Having just retired, Stanley and Nancy Karasinski of Battle Ground, Washington, wanted to celebrate and started looking for a project to absorb some of their new-found time. The result was the ...

Introduced in 1959 as the range-topping model of the full-size Ford range, the Galaxie was redesigned for the 1960 model year. And while the second-gen version remained in production until 1964, a ...

The Starliner was the top-of-the-line trim level on the big Ford Galaxie back in 1961, and since they arrived on the scene, these cars have become noted for their elegant hardtop featuring very narrow ...

Bob Cook grew up in the 1960s, a good time to become a car guy. “I like all these 1960s cars, the Fords, the Chevrolets, the Pontiacs,” he says. “But I’ve got a weakness for Fords. I’m a Ford guy, ...

The problem with perfection is it often goes unnoticed. How many times have you soaked in the well-balanced lines of a hot rod, yet failed to see the simplest of modifications, the very essence that ...

There was an automotive hierarchy on Woodward Avenue back in the 1960s. As the cruisers meandered between hot spots such as the Big Town, Maverick's, and Ted's drive-ins, where the hot cars gathered, ...

In 1960s America, there was a great and terrible divide among the people that remains with us to this day, the profound identity and partisan plurality that defines each and every one of us: Ford vs.

Introduced for the 1959 model year as a range-topping model, the Ford Galaxie received a massive redesign only one year later. 1960 brought a much sleeker version to showrooms and saw the introduction ...

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 ...

IN THE EARLY 1960s, YOU HAD TO read the fine print to know whether that red Galaxie stopped in the next lane was powered by, say, a 223-cubic-inch inline-six, or if it was the fire-breathing ...