Most machine-massaging projects just sort of happen. The masseur begins on a budget… then, whammo, the project becomes bigger than Rodzilla and meaner than a junkyard flog. Matt LaRusso, a 23-year-old ...

The 1966 Ford Fairlane GT arrived with clean lines, serious power and the right badge, yet it never claimed the spotlight the way its rivals did. Positioned between family sedan and headline-grabbing ...

Dragstrip action used to get Mitch Jackson's heart pumping, but after 10 seconds of torque-twisting acceleration, the ride always came to an abrupt end. His '66 Fairlane race car sported a 408ci ...

1966 witnessed the debut of the fifth-generation Fairlane, and Ford decided it was the right moment to introduce several notable channels, beginning with the return of previously retired packages. The ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

Launched in 1955 as a full-size car, the Ford Fairlane became one of America's first intermediate vehicles in 1962. Two years later, the Fairlane spawned the successful drag-spec Thunderbolt, but the ...

Ideally (in Dearborn's view), those buying ragtop Plymouth Belvederes and Chevy Chevelles would have felt like stodgy oldsters compared to drivers of new '66 Fairlanes.

The 1966 Dodge Charger and the 1966 Ford Fairlane rolled into showrooms in the same model year, but they chased attention in very different ways. One arrived as a dramatic fastback coupe, the other as ...