Grafting an American eight-cylinder motor into a pretty European body was one of Carroll Shelby’s fabulous ideas – probably the greatest he ever materialized. The Cobra remains one of America’s most ...

The 1965 Ford Mustang K-Code 289 arrived as a compact, affordable coupe with a racing heart, and it quickly rewrote ...

One of the most desirable and well-known American classic cars is the Shelby Cobra. The Cobra itself would go on to spawn various other versions, one of which is the incredible 289 Dragonsnake. This ...

The 1965 Ford Mustang is remembered as the car that made performance feel attainable for ordinary buyers, but it was the 271 horsepower “Hi-Po” 289 V8 that gave that promise real teeth. This ...

When you are building a ground-up project car it seems like all your progress is backward for the first several months. Much work goes into disassembling the car and installing new parts, yet the car ...

The 289 engine in our 1965 Mustang G.T. 350 clone sounded good and ran OK, but it just didn’t seem right. The bottom-end power was decent but as rpm rose, the 289 felt lazy. The guy we bought the car ...

One of the most successful racing efforts ever to come from MoTown was the Ford GT40. It was built with one objective in mind...to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, which it did, in 1966 and 1967. The car ...