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 […]
This next feature appears to be a 1937 Ford-style Legends coupe body, not a 1928 Ford, despite the listing title. Legends cars are 5/8-scale replicas of 1930s coupes and sedans, commonly styled after early Ford, Chevy, and Dodge bodies and powered by motorcycle engines. The Yamaha 1200 engine, one-seat layout, race-style chassis, no reverse, and […]
What is your major malfunction, maggot? Do you NOT recognize that this is a Ford F-250, powered by a 6.9-liter IDI diesel, and it will run long after you’ve cried yourself to sleep and quit like a sniveling baby! It’s rust-free, turn-key, dual tanks locked and loaded, and that automatic shifts smoother than your brain […]
Before the Terminator cars took over, this was the thinking-man’s Mustang: a high-revving, 4-valve 4.6 liter V8 that liked to be worked and didn’t rely on brute force alone. The SN95 SVT Cobra has aged into a bit of a sweet spot, still analog, still usable, and just rare enough that clean ones are getting […]
The Ford Probe was an interesting attempt by some bean counters at Ford’s Dearborn Headquarters to implement some arcane marketing theory about “giving the kids what they want”…but it didn’t work. The kids didn’t want a front-wheel-drive 4-cylinder basic car that costs as much as a Mustang but wasn’t as raw as a Honda or […]
The Ford Festiva was about as simple as transportation gets, a lightweight, Mazda-engineered hatchback built for maximum efficiency and minimum cost. With a 5-speed manual and barely any excess complexity, cars like the Festiva have a reputation for outlasting expectations and serving as cheap, reliable daily drivers long after most of their peers are gone. […]
When Ford introduced the front wheel drive Escort in 1981, it marked a major shift for the company toward smaller, more efficient cars designed to compete with imports. One of the more unusual variants was the diesel model, powered by a Mazda sourced 2.0 liter RF four cylinder that prioritized fuel economy and durability over […]
The seller sums this next car up with the simple statement: “The cleanest lil ford festiva anywhere”. The Festiva was Ford’s entry level subcompact, engineered by Mazda and built by Kia, designed to deliver maximum fuel efficiency and minimal cost in a lightweight front wheel drive package. Sold in the United States from 1988 to […]
In the early 1980s the Ford LTD name moved from full-size body-on-frame cruiser to a compact Fox platform sedan, sharing its rear wheel drive architecture with the Mustang and earning a reputation as a durable, simple, and easily modified four-door sleeper. Offered with inline six and small block V8 power during its run, the Fox […]
Today’s next feature is an interesting car to find at a donation/salvage lot. This ebay seller turns thousands of donated cars each year on ebay via an Orange County, CA lot…and I don’t know how they get such amazing donations. This is a giant woodsided and opera light equipped Mercury will need some sorting before […]