Ford LTD II Needs A Monster Motor Stat!
The move from performance to luxury in the Seventies was an interesting way of glossing over the fact that every V8 produced in the decade had been seriously neutered by the EPA and that none of the...
Epic Fail: This Capri’s Hood Calls It A Day In The Middle Of A Run!
The ultimate bad day scenario for anyone, anywhere, is when the hood flies up at speed, completely blocking the forward view. Been there, done that, and I hope I never see that scene again so shall I...
They Don’t Come Cleaner: This 1979 Ford F-250 Is A Truck Fan’s Dream Rig!
I’m sure most of you remember a time when a truck was popular based upon it’s work merits and not how many cows were sacrificed to line the interior surfaces. I certainly do, and after a...
