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Ford Archive
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Curbside Recycling: 1986 Ford LTD Brougham – Upgraded To Pony Power!
Posted on November 12, 2021 | 36 CommentsThe 1983-1986 Ford LTD is no longer a common sight in the junkyard, however since my family owned two of them (’83 and ’84) I’ve generally held them in low […] -
Curbside Classic: 1950 Hot Rod Ford – A True Love Story
Posted on November 4, 2021 | 31 Comments(first posted in 2009) What are the odds of still being married to your first sweetheart from high school? And of still owning your other first sweetheart, the car you […] -
Curbside New Car Non-Review: 2022 Ford Maverick XLT AWD – Game On…
Posted on October 27, 2021 | 58 CommentsAfter coming across and posting the first 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz I found last month, I’ve been stealthily creeping around trying to flush a new Ford Maverick out of the […] -
Curbside Classic: 1989 Ford LTD Crown Victoria – If It’s Good Enough For Ben Matlock…
Posted on September 29, 2021 | 88 Comments(first posted 5/27/2013) It seems like CC has had B-body after B-body over the past few months–or is that years? Delta 88s, Caprices, Bonneville Broughams, over and over. Well, CC […] -
Curbside Classic: 1971 Ford LTD Convertible – The Name On The Title Starts With The Letter “N”
Posted on September 3, 2021 | 116 Comments(first posted 6/21/2013) (Author’s Note: Sometimes these articles literally write themselves, as evidenced by these e-mails.) June 2, 2013 Jason, I was looking in your draft folder on the back end […] -
Curbside Classic: 1971-ish Ford Econoline 200 – Keep On Keeping On
Posted on August 26, 2021 | 27 CommentsEarlier this spring, my daughter rekindled her relationship with Miss Carol, her dance teacher from when we lived in Hannibal. Miss Carol’s dance school seems to be as well known […] -
Forgotten Classic: Ford EXP Turbo – A Lost SVO Masterpiece?
Posted on August 9, 2021 | 49 CommentsA low production two seater with a manual transmission, turbo-charged four cylinder and factory Koni suspension from the eighties certainly sounds like it would be a sought after classic […] -
Curbside Classic: 1953 Ford Consul – The English Immigrant
Posted on July 30, 2021 | 49 CommentsExport or Die. That short but powerful post-war British expression blazed through my mind upon seeing this exported Ford Consul, a product of Ford of England. While the economic conditions […] -
Curbside Classic: 1986 Ford LTD Crown Victoria – The Final Ford
Posted on July 28, 2021 | 135 Comments(first posted 7/28/2015) “Waddya mean “The Last Ford” – Ford still makes cars. Indeed it does. You can buy a Focus, a Fusion, or any number of crossovers. But if […] -
Curbside Recycling: 1983 Ford Ranger XL – Everybody Says This Is What They Want But Nobody Stepped Up So Here It Is
Posted on July 14, 2021 | 68 CommentsI’m beginning to feel less like some dude trawling the junkyards and more like Cal Worthington hawking miles and miles of slightly used cars what with all of the barely […] -
CC Motorsports: The 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race Lunch Stop In Rolla, Missouri
Posted on June 30, 2021 | 16 CommentsSince its inception in 1983, the Great Race has visited forty-six of the forty-eight continental states in the United States plus locations in Canada and Mexico. For 2021 (a reschedule […] -
Curbside Classic: 1970 Ford F-100 – The Driving Force of an Addiction
Posted on June 25, 2021 | 48 Comments(first posted 6/25/2015) It was a warm Saturday morning in late spring or early summer. My ten year-old self was outside helping my father collect yard debris from an overnight […] -
Father’s Day Weekend Special – The Cars of My Father, Part 1
Posted on June 19, 2021 | 35 Comments(first posted 6/20/2015) Doesn’t time quickly slip by? Having had the realization I can remember my father as being significantly younger than I am now, it seemed wise to […] -
Automotive History: 1973 Ford Cortina MkIII in Canada -They Sold That Here?
Posted on June 17, 2021 | 139 Comments(first posted 7/17/2015) Ford’s Cortina is a certified classic in the UK but it does not enjoy the same high profile in North America. While it is perhaps not known […]
![Curbside Recycling: 1986 Ford LTD Brougham – Upgraded To Pony Power! The 1983-1986 Ford LTD is no longer a common sight in the junkyard, however since my family owned two of them (’83 and ’84) I’ve generally held them in low […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_7025.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1950 Hot Rod Ford – A True Love Story (first posted in 2009) What are the odds of still being married to your first sweetheart from high school? And of still owning your other first sweetheart, the car you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/pjj.jpg)
![Curbside New Car Non-Review: 2022 Ford Maverick XLT AWD – Game On… After coming across and posting the first 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz I found last month, I’ve been stealthily creeping around trying to flush a new Ford Maverick out of the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_6748.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1989 Ford LTD Crown Victoria – If It’s Good Enough For Ben Matlock… (first posted 5/27/2013) It seems like CC has had B-body after B-body over the past few months–or is that years? Delta 88s, Caprices, Bonneville Broughams, over and over. Well, CC […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1024,height=682,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/aa-3-30-2013-001.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971 Ford LTD Convertible – The Name On The Title Starts With The Letter “N” (first posted 6/21/2013) (Author’s Note: Sometimes these articles literally write themselves, as evidenced by these e-mails.) June 2, 2013 Jason, I was looking in your draft folder on the back end […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ford-1971-ltd-conv.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1971-ish Ford Econoline 200 – Keep On Keeping On Earlier this spring, my daughter rekindled her relationship with Miss Carol, her dance teacher from when we lived in Hannibal. Miss Carol’s dance school seems to be as well known […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_2080.jpeg)
![Forgotten Classic: Ford EXP Turbo – A Lost SVO Masterpiece? A low production two seater with a manual transmission, turbo-charged four cylinder and factory Koni suspension from the eighties certainly sounds like it would be a sought after classic […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ford-exp-1983-2.jpg)
![Curbside Classic: 1953 Ford Consul – The English Immigrant Export or Die. That short but powerful post-war British expression blazed through my mind upon seeing this exported Ford Consul, a product of Ford of England. While the economic conditions […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_1847.jpeg)
![Curbside Classic: 1986 Ford LTD Crown Victoria – The Final Ford (first posted 7/28/2015) “Waddya mean “The Last Ford” – Ford still makes cars. Indeed it does. You can buy a Focus, a Fusion, or any number of crossovers. But if […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Ford-1986-CV.jpg)
![Curbside Recycling: 1983 Ford Ranger XL – Everybody Says This Is What They Want But Nobody Stepped Up So Here It Is I’m beginning to feel less like some dude trawling the junkyards and more like Cal Worthington hawking miles and miles of slightly used cars what with all of the barely […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_3869.jpg)
![CC Motorsports: The 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race Lunch Stop In Rolla, Missouri Since its inception in 1983, the Great Race has visited forty-six of the forty-eight continental states in the United States plus locations in Canada and Mexico. For 2021 (a reschedule […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_0063-1.jpeg)
![Curbside Classic: 1970 Ford F-100 – The Driving Force of an Addiction (first posted 6/25/2015) It was a warm Saturday morning in late spring or early summer. My ten year-old self was outside helping my father collect yard debris from an overnight […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Ford-Truck-F100-1970.jpg)
![Father’s Day Weekend Special – The Cars of My Father, Part 2 (first posted 6/20/2015) Yesterday in Part 1 of this two part series, we covered the cars of my father from 1946 to 1981. Today we shall cover 1983 to the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/1983-Mercury-Full-Line-041.jpg)
![Father’s Day Weekend Special – The Cars of My Father, Part 1 (first posted 6/20/2015) Doesn’t time quickly slip by? Having had the realization I can remember my father as being significantly younger than I am now, it seemed wise to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Jasons-dad.jpg)
![Automotive History: 1973 Ford Cortina MkIII in Canada -They Sold That Here? (first posted 7/17/2015) Ford’s Cortina is a certified classic in the UK but it does not enjoy the same high profile in North America. While it is perhaps not known […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Ford-UK-Cortina-Mk3.jpg)


