Pony Cars

One-Owner Project: 1965 Ford Mustang 23k Miles

The Ford Mustang was the sales phenom of the 1960s. From the Spring of 1964 through the end of the 1966 model year, nearly 1.3 million copies left the assembly line. Early examples are considered by many to be… more»

Rebuilt S-Code V8: 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback

The popular Mustang pony car got its first facelift in 1967 but continued to be what a Mustang should be (long hood, short deck). The big news was an enlarged engine compartment that could now be populated with big-block… more»

Nicest One Left? One-Owner 1971 Chevrolet Camaro

The Chevy Camaro was treated to its first redesign in 1970 and the sleek, fresh look would carry the car for another 11 years. But it was delayed by three months in getting into production, so the 1969s had… more»

Blank Canvas Roller: 1965 Ford Mustang 2+2 Fastback

One of the greatest challenges when searching for a First Generation Mustang project is locating a candidate that doesn’t require rust repairs. Salvation may be at hand with this ’65 2+2 Fastback. It appears to be rock-solid, and the… more»

Last Of The Line: Rust-Free 1974 AMC Javelin AMX

The other night, I was watching an episode of Adam-12. Officers Reed and Molloy were in a helicopter, chasing a perpetrator in a yellow ’73 Javelin with black stripes. From a few thousand feet in the air, it looked like… more»

Preserving The Barn Find Myth: 1967 Ford Mustang Coupe

If a true barn find has to have a few pounds of dirt, or possibly chicken poop, caking its surfaces, then, by golly, we’ve found one. This 1967 Mustang coupe, sitting in Ceres, California, is so dirty you can’t… more»

Corvette Rear Suspension! 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Project

The 1969 Chevy Camaro was the third and last year of the first generation of the pony car. They built a bundle of them (243,000) in part due to a 15-month production run as the all-new 1970s were delayed… more»

Super Cobra Jet Garage Find: 1970 Ford Mustang

In 1970, Ford built nearly 200,000 Mustangs, a respectable number but a far cry from the peak of 600,000 in 1966. Of these, 41,000 were Mach 1s with the SportsRoof body style. But only 1,371 came with the Super… more»

Worth Fixing? 1970 Dodge Challenger Project

The original Dodge Challenger was only around for five years but is highly regarded today. When it arrived on the scene in 1970, it was the last pony car to enter the market (and one of the first to… more»

Promising Winter Project: 1969 Ford Mustang Convertible

Car enthusiasts tend to be organized individuals who protect their pride and joy from winter’s adverse weather conditions. Those months provide an opportunity to tinker and tune so that they can hit the road when the warm weather arrives,… more»

BF Auction: 1965 Ford Mustang

UPDATE – The seller has lowered their reserve! Some cars appear on the market, barely creating a ripple. They will then disappear and aren’t even a distant memory. However, Ford’s First Generation Mustang rewrote the rule book. It created… more»

Boosted Performance: 1977 Ford Mustang Cobra II

Update 07/28/2024: Falling victim to a non-paying buyer is never pleasant, but when it happens twice, it is almost enough to prompt some enthusiasts to place the whole sale process in the “too-hard” basket. However, that isn’t the case… more»

Blank Canvas: 1968 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS

Many classic car enthusiasts are purists, subscribing to the philosophy that “they’re only original once.” The thought of modifying an original and unmolested classic is unappealing, but some still harbor the ambition to create the car of their dreams…. more»

Little Old Lady Owned: 1974 Ford Mustang II

After seeing years of declining sales, Ford reinvented the Mustang in 1974. The original car had gotten big and bulky, so the Mustang II was a subcompact using a 4-cylinder engine for the first time in the pony car’s… more»

Good Driver: 1970 Dodge Challenger Project

Chrysler introduced its new E-body platform in 1970, reserved for the Plymouth Barracuda and the new Dodge Challenger. The two cars had different sheet metal and rode on different wheelbases, so they weren’t exact copies of one another. The… more»

Solar Gold Survivor: 1980 Pontiac Trans Am Turbo

As Federal emissions controls continued to choke power out of V8 engines, Pontiac dropped its biggest displacement motors in 1980. So, the standard fare in the next-to-last year of the second-generation Trans Ams was a 301 cubic inch V8…. more»

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