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Category Archive: FORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Watch The Final Shakedown Of The Ford Focus RS Before The Car Goes To Goodwood

Ford’s upcoming Focus RS has us salivating. The all-wheel-drive turbocharged four-banger is the first time in recent memory that an American nameplate has taken aim at Subaru’s grasp on...

Stolen Car: Have You Seen This 1959 Edsel Villager Station Wagon?

Thieves make us sick to our stomach, regardless of what they took, but when they go after what we pour hard work and countless hours into, it’s just the worst thing that could possibly happen....

This 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 Was Just Traded In To A Dealership…Interested?

It constantly amazes me that cars like this 1966 Ford manage to survive for decades in near-perfect stock form. Many, many times I’ve seen forty or fifty year-old vehicles that have managed to...

The 2015 Shelby Super Snake: 750 Horsepower And An Optional Roll Cage

(Photos: Shelby American) We’re losing track of how many Mustangs are rolling out with the word “Shelby” attached to them, so for simplicity’s sake, understand that there are...

Ebay Find: This Dusty 1939 Lincoln-Zephyr Is On That Fine Line Between Restore And Modify – What Would You Do?

My knowledge of cars falls off of a cliff when discussing pre-1955 cars, so bear with me a little bit here, but I’m certain I can say that the Lincoln-Zephyr is at least one of the most desired...

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BangShift Adoption Services: These Two RideTech Test Cars Need A New Home!

Our good friends at RideTech have garages full of cool toys that they have used for construction, racing and testing purposes, the likes of which we’d quite happily pay for the privilege to...

Unveiled: The Ford GT LM-GTE Pro Race Car – They Will Be At LeMans For 2016!

(Photos: Ford) We knew it was coming, and it is everything we hoped it would be and then some. At a press conference this morning at LeMans, Ford unveiled the racing variation of the upcoming GT...

Ford And Renault Tease Up Their Surprises For The 24 Hours of Lemans

(Lead photo: John Dagys) This year’s 24 Hours of LeMans is going to be interesting before a wheel turns in anger, and you can thank Ford and Renault for the news. Both manufacturers have been...

It’s Built, It’s Bad, And It’s On Ebay: A Nine-Second 1971 Pinto With Teeth

Silly me for thinking that a pinto was a patterned horse. In this case, this 1971 Ford Pinto is really a little monster, ready to take on all comers with a mouth filled with pointy teeth and an...

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Ford Shelby GT350’s 5.2L V8: 526 Horsepower, 429 Pounds Of Torque, And An 8,250 RPM Redline – Meet The Screamer

(Photos: Ford) We’ve been waiting to hear the official numbers for Ford’s Shelby GT350, mostly because the speculation of what the 5.2L flat-plane crank V8 would put out was all over the...

Event Coverage: The Fords Of Somernites Cruise’s 100th Show: Blue Skies And Blue Ovals

The Mopars may have been the main attraction in Somerset this month but that didn’t mean that there weren’t plenty of sights to see for fans of Fords. Up and downs streets, parked in...

Take A Listen To The Radical RXC Turbo – Packing Ford’s 3.5L EcoBoost, Is This A Solid Prediction Of The Upcoming GT’s Performance?

Radical’s only-just street legal track cars are beasts. Two of them hold Nurburgring Nordschliefe lap-time records for production vehicles, in fact. They have used everything from sport bike...

Question Of The Day: What Car From Your Childhood Did Everyone Seem To Own?

When talking cars with people, I always have heard one line at one time or another: “When I was a kid, it seemed like everybody in the neighborhood owned a (Vehicle X). You saw them...

Top 11: McTaggart’s Favorites From Somernites Cruise’s 100th Anniversary and Mopar Show!

It’s taken fourteen years for the Somernites Cruise to reach 100 shows. Starting from a small crowd of a couple hundred cars in 2001, the event has grown into a huge gathering that decends upon...