Dear Tom and Ray: After driving for 40 years and never having blown an engine or transmission, my husband blew up on a recent road trip (in which I was driving), because after two hours, he noticed ...

This is the idea behind Overdrive, as it serves as a ‘high’ gear mode that enables the engine and transmission to run at a ...

Ford's Automatic Overdrive (AOD) transmission arrived in 1980 in full-size Fords, Mercurys, and the Lincoln Continental. As the AOD became available in more applications during the 1980s, including ...

For more than a decade, installing an overdrive-automatic or manual transmission into a vintage Mustang has been a popular upgrade. It's more common these days, but some people still aren't convinced ...

If you took part in our first Power Tour or read our coverage in the September '95 issue, you may remember this '70 Plymouth GTX. It was one of the HOT ROD Tour vehicles that couldn't complete the ...