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Past or present…

What’s your take or experience??

Need something for the family. CB750 is on the chopping block and should cover the cost. A four door, which may be less desirable for some but an upside with 2 kids to put in the back.

Going to check out a very clean 64 with a 200 straight six.

Checked out a galaxie and a fairlane but both seem they would come with a fishing license.
 
Seen a couple of them over the years .. Is it not a bit small for 4 persons ..Children's Hockey trunks fishing gear .. horse riding gear and so.
 
WideAWAKE said:
I’m too young to get that one haha.

Lay it out for me??
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I think I get it now…

Unsafe at any speed?? It seems the corvair got the most heat.

Well, we want to cruise down to the beach and through the empty back roads.

The falcon is bare bones, but the 64 was the second generation which did bring some fancy stuff, like amber turn signals haha.

Car in question does have seat belts and with a 200 inline 6 and fords 2 speed automatic transmission, we won’t be setting any land speed records haha.
 
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WideAWAKE said:
Past or present…

What’s your take or experience??

Need something for the family. CB750 is on the chopping block and should cover the cost. A four door, which may be less desirable for some but an upside with 2 kids to put in the back.

Going to check out a very clean 64 with a 200 straight six.

Checked out a galaxie and a fairlane but both seem they would come with a fishing license.
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Great cars! The little 144-170-200 inch engines do have a reputation for cracking cylinder heads though, so keep your eyes out. Many of the mechanical components are interchangeable with Mustangs. I had a '62 sport coupe and wish I still had it.
 
WideAWAKE said:
I think I get it now…

Unsafe at any speed?? It seems the corvair got the most heat.

Well, we want to cruise down to the beach and through the empty back roads.

The falcon is bare bones, but the 64 was the second generation which did bring some fancy stuff, like amber turn signals haha.

Car in question does have seat belts and with a 200 inline 6 and fords 2 speed automatic transmission, we won’t be setting any land speed records haha.
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Don't get in a hurry and it should serve you well.
 
46th Georgia said:
Many of the mechanical components are interchangeable with Mustangs.
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Bought a '67 Mustang out of a junk yard when I was a kid. No front end steering, wheels or tires, engine/tranny, or rear end. Got it home and bought a 64-ish falcon (wrecked) for pocket change. Drove it home and parked it next to the Mustang. Over the next few weeks I took it all off the Falcon and onto the Mustang. 90% of it was a direct swap.

To answer your question , wideawake, the Falcon drove quiet nicely the 20 odd miles I drove it. :rolleyes:
 
I was going to say something similar to Jim regarding the Mustang. Back in the early 70’s I had a ‘67 Mustang with a 289 and an automatic transmission in it, my friend had a Falcon that looked like the one you pictured, it also had a 289 and the same automatic I had in the Mustang. I spent a lot of time in both cars and I can tell you that except for external appearance they could’ve been the same car. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy one. 👍🏻
 
Mailman said:
I was going to say something similar to Jim regarding the Mustang. Back in the early 70’s I had a ‘67 Mustang with a 289 and an automatic transmission in it, my friend had a Falcon that looked like the one you pictured, it also had a 289 and the same automatic I had in the Mustang. I spent a lot of time in both cars and I can tell you that except for external appearance they could’ve been the same car. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy one. 👍🏻
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Nice!

I looked at a mustang as well as a thunderbird but they weren’t for me.

Mustang was later.

Bucket seats of the thunderbird were a turn off.
 
Jim said:
Bought a '67 Mustang out of a junk yard when I was a kid. No front end steering, wheels or tires, engine/tranny, or rear end. Got it home and bought a 64-ish falcon (wrecked) for pocket change. Drove it home and parked it next to the Mustang. Over the next few weeks I took it all off the Falcon and onto the Mustang. 90% of it was a direct swap.

To answer your question , wideawake, the Falcon drove quiet nicely the 20 odd miles I drove it. :rolleyes:
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Haha!

The cross over of parts is nice.

Thanks for the replay.

I knew some people on here had to of had one at some point.
 
46th Georgia said:
Great cars! The little 144-170-200 inch engines do have a reputation for cracking cylinder heads though, so keep your eyes out. Many of the mechanical components are interchangeable with Mustangs. I had a '62 sport coupe and wish I still had it.
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Car is question has the original motor with 14k on the clock.

Engine bay is pretty clean.

No weird noises or spew dripping
 
I had an 66 XP coup for a while. It was a rusted mess, but I really liked its lines.
Also had a later model falcon ute both from ford Australia. The ute also had a blown head gasket.

I can see why you would want a car like this, super easy to fix, minimal electrics to break and best of all no computers.
Safety is a different matter though.
 
It does look resprayed to me in matte blue looks good but the question can be if it is resprayed
is there a lot of bondo and sprayed over recently
People use magnets and a visual inspection But on the Other hand maybe rust have not entered South California yet
 
Jan_P said:
It does look resprayed to me in matte blue looks good but the question can be if it is resprayed
is there a lot of bondo and sprayed over recently
People use magnets and a visual inspection But on the Other hand maybe rust have not entered South California yet
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Definitely been painted. Looks metallic, not original color, I don’t mind.

Painted before 2020. 4+ years should show if rust was painted over.


I haven’t seen the car in person yet, body panels will be tested, I’ll get u set it as well.
 
Since the Mustang was built/designed around the existing Falcon platform/running gear, there's lots and lots of commonality between the 2, excepting sheet metal/glass. Any US built inline 6 is going to be pretty well bulletproof, you don't have enough power to hurt the driveline unless you spin the wheels hard in gravel then hit dry pavement (axle shafts/keys). And if you get really inspired, Clifford Performance offers "hop up" goodies for the "Big 3" and AMC inline sixes of the era (cams, headers, intakes, etc.) It won't handle or stop or accelerate like a 25 year old Saturn or Toyota, but of you drive it like a sane person, they're a blast. I've had my Rambler ('67) since the early 90's. Drum brakes all around, 3 on the tree manual, it'll do the ton but it's noisy and busy. More fun to just "cruise"! Kinda like the '74 TX.
 

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