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This Windsor, Ontario built 90° V8 was introduced in 1962 as a 221 cubic inch engine. It was Ford's first modern lightweight small-block replacing the old Y-block. In 1963 the small block displacement was bumped up to 260 and 289.

"Suddently it's 2007"

On June 15, 1957, a brand-new Plymouth Belvedere V-8 Sport Coupe with Sportone was slowly lowered into a time capsule on the southeast corner of the Tulsa County Courthouse lawn. The car was to remain underground for 50 years, when the person (or his heirs) whose guess was closest to the exact population of Tulsa in 2007 will win the car.

On a clear day in the fall of 1940, workers along the road from Tucson to Phoenix suddenly became aware of a plume of dust in the distance. There was nothing unusual about that - the road was just a trail of packed sand in those days - but this time, as the cloud came closer, its vortex approaching at a breakneck speed, the car did not slow down.

As the crew scrambled to safety, the yellow monster smashed through the barriers at the work site. Swerving wildly, the car plowed headlong into the ditch the workers had been digging,

At the very beginning of General Motors, the divisions competed against each other, launching rival products in each other's markets, stealing sales and confusing customers. Under the iron rule of President Alfred P. Sloan, inter-divisional rivalry was all but eliminated.

Though it has been decades since Mustang coupes rolled off the assembly line bearing the legendary Shelby name, the cars will once again thunder across the roads under a deal inked by Carroll Shelby, Sanderson Sales & Marketing and Unique Motorcars of Irving, Texas.