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Category Archive: eBay Find, FORD

The Ace Of Base: This Rare 1970½ Ford Falcon Is The Ultimate Musclecar – A Stripper Midsize With The Monster Engine!

The plan for any good muscle car, according to everything I was brought up to believe from youth, was simple: take one midsize two-door car built between 1964 and 1972. Order the most gutted stripper...

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Unhinged: A Little Boy’s 1970 Mach 1 Is Destroyed Because Someone Is Garbage.

Here’s your language warning: I’m f***ing pissed off as I type this. What you are looking at is the charred remains of a 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 that was the best thing in the world to...

Classic YouTube: The Review Of The 1983 Mercury Capri RS, aka The Hunchback Mustang

Camaro and Firebird. Challenger and Barracuda. Javelin and AMX. Pony cars seemed to work best as pairs, it seemed. General Motors and Chrysler would pick a body and share it between two marques,...

Weird For The Sake Of Being Weird: The Smoking Tire Checks Out A Merkur XR4Ti

Ford’s decision to bring the Merkur brand to life in the 1980s was actually a very sound choice. Buyers were running away from traditional American brands and generally, were going towards...

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Where Are The Blown Late-Model Cars? Check Out This Supercharged Mustang!

Few engine mods have the stop-and-stare impact of a blower and scoop through the hood. Between the howl of the blower and the promise of mechanical violence through sheer horsepower,...

Certified For Street Use: This Ford Wagon Aims High At The Coffeyville Street Drags!

We were live at the Coffeyville Street Drags recently, and got to see the cool action that the folks from Urban Hillbilly Videos had known about for some time. Ok, let’s be accurate: Chad was...

Rough Start: Another Hot-Rodded 1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC, Complete With A Manual Swap!

Lincoln has been busy re-inventing themselves as an ultra-luxury, old school American auto company that builds cars you’d rather ride in than drive. Compared to where they were a year or two...

Rough Start: Surely, There’s An Explanation As To Why This 1980 Mercury Monarch Makes A Good Candidate…

Lohnes hates DeLoreans and Thunderbirds with more than two seats, Chad gets mild allergies when he’s near anything non-GM, and I passionately loathe Ford Granadas, Mercury Monarchs and Lincoln...

Question Of The Day: What Is Going Through The Driver’s Mind, Right Now?

Between the last possible second where everything is still under control and good, and the moment where impacts are made and the chocolate has hit the fan, there is time. It’s often said that...

Classic YouTube: Cutting Some Donuts In An All-Wheel-Drive Ford Probe

The story of how the Ford Probe existed at all is automotive legend: Ford had intended to kill off the Fox platform Mustang in favor of a Mazda-engineered, front-wheel-drive sport coupe by the...

Rough Start: A Classic With Enough Wrong To Anger Plenty, This Mercedes Diesel-Powered Ford Falcon Could Be The Perfect Daily!

Daily-driver practicality and a body from 1967 don’t have to be mutually exclusive, like a lot of people tend to believe. Tuned up properly, the stock setup from back in the day is perfectly...

Morning Symphony: Flat-Footing A Ford GT40 At An LSR Race!

We all have that one dream situation: before you is an open stretch of road. No cops, nowhere for one to hide, you have no budget limitations, and someone else is footing the bill for the fuel...

Rough Start: This 1986 Thunderbird Comes In At Under A Grand Ready To Roll – The Possibilities Are There!

“Aero Birds” are seriously under-appreciated. Members of Ford’s Fox platform, but slightly stretched for bigger folk who enjoy legroom, the Thunderbird was supposed to be the classy...

Evil Little Pill: This Ford Fiesta ST Is Kicking Everybody’s Backside At A Half-Mile Run!

Say it with me: The Ford Fiesta ST is NOT a sleeper. It’s not a particularly fast car, true. It’s more meant to be a neat little daily, a runaround that doesn’t suck, an eco-car...