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 ...

1967 was the final model year for the R-Code 427 V8-equipped Ford Galaxie 500. Only 24 of them left the factory out of over 1 million Galaxies built in 1967, making it one of the rarest and most ...

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 ...

In 1962, drivers of Chevrolet and Chrysler products were ripping up quarter-mile race tracks with their 409-and Max Wedge-powered cars. To provide its fans with competitive machinery, Ford Motor ...

The late 1960s were the peak of the American muscle car era, with the streets filled with the rumble of V8 engines and the smell of carbureted exhaust fumes. While the Ford Mustang usually gets top ...

Although Ford has almost always taken a serious approach to motorsports, its mid-'6Os performance activities had grown particularly intense. The company's cars and parts were involved in many areas of ...