Amen Bruinsguy, you beat me to it! The Jensens should be at the beginning of the list along with the Sunbeams & Cobras... When I was getting my Cobra painted a few years ago, the shop my car was in was just finishing a frame off restoration of a 440 powered Jensen. Granted, the 440's these cars came with were fairly de-tuned (even the 6-pack cars made under 300HP if memory serves me). they still were torquey beasts for such a medium sized chassis. ... View more

This article is a day old. Do I get to be the first person to say; "So What!"? I'm sorry to all you Nascar Fans, but I just don't get it. Besides the stickers, everyone brings the same car to the track. If one team's car proves to be markedly faster than the other team's, they handicap the faster car by adding aerodynamic inhibitors. Honestly, the races are usually as exciting as watching paint dry. As far as I am concerned, bring back the old school "Stock Cars", where bigger engines, acid dipped body panels and yes even "creative cheating" would win the races... THAT was racing... What's next NASCAR, everyone who finishes gets a "participation trophy"? LoL... ... View more

It almost seems a shame to break up this awesome collection! I mean come on, all of these beautiful/awesome 60's vehicles, all (for the most part) in the same color! Somebody with an extra $5 Million in their pocket needs to step up and say "I'll adopt them ALL"! Just to keep the kids together... 😉 Jay (Leno)??? Anyone? Bueller...? Bueller...? 😉 ... View more

"Real" Shelby Cobras, big block or small block, are so rare, I'm not so sure that the off-color matters much as it would on something else which is mass produced. So long as it is professional/good paint work, it's just a minor/low dollar negative for the Cobra I think. Heck, any "modern" high quality paint job is likely 10X better than the original was anyway... ... View more

Are these really that over-priced, just because they are Neil's cars? The Hagerty Condition Values are either right in the range of the expected sale prices or even lower than what is expected in some cases. The guy was a musical genius, and he obviously had pretty amazing taste in cars.. If it benefits his family, I hope they sell for a TON of $$$ over market. ... View more

You took the words right out of my mouth... All of them, just beautiful! Uniquely faceted masters of their art, just like their owner was.. ... View more

Ego.... Probably more like in-breeding... LoL... The "Fords" have anyway been rather "eccentric". I can't give too much info, but a buddy of mine works for the current "Ford" at the top of the glass house in Dearborn; he has a very close relationship with the man. My friend says; "The guy is a loon"... LoL... I hope I didn't just get him fired... LoL... ... View more

Cool ride... Gotta love the 289 HiPo 4 Speed. I'm guessing it'll go for @$200-$300K. It needs a big wing on the back deck! LoL... ... View more

I just thought of something else... Wouldn't it be fun to build that car today; small and light weight, and put another Yamaha inspired engine in the rear, that being the old Ford SHO V6 motor/drivetrain? Or, how about a newer 2.7L V6 Twin Turbo Ecoboost like I have in my Fusion Sport (325 HP, 380 ft-lbs) or even the current SHO's 3.5L V6 Twin Turbo Ecoboost (365 HP, 350ft-lbs)? Try and limit the weight to @ 2000#, it would be a BLAST on the track! ... View more

I agree! That thing looks like it would be a down-force generating monster! The faster you drove it, the faster you could corner... Too bad ... View more

I agree with you Robert. I thought the 2004-2009 Mustang was a great/retro design that looked really sharp. BUT, I honestly do like the look of the new generation as well. In some ways, I see "Porsche 911" in their lines (especially in the wider body dtance and rear-curve configuariton), but it's mixed is with just enough classic "Mustang" to make it work with e Ford badge on it. In terms of making a car with BIG HP and the commensurate high MPH capability, the lines of the newest generation would certainly be much more likely to be safe without the addition of some serious ground-effects that would be a requirement to the older retro-body... ... View more

It IS a convertible so I'm sure body integrity/stiffness is an issue. And, even though yours was also a convertible, no offense, but your 428SCJ was pretty timid compared to the boosted Gen.3 Coyote engine in this car, even at 850HP. There was also a lot more steel in your car than the current iterations have. But, I hear what you are saying all the same... ... View more

I HATE calling Wendell a "Nascar" driver... He lived through the age when Stock Car Racing was what it was called (and WAS). Nascar is lace-pantywaist kiddie-daycare compared to stock car racing of his time... ... View more

LOVE your post Vern! Wendell fought some serious racism in his day unfortunately; both on the track and in his personal life I'm sure... While I can't speak for everyone here, I'm glad that nowadays, it seems that the "car guy" population of America has pretty much grown up to be color blind and even gender blind. Personally, I enjoy having you as a "car guy" along with me! LoL... To me, we don't need to hyphenate our membership in that car guy "club" either. No matter what we may look like on the outside or what dangles between our legs in the shower, motor oil runs through ALL of our veins, just the same! 😉 ... View more

Electric bikes!?! What's the point? Bikes are already pretty fuel efficient, and besides the track, how much cruising/off-roading distance can you get out of a battery that will comfortably fit/not overload a bike? I can hear it now; "Hello Hagerty. I'm on my electric dual sport bike out in the middle of BFE and I need a charge! Can you helicopter in a fresh battery to my GPS coordinates for me"? I wonder how much THAT "towing bill" would be... 😉 ... View more

Hmmm, C6 auto; plenty strong to take whatever that beast of an FE plant can dish out. Auto tranny; the best setup for a trip down the strip, no doubt. I still have a 52,000 mile original 428FE with it's original, never un-mated C-6 still attached to it sitting in my garage awaiting use in the next Ford car project (67-69 Mustang fastback?). The Super Snake gets 9 MPG? That's pretty good... My 427SC with a 520 inch 385 series stroker motor and TKO 5 speed gets slightly worse than that in the city. My "worst" mileage day was one that I had at O Reilly Park with my friends. We did autocross, road course, high bank oval and then the strip opened up in the evening. That day I averaged 2.4 MPG! Stick that in your blender and mix it Mr. Prius! LoL... ... View more

Being an AC Cobra guy, I and others like me know Peter is THE true hero behind the Shelby racing history and specifically, the winning of the 1965 FIA GT & Manufacturers World Championships. These titles, which still to this day, is the FIRST and ONLY time an American car has ever be crowned with those accolades! Peter designed that winning car, the 1965 Daytona Coupe, using his own exceptional/natural talent for aerodynamics, a slide rule and simple hand carved wood bucks to hammer the body shape he envisioned in his mind into that World Champion, iconic vehicle! Anything Peter does, WILL be exceptional. Being a classic muscle car guy, I AM personally disappointed that this new car will be electric. Another point to make me frown is that it is also likely to be WAY WAY quicker than anything else which is fueled at a gas pump... 😞 Nonetheless, I can't wait to see what he comes up with. I'm also hoping it will beat the snot out of the Tesla Model S Plaid (which is rated to do 0-60 in under 2 seconds!) all while looking "classically beautiful" as Peter certainly knows how to do... You GO Pete!!! ... View more

Sheeple: People who mindlessly follow the group/"flock" which collectively is being led somewhere they have no say in, by a low-intelligence leader/"herder". They are led either to the slaughter house. Or, if they are lucky, to simply be "stripped" of the fruits of their existence. Either place, they are not smart/inquisitive enough to ascertain until it's too late to do anything about it anyway. Baaahhhhh aaaahhhh aaahh ahh, get in line..... You shouldn't be thinking for yourself... We know what's better for you than you do.... SHEEPLE! ... View more

Living in the mitten I have to agree with you in a lot of ways.... BUT, Kalifornia IS a beautiful state too! Great place to visit, but I could never live there or try and raise a family there... I even tried once; hated it in very short order.... ... View more

I'll bet, so long as their market share doesn't decrease for whatever the reason, that their product prices are likely to DROP because of this consolidation of resources with Comp... ... View more

Well, 1). Business sense says that Kalifornia sucks because it's too expensive to maintain a presence there. 2). They are merging with Comp, who is smarter in that they already work in states which are much less expensive to operate a business out of, AND they are consolidating their operations to be more efficient in the lower cost environment of the midwest. ... View more

Ed, I kinda feel sorry for you if you really believe that. 1 in 4 wants to live there? LoL... The fact that you call the rest of us losers for our opinion is also very telling.... You have drank so much of the Kool-Aide for so long, you really don't have any idea what it's like to live in a FREE state (that being NOT-Kalifornia). The business climate in Kali is terrible. The cost of living is through the roof. The illegal immigration is out of control (you guys INVITE IT!) Your state government is both morally and economically bankrupt. The poverty/people living on the streets in the major cities is shocking. The loss of freedom you live with is unfathomable to a God fearing, Gun Toting, Hot Rodding kinda guy like me (and many others on this site I'm sure). I personally cannot see how anyone could really stand it out there for anything besides a vacation, and believe me, I HAVE spent extensive time in Kalifornia. The traffic ALONE drove me nutz! I couldn't wait to return home after a very short time. Will the last person to leave Kalifornia please leave the lights so the illegals can read their mail-in ballots which are written in Spanish. ... View more

I vaguely remember that car. Looking at it again, the front end of it reminds me of a cross between a 1973 AMC Javelin and the James Bond Lotus Esprit turbo from "The Spy Who Loved Me" when he converted it to "submarine mode" (the tires all tucked in/disappeared when it was a sub so it had a longer looking snout than normal, just like the Dale). LoL... RE: the transgender thief. First, think about it; he was wanted for counterfeiting, so changing ones gender back when that was considering highly abnormal/"circus side show" stuff would be a GREAT way of avoiding arrest, and It obviously worked because he was on the lamb for 10 years before doing the Dale scam. Second, nowadays it would be smarter for him to make his transgender status well known, and HE'D PROBABLY BE ABLE TO SCAM A TON MORE PEOPLE THAN HE DID BACK IN THE DAY as the modern/PC crowd would flock to him and throw him their money! LoL... ... View more

Dude, there isn't a Mopar product at this auction... It's all Government Motors. ... View more

Out of all of these tanks, I'd probably choose the ZL1 Vette simply because of the rarity of the motor and the likely quickness of that car. Personally, out of all the old "factory original" muscle cars, I still dream of owning a '69-'70 Boss 429 Mustang. ... View more

I agree with you MeJ, that Miura is a sexy car and a pretty groundbreaking design for the day. When my bro. had a couple Ferrari's (mid-70's) a few guys in his sports car club had Miuras. I got a ride in one of them when I was a kid; FAST! I was too young to drive then, but one thing that I remember about that car was when you were in the drivers seat and looking back through the inside rear-view mirror, you were essentially looking "through" the carburetors/throttle linkage which were positioned on top of the motor which was just outside the cockpit's rear window. That was pretty cool.... ... View more

Great story... Being a native Detroiter "gear head" who grew up at the tail-end of the legendary muscle-car kingdom known as Woodward Avenue in the late 60's/early 70's I can really relate to this one. God Bless GQ and his family. Keep that car EXACTLY THE WAY IT IS and KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY! Back in my "hot rod" days (Black Ghost era +10 years), Woodward Ave, was too heavily watched by the po-po, so we used to Cruise Telegraph road (usually between West Chicago & Ford Rd) and Gratiot Ave too. Back in my days (especially in the downtown Detroit/Gratiot cruising area) there was a '63 Belvedere with a highly modified (nitrous?) 426 Wedge motor in it that ruled the street racing scene. For such an ugly car, that thing flew! All the badging/trim was removed from the car and the custom art-work on the back edge of the trunk identified the car as "Rat Poison". Does anyone remember that car? I did a quick search of the net and couldn't find anything on it... All I remember was that thing was pretty much unbeatable... ... View more

I was thinking the same thing. My neighbor is Jimmy's daughter, and she has some wonderful stories about here dad and that car. She has many pictures of her in her "little girl dresses" with her dad and the Silver Bullet when they would go out and cruise together too. Since the Silver Bullet was pretty well modified (ran mid-10's in the 1/4), I'm betting it would have taken a "stock" Hemi Challenger without too much difficulty. But, it still would have been a fun one to watch. I'll ask her if she recalls hearing anything like this, but she was pretty young then, I doubt she'll have any recollection about the Black Ghost.... ... View more

Build a Cobra, but wait, the author says DON'T put a 600HP plant into it?!? I must have done something wrong... I have a Superformance 427SC with a bored and stroked 520 cube 385 Series Ford plant in it, mated to a Tremec 5 speed; makes roughly 650HP and 700Ft-Lbs at the flywheel. That's where I would suggest starting! LoL... On the charts, my Cobra IDLES at @350HP. This is also THE best car to teach somebody to drive a manual transmission with because even at idle, if one quickly dumps the clutch, the motor will not stall. The car just lurches forward and rolls along at idle... LoL... I actually would like to but an Ariel Atom type of vehicle, but I'd rather use a Ford Eco-boost than the Chevy Cobalt motor. I'd also like to do a Monster Miata (small block V-8 transplant into a Miata). I understand these are fairly easy to do. So many projects, so little time and money... ... View more

AMEN Old Road... Same boring cars, same boring drive in a flattened circle. The guy in front at the beginning is usually the guy in front at the end. Oh Boy, how exciting (NOT!)! Ever since I got the chance to drive a NASCAR car at MIS, and I realized how stoopid at all was with everyone essentially driving the same car", I haven't been able to stomach watching a whole race again (since our cars were governed to @145MPH, it was essentially the same thing as a real NASCAR race but at @60-70MPH slower speed is all). Give me back the old days when "you race what you brought". Whatever engine could be stuffed into the chassis by the factory could be raced, but of course they would be "built" for max horsepower beforehand of course. Acid dip the body panels to make the cars lighter, hide fuel in the big-ass rear bumpers, "cheat" to win (within reason) and drivers with HUGE cajones to take those cars well past what ANY engineer in Detroit could have ever imagined would be possible. THAT WAS RACING!!! Today, they will "restrict" your car if you have too much of an advantage. Today, it's more like whorespower they develop, not HORSEPOWER, because all they are concerned about is the mighty buck$. No more Ford vs. Chevy vs. Mopar vs. whoever. Today, driving in NASCAR is like working a dead end office job, but at speed; "OK Mr. Driver, get into your little cubicle which is exactly like the cubical next to you and drive around the track for a while. Don't get too excited though because we're still waiting for the man in the sky-box upstairs to tell us who gets to win the race this weekend".... ... View more

The problem with those modular engines is how HUGE/WIDE they are... It takes some "lube" to fit them into a '65 AC Cobra replica (but it can be done). I would think a '67-'68 Mustang fastback would be a good fit for one of these beauties! Of course you'd want at least a 5 speed Tremec behind it, or 6 gears would be even nicer since these engines are designed to have a lot of gears behind them to keep the motor within its designed power band. ... View more

Hmmmmm, I was thinking more along the lines of my Arctic Cat ZR8000. My bad I guess. 😉 ... View more

Bummer... I was hoping this would include a video of the production process... 😞 ... View more

Oh man... I remember these "things"... "Buick, which matched the SD-455’s 390 lb-ft of torque and delivered it 600 rpm sooner at just 3000 rpm". 455 cu.in. making ONLY 390 ft-lbs of torque! Holy Choke-Hold Batman! My son's 2.7L (@165 cu.in.) V-6 Fusion Sport makes 400ft-lbs... The 520 cu.in. ground pounder I have in my 427SC replica makes nearly 700ft-lbs at @3500rpms... LoL... NO WONDER why people started buying Japanese cars around this time. If you're going to go slow, you might as well get good mileage doing it. LoL...   ... View more

I had a friend in high school (early 80's) who had a 70 Bronco that we dropped a 1969 Boss 302 engine in to! 4 speed wide ratio tranny, aftermarket aluminum intake (taller than stock I believe), still mechaincal lifters but a higher profile/lift cam than stock, newer big CFM Holley double pumper. Quarters/fenders were cut and flared. Good sized BFG meats putting the power down. Talk about a little truck that could boogie on the streets! Off road the thing was insane! I think it could climb a vertical wall with the power/weight ratio that thing had... Ahhh, the good old days... ... View more