SUPER FORD 1996 AUG - FAIRLANE GTA 390, CIVIL WARS

 

Within this hard to find issue you will discover the following topics:

1)   Kuntz Interceptor: Redefining "light-duty pickup" with 491 inches of big-block

2)   Lady in Red: This 1986 Mustang LX knows how to win a heart!

3)   Forever Fairlane: Gary Kirkpatrick keeps a good thing when he sees it (A '66 Fairlane GTA 390/335)

4)   Fabulous Show: Broncos and Lincolns highlighted the 11th Fabulous Fords Forever show

5)   5.0 Civil Wars: The South rises again at Holcomb Motorsports' 5.0 Civil Wars

6)   Tinker Toy: Ambrose Fasolak assembled his mom's car into a Pro Street winner

7)   Supered Coupe: Attention to airflow and a set of gears put this SC into the 13s

8)   Rapid Transit: Lee and Cheryl Bender's AOD GT runs street-legal 10s and rarely sees a trailer

9)   The Displacement Division: IHRA's Pro Stock class is brimming over with big-inch Fords

10)   Aluminum Head Showdown: What to expect when opening an aluminum cylinder head box

11)   5.0 Muffler Sound Test: We test a dozen popular 5.0 Mustang mufflers for sound level and appeal

12)   BBK Boost Retard: Installing BBK's new Power Plus Boost Timing Control ignition system

13)   Project Super Viper 5.0: Dugan Racing and Super Ford team up to build a hi-po street 5.0

14)   Baer Show: No dancing bruins, just fast-stopping SHOs

15)   'Bird Gears: More rear gear sparks up the T-Bird; here's how to change them

16)   Kenne Bell Boost-a-Pump: Squeeze 50-percent more flow from your in-tank fuel pump

17)   Adjustable Cam Drive: Cam Research gives durability and adjustability to FEs and 429-460s

18)   Power Pipe: Get more boost with this mandrel-bent filter relocation

19)   Tech questions & answers

20)   Reader's rides

21)   Muscle Ford news

 

On the Cover: This issue marks the first Super Ford with a digitally-composed main cover image. As such, we'd like to credit the creative heroes behind its production. Chuck James, our photography manager, individually photographed the Edelbrock aluminum cylinder head and burning rubber cement with 4x5 Fujichrome Provia film inside an Omega View camera with a 21 Omm lens. After the best images were selected by Art Director Debbie Miller, Scanning Goddess Pat Hays scanned them into the digital world via DPG's Screen DTS1 030 drum scanner. From there, Pat - with lots of help from Dinah George, our digital pre-press systems administrator, and Julie Koerner, former electronic imaging specialist and current Corvette Fever managing editor - imported the scanned images into Adobe Photoshop and cut, pasted, layered, masked, smudged and airbrushed them into the single 50-megabyte image found on this month's cover.

Oh yeah, Editorial Director Donald Farr chipped in with a stellar shot of the 8-second Briante Mustang lunging skyward and Debbie Miller completed the cover by adding the typographic sales pitch.

 

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