From 1978 through 1983, the Zephyr was a Mercury’s Fox Body family hauler that shared most of its parts with the Ford Fairmont. Like the Fairmont, the Zephyr was available as a 2-door, 4-door, and wagon with Pinto Inline-4, Thiftmaster inline-6 or Windsor Vee-8 power. Todays example has a 302 V8 that has been given […]
Many a V8 swapped Volvo bricks have graced these pages, but few have all the qualities to make a truly primo driver. This is not to say that a car with an automatic or a sedan is a bad car by any means. Most would agree that the top of the food chain for these […]
The Ford Pinto was the idea of future auto legend and then Ford president Lee Iaccoca. With a target weight of 2000 lbs, the Pinto was supposed to be a lightweight import fighter, but instead suffered the inglorious fate of being the butt of jokes for twenty years due to the company neglecting a known […]
The Ford Granada was one of those Malaise-era downsized cars that still managed to look huge while being marketed as a “compact.” Although the first-gen Granada was derived from the Maverick and was the great-great-grandson of the Falcon, it managed to be larger than a late ’90s E38 BMW 7 Series (ok – yeah, the short […]
Seeing that no automakers currently produce a car based ute in the US, interest in older El Caminos and Rancheros is stronger than ever. A cottage industry has even sprung up selling car to truck conversion kits for Dodge Chargers and various VW cars. The Ford Durango ute was not an official Ford vehicle, but some […]
Some cars just don’t get the respect that they deserve. This lack of respect manifests itself into head scratchingly low asking prices. The Ford Falcon is widely known as the redheaded step child to the Ford Mustang. Today’s 1962 Falcon has been extensively hot-rodded using parts from multiple Ford models over the last four decades. […]
Poorly written Craiglist ads can be annoying, but sometimes offer up big buying opportunities. Some sellers just don’t know much about a car and despite near everyone having a smartphone with camera some do not post up any useful pictures. The world is not made up of car enthusiasts or DT readers! V8 swapped Volvos […]
Hurricane Matthew tore some stuff up around here, no doubt. It leveled my .05 acre banana plantation and dropped a huge branch across the Baja Bug but in general, nothing too dramatic. It did not, however, drop a white oak across my pair of F-150s like this poor seller, deforming them so badly they resemble […]
You can find most any car make and model in the metro NYC classifieds. It is very unusual to find more than one Opel for sale though. Opel is General Motors successful European affiliate that sold cars here in the late 1960’s into the 70’s. Today, we have to choice between these two tasty German […]
If the Ford Maverick is the little known step brother of the Mustang, it’s cousin the Mercury Comet is even more obscure. The Comet GT trim level was the muscle car trim package that upped the ante with the 302 V8 engine. These cars were originally conceived as import fighters, but in reality duked it […]