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Category Archive: ENGINES, FORD, MOPAR, Videos

Take Your Sides, It’s The Battle Of The 408 Cubic Inch Small Block Strokers! Ford Versus Mopar!

There’s nothing quite like a head-to-head comparison between two manufacturers to stir up the masses, is there? The fastest way to get sure-fire results in the comments section of a video that...

Old-School Bitchin’! This 8-Second Ford Coupe Is The Runner In The Night They Sang About!

This is the original recipe, right here: take one Ford coupe, stuff as much motor as you can in between the radiator and the firewall, figure out how to keep everything else together, and make sure...

You Know What Grandpa Needs? That’s Right…Dual Exhaust For The Grand Marquis!

It’s difficult to look at your grandparents and see them as anything other than the kind, polite, old couple that spoil you senseless, isn’t it? I never saw my grandpa Ken as anything...

MORE: FORD, Videos

Rough Start: A Super-Clean 1982 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 That Needs A Second Lease On Life!

Matt Graves’ article about potential first car fodder in today’s market was spot-on. Face facts, folks: twenty years ago was 1996, and the cars you would rather see young guns getting...

Random Car Review: The 1979 Ford Mustang Daytona

Automakers, on occasion, are known to preview an upcoming model with a semi-prototype teaser. Usually, 90% or so of the vehicle is ready to go, but there’s just enough show car or prototype...

MORE: eBay Find, FORD

Jay Leno Checks Out Two Hertz Shelby GT350Hs, One New, One Old. We Don’t Know Which One We’d Take First…

It was the best worst idea anybody ever had. Take about a thousand Shelby Mustangs…you know, one of those really hopped-up ones some Texas chicken farmer whipped up and set loose on racetracks...

MORE: FORD, Videos

Question Of The Day: What Late Model Car Do You Think Will Make The Next Great Hot Rod?

  Until I found this 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis on eBay, I wouldn’t have even bothered with this question. After all, late-model cars (for the sake of this discussion, anything newer than...

What Would You Use This 1989 Ford C8000 To Run Over? This Thing’s Unreal!

If you’re going to go big, actually go big. Don’t just bolt on large tires to a pickup truck, go get a medium-duty and proudly prove to everyone around that you aren’t screwing...

This Ford Sierra Cosworth Is One Angry Little Bastard! How Does Four Cylinders Sound So Threatening? Anti-Lag!

It’s not a well-known thing for American Ford fans, but in the UK, if you say “Ford” and “Cosworth” in the same sentence, you’ll see the same glazed-eye expression...

The Ultimate Roadtrip Vehicle? Check Out This Ford E-Series Dually That Is Packing A Powerstroke And A Quigley 4WD System!

I’ve been semi-joking around about a BangShift Command Vehicle, the kind of ride that we could take from race to race in comfort, that could operate all of our systems in place and still be...

Pro Street Rescue: This 1993 Ford Probe Has Only Been Driven 500 Miles Since It Was Built!

I love it when someone does a full-tilt Pro Street build on a front-wheel-drive 1980s or 1990s car. I consider it justice for seeing these cars as rear-drive race cars in competition, but as a...

eBay Find: A 1988 Ford Falcon XF Ute That Is A Long, Long Ways Away From Home!

Ever since the day I saw the 1975 Ford Fairmont that a pilot I worked with pull into the hangar parking lot, I’ve dreamed of bringing in something Australian to drive. I knew it was...

This 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 Sedan Is A Great Take On A Dirty Moonshine Car! Check This Thing Out!

It’s visually rough, partially cooked, plenty rusty and it is freaking awesome. I don’t care that it’s a four-door, that most of the car is “young secretary” blue, or...

MORE: FORD, Videos

Think Six-Cylinder Mustangs Are Worthless? This Pressurized, Barra Six-Powered Ford Mustang Might Change Your Mind!

It’s the golden rule of Mustang ownership: if it has a six-cylinder under the hood, just keep on walking, that’s not the one you want. Doesn’t really matter the year, doesn’t...