The Boss 429 and 429 Super Cobra Jet V8 engines rank as some of the most powerful engines ever put in the Ford Mustang. In fact, if we limit our discussion to first-gen Mustangs, these engines, both ...

Sitting at the crossroads of utility and performance, this overlooked Ford model from 1971 packed a shocking punch under the ...

Fifty-three years ago, when cars were cars and computers the size of industrial refrigerators, Detroit had the addictive habit of building all-mechanical raw-power solid metal muscle. It was a time ...

1969 was a great year for American muscle cars. Chevrolet had the Corvette, Chevelle, and Camaro, while Dodge sold the Charger, Super Bee, and Coronet. Plymouth had three cool rigs in showrooms: the ...

For Ford rodders it's been a long wait. A full decade! The last true high-performance Mustangs to roll from the Ford factories were the Boss 351s and the 429 "Super Cobra Jets" of 1971. But Ford ...

The pursuit of performance in America, which has been going on since the automobile was invented, was just about coming to an end when the 1971 Mustangs were introduced in the fall of 1970. By the ...

If the first fuel crisis of the 1970s was a meteor heading toward Earth, then the tail end of the 1960s was the period when the dinosaurs were still stomping around like they owned the place. Cars ...

Ford introduced the 385 big block V8 engine series in the late 1960s as it phased out the MEL (Mercury Edsel Lincoln) big block design. The 385 big block, named for the 3.85-inch crankshaft stroke ...