What would happen if you stuffed a 427 SOHC Cammer into a Ford Galaxie?
You'd get Bob Matranga's wild Ford.
What would happen if you stuffed a 427 SOHC Cammer into a Ford Galaxie?
You'd get Bob Matranga's wild Ford.
Legendary engine builder Ed Pink recently retired at the age of 92.
Before Ed closed up shop, he wanted to show off the last engine he ever built.
Ford's legendary big-block 427 SOHC "Cammer" engine is rare to find.
This zero-mile example ended up at auction and went for big money.
Randy Weaver’s Ford Galaxie may not have been blessed with good genes, but going on a diet let the R-Code machine run at peak performance.
The clean, sleek, and sharp lines of the 1966 Fairlane XL500 427 R-Code made for a very rare ride indeed.
Only 57 examples were made in '66 due to tooling issues with the tricky exhaust manifolds.
Every year, on the weekend nearest April 27th, FE-oriented gear heads travel from near and far to Beaver Springs Dragway in Pennsylvania.
For two days, FE cars take the tree to prove that they’ve still got it!
Jim Bassett of Bones Fab built a beautiful 1964 Ford Galaxy XL 500 with a Kenny-Dutweiler-built 1,000-plus-horsepower twin-turbo Cammer engine.
They used ARP hardware both in the engine build and throughout the car
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