- Mustang
Milestones
- This new, all-color book looks back at all
the great Mustangs, from the models mid-year introduction
in 1963 to current models. Four decades of production and
body styles are featured, depicting stock production examples
representing legendary editions like the Shelby, Mach I, Boss,
Cobra Jet, Fox chassis models and even the 2001.
- Mustang
Forty Years - Ford's Mustang became the Official Car of
the Baby Boom. It was a fortuitous accident of timing and
a brilliant result of product planning. This sleek, stylish
automobile launched the "Pony Car" genre with a
staggering 417,000 sales in its first year. Through 40 years
of tough competition from Chrysler and General Motors, the
Mustang has survived and outlasted them all. Dozens of interviews
bring insight to the 40-year-old story, the on-going legend,
and the Mustang's future.
- Shelby:
The Man, The Cars, The Legend - Carroll Hall Shelby was
a character and an icon in car culture and has accomplished
and failed at many things in life, from chicken farmer to
an 83-year-old man who is now (again) advising Ford on the
creation of a Shelby Mustang. The book goes back into Shelby’s
history in racing, the beginnings of the Cobra, the Daytona,
the 427 Cobra, Ford’s battle
for LeMans, the front drive Shelby Dodges, the infamous
Series I, Shelby’s participation in the development
of the Viper, his quarter-century-long running battle with
the army of Cobra clonesters, and much more.
- Iron
Fist, Lead Foot: John Coletti and Ford's "Terminator"
- One thing was certain about the mercurial Coletti: he had
an unswerving faith in the value of high performance. And
after almost single-handedly rescuing the Ford Mustang from
discontinuation via a covert, renegade program, Coletti had
ridden his notoriety into his own throne within Ford-as head
of the elite Special Vehicle Team. But in late 2000, Coletti
stretched the boundaries of his own legend, abruptly canceling
the division's highly-anticipated 2002 Mustang Cobra while
disrupting marketing plans and enraging SVT's network of dealers.
This is the untold story of how Coletti's performance mandate
led to the creation of a car known as the "Terminator,"
the 2003 Ford SVT Mustang Cobra. It's a tale of closely-guarded
secrets and daunting challenges as a small, elite team struggled
to create a car that will long stand as an icon of American
muscle. With interviews ranging from company chairman Bill
Ford to the assembly line workers of the historic-yet-antiquated
Dearborn Assembly Plant, Iron Fist, Lead Foot takes readers
behind the scenes of this breakneck program and brings them
face-to-face with the towering presence of an auto industry
legend, John Coletti.
- Total
Performers: Ford Drag Racing - Factory participation in
drag racing pushed the envelope for high performance developments.
Ford's FE-series engine, Police
Interceptor, GT 390, Single Overhead Cam, Cobra Jet, and
Boss 429 are all covered
in detail. See the cars and the drivers that made them famous
- Dick Brannan's Goldfinger, Bill Lawton's Mystery Mustang,
"Dyno Don" Nicholson's Eliminator Comet, Gas Ronda's
stretched Mustang, Al Joenic's Batcar, and more. Accomplished
journalist and life-long Ford aficionado Charles Morris takes
you back to the Total Performance Years through first-hand
accounts as well as over 400 never-before-seen photographs.
- Ford
in Touring Car Racing: Top of the class for fifty years
- Ford has been consistently successful in saloon car racing,
from the very first performances of the 1950s, through Sierra
RS500 Cosworth domination in the 1980s, to the standard-setting
Mondeo victories of the 1990s. For nearly 50 years, European
Fords have been winning Touring Car Championships in Britain,
Europe, and all around the world. This fact-filled volume
chronicles every Ford program, car, success, and development.
Packed with technical and historical insights, this lavishly
illustrated work also includes interviews with drivers,
engineers and team managers from every decade.
- Building
Ford Short Track Power: Official Factory Guide - Written
by engineers from the Ford Racing division, this book provides
detailed instructions as well as specific parts lists and
assembly techniques for building short-track versions of Ford's
351. Included are build lists for low dollar claimer engines,
limited late-model motors, and full competition engines. Machining
and assembly procedures, factory part numbers, best parts
combinations, factory drawings, acceptable salvage
yard pieces, and aftermarket components - it's all here in
this official factory prepared book.
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