Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: Capitalizing On Someone Else’s Bad Day – What Would You Do With A $1,000 Fox Body Mustang?
Fox-body Mustangs are at an interesting point right now: they are certainly classics, excellent hot-rod fodder, and are finally starting to surge up in value, yet are still very approachable in...
Bench Racing: How Would You Prepare This 5-speed 1987 Mercury Cougar?
If there is one thing I know that BangShifters are good for, it’s spending other people’s money when it comes to a project car build. And I’m amazed that we don’t exploit that...
It Came From Craigslist: The Ford Ute We Needed, Not The One We Deserve!
The basic plan for the two major American ute designs was to take the station wagon body, give it the coupe doors and turn the rest of the area into a bed. It’s a solid plan, it’s a cheap...
This Nitrous-Equipped Mustang Went Up In Flames At TX2K16!
It makes you sick to see this happen to a fellow racer, but one of the best ways to bring the realities of the dangers of racing is to see, without a doubt, just how quickly it all can go wrong. This...
Rough Start: What Happens When You Combine A Ford Thunderbird And A Chevrolet Camaro?
The second I saw this 1994 Ford Thunderbird, I couldn’t wait to see the reactions from you guys. Seriously…we all have heard Lohnes’ take on how much he seriously enjoys four-seat...
This Pro Street Ford Maverick Is Everything A Car Needs…It’s Black, Nasty And Stout!
I’m just a sucker for a fast black Ford. Can’t explain it any other way than that. It all started with a spray-bombed 1973 Mercury Comet GT and ever since then, I equate a flat-black Ford...
Work Truck Greatness! This 1973 Ford F350 Is The Parts Hauler Dream!
Brutal, basic and useful…that’s how I like my trucks. Give me a vinyl bench seat that isn’t going to kill my spine, an engine that has mountains of torque, a manual trans, and a...
Rough Start: Going Dirt Cheap With A 5.0-Powered 1991 Ford Thunderbird!
Lohnes hates them, but I love ’em. The MN-12 era Ford Thunderbirds and Mercury Cougars are dirt-cheap platforms that have quite a bit going for them: they are roomier than a comparable Mustang,...
Rough Start: Begin Your Own Anti-LS Campaign With This 460-powered Ford Fairmont Wagon!
So you are sick and tired of the “Ford Tough With Chevy Stuff” stickers? Hate the fact that we have Blue Oval products in a lot of the pictures from LS Fest? Have avoided YouTube videos...
Top 11: We Rifle Through The Consignment List For Mecum’s Houston Auction For Some Gems!
When I paw through Mecum auctions each month, I always try to stay away from the obvious answers to “Which one would you have?” and go for what could be really interesting, really...
Freiburger And Dulcich Rip Apart A Mercury Cougar’s 351 In The Pilot Episode For “Roadkill Garage”!
Can you rip out an engine after work on Friday, rebuild it in over the course of the weekend, and dump it back into the car so that you can drive the car to work on Monday morning? That’s the...
This Mud-Running Ford Bronco Is A Beast! Wheels Up In The Mud From A Dead Launch!
Traction in the mud…yeah, this big Bronco has it in spades. It’s also got enough power to hang the front end in the air from a dead launch in the mud! This is the John Deere Bronco and...
Ken Block’s Gymkhana Eight: A Rally Fiesta In The Middle East
For the eighth Gymkhana film, Ken Block had to do something dramatically different. We’ve seen his repertoire of stunts, we have seen him in Subarus and Fords, and we are all very well versed...
