Any 1964 Ford Falcon guys around???

[Fred G]

Ok.
I couldn't resist.... My 64 Falcon Sprint. Bought at Tasca Ford in July 1964. Original 260, 3spd, 8". By July 1965, was 289 HiPo, 4spd, 9".
Fred

[Xplantdad]

Cool Fred!

[Fred G]

Not to steal the thread, but anyone on this forum would definately enjoy this story...

Buying the Falcon was not the original plan...Unfortunately, I didn't fully explain what a 63 1/2 liteweight was to my father. That was the original plan. I had befriended Bob Tasca the previous year and was planing on attending URI. Bob even offered me a job in the used car make ready for "gas" money. Anyway, my Dad and I took a bus from Baldwin (Hempstead bus terminal) to E.Taunton RI, which is where Tasca was located in the glory days, to pick up my 63 1/2 Galexy liteweight, "left over". The price was $2900 !!! Bob had four of them and whichever one started up, was the one I was going to drive back to Baldwin. In addition to the drag race program, Tasca was one of the largest Ford dealers in the US and their huge inventory of cars looked like a typical spring Carlisle. Well, we took a golf cart out to where the liteweights were parked and after two wouldn't start due to dead batteries, the third one did. Unfortunatly in spite of being out in the wide open spaces, the ground shook, and the deafening sound of that 427 sounded like we were inside an enclosed trailer... and thus went my chances of owning a 63 1/2 liteweight. I had to have a Tasca Ford, though, and since Mustangs were too scarce at the time, I wound up coming home with the Falcon Sprint. I was really pissed at Dad for a long time after that, but then again, in retrospect, there's no way I would have let my 16 year old son get involved with a car like that either, unless of course I was the only one that was going to drive it! I sold the Falcon in 68 and bought a Baldwin 68 SS Camaro 396, 375, then a 69 Baldwin/Motion Z/28 in May of 1970.
Fred