1908 Ford Model T. Photo courtesy Ford Media. Ask old-timers what they’ve run their Model T on beside gasoline, and the responses will start to sound like the list of potential fuels for the Chrysler...
Wo dereinst dem Untergrund das schwarze Gold entrissen und gefördert wurde, finden heute – dank eines gut gelungenen Strukturwandels – die schönsten und interessantesten Treffen statt. Die Rede ist n...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Both were built to entice the general public into buying a Ford Mustang. Both have gone 50-plus years without a restoration. And both...
Der Vater der Schlange Es dürfte das schlechteste Geschäft seines Lebens gewesen sein, das John Tojero im Herbst 1953 abschloss. Er hatte Anfang 1953 für den Hobby-Rennfahrer Cliff Davis ein kleinen ...
Aussergewöhnliches (5) Es sei hier geplaudert vom einzigen Sunbeam Harrington Tiger. Es ist dies eine Geschichte, da könnte man durchaus seine Zweifel haben. Ob sie sich wirklich so zugetragen hat. O...
Pete Hamilton with his Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird prior to the start of the 1970 Daytona 500. Photo by Skeensss. Pete Hamilton, winner of the 1970 Daytona 500, died earlier this week at the...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Aside from a few cars built for racing, the National Historic Vehicle Register has yet to include any modified cars, an omission that the Historic Vehicl...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Such indignity. Dispatched to remote Canada, passed over, and left to sit on a dealership showroom for a year before it sold, the first hardtop Must...
Image by Syd Mead. The 1964 Ford Falcon Futura’s taillamp might go down in history as an attractive but otherwise unremarkable automotive styling feature save for the fact that futurist Syd Mead poin...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Brought to you by the folks at Ford Motor Company: A brief history of the automobile’s impact on American life. Part III leads with an overview of Henry F...
I distinctly remember saying to myself, sometime in high school, that I'd never understand how anyone could like the Fox Body Mustang. Both its predecessors and successors seemed to have something to...
1968 Ford LTD Brougham (top); 1968 Plymouth Fury III (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us,...
With auctions, seminars, tours, test drives and car shows leading up to the main event, there is no shortage of activities on Amelia Island in the days before Sunday’s concours d’elegance, this year ...
If you are in the market for a unique vehicle than this unfinished custom 1932 Ford might be for you. The wild creation was built by Alan Lee starting with a fiberglass ’32 Ford three-door body over ...
Photo by RodrigoCruzatti. Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt to create an American factory town in the jungles of Brazil, still counts a handful of residents squatting in the village’s houses, a...
Geplänkel Es ist die Salami, die uns Ford da beim GT scheibchenweise durch den Mund zieht. Einige sehr ausgesuchte Schurnaillen durften schon mal fahren, so langsam sickern auch die Fahrleistungen du...
Image via Google Street View, circa 2011. Henry Ford might have built some of the largest automobile factories around the world – towering, sprawling examples of industrial might – but his last facto...
Last Saturday evening I had the opportunity to shoot one of the first Production GT's for the guys over at FORDGTFORUM.com (VIN #10 to be exact). I have been anxious to get back behind the lens again...
Auch in diesem Jahr wollen wir, aufgrunde des großen Erfolges mit über 330 Fahrzeugen, das Classic-Ford-Event-NRW wiederholen. Wenn das Wetter mitspielt, dann werden wir mit Eurer Mithilfe wieder ein...
I loosely remember the first time I saw Van Go - perhaps it was in a magazine, or maybe online - the details are fuzzy, but unimportant. What I do remember was a sense of curiosity. To be honest, I w...
Der Vergessene Anfangs, also 1968, da war der Ford Torino einfach nur ein besser ausgestatteter Fairlane. Dann, ab Modelljahr 1970, durfte der Torino der Chef sein, der Fairlane hauchte so langsam se...
Das Glück ist kein Vogerl Eigentlich sollte dieses Auto ja am Grunde des Atlantiks liegen und dort wie die Titanic langsam seinem traurigen Ende entgegenrosten. So will es jedenfalls die Legende. Sie...
Most art cars depend on plastic toys glued to their exterior surfaces to make a statement. Bruce Tomb’s Maria del Camino goes a little deeper, using a 1959 El Camino riddled with holes, mounted to ta...
Basic Instincts Jeweils über endjährlichen Festtage gönnt sich «radical» einen etwas spezielleren Testwagen, in den vergangenen Jahren meist einen Subaru WRX STi, denn es könnte ja Schnee geben, es m...
1950 Ford Custom Tudor. Photo courtesy Art Bruns. Back in the early 1950s I was particularly attracted to the 1949-’51 Fords. When the new 1949 Ford was first introduced I thought it was the most mod...