Rad-Era Fords Are a One-Stop Fun Collection


 We live in an amazing fantasy world where horsepower is cheap and plentiful (in theory, even if cars are a little scarce on the ground right now due to a scourge of supply chain woes). But in the late 1980s and early 1990s, car enthusiasts were just emerging from a dark era in which emissions and safety concerns turned down the knob on fun significantly. The party was just starting to restart by the late '80s, with a number of sub-supercar rides getting their mojo back. At the top of the domestic heap was Ford, which went a little wild: turbocharging the Mustang, giving the humble Escort a GT makeover that made import enthusiasts think twice, and even dropping a hot V-6 into its vanilla Taurus sedan to create the SHO.

You probably know all this, so why the refresher? If "rad-era" Fords have always been your jam, Mecum's massive Indy 2022 auction is going to bowl you over, with no fewer than seven unique examples in the very cool Waterford Collection consignments. You could outfit your garage(s) with an entire fleet of '80s and '90s awesomeness, creating a real-life (and sort of esoteric) version of those "Justification for Higher Education" posters everyone seemed to have up in their bedroom back then. The whole lot of 'em will cross the block on May 20, and if you're lucky and bid enough, maybe you could collect 'em all.

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