This auction is for a used 1974 Ford Gran Torino Elite with 351 Windsor engine and C6 automatic transmission. This car has been undergoing repair work and is a running, driving and mostly completed car. Repair work done: Engine remanufactured at local machine shop and has added main stud girdle and rocker girdles. The boring process brought the cubic inches up from 351 to 357. The intake is a four barrel aluminum Edelbrock RPM Air Gap performance intake. The carburetor is a FoMoCo four barrel 4100 with vacuum secondaries and automatic choke. The brakes have mostly new parts and the steering gearbox has new seals installed. A new radiator was added and a new Die Hard Gold battery was installed. It has very rare functional automatic seat back unlatchers (when door opens seat backs unlatch for rear occupants to exit). It also includes an original set of hubcaps and it has new tires. It also includes a set of studded snow tires (one of which is currently serving as the spare). Also the exhaust and muffler are new. Repair work to be completed: Needs new carpet, one front seat spring needs repaired (easy to get to), rear defroster glass setup needs installed (have complete setup with wiring, switch and glass), lower body small rust repairs need completed, steering wheel needs crack repairs (a temporary one is in place and two original type and color steering wheels with a horn bar are included but are off the car for repairs), the dash pad has cracks and needs repaired, the right rear bumper mount needs replaced and the vinyl roof is old and needs replaced. There is some sawdust in some of the pictures and the car is dusty however I will clean it before pickup. The car has been garage kept and lightly driven by my parents for about 20 years and is drivable (as long as the rust is tended to so there's no chance of exhaust getting into the car however unlikely). Buyer pays all shipping and should arrange for delivery. I may at my discretion deliver for a set fee in and around PA state. An ideal garage for this car would be at least 21 feet in length. VIN 4G21H264169 Mileage says 13150 however I believe it is 113150 actually. Body 65M Color 5J 1 Trim JU Trans. U Axle 2 DSO 16 Date 6/74 GVWR 5463 Any questions feel free to ask. Thanks and have a nice day.

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1964 Ford GT40 prototype to be auctioned in April

Wed, 12 Mar 2014

The Ford GT40 owns a firm spot on the list of the greatest American racecars ever made, being the first car from the United States to take an overall win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. And now Mecum will auction what it claims is second-oldest GT40 still in existence at its Houston sale on April 12.
The story of the GT40 is fascinating. Henry Ford II attempted to buy Ferrari in the early '60s, but Enzo refused. Ford decided if he couldn't have them, then he would beat the Prancing Horse on the track. Ford went to Carroll Shelby and asked him to spearhead the program. The early cars combined a steel monocoque chassis with Ford's 4.2-liter V8 engine pumping out around 350 horsepower. The first prototype made its public debuted on April 1, 1964, at the New York Auto Show.
Shelby kept building prototypes, including GT/104, which is for sale here. This version featured a lighter steel chassis and was raced at Le Mans in 1964. However, a fire forced it to retire. It was then repainted and had a 4.7-liter (289-cubic-inch) engine fitted. The chassis had its best finish at the 1965 Daytona Continental 2,000 Kilometers where it finished third with Bob Bondurant and Ritchie Ginther behind the wheel. Later that season, it was shipped back to Ford where it was restored and displayed at auto shows until 1971 when the automaker sold it. Since then, it has had many private owners.

Does the new 2015 Ford Mustang have a burnout control system?

Tue, 10 Dec 2013

Whether it's lane departure warning, blind-spot monitoring or automatic emergency braking, most of the electronic systems we see emerging on new vehicles focus on safety. But there are some there just for enthusiasts. We're talking about systems like automatic throttle blipping for perfect downshifts, or launch control to get that textbook acceleration from a standstill. But the latest system could prove just the opposite of the latter.
Although it has given us most of the details, Ford is still keeping certain elements of its new Mustang secret. But emerging reports may have the skinny on one system which Ford is trying is darnedest to keep under its hat for the time being. That, according to unnamed sources cited by Motor Authority, is burnout control.
The system is reportedly designed to help novices execute the perfect smokey burnout - sort of like launch control, but specifically the opposite. The system could, according to elaborative speculation, lock the front brakes while spooling up the engine to optimal revolutions before dumping (or indicating the driver to do dump) the clutch. A cloud of tire smoke and a long pair of skid marks would then ensue.

Project Ugly Horse: Part VII

Fri, 12 Apr 2013

Devils, Details and Weight Reduction
There are many things I could call this exercise. A party is not one of them.
I've spent three days crammed in the axle well of this 1989 Mustang with nothing to keep me company beyond a trouble light, a DeWalt drill on the very last of its legs and billion razor sharp, red hot slivers of metal with an affinity for my most sensitive of regions. My joints are raw from crawling around on the concrete. I'm half deaf from the shriek of the spot weld cutter and the boom of the cold chisel and hammer.

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