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Category Archive: FORD, Monday Shopper

Proper Restomodification: This 1961 Ford Galaxie Starliner Is How You Hide Major Work!

Ultimately, if you bury yourself into a full-kill build project, you build the car for yourself. Build it to make yourself happy, and that’s all that matters, right? Well…sure, if you are...

Rough Start: A Dodge Colt With An Evo Kick – Don’t Ignore The Micro Machine!

Whether you love or hate the Japanese import tuner culture, you have to hand it to the manufacturers for being able to do more with less. Subaru, Honda, Toyota…they all made some stout...

Money No Object: 1970 Chrysler 300H – The Last Real Banker’s Hot Rod, Courtesy Of Hurst

If you look at the musclecar era’s offerings relative to full-size cars, you can find that most of them offered up a little something that provided full-size space with the temperament of their...

Rough Start: Feel Like Finishing Up A Swap? This 1979 Dodge Aspen’s 3G Hemi Swap Is Almost Done!

It isn’t everyday that a brown, four-door Dodge Aspen is going to catch my eye. In fact, it normally never would. I’m not a Dodge Aspen fan and the four-doors look so 1970s dowdy and...

Morning Symphony: A Second-Gen Camaro’s Exercise In Simplicity

We cover a lot of racing events throughout the year. We see a lot of combinations that all work out beautifully. We see nitrous cars that take a dentist office’s monthly supply and turn it into...

Rust In Peace: The One-Of-Twelve Lincoln Coloma By Caribou, As It Sits

Old, abandoned, decrepit cars are a kind of macabre fascination of mine. From my days as a kid playing around in one of the stranger sections of western Washington, poking around on overgrown dirt...

Monday Shopper: The Wagon Queen Family Truckster – For The Proper Road Trip!

Full confession: The last time I hit the road for any kind of distance, I did not want to risk getting out of bed. I didn’t want to see daylight, didn’t want to ingest anything other than...

Memory Bank: How A Suicide-Door Lincoln Connects The Present To The Past

Forget the cars of your parents for a moment and think back to the cars of your grandparents. What did they drive? In my case, I’ve got a wide array to choose from, but none of them were really...

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Pocket Rocket: This Unassuming Ford Fiesta ST Is A Giant-Killer!

A couple of years ago, I made an argument that pretty much anything that had a chromed bumper could no longer be considered a sleeper. Nobody is going to believe that a 1970 Nova that is at the strip...

Just Gone: M2K Motorsports’ Ford GT Runs 300.4 MPH At The Texas Mile

You want to know what a truly fast street car looks like? Meet your current goal: a 2006 Ford GT that is ran by M2K Motorsports. At the Texas Mile, the Gulf-colored GT trapped out the mile at 300.4...

Rough Start: This 1987 Pontiac Fiero GT V8 Is A No-Brainer!

I love it when I find a Rough Start car that is so close to done that all I can do is to shout, “BUY IT NOW” as loud as I can. Let’s face facts…not every Rough Start find is a...

For The Sporting Sir: The 1962 Ford Thunderbird Phantom Station Wagon

According to Lohnes, Ford screwed the pooch with the 1958 Thunderbird and from that moment forward, the model as a whole is dead to him outside of certain individual cars that earned their keep...

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Rough Start: Will Your Spirit Feel Free In This 1975 Buick Century Indy Pace Car?

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always found the special editions that popped up around the 1976 American Bicentennial to be a little bit too over the top. Way too much red, white and blue...

The Coyote-Swapped Fusion: More Fabrication And The First Start!

We’ve been following Matt Soppa’s RWD-converted, Coyote-swapped 2016 Ford Fusion build since we first laid eyes on the subject. With looks that echo the dearly departed Australian-market...