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The star of this weekend's Barrett-Jackson auction in Las Vegas was this 1964 Ford Fairlane K-code which sold for an amazing $700,000 with all proceeds going to charity. This very red Fairlane was originally constructed by Rousch Industries as a promotional vehicle for the auction company. Last night it was auctioned with all proceeds going to benefit the Armed Forces Foundation. More »
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Welcome to Found Off The Street, our look at cars found on the cape that rust liked so much it decided to summer there; Cape Cod, MA. Today we have a 1955 Ford Fairlane. More »
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There is little besides a modified hood and missing high beams to indicate what is hiding beneath the fairly docile exterior of this 1964 Ford Fairlane. While it may look like an ordinary midsized passenger car, this particular Fairlane is one of the 100 427 equipped track beasts built by Ford in 1964. It's called the Thunderbolt and this rare piece of muscle car history is currently for sale on Ebay. More »
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47 year old American cars aren't exactly known for their handling prowess, but this Holman-Moody equipped 64 Ford Fairlane isn't just any 47 year old American car. After watching the way this old Ford attacks the ‘ring, we feel pretty safe guessing this Fairlane to be one of the company's modernized race cars (seen here). More »
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What better way to set your day right than with the sound of a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 — freshly prepped by Nascar legends Holman-Moody — dive-bombing the Nürburgring? (Hat tip to multitudes!) [Popular HotRodding] More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. There's a real shortage of mint-green Fairlane sedans in this world! More »
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Wanna rebel against tradition? Spit in the eye of convention? Enrage old fogies and confuse the kids? This is how you do it. The Fairlane Afterburner; one of the most original and over-the-top customs we've seen in a while. More »
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What kind of car would a couple of no-nonsense plainclothes Los Angeles cops drive in 1967? Forget those big lumbering full-size sedans! Joe Friday and Bill Gannon insisted on a snappy-looking '67 Fairlane. More »
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We're celebrating Independence Day with a week-long automotive Amerigasm heading down two diametrically opposite roads. The first, started yesterday, is a salute to the best car commercials — a celebration of the conspicuous over-consumption that made this nation great. The second road is one we'll be traveling at government-mandated speeds — a salute to the police car. While The Man may always be trying to keep us down, we salute him for having some killer vehicles with which to do it. You can take both roads this week here. —Ed.
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So the DOTS Bonus Edition photos keep rolling in from every direction- and I'm doing my best to post them all- but the stockpile of car photos from Denver has reached absurd proportions. First there was Kitt on the south side, then EJacobs started shooting interesting old cars in the northwestern part of town; by this time I have a backlog of a dozen vehicles from each of them. To add to the fun, I get shipped to Denver for work every few months, so I can add my own photos to the list! Today, we've got one set of photos each from Kitt, Ejacobs, and me. The unifying theme: Old Fords! Make the jump for three more big galleries. More »
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Apparently the wholesome singing-and-dancing advertisements Ford used for the '69 American models were so good that they recycled the same concept for their Australian ads the following year. The Aussie musicians and dancers are at least twice as hip as their American counterparts, but that's not saying much; Geetz Romo would likely judge them to be square with slightly rounded corners. Still, check out those Australian Falcons and Fairlanes, all destined for the Lord Humungus' motor pool! More »
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Sometimes you'll find a fairly complete old car sitting in the wrecking yard, but I've never seen anything like this '66 Fairlane wagon before. It's a bit rough (and that '56 Chevy hood ornament being used to prop up the bug deflector looks funky indeed), but not a single part has been removed. The keys were still in the ignition! This strikes me as strange, because every car that ends up in a big self-service junkyard has been through an auction process, typically with a minimum bid of $150 or less, and it doesn't seem possible that not a single bidder at the auction was willing to pop his or her clutch for 150 bucks to obtain a 99% original 42-year-old Fairlane. I don't have any Ford projects now (nor do I have time to eBay-ize a bunch of Fairlane parts) but I did call a Ford-restoring friend who told me he'd come out the next day and make sure none of the good parts went to The Crusher. More »
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Well here we are, Round 2 of Jalopnik-style madness. After the first round of voting, we've eliminated half of the 32-car field. And there sure were some upsets; Parnelli Jones' Big Oly Bronco losing to some white Italian car being perhaps the most shocking. We even had a last minute buzzer-beater, with "Billy" beating out the Rolls Limo by only 2 votes! But, now it's time to vote our sweet 16 down to an elite 8. We'll be one step closer to figuring out which car you think is the coolest on-screen in the 1974 film Gone In 60 Seconds. Update: Polls have closed, voting for Round Three here. More »
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Yesterday, we gave you the brackets. Today, the voting begins and Jalopnik-style March Madness ensues. If you haven't finalized your own bracket for the office pool just yet, hurry up! The field of 32 cars from the original 1974 film Gone In 60 Seconds is about to get narrowed down by your votes. At the end this round, we'll be down to 16 sweet rides. Ultimately, we want to find out what you think the coolest car in the movie is. Now some cars are cool all by themselves, but you also have to consider what role they played on screen. So who knows what the results will look like? Update: Polls for Round 1 are closed. Vote in Round 2 here. More »
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Interested in all the March madness tournament bracketry, but not really into college hoops? Maybe you're looking for a way to redeem yourself after penciling-in Duke to go all the way? Whatever the case, we've decided to throw our own Jalopnik-style bracket-madness party! Instead of basketball, we've got cars! And don't think this isn't some randomly-selected field of Consumer Reports top choices. What we have is a 32-car selection from one of the coolest car movies ever made: the original Gone In 60 Seconds from 1974. Through the rest of this week and part of next, your votes will be tallied to decide the winners of each face-off. Polls will open tomorrow, so that gives you today to print out your own bracket, fill in your predictions, tell your buddies, and make up your own office pool. It also gives you time to go watch the movie, but if you want just a quick refresher, we've provided that too. More »
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Many of you have been kind enough to send DOTS Bonus Edition photos my way, and you're all very good about not raking me over the coals for taking so damn long to get to some of them. Reader Vance, who dwells behind the Orange Curtain, shot this very clean 1955 Ford Fairlane on the streets of Tustin back in October. Now, most houses down in SoCal have garages, so you don't see quite as much old iron on the street... but that desert climate means you just don't get rust. When you're done checking out the Fairlane, make the jump to see the Bonus LTD, with commentary by Vance. More »
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So Ford grabbed the same incredibly wholesome dancers they used to sell the '69 Mustangs when it came time to try to move some '69 Torinos off the showroom floors. Compare the nauseating perkiness of this ad to the worldly white-collar hoon in the '68 Torino ad. But look at all the engine choices you got! Make ours a 428 Cobra Jet fastback with 4-speed, please. More »
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Most of the time, when we see a listing for a used car for sale and we can't make out anything useful in the photographs, we get pissed off. After all, how hard can it be to de-schmutz-ify the camera lens and knock back enough peach schnapps to banish the shaky-handed DTs for time sufficient to take a somewhat informative photograph of the vehicle you wish to sell? Pretty tough for some folks, apparently. But every so often you run across a car ad with photos utterly bereft of useful information about the car, yet so pleasing to the eye that you don't get irritated. Highmile has found such an ad, in this case for a '65 Fairlane wagon, and was kind enough to share it with us. The seller couldn't wait for the snowstorm to stop, you see, because every second counts when it's time to sell! [Craigslist Colorado Springs] More »
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Reason number 432 why we love our readers. From chevshev, "Saw this baby on Laurel Canyon, just north of Ventura Blvd. Michigan plates. I've been refreshing your page thrice a day for the last two years — hoping I'd have something to contribute one day. This is no show stopper, but I was excited nonetheless. Enjoy." Ooh, trust us, we are enjoying. In fact, if we had a gun to our head were forced to get a minivan, we would without question choose this surprisingly good looking Ford Fairlane Flex. And Chevshev, baby, you gots to hit refresh at least ten times per day. Two more pics after you jump. More »
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We learned yesterday that two out of three Jalopnik readers surveyed would rather reign in Project Car Hell with a '62 Renault Caravelle than with a '62 Corvair Monza. Which makes perfect sense to us, but what happens when we jack up the admission cost just a touch and make you choose between a chopped Göteborg sedan and a vintage Dearborn family hauler? More »
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Today we have one of my personal favorites, a late-60s midsized Ford with a fastback rear. I've had a couple of these, including a '68 Mercury Cyclone that served as my daily driver for several years, so I know their flaws and strengths pretty well. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=279123&view=rss&microfeed=true There's just something about the sexy lines of the '58 Fairlane that more or less forces designer-threads-clad Frenchwomen to caress its flanks with their white-gloved hands. We can only only assume that the same women would feel compelled to rub their entire bodies over the even sexier '58 Simca Chambord. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=267387&view=rss&microfeed=true Everyone likes a quick GM wagon, but it's hard to resist the appeal of a genuine Ford Squire wagon. With a soundtrack right out of an anti-VD educational film and cute puppies galore, this ad reminds us why the station wagon was the best weapon Uncle Sam had in the fight against godless communism. – Murilee Martin More »
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And as long as the lens of the mechanics with the most friends might be, the Flex is longer. Like, weirdly long. Like, Ford's new minivan replacement looks as if it were built on the same frame as the Expedition EL. Don't worry, it's not. The Flex actually shares a lot of componentry with livin' on the Edge, including the well-sorted 3.5-liter V6 and the even weller-sorted 6-speed auto. Much of the spizarkle from the Fairlane concept (including the suicide doors!) seems to have been bled out of the vehicle. Even the little baby bunting found on the NY Auto Show piece is mostly absent. All that is length left is bigness. Sigh. Pop over to Pop Mech and have a look for yourselves. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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Paukert the Exclaimer, in collaboration with Bothan spies, has uncovered photographs of what's believed to be a development mule of the new Ford Fairlane. And okay, fine, it's a mule, there's preproduction, subterfuge and whatnot, but it appears to lack the pizzazz of the really-quite-cool concept Fairlane. Or it could just be an example of the Freestyle refresh. Literally, we're getting more and more annoyed with this whole Dave business. Not since Cheech & Chong's "Dave's Not Here" gag have one man's words hurt so many Daves. Mrs. McCave is pissed. –Davey G. Johnson More »
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Despite the fact that just about everyone and their mother was under the impression the Fairlane, FoMoCo's new minivan replacement, would be one of the new vehicles on display in the Ford booth at next month's Detroit Auto Show (alternately NAIAS, NAMBLA, or whatever I've ended up calling it on other occasions). I mean, it even shows up in Mark Phelan's Freep list of what to look out for at this year's show. In fact, the Detroit Auto Dealer's Association (alternatively DADA, NAMBLA, or whatever I've ended up calling them on other occasions), the organizers of the show, even went so far as to include it on their list of things to watch out for at the 2007 fun-fest at Cobo. But, it turns out everyone was being a bit premature in speculating that the Fairlane would be introduced — in fact, they were premature to have even believed what FoMoCo PR folks were saying to them — because according to the Freep's Sarah Webster, not only won't the Fairlane production model be introduced at Detroit, the folks in Dearborn... More »
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Ford's made entirely clear its intention to abandon the minivan game in favor of crossover SUVs like the upcoming Edge, as well as engage in left-field thinking about the genre, like the iffy Freestyle wagonover (or whatever). Now, according to AutoWeek, the company announced it will build the blocky Fairlane, which it showed off last year in concept form. Conceived as a kind of picnic vehicle for families too cool for vans shaped like panty-hose dispensers, the Fairlane (or whatever it will be called) appears to split the difference between the Land Rover LR3 and the Ford Explorer. A Lincoln version is planned as well. Both will be built at the company's Oakville, Ontario works. More »
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Ford's got an announcement to make. (No, you'll have to wait until this coming Monday to hear it from the Boss's mouth.) But press outlets are already reporting that company will divulge its upcoming minivan stratagy, which, according to USA Today, involves flight from the minivan segment altogether, leaving plant closures, layoffs and executive departures in its wake. The Detroit Free Press's message is more optimistic — that the company will announce a minivan replacement based on the Fairlane concept (pictured) unveiled last year. One Jalopnik tipster, a Ford insider who says he knows some of the project staff, confirms the story. Good news. Bad news. Old news? Hmm. More »
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