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Ford built the 1964-66 Thunderbird to win at the country club, not the drag strip, and for the most part that is exactly what it did. But buried in the order books was an ultra-rare 428 side oiler V8 option that dropped the car’s 0-60 time by two full seconds, and fewer than six are confirmed to survive today. Read on to find out what set this hidden performance variant apart from the luxury cruiser everyone else was buying.
Ford gave the Mustang II one final send-off in 1978, borrowing styling straight from its biggest rival to create the rarest trim of the whole generation. The King Cobra combined Trans Am-inspired graphics with a genuine 302 V8, a factory air dam unique to the model, and a fully-equipped price that pushed past $6,000. Read on to find out how one six-Mustang-II collector still had to go hunting for the one trim missing from his garage.
This 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle SS went through a nearly three-year restoration before Vanguard Motor Sales put it up for sale, and the spec sheet reveals more than a fresh coat of paint — Edelbrock heads, a Ford 9-inch rear end, and an engine block with a story of its own. Watch the full walkaround to see what’s really under the surface.
Two months before any other Ford product carried it, the FE V8 made its debut in the unlikeliest of cars: the all-new 1958 Edsel. From there it split into truck duty, police-package cruisers, and factory tri-power setups shipped loose in the trunk, before a redesigned block gave rise to the short-lived but influential 406. Read on to find out how a workhorse engine family quietly built the foundation for Ford’s most feared big-blocks.
Plymouth built just eleven 1971 Barracuda convertibles with the 426 Hemi engine, and only seven of them went to U.S. buyers new. That scarcity has pushed sale prices as high as $3.5 million at auction, with a different example chasing a $4.8 million bid in 2021. Read on to find out what separates a seven-figure Hemi ‘Cuda from an ordinary E-body.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang refresh did more than reshuffle the sheet metal in response to a sharpened new Camaro. The GT quietly inherited a twin-disc clutch, suspension hardware, and Magnetic Ride Control straight off the Shelby GT350’s parts shelf, turning what looked like a mid-cycle facelift into a genuinely better driver’s car. Read on to see exactly what Ford borrowed from its own halo model.
For five years the Shelby GT500 nameplate sat dormant while rivals kept shipping ever-more-powerful factory monsters. Then camouflaged prototypes started turning up at Virginia International Raceway wearing a roll cage and a leaked oil spec sheet that hinted at serious horsepower. Read on to find out what those spy photos gave away, and how the finished car compared to the speculation.
Former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz publicly said the Ford Mustang beats the Chevrolet Camaro on packaging and visibility, an unusually blunt admission from someone who once helped run Camaro’s own manufacturer. His criticism centered on the Camaro’s narrow greenhouse and awkward driving position rather than its performance credentials. Read on for why an industry veteran’s unfiltered opinion still carries weight in the pony car debate.
Spotted in the pits at Lights Out 8 in Georgia, this Ford-powered Mercury Comet wears a rear wing cut straight from an old barn’s tin roof, riding on a full tube chassis instead of anything resembling a stock Comet unibody. The 1320video crew got the story straight from the build itself — rat rod looks, real function underneath. See why a car built from scrap outshines rides costing ten times as much.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang GT reached 0-60 in the high 3-second range using nothing but a naturally aspirated 460-horsepower V8 and a new 10-speed automatic transmission’s Drag Strip mode. That number matched cars costing far more just a few years earlier, without a supercharger or turbocharger anywhere under the hood. Read on to see how the transmission, not just the engine, made the difference.
When Ferrari passed on refurbishing the underpowered Sunbeam Alpine’s engine, Rootes Motors turned to Carroll Shelby, fresh off building the AC Cobra. What followed was a secretly funded Ford V8 swap, a surprised company owner, and an order so large it was the biggest Ford had ever received from another automaker. Read on to find out how the Sunbeam Tiger came together in eight months.
The Caterham Seven traces its roots to a 1957 Lotus design by engineer and Royal Air Force veteran Colin Chapman, but the version built today shares no parts with the original. From a 1973 rights purchase through a South African court battle and a 2004 chassis overhaul, Caterham has kept the stripped-down formula alive for decades. Read on to find out how the design evolved.
Greening Auto Company built this 1970 Chevrolet Camaro around a Mast Motorsports supercharged LS7 pushing roughly 800 horsepower, sent to the pavement through a paddle-shift automatic and, surprisingly, a Ford rear differential. The body mods are subtle by design, a relocated gas filler, mirror-integrated turn signals, carbon fiber accents, meant to reward a closer look rather than shout for attention. Commenters compared the hood bulge to everything from a Grand National to a 1968 427 SS. Why would a Chevy-focused shop reach for a Ford part on a build this ambitious?
This vintage road test puts Ford’s flagship 1968 Shelby GT500KR — the “King of the Road” — through its paces, complete with a narrator whose catchphrases are still being quoted in the comments decades later. Viewers reacted to a 6.2-second acceleration figure with genuine disbelief, while others noted the era’s characteristic brake fade after repeated hard stops. One commenter even claims The Doors’ Jim Morrison owned one. Watch to hear “happy time” for yourself.
Ten thousand photographs, six months of shop time, and one badly worn 1967 Mustang convertible come together in this time-lapse restoration from Julius Bencko’s former shop, Mustangs4you.com. Convertibles from this era carry restoration challenges hardtops never face, from reinforced unibody structure to convertible-specific top mechanisms that are notoriously difficult to source. Watch a frame-off restoration compress six months of invisible labor into just a few minutes.