History

I wasn't quite five years old when my Dad purchased this Falcon. I remember riding home from the dealership standing in the front seat between my parents. This would the family's only car for the next seven or eight years. He gave me the keys on my 16th birthday.

I had a job after school pumping gas. This guy I worked with said that he will give me a Falcon that is sitting in his backyard if I could start it up and drive it out of the yard with no tow truck on the yard. I went to check it out and it was a '63 4-door V8. After swapping the battery, coil, air up the tires and hot wiring the ignition switch and the engine came to life. Added a little bit of gas and drove it half mile home and started pulling the parts for the V8 swap. After removing the heads I saw the 4 inch bore saying it was a 289.

By the time I graduated high school I had swapped the inline six to a V8. First thing on the list was a four barrel and headers. After that was dual point distributor. The 2-speed automatic was swapped to a T-10 4-speed. I traded the Falcon 8 in. for a '65 Mustang rear with 4.57 9 inch which required cutting the quarter panels. A year or two later I got a better job and was able to buy a new car. I came close selling the Falcon for a fair price but decided the cost of the new battery and starter I bought the week before came too close to the selling price so I to back out of the deal.

I let the car sit for a couple years and dig it out, get it running and drive it...rinse and repeat every few years. In 2018 I decided to blow the car apart and start fresh.