Jan 12
The big news of the day is of course the new Ford GT. I’ll have something on it later, but in the mean time the company using Carrol Shelby’s name has released the Shelby GT350R which promises to be a track capable street going full on kick ass Mustang. Full details, loads of pictures right …
Aug 02
Back in the early 1960s, as Ford Motor Company product planners, designers and engineers were brainstorming ideas for a compact sporty car, there were numerous proposals for two-seaters. Most of those concepts never got any further than sketches, but at least one running prototype of a two-seat Mustang was built and survives today thanks to …
Jul 21
In a world where the Hellcat Challenger is making 707hp 435hp seems down right pedestrian. However back here in reality 435 hp is pretty damn good. The 5.0L Coyote engine that Ford developed for the Mustang is certainly no slouch. Now we find out it will also put down 400lb-ft of torque. I gotta think …
Jul 04
I read an interesting article the other day about which cars are the most American. Turns out it’s a Toyota. Go figure. However I’d like to think of the question a bit differently. What makes an American car, American? It’s not the amount of parts made here, where it’s assembled, or any of that unimportant …
Jun 14
More than three decades after taping a full-page ad ripped from a 1965 car magazine above his bunk on an Alaskan crab boat, Mark Hovander is touring the country this year with the same Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang pictured on that page. Hovander and his crosstown friend John Atzbach are big fans of the first-generation …