The 1965 Ford Mustang K-Code 289 arrived as a compact, affordable coupe with a racing heart, and it quickly rewrote expectations for what an American pony car could do. With its high-compression ...

Ever since it was first introduced in 1963, the 289 High-Performance V-8 has been the subject of myth, legend, and folklore. Enthusiasts get fired up over the 271hp Hi-Po due to its ...

Before the 289, there was the 260. This engine was a 90-degree V8 that was first seen in the Ford Fairlane. For its time, the engine line in the 260 were fuel-efficient small block V8s, and while not ...

For many classic truckers the term small-block means just one thing: the venerable little V-8 from Chevrolet. Certainly one of the most popular performance engines ever produced, the small-block Chevy ...

The 289 engine in our 1965 Mustang G.T. 350 clone sounded good and ran OK, but it just didn’t seem right. The bottom-end power was decent but as rpm rose, the 289 felt lazy. The guy we bought the car ...

One of the most successful racing efforts ever to come from MoTown was the Ford GT40. It was built with one objective in mind...to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, which it did, in 1966 and 1967. The car ...