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This Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback is a twelve-time MCA national title winner and a two-time National Grand Champion, a record nobody stumbles into against thousands of rival restorations. But the model year itself has a stranger story: a new engine that arrived mid-season almost without announcement, safety equipment nobody asked for, and a fastback body style that actually sold worse than the plain hardtop. Here is what makes a 1968 GT worth this much attention.
A 2017 Ford GT and a 2017 Camaro ZL1 share a track session where both drivers admit it’s their first time turning laps in either car. What follows splits viewers almost evenly between the GT’s raw numbers and the ZL1’s value-driven performance, with the onboard telemetry revealing more about driver skill than either car’s spec sheet. The comment section still hasn’t settled the debate.
Carroll Shelby built only 562 examples of the original 1965 GT350, a Mustang so stripped-down and race-focused it barely resembled the more comfortable 1966 version that followed it. Hertz alone would go on to order more GT350s for its rental fleet than Shelby sold at retail. Read on to find out how one VIN code stamped with the letter ‘R’ can separate a genuine early Shelby from a look-alike.
Before the Boss 302 or the Mach 1, the biggest engine a Mustang buyer could order was the S-code 390. Rated at roughly 320 horsepower and 427 lb-ft of torque, it turned the 1967 fastback into the serious performance choice a full year before the 428 Cobra Jet arrived. It also wore the exact silhouette that Steve McQueen would make famous. Here is what the GT 390 package actually included.
Ford has built a full-size, rear-wheel-drive Falcon continuously in Australia since 1960, and most American muscle car fans have never seen one. It played Mad Max’s own car on screen, runs down speeders as an Australian police interceptor, and in 2014 offered a turbocharged six-cylinder quick enough to embarrass plenty of V8 rivals. Read on to find out why this nameplate’s long run was already nearing its end.
Porsche’s Carrera GT nearly never happened; its V10 engine was designed in 1992, shelved, revived, and shelved again before finally reaching production in 2004, funded in part by profits from the Cayenne SUV that had once stolen its budget. Only 1,270 were built through 2006, each one carrying racing details like a wood shift knob borrowed from the Porsche 917 and a left-side ignition switch built for Le Mans-style starts. Read on to find out how a shelved engineering project became one of the last analog Porsche supercars ever built.
Ford retired both the Fairlane and Falcon nameplates for 1971, folding everything into a fourteen-model Torino lineup that ranged from a plain two-door sedan to the four-speed, 285-hp Torino Cobra. EPA-mandated compression cuts quietly trimmed horsepower across nearly every engine that year, even as Ford kept offering genuine performance touches like the Ram Air shaker hood and Hurst-shifted four-speeds. Read on to find out what a magazine-tuned Cobra 429 could still do at the drag strip in 1971.
A brand-new, completely stock 2018 Mustang GT heads straight to the strip — break-in period be damned — with the owner’s wife and daughter along for the ride. The 119 mph trap speed on box-stock tires drew immediate praise from viewers, but it’s the family moment at the end, and the years of comments from people rewatching it since, that turned a simple run into something people keep coming back to.
Part pickup truck, part passenger car, the 1968-1969 Ford Ranchero offered genuine hauling utility without sacrificing Torino-level comfort and trim. A redesigned grille, plush upholstery options, and three distinct trim levels gave Ford a single body style that could compete against both work trucks and upscale personal cars. Read on for the details behind this early car-truck hybrid.
Ford’s fifth-generation Mustang solved a problem the company had struggled with for years: how to modernize an icon without losing what made it iconic in the first place. Built on an all-new platform but styled after the fastback Mustangs of the late 1960s, the 2005 redesign set the template every American pony car would follow for the next decade. Read on for the engineering decisions behind the comeback.
A light blue 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport with a 351 under the hood and an exhaust note that still gets attention decades later. This was Ford’s redesigned Torino arriving at the worst possible moment in muscle car history, and one engine in the entire lineup carried the Cobra Jet name. Thirty-six years later a Clint Eastwood film would make the shape famous all over again. Read on to find out what the 1972 Gran Torino Sport really was.
This gunmetal-gray Shelby GT500 tribute has been chasing Gone in 60 Seconds’ most famous silhouette for over a decade, and the seller behind the camera — known online simply as Jeff — has spent years selling classic muscle to buyers as far away as Norway and New Zealand. In this test drive, the car barely gets out of first gear before the comments section turns into a shrine. Watch to see why an idle this quiet still gives people chills.
This Candy Apple Red 1968 Ford Mustang convertible pairs the comfort-focused Luxury trim with genuine GT options and a white deluxe interior — a combination rarer than most ’68 Mustang buyers ever chose. Commenters call the sale bittersweet, describing it like watching someone part with a family member after apparently decades of single ownership. One sharp-eyed viewer even catches a missing GT rear valance panel most buyers would never notice. Watch the full walkaround to see what made this particular Mustang worth holding onto for so long.
Ford has spent six decades building genuinely different kinds of muscle cars, from the original 1964 Mustang that sold 400,000 units in its first year to Shelby’s race-bred GT350 and GT500, all the way to the homologation-only Boss 302 and Boss 429. Take the quiz and the real question isn’t which car is fastest – it’s which era of Ford’s muscle car identity actually matches how you’d drive. Here’s the history behind every option on the list.
Ford’s new mid-size Torino paced the 1968 Indianapolis 500 and carried David Pearson to a NASCAR championship in its debut season, laying the groundwork for the Motor Trend Car of the Year award the nameplate would win two years later. The GT fastback was the shape that did most of that work, and by spring Ford had a 428 Cobra Jet to put under its hood. Read on for what the 1968 Torino GT actually offered and why the fastback is the one collectors chase.