Category Archive: Craigslist Find, FORD
Rough Start: This 1973 Ford Galaxie 500 Looks Sinister! The Evil Cop Cruiser?
You are a forward person. You don’t have the time to screw around or to deal with anyone’s drama. You want to be in and out, work completed, with no hassle. You don’t want to be...
Suggested Serving: This 1971 Datsun 521 Flies In The Face Of The Giant Pickup
Small, compact, nimble, useful, competent, efficient…this little 1971 Datsun 521 has a lot going for it before you get into it’s classic Japanese appearance or it’s modest...
Blank Slate: This 1976 Crown Supercoach Needs To Be RV Converted!
You can blame all of my bus fixation on living in the Pacific Northwest as a kid. When I lived in Illinois, I rode around in conventional Chevrolet C-60 buses and later, International conventionals,...
Rough Start: A V8 AMC Eagle, Just Like Kenosha Should Have Made!
We have nothing against the American Motors 258ci inline-six. It is a damn durable engine, one that can be built to make healthy power, and is based on an engine platform that stuck around for...
The Feds Are Auctioning A 1991 Ferrari F40 RIGHT NOW – Got Half A Mill To Spare?
There are certain things in this world that seem to have a predestined outcome. None of those things lead to good outcomes, mind you. Getting into heavy drugs normally ends badly, getting onto the...
Two Oldsmobiles, One Decision: Which One Would You Pick?
So here’s the deal: I was intending to find yet another Rough Start budget find while searching through the Yakima, Washington Craigslist page. I entered my usual inputs: owner only, must have...
Rough Start: Reliving Past Sins In A 1977 Chevrolet Impala Coupe
I got my first car when I was twelve, a mid-1970s Camaro that had more rot than potential. I went through a few rollers afterwards, mostly early G-body Cutlasses. Then came the Impala, the first car...
This 2011 CTS-V Is Like The Little Angel On Your Shoulder, But It’s Telling You To Hammer It
It seems like 99% of the Cadillac CTS-Vs ever built were black, and for many people that’s the only color they should be. In fact my son Cole said that just the other day. While driving through...
Rough Start: Alternative Studies With A 1968 Mercury Montego MX
From the moment I started to understand platform sharing, I couldn’t understand why one version was more expensive than the other. A Fox Mustang versus a Fox Thunderbird, or a Chevrolet Caprice...
Rough Start: This Hillclimb Ready Monte Carlo Is Your Ticket To Heaven
One of my favorite race cars to ever appear at Pikes Peak is Layne Schranz’s 1997 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Ok, whether it was really a Monte Carlo or a stock car that got real Monte sheetmetal up...
SLAPFIGHT! This Cadillac Hearse Trar Beats Lifted Mustang II Any Day Of The Week!
Ok, Lohnes, game on. After doing everything in my power to get the images of a mirror-faced Mustang II trar out of my mental image catalog, I had to find something that was somehow on equal footing...
Trar Alert: This 1976 Mustang II Cobra Can Stop Traffic AND Drive Over It! Priced To Sit
Make no mistake about it, this 1976 Mustang II Cobra is clean. The body looks straight, the chassis it is sitting on (which we’re guessing is a Bronco because the ad does not say looks good,...
Surprisingly Good: This 1972 Ford Pinto Ute Conversion Should’ve Been Real!
The Ford Pinto was two reactions in one vehicle. Originally, it was meant to be Ford’s answer to the Volkswagen Beetle, a little import-fighter that would send the German roly-poly thing that...
Rough Start: Feed Your Classic NASCAR Kink With This Petty-Inspired 1979 Dodge Magnum!
The Dodge Magnum was supposed to be the car that carried the legacy of Richard Petty and his loyalty for Mopar products through the end of the 1970s. After getting a one-year special pass on the...