
I came across this cool competition called the eBay Motors Masters I thought my American visitors may find interesting. Basically you put together a short video showing off your skills and if you win you get a free trip to Las Vegas for SEMA to show off your project. (Read more…)
The guys over at Autoblog have posted up a fantastic and some would say rare behind-the-scenes video from the movie Bullitt. The movie is best known for one of the best car chase scenes in movie history. Check out the full 10-minute “making of” documentary after the jump. Oh and I’ve included the original chase scene for good measure. (Read more…)
If the global financial crisis is affecting the vintage car market it’s not showing over at Classic Recreations. Where some outfits are downsizing and trying to save every last cent Jason and his guys are doing the opposite annoucing this week they will be producing a limited edition 535hp Eleanor, powered by a 410ci Keith Craft engine. (Read more…)
I stumbled upon this beast earlier in the week. I know it’s heavily modified but hell it’s worth a post purely for the amount of work these guys have put into it. At a quick glance the car runs a bored and stroked 427 Carroll Shelby engine, a Tremec TKO 600 and air suspension. (Read more…)
It’s a little known fact that Kylie Minogue’s father Ron is an avid Mustang enthusiast. But the man with the famous daughters is actually a life member of the Victoria Mustang Owners Club So you would assume he knows his Mustangs. But unfortunetly Ron appears to have been taken for $180,000 Australian Dollars on a 1968 Mustangg he thought was a GT500 but all is not what it seems. (Read more…)
I love finding vintage stories or cool articles from back when the early-era Mustangs were on sale and this is one of those stories. While checking out the Mustang Monthly blog this article stood out.
It seems the writers of the blog are situated in the Petersen Tower on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles which houses The Petersen Publishing archives, “a national treasure from the late Robert Petersen’s company” (Read more…)
Two weeks ago I posted quite a long video of the Clive Sutton tour of the Classic Recreations factory in Yukon, Oklahoma. Well there’s yet another video from Clive Sutton floating around but this time it’s taken back in the UK and gives a quick review of the Classic Recreations Eleanor which they have on sale there.
So if you have some minutes to kill and love videos of Eleanor being driven around then look no further. Check it out after the jump. (Read more…)
You may all remember the great video The Oklahoman created in which they toured the Classic Recreation factory and took one of the cars for drive. Or maybe the short review video of the Classic Recreation car on sale now in the United Kingdom at Clive Sutton. (Read more…)
Here’s a really cool story that’s been dug up from the Mustang vaults. Back in 1966 Ford wanted to celebrate the fact that its Mustang was the hottest-selling car in America and so it was decided they would display one of their cars on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. (Read more…)