Having owned one of those magnificent beasts for 53 years, and having worked on hundreds more, I truly enjoyed the article!     I do take a little bit of exception of the comparison to a 1970 Lincoln to a series 2 E-type:  the S2 2+2 was in bad shape, or someone hasn't driven a 1970 Lincoln very far! ... View more

As a 60+ year veteran of the car hobby, but with a pragmatic eye towards its foibles as well as its fun, I do not think Lutz has this correct. That said, due to driving and its deleterious effects on the environment, we WILL have to rejigger how this hobby proceeds, apace. As Paul Simon once sang, 'every generation throws a hero up the pop charts,' and the GTI certainly qualifies. ... View more

Another option: I took my '69, slammed it to the ground, made it a 2WD, and took that *awful* Buick engine out, and put a Jaguar XK in it! It makes it's world premiere at the Salt in '22...c'mon out! I've been hinting at Hagerty to do a feature on it. ... View more

I asked the nice young salesman if I could get it in "Grabber Green:" he looked at me, as if I'd suddenly grown a third eye...:) ... View more

I, too, wonder about the branding of it: Seems to me, it would have tracked better, as a pickup, had Ford christened it the long-since-gone F100. ... View more

My 1971 Datsun 521 was the PERFECT size for around town, small use uses! I've always missed that truck--bought new in 1971 for $1900!--and it served me well. I am looking forward to having a "small" truck again. ... View more

Matt, I ordered mine in August, and have been patiently waiting! Ford claims I should have it in the next week, so if anyone at the Denver office wants to go for a ride, or to do a long-term report on it, I'm happy to offer my truck and decades of auto knowledge. ... View more

In actuality, the wing was designed so that the trunk would open! Quite a few years ago, in some article, the designers fessed up to that. ... View more

In 2020, seeing this car, and all the other very cool spectator rat rods, was one of the main motivations for me to come back and finish my Jaguar m-powered Jeepster hot rod! I will be there in 2022 with it, so come talk to me if you see it! ... View more

My descendants will check back in with ya, in 2050! 😬 ... View more

If only they offered it, in Grabber Green.... 😬 ... View more

I must posit: my choice is rooted in over59 years in tyr car game, so I know *precisely* what Im getting. The ruff'n tuff, hairy-chested Murkin truck folks will squawk, but Ford is doing the right thing. ... View more

I have my order put in! I want my vote to count, towards smaller p'up trucks! ... View more

One of the very best conversions I did on my 1963 jaguar E Type was to install an EDIS ignition system: not only does it get rid of the troublesome points, it greatly increased the cars driveability, startability, mileage, and overall it literally was the best thing I ever did to it! ... View more

I may be the ONLY human to seap a Jaguar 4.2 liter XJ engine into a Jeepster rat rod: maybe youse fellers wanna know more? ... View more

So, after a decades-long absence from the cockpit of a "race car," I decided to show those who may have remembered me...just how far I'd fallen.   Some call it "losing' my flipping' mind"...but I digress.   Enter my 1967 Rover 2000TC, a proud and deeply-flawed survivor car. The only major thing that's been done to it is an engine rebuild, due to a failed oil pump. it has the ragged OE paint, the ragged-ier OE interior, and only a few square feet of the boot floor that's been badly patched. Other than that, Margaret is pretty much as she left the factory, at Solihull.   No seriously..that's what I did: I entered it in one of SCCA's local Rallycross events.   After the laughter subsided, and I passed Tech, I competed in the daytime stage. I weenied out of staying till the late hours of the evening stage, afraid I might not find any of the hard-to-source original parts that might have fallen off during the night.   But, the Mighty Rover--Margaret, to her closest friends--availed herself well, and in the day stage, set one of the faster times, in its class.   Hey, it's not a full-on LeMons racer, but I think it's close enough!   It takes true heroism--or a seriously compromised sense of personal self-worth, and a vanishing sense of personal safety to enter a 53-year old British sedan in a racing event.     I'll let you guess which overtook me....           PS: don't tell McKeel I raced it.   ... View more

My 'rent's got this from the OO, in 1965, and it went to Switzerland in 2016! It was a great 51 years!   ... View more

For over 35 years, I was a British car wrench, and one of my favorites were Rover 2000 TCs: my first car was a customer's 1971, which got totaled when a Bug ran a red light and t-boned it.   I spent the next 33 years in search of one and here she is: Margaret, a 1967 P6, largely a survivor car...that gets USED!   Here she is at a rallycross, near Denver, last year: after many years away from auto crossing, the old girl set one of the faster times of the day!       ... View more