Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: What Rough Start? This One-Owner 1977 Ford LTD II Might Empty The Bank, But What More Could You Want? (Besides Smaller Bumpers…)
There is always something to be said for finding a gorgeous, one-owner car that has been babied all of it’s life up for sale for a decent price. It’s a rare event and not something to be...
BangShift Tune-Up: “My Favourite Game” By The Cardigans (1998)
Do you remember that mid-1990s song “Lovefool”? Don’t lie, everybody knew that song…whether they wanted to or not. It was everywhere. It was like a plague. The Cardigans, a...
This Gorgeous 1961 Chevrolet Impala Four Door Has Just Enough New Touches To Be Daily-Driveable Without Taking Away The Character Of The Car!
If there is one downside to the Pro Touring movement, it’s that a lot of the builds we see tend to lose the character of the car for the sake of performance. Sure, you are still looking at a...
Rough Start: This 1974 Chevrolet Chevelle Is A Coat Of Paint Away From Respectability!
Five thousand doesn’t go as far for 1970s metal anymore, and that’s a shame…that used to be the way to get into a semi-decent car that still had muscle car roots. Sure, you had to...
Watch as Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud Try Out Their New Ford Focus RS RX Race Cars
There is nothing like the first time behind the wheel of a new car, and for Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud, it had to be extra special, because it represented the...
This Dodge Challenger Yellow Jacket Looks Sedate, But This OSTDyno-Built 1,000 Horsepower Turbo Monster Can Sting You!
(Additional photos and video courtesy of OSTDyno) How hard is it to make a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Yellow Jacket a sleeper? Difficult isn’t the word. Everybody knows that the...
The WTF? Files: It’s A Mercury Cougar Chopper, Powered By A Chevy Mill!
The 1989-1997 Mercury Cougar wasn’t a bad car…just a bland one. Ford was so focused on front-wheel drive midsize cars that the simply ignored the Cougar and it’s Ford Thunderbird...
She Left To Buy A Two-Seater Sporty Car, But Now This Ten-Second 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Little More Than That!
Owning a SubLime colored Mopar is one of the easiest ways to make sure people stop and look at your car, even at a Mopar show. At ChallengerFest, there were a quite a few bright green pieces rolling...
eBay Find: This 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Is A Cool Non-Muscle Cruiser!
The Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the car of the 1970s as far as I’m concerned. It was a sales success, it was cleanly designed, and it was plush without being overstuffed with brougham-like...
Rough Start: For Just A Few Bucks Over Budget, Could A Sleeper Toyota Celica Be The One For You?
The whole idea of a sleeper is to hide in plain sight with the giant hammer hidden behind your back. The problem with putting a Q-ship together is that you have to start with a car that few would...
Physics Be Damned: Stage 6 Motorsports’ Eight-Second Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8…Meet “The Brick”!
Simply put, this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 should not be as fast as it is. It’s too heavy and has all of the aerodynamic properties of a barn falling to Earth after a tornado picked it up, but...
Top 11: We Cherry-Pick Mecum Auctions’ Indy Event – Too Many Choice Cars To Select From!
Normally, we peruse Mecum auctions to see what might be attainable. For their Indy auction, we had a hard time doing that…mostly because all of the lots are desirable enough and popular enough...
Unhinged: The ChallengerFest 7 Story – From Running Angry Grandpa Like A Rental To Racing With Good People
I told myself over and over after ChallengerFest 6 that come hell or high water, as long as the Project Angry Grandpa Chrysler was running, that I was going to do more than spectate at ChallengerFest...
