Well, I've always wanted a cool old car to wrench on. My good friend's dad who was getting rid of a bunch of cars offered to sell me his 65' Falcon Ranchero. I thought the car was awesome and I was able to talk my parents into letting me get it!
Awesome ride, but a very big project. lots of rust and everything needed work, But I was very willing to conquer the project. It was to have a 289 with a toploader 4 speed. A cool car indeed.
Three days later, as I got off work I looked across the street to the another warehouse and noticed a 64' Falcon Futura with a "For Sale" sign on it. I decided to go take a look
The thing looked awesome. There was almost no rust on the body or the underbody (its a uni-body), it even had 90% of the frame paint still on! The interior was near perfect. there wasn't a rip anywhere on the seats. The headliner was the worst with a few holes where a mouse got into it. The worst thing on the body was a few dents on the passenger side and a ding on the trunk and bumper.
The owner came out of the warehouse and started telling me about it. It has 20,000 original miles! Its a straight 6 170ci with a "three on the tree" manual transmission.Pretty much everything is original, except tires of course, and the front fenders. He went to start it and it fired right up! I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said 1200 bucks. I told him I would talk to him later that night.
I talked with my parents and I they were skeptical at first, but I talked them into going to look at it. My dad drove it and said "we have to buy this". It ran great and drove good. We scheduled to buy it two days later.
Pretty nice, this is the bad side with the dents.
My niece checking checkin' out the nice chrome.
I little surface rust on the hood.
Crack in the dash glass. I have since replaced it.
The Afterburners...
It came with the missing trim pieces.
This was a radio delete model.
