Posts Tagged: Ford
The sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 backs up its supercharged reputation with a factory-certified top speed few people expect from a car that still has back seats. A 650-horsepower LT4, an optional 10-speed automatic borrowed from Ford”s own Raptor, and a quarter-mile in the 11s all point toward one number that changes the conversation entirely. Here is what it actually took to get a mainstream muscle car into 200-mph territory — and why the number matters more than bragging rights.
A flyer promising prize money at a March drag shootout doesn’t tell you much on its own — but the track behind it, an NHRA-affiliated eighth-mile strip built for grudge racing and small-tire shootouts, has plenty of story to it. Door-crasher format, cash on the line, and a community that shows up test-and-tune after test-and-tune. Here’s what actually happens when the tree drops and real money’s riding on it.
Fifty years ago General Motors answered the Ford Mustang not once but twice, and a museum exhibit is now putting the Camaro and Firebird side by side with the movie cars that turned them into pop culture icons. One shape-shifted into an alien robot on screen; the other spent a decade running from the law with a trucker at the wheel. Here’s why GM built two separate pony cars instead of one.
Cy Schmidt’s 1969 Mercury Cyclone CJ has spent decades doing exactly what it was built for, cruising the backroads of Ohio instead of sitting under a cover. Mercury built the Cyclone as its answer to the Mustang, and the Cobra Jet engine under the hood gave it a reputation gearheads still respect today. Petrolicious caught up with Schmidt for a late-afternoon drive that shows why this often-overlooked muscle car still turns heads. Watch to find out why.
Dodge completely reinvented the Charger for 1971 with a wider, shorter ‘fuselage’ body and a split, twin-grille nose that made the outgoing car look like a different species entirely. It’s also the last model year Chrysler ever offered the 426 Hemi in any car, making this the final chapter of the Elephant engine’s factory life. Just 3,118 Charger R/Ts were built that year, and rising insurance rates meant fewer buyers ever got the chance to check that Hemi box before it disappeared for good.
Kevin Plummer’s 1968 Plymouth GTX isn’t just a B5 Blue coupe with a 440 Six Pack under the hood, it’s a direct link to his childhood, when his father owned one just like it. Lou Costabile caught up with Kevin and his family at the World of Wheels show in West Allis, Wisconsin, where the GTX’s triple-carb rumble turned heads. Now Kevin is passing that same love of the car on to his own kids. Watch to find out why.
Ford revived the Shelby GT350 badge on a completely different platform half a century after Carroll Shelby”s original track-focused Mustang made its name at SCCA events. A naturally aspirated flat-plane-crank V8 replaced the old 289 Windsor, but the underlying mission stayed remarkably consistent. Here is how the original 1965 legend and its modern namesake actually compare, spec for spec and mission for mission.
This 1970 AMC Javelin SST wears the Mark Donohue Signature Edition package and a shade of Big Bad Orange that’s impossible to miss, but the best part of this story belongs to its owner. Jeffrey Filz grew up two blocks from the AMC plant in Kenosha and remembers the day a brand-new Javelin first came down his street. Watch to hear him tell it in his own words.
Rev up your engines, folks! The Ford Galaxie, from 1964 to 1968, was a star on and off the racetrack. In ’64, it flaunted a sleek, aerodynamic look, thanks to NASCAR tinkering. The Galaxie XL hardtop coupe was a collector’s dream with its comfy bucket seats and a V8 engine that could make even the most stoic driver grin. By ’68, this beauty boasted horizontally mounted headlights and a cigarette lighter – because who doesn’t need a smoke when cruising in style? Buckle up for a ride through automotive history!
This race-prepped Camaro isn’t just for sale, it’s a rolling piece of the pony car war Chevrolet started on purpose. When reporters asked what ‘Camaro’ meant, Chevy’s famous answer was ‘a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs,’ and the rivalry that followed pushed both brands into a genuine horsepower arms race. Decades later, this car still runs like it has something to prove.
A rare Ford nameplate, an even rarer engine option, and only two known survivors — this 1966 Ford 7-Litre R-Code 427 convertible checks boxes most muscle car collectors never even knew existed. Pulled from the Brothers Collection, it represents one of the shortest-lived, least-remembered performance option combinations Ford ever offered. Watch to see why a car built for just two model years still turns heads today.
Ford built the 1970 Torino King Cobra to fight Chrysler’s winged Superbird and Daytona on NASCAR ovals, then cancelled the project before it ever reached a dealership. Powered by the legendary Boss 429, this surviving prototype represents one of Ford’s great What If moments in muscle car history. Saabkyle04 walks through every detail of a car most enthusiasts have never seen in person.
