Sad - I'm parting with my hotrod

[Soul Tramp]

Sometime around 1995 I decided to build a hotrod. Being a lifelong Ford guy I settled on a '62 Falcon. Bought the car in MD and had it trailered to ME. Drove it in it's factory original condition for a few years before beginning the conversion. When finished I had a show quality prostreet car that I've always considered a bit of a sleeper. On the outside it just looks like a Falcon street rod. Close inspection reveals a 500+ HP small block in a drag car. I went to extremes to keep the full interior, no roll bar/cage.

But now life is quite different and I don't have time to properly maintain, store, and drive the car. 15 years ago I tore it apart to have it re-painted. I never put it back together again after painting. So it's been sitting all that time in pieces. The last 3 pictures were taken before the new paint job.

 

[Stuball48]

That had to pull hard on your heart strings. Always wanted a 1928 - 1932 Ford Roadster pickup - original. There is one close that is immaculate condition, showroom quality but over priced by $8 to $10 thousand. Your Ford Falcon is breath taking.
When I was a teenager we had a place on Wells Creek called 3rd Bridge ( 3rd railroad bridge to cross Wells Creek going from Erin, Tn to Cumberland City, Tn) that was about a half mile strait stretch. That was where all my friends had the challenged drag races of their 6 cylinder engines. Early 60s Chevy and Ford Trucks, the new Dodge Slant 6 trucks, and my friend had a new 6 cylinder Ford Falcon. The 1966 Ford Falcon was king of the 6 cylinder stock engined.

I hope yours found an excited owner - an eye stopper!

 

[Bonneville88]

Quite the bad*ss sleeper!

 

[richardp69]

Man, I wish I had some money. That looks super sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Antney]

Pardon my ignorance...what does FURA mean?

sweet ride btw

 

[davismanLV]

Pardon my ignorance...what does FURA mean?

sweet ride btw

it was the high end Falcon Futura!! The T and the U on each side of the gas cap are gone. That's all......

 

[Soul Tramp]

it was the high end Falcon Futura!! The T and the U on each side of the gas cap are gone. That's all......

Actually it's the ultra-high end Falcon "Sport Futura"! The Sport Futura package had the larger 170 6-banger, 2-door, bucket seats, chrome center console, padded dash, and larger tires.

Can't remember why I didn't install the other two letters, there was some complication. They're still in the box.

I just listed it for sale this weekend. I suspect it won't sell quickly.

Motor aside, the seats are my favorite part of the car. I had them re-upholstered by a guy who does real high-end cars, Rolls, Ferrari, etc. He did all the tuck /roll in red tweed. It's absolutely gorgeous!

 

[chazmo]

Those seats are awesome. Sorry that life isn't cooperating with your desire to keep that car going. Best wishes on whatever takes its place in your life!

 

[Bill Ashton]

I had my grandmother's '62 Falcon wagon (with wood on the sides, after all, she lived on a farm) until late '82 when I sold it to the brother of a neighbor across the street. Low mileage, though rot was infesting the rear quarters...I drive by the guy's house twice a week, have never seen it (though he has quite a "bone pile.") Always wonder if it is still on the road...

 

[walrus]

Ha! We had a '62 wood-sided wagon, too! And then two more '62 Falcon sedans in the familty.

Of course, none looked like this one! Very cool!

walrus

 

[Bill Ashton]

Want to say it was a "170" straight 6 but not entirely sure...real basic "two speed" auto-tranny

Sold her the day my new daughter came home, December 1982, figured we could do with one car at that time.

Little did we know...

 

[Soul Tramp]

It's surprising how many people have a Falcon story. I recently found an old family picture from circa '66 with me leaning on our family Falcon station wagon. It was a round body so it had to be a '60 - '63, and from the tail lights it's a '62. I'm the tough looking guy with no shirt.

 

[Bill Ashton]

LOL, ours had the "wood sides," but no roof rack...yours was much more functional! I am trying to remember if ours had backup lights, perhaps it didnt'...

 

[Soul Tramp]

Lots of room for us kids to climb around and terrorize each other. There were seatbelts but no one used them.

 

[davismanLV]

Closest we got to a Falcon was a 1961 Comet Wagon just like this one. It had a roof rack and we went camping up the coast across Canada with us three kids in the back. What a drag!! My dad was crazy. Nobody had any fun. Finally a wheel bearing went out in Wyoming and we got to stay in a motel with a pool for three days while the part was shipped. Best part of the whole trip. Then of course it turned to HELL because "We've gotta make up three days wasted!!" Dad, they're not wasted if we had fun, swam in the pool, and got to eat in a restaurant. Best part of the whole trip.

The original Comet came from the Edsel division and the early ones like this didn't even have Mercury anywhere on them. It just said "Comet". I think the next year after Edsel died they became part of Lincoln/Mercury and had Mercury badges on them.

 

[Soul Tramp]

Beautiful! Yeah, the Comet was the Cadillac of the Falcons.

I replaced some of the interior parts on my Falcon with the equivalent Comet parts. All the dash knobs (heater, cig lighter, etc.) are from a Comet. I had them re-chromed and replaced the plastic Falcon pieces.

 

[tommym]

Yeah,

I parted ways with vintage hotrodding decades ago. Local auto clubs had started to disband, race tracks shut down, friends moved on, etc. It just wasn't fun anymore.

Back in the early 70's if your car ran low 14's in the quarter mile (bone stock off the show room floor) you definitely had a muscle car. My friend's granddaughter's 4 door Honda Accord 2.0T 4-banger (bone stock, front wheel drive, automatic transmission) click off a bunch of low 14 second quarter mile blasts recently. I thought he was BS's me, but it turns out he wasn't. The Honda brats were like "14 seconds flat? Sure, if you like driving that slow. Her car must have been showroom stock."

I sometimes really miss my old Buick.

Tommy

 

[Brucebubs]

Sold my toy about 15 years ago.
1969 Datsun Sports Roadster.
Australia got the full 150hp version - we share right hand drive with Japan.

 

[Cougar]

I sometimes really miss my old Buick.

The car I miss the most is my Dodge Stealth. Looked just like this:

 

[davismanLV]

Don had a Mitsubishi 3000 GT. That was a fun car to drive!! Basically same as the Stealth.... yeah??