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Ford built exactly 57 of these R-code Fairlanes in 1966, not for showroom sales, but to satisfy a NASCAR homologation rule requiring a minimum production run. Every one wore the same white-over-black color combination and hid a 427 side-oiler under a stripped-down interior. Only about 25 are believed to survive. Here is the story behind Ford’s rarest mid-size muscle car.
Henry Ford quietly built at least eight boats in the early 1920s, and the last survivor, named Evangeline, carried a 450-horsepower V12 engine repurposed from a World War I fighter plane. It reportedly hit 49 mph in 1924, fast enough to outrun dedicated race boats of the day, before a fire at the Gold Cup ended Ford’s interest in racing on water for good.
‘Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain’ is one of Henry Ford’s most repeated quotes, and it reflects the same pragmatic mindset that built the modern assembly line. Ford wasn’t just a businessman with a knack for slogans, he was solving one of the hardest manufacturing puzzles of his era. Here’s the story behind the man and the philosophy that built Ford Motor Company.
Henry Ford’s famous line about paint color was really about efficiency, not aesthetics — so what would he make of this 1936 Sedan Delivery running a Chevrolet engine? The rare, cargo-hauling body style has been fully restomodded with a 350 cubic-inch GM crate V8 and automatic transmission, trading Ford’s original flathead for GM performance. See the full build in the photos below.
Long before Detroit’s muscle car wars, two Indiana blacksmiths built a company that would eventually produce one of the era’s most overlooked performance machines. The Studebaker brothers started with horseshoes, survived a Civil War wagon contract, and only reluctantly entered the automobile business decades later. Their company’s final act included a supercharged V8 capable of matching contemporaries from Detroit’s Big Three. It simply ran out of time to prove it.
Chevy and Ford owners have been trading friendly insults since long before group chats made it easy, and the rivalry behind this video goes back further than most fans realize. It traces to 1964, when the Mustang caught Chevrolet flat-footed and forced the Camaro into existence. Heres where the century-old feud actually started.
Henry Ford’s famous line about the first car race happening minutes after the second car existed wasn’t just a joke — it described his own early racing career, which predates Ford Motor Company itself. That competitive instinct traces a line from 1890s reliability trials through Prohibition-era bootleggers building fast cars to outrun police, all the way to the factory-backed muscle cars of the 1960s. Every homologation special and big-block option shares the same DNA as those first backyard races. This polished 1967 Mustang is a reminder of just how far that rivalry traveled.
Long before Dodge built its own cars, the Dodge brothers ran the machine shop that supplied Henry Ford with complete chassis, engines, and transmissions for his earliest Model A and Model N vehicles. That 1903 handshake deal eventually grew into a 5,000-employee operation capable of building a quarter-million cars a year, before the brothers walked away to found their own company in 1914. It’s a piece of trivia most Ford and Dodge fans never learn.