When pressed for detailed information about the fine '66 GTA Fairlane spread across these two pages, Bill and Judy Detzel were a little reticent. But who can blame them since they didn't turn the ...

The classic era for muscle cars revolved around intermediates, as it was this body style that was selected as the weapon of choice for America's major carmakers. With wheelbase sizes ranging from 114 ...

Most machine-massaging projects just sort of happen. The masseur begins on a budget… then, whammo, the project becomes bigger than Rodzilla and meaner than a junkyard flog. Matt LaRusso, a 23-year-old ...

1966 witnessed the debut of the fifth-generation Fairlane, and Ford decided it was the right moment to introduce several notable channels, beginning with the return of previously retired packages. The ...

Start here: America, 1966—The Monkees debut on TV, Surveyor 1 soft-lands on the Moon, and Caesars Palace opens in a neon Las Vegas that never blinks. Gemini 8 docks in orbit, tumbles into crisis, then ...

Ideally (in Dearborn's view), those buying ragtop Plymouth Belvederes and Chevy Chevelles would have felt like stodgy oldsters compared to drivers of new '66 Fairlanes.