Before the Street Hemi thundered into Detroit’s horsepower wars, the cannon fire had already begun. Chevrolet lobbed its Z11 Impala into the fray in 1963, a short-lived unicorn packing a bored-out 427 ...
The Ford Galaxie 500XL 427 arrived at a turning point in American performance, when full-size family cars were suddenly expected to dominate stock car tracks and stoplight sprints alike. The ...
Everyone loves to crown the Mustang as the best and most influential Ford muscle car from the '60s, but was it really? Those who are familiar with the Ford Galaxie's rich history would beg to differ.
Embracing the “race on Sunday, sell on Monday” mantra, Henry Ford II decided in 1961 that it was time for his eponymous company to get back into motorsports after officially withdrawing in 1957. To ...