Ford’s Pinto Cruising Wagon was not just a regular Pinto with stickers. It got a distinctive panel-wagon-style rear quarter treatment, round porthole-style side windows, striping, sporty trim, and a whole lot of late-’70s custom-van energy scaled down to compact-car size. The interior is spectacular: red cabin, plaid seat inserts, red vinyl bolsters, matching rear upholstery, […]
This next car comes as a tip from Matt C who writes: For $5000, running and driving, how bad can it be? Seller says the tires and a lot of the other rubber parts are dry rotted, but the car is all there and most of the paint looks shiny. The SVO was not just […]
This next car is a MN12-generation Ford Thunderbird Super Coupe, the high-tech performance version of Ford’s personal luxury coupe from the late ’80s and early ’90s. The Super Coupe was not just a badge package. Power comes from a 210-horsepower supercharged 3.8-liter Essex V6, intercooler, 5-speed manual availability, independent rear suspension, four-wheel disc brakes, and […]
This next car comes with a salvage title and a check engine light. How bad can it be? I shouldn’t have asked that. Becuase this isn’t a 1990s Ford that can be fixed with a screwdriver and a weekend, this is a modern vehicle with tight packaging and beaucoup electronic connectors with things like CANBUS […]
Today’s next feature boasts the quintessential Eddie Bauer look: green over tan two-tone paint, chrome trim, polished wheels, and that unmistakable ’90s Ford presence of an upscale truck. On a 90s F-150, Eddie Bauer trim usually meant two-tone paint, upgraded interior materials, special badging, nicer seats, extra convenience equipment, and a more upscale “weekend cabin […]
Today’s next feature is the ultimate in basic — it’s a regular cab short bed, rear-drive, manual transmission, and the 4.9-liter inline-six. No luxury cosplay, no giant crew cab, no turbo anything, just truck. This is an example of a car built from the era when things could run forever — 333,000 miles on this […]
The original Thunderbird was Ford’s jet-age cruiser: long hood, formal roofline, big chrome face, and boulevard manners. This one keeps the old Bird silhouette but trades the gasoline drivetrain for full Tesla electric hardware. I have to admit I’ve got mixed feelings about this one — the old school gasoline-fueled meathead in me feels that […]
This next car comes as a tip from Matt in Simi Valley who writes: Saw this posted today in Long Beach. Vaguely remember seeing this in Car and Driver when I was a much younger person. Always wild to see these concept cars end up in someone’s driveway, I know you’ve found a few others […]
What is it? What kind of car is that? Sir, what happened to your Pinto? These are the questions you are going to get every time you head to the gas station and pour in some liquid gold from the 93 octane filler nozzle. The Pangra was a reskin of the Pinto from a mind […]
Today’s LTD sits on the Fox platform, which means easy parts, endless swap potential, and a chassis that’s way more capable than the woodgrain-era looks suggest. This maroon wagon reads like an honest, clean long-roof with just 80k miles, cold A/C, and all the right bones for either a stock cruiser or that rad 5.0/T-5 […]