The Mustang Club of America (MCA) revealed their plans to celebrate the Ford Mustang’s 50th anniversary on the original pony car’s birthday April 17th. The celebration will take plan at two locations from April 16-20, 2014, with Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway playing hosts to the east coast / west coast events. Ford [...]
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2012 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet the World’s Fastest Car 0-60 or 0-100!
Move over Bugatti, there is a new leader atop the leader board for the world’s fastest production car. The 2012 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet shattered the 2012 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport 0-to-60 mph time of 2.57 seconds by knocking a full second of the record. Bo Butner’s factory production racer hit 0-60 in a mere [...]
1967 LeMans Winning GT40 in Ford Booth at SEMA Show
Sitting in Ford’s 2011 SEMA booth, might be one of the most important Ford of all times, but that won’t stop most SEMA Show attendees from walking right by it. Sitting on a container high above the show floor, is the red #1 1967 Ford GT40 Mark IV, but with all the glitz and booth [...]
Prom Date: 1966 Ford Mustang Limousine
Christopher “Doc” Ingrassia chopped a 1966 Ford Mustang coupe in half and stretched the body to build this one off Mustang Limousine. Doc who hails from East Dundee, Illinois (just outside of Chicago) has been building and restoring classic Mustangs since 1980 and owns MustangRestoration.Net. No word on what caused the Ingrassia family to embark down the journey of [...]
Fox Series Alcatraz Recreates Bullitt Chase Scene With 2013 Mustang GT
Forty-two years ago Peter Yates’ gritty police drama became a cult classic as the King of Cool, Steve McQueen, pilots a 1968 Ford Mustang GT (390) through the streets of San Francisco. It’s the chase scene. Tonight 35 years after the Mustang GT cemented its legend by out dueling a 1968 Dodge Charger in Bullitt, [...]
Barn Find 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 in Death Valley
You are just a likely to find a vintage Mustang hidden away in an Amish barn as your are to find one on Death Valley, California. That is why we were surprised when a Massachusetts man ran across this “barn find” Shelby in one of the least likely places on earth, the Mojave Desert. The blistering sun, lower humidity, and [...]
The Race: Video of the Day From the Ford Mustang Club In Poland
Why you should spend five minutes watching a Ford Mustang video entitled “The Race” filmed in Poland? Because our friends from the Ford Mustang Club of Poland (Mustang Klub Polska) don’t know that car club meeting are boring. I can’t tell you how many times I begrudgingly attended business meetings and club get togethers that are less [...]
Ford Mustang Thefts: Stealing America’s Pony Car
For over 25 years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has published Hot Wheels, an annual report of America’s 10 most stolen vehicles. While popular expectations have been that newer, more expensive vehicles would top the list, the data has repeatedly shown quite the opposite, with older, less flashy models topping the list. As a take-off [...]
QOTD: J Mays, Ford Design Chief on the 2014 Mustang
Quote of The Day (QOTD): “The muscle car could only happen in the U.S. because we’re the only ones crazy enough to stuff a V8 into the smallest possible car and scare the hell out of mothers everywhere.” -J Mays, group vice president-Design and chief creative officer at Ford Motor Company, talking about automotive design. [...]
1964 Mustang On the Street in Baltimore
Those of you who’ve driven on North Rolling Road in Baltimore, Maryland have probably noticed a maroon, 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang parked “On the Street”. The pony car belongs to Ed Crowl, 70, who bought it in 1977 and drove it until 2006. “My first car was a 1965 Mustang, so when I found out [...]
