Ford Falcons...........
10/2/09........I had always loved the cuteness of the little ford Falcons. I had also love the Corvairs, and Chevy II's, and Comets. Never really cared for the Valiants, but long after they were twenty years old or more, they all began to be missed. Old car Value Guide said after twenty years less then 10 percent reamined, the lesser the production numbers of course, the more valuable they all became.
..................Eventually I became older and started having a growing family, we needed to have something more then my old 48-56 Ford pickup trucks and panels. I wa skind of entrenched in Fordorama, so decided Falcons were the cars for us.
..................My first Falcon was a little prize in being only production number 13348, and rolled of the assemblyline in September 1959. A pre-sixties 60 tudor sedan with that little 144cid-L6, and little 3spd aluminum manuel tranny. Gosh it was a great little car, getting about 23-29 mpg. Man were they easy to care for, and do anywork on. I loved it so much, I soon had as many as six around at anytime. My boys all learned to work on them and drive them. They were cheap to care for, and there were for the most part, lots of good used parts available for them.
.................Over the years, there were a few more notable ones I owned. One wa s a 63 Falcon Country Sedan Station Wagon, that was the most deluxed Falcon I had ever seen. When I decided not to restore it, but instead part it out. People came from as far as Canada, and a fellow even flew in from Australia for something special it had. I had bought it for $35, and sold parts for over $800 before I finally let the stripped unibody core go at last.
.................Another Falcon I got hold of that was a prize, was a 65 Futura Tudor Sedan that had been rear ended messing up the trunk lid, and rear passenger quarter panel, but was other wise so perfect it was still new looking. Since I worked at Napa Auto Parts at that time, I knew all the local wrecking yards, and collectors and such, so my friend who owned a wrecking yard called me telling me he had aFalcon prize that he wanted $300 for it, and I should come look at it. I did and was really surprised to find this interesting little Aztec Gold medium 65Falxon Futura had been bought buy a lady in Grants Pass Oregon orginally wwho wanted it to have good commuting power for going to work just north of Grants Pass at Central Point, and she used it keeping a regular gas journal for all that time until 85' when she gave it to her grandaughter to go to college in Portland area, and visiting the country near where I lived she got rear-ended by a garbage truck, but only the right rear passenger quarter panel was wrecked...........
..................Eventually I became older and started having a growing family, we needed to have something more then my old 48-56 Ford pickup trucks and panels. I wa skind of entrenched in Fordorama, so decided Falcons were the cars for us.
..................My first Falcon was a little prize in being only production number 13348, and rolled of the assemblyline in September 1959. A pre-sixties 60 tudor sedan with that little 144cid-L6, and little 3spd aluminum manuel tranny. Gosh it was a great little car, getting about 23-29 mpg. Man were they easy to care for, and do anywork on. I loved it so much, I soon had as many as six around at anytime. My boys all learned to work on them and drive them. They were cheap to care for, and there were for the most part, lots of good used parts available for them.
.................Over the years, there were a few more notable ones I owned. One wa s a 63 Falcon Country Sedan Station Wagon, that was the most deluxed Falcon I had ever seen. When I decided not to restore it, but instead part it out. People came from as far as Canada, and a fellow even flew in from Australia for something special it had. I had bought it for $35, and sold parts for over $800 before I finally let the stripped unibody core go at last.
.................Another Falcon I got hold of that was a prize, was a 65 Futura Tudor Sedan that had been rear ended messing up the trunk lid, and rear passenger quarter panel, but was other wise so perfect it was still new looking. Since I worked at Napa Auto Parts at that time, I knew all the local wrecking yards, and collectors and such, so my friend who owned a wrecking yard called me telling me he had aFalcon prize that he wanted $300 for it, and I should come look at it. I did and was really surprised to find this interesting little Aztec Gold medium 65Falxon Futura had been bought buy a lady in Grants Pass Oregon orginally wwho wanted it to have good commuting power for going to work just north of Grants Pass at Central Point, and she used it keeping a regular gas journal for all that time until 85' when she gave it to her grandaughter to go to college in Portland area, and visiting the country near where I lived she got rear-ended by a garbage truck, but only the right rear passenger quarter panel was wrecked...........
