Grab Groceries, the Kids, and a Speeding Ticket in this Small Block V8-Swapped '98 Explore

Ford sold over 400,000 second generation Explorer SUVs from 1995 to 2001. But by 2024, most of them have been sacrificed to the crusher gods or rusted back into the Earth from whence it came. But a small handful of these SUVs that once helped define a generation are still out in the wild. Fewer still have had some work done under the hood. In this case, it's actually a lot of work. That's right, this old Explorer's packing heat. (continue reading...)