If you are going to build a NASCAR replica there are a few key highlights you need to hit. First, you need stickers…lots of ’em. Then you need a big pushrod V8..please no overhead cams or turbocharged V6s…and finally you need to suck fuel through a venturi. I know that NASCAR adapted fuel injection for […]
This next car comes as a tip from Scott T who writes: If a picture is worth a thousand words, this ad is worth about 1,100 words? Though the words used seem to describe a pretty nice v8 driveline and a fair number of parts including a GT hood so that’s a bonus. $4,500 […]
Check out this 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 Fastback here on eBay bidding for $7,100 with auction ending on Monday at 5:30PM. From eBay listing: Item specifics Condition: Used Seller Notes: “Very honest car 1 family owned always been in WA needs paint match #” Year: 1968 Interior Color: Green Make: Ford Number of Cylinders: 8 […]
The last of the classic full-sized American built station wagons (Buick Roadmaster or Chevrolet Caprice) rolled off GM’s assembly line in Arlington, Texas in 1996– but in another time those things clogged the roads filled with families doing things like going to church or traveling to Aunt May’s house for a weekend of running around […]
Super Bowl XLIX (brought to you by Norvartis) is going to start in a few minutes and as a tribute to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, the Daily Turismo is happy to feature the following batch of barn fresh cars with carefully lowered tire air pressure. Find them here on craigslist located in Saratoga, NY […]
The response to yesterday’s stripper Newport ragtop was so overwhelmingly positive that we decided to feature another car with the amenities of a Jordanian B&B (Bedouin and Breakfast). Prepare to put-up or bulk-up with another 4,500 lb ‘Merican beast without power steering, power brakes, or power windows. Find this 1963 Ford Fairlane Ranch Wagon offered […]
In 1958 Elvis Presley was drafted into the US Army where he spent his time as an ordinary soldier, a reflection of the Faulkner and Eisenhower culture of the times. The world didn’t change with the flick of a light switch in 1960, but it was a different place with a young John F Kennedy […]
The Sell It Now Store is one of various eBay resellers who will take your neglected junk and sell it for you on eBay for a small percentage fee. Most of the stores are filled with grandma’s antique Avon bottle collections that folks are too busy to sell, but every once in while they sell […]
The Ford Fairlane was an intermediate sized body-on-frame unibody classic from Detroit, and in ragtop form these big monsters can be quite a deal when compared to a Chevelle or other muscle car from the sixties. The fifth generation with its stacked headlights is one of the best looking of the breed and was made […]
You’ll have to put aside your Ford versus Chevy hatred and take a razor blade to all the Calvins peeing on stuff in order to fully appreciate this feature. In every sense of the word, it is a hybrid. Not in the fuel-sipping, electron-pushing Prius, but the old school hybrid of yesterday, specifically a 1957 […]