History

My Dad purchased this Falcon new on January 8, 1960. Actually this was the first 'New' car he bought. He gave me the keys on my 16th birthday.

This guy I worked with said they was a Falcon in their backyard that was junk and if I could get it running and drive it out of the yard he would give it to me. It was a '63 fordor with a V8 emblem on the fender. After a few minutes trying to get it to run I decide it had to be a bad coil. I borrowed the coil from my car to see what will happen, sure enough the '63 fired right up. I pumped up the tires, pour more ATF in the 2-speed automatic and drove it back to my house a half mile away. Soon as I got home with it I started taking it apart.

I thought I had a 260 but after removing the heads I knew by the bore it was a 289 block. It was now time for a Torker intake and Holley 4 barrel. A while later I was able to afford to buy some Hooker headers and later on a new Mallory dual point distributor.

I bought everything I needed from a guy my sister's boyfriend knew to swap the 2-speed automatic to a T-10 4-speed.

The 3:00 gear wasn't enough so I traded the ’63 rear end to a friend plus $$ for a 65 Mustang 9 in. rear end with a 4:57 gear.