I'm doing it! Buying a new old car.

awesome.

Cool!!! My first car was a 1965 Falcon Futura 2 door, 200ci six shooter and 3 on the tree. Shifter was worn slap out, it would hit two gears at once and skid to a stop. set the parking brake, hop out, grab the rods n' stuff and shake hell out of them till it went into neutral, then off we go again! Interesting on a date,

Very cool. love the interior

congrats on your new 4 door Mustang..

Aaaaaahhh!!!1!11!!11!!!

I would say "that's cool" but it's far beyond that. Well done.

After seeing what you did with the Fiat, I'm very excited to see where this Falcon goes. I dig your style.

This makes me want to buy back mine. When my garage is done it may just come home. The current owner is thinking if selling. Again

While back I had a '72 Maverick Sprint with a 302 and 3 on the tree. Great for burning off rear tires. Gave a test drive to a buddy who wanted to give it a shot. He launched in 3rd instead of 1st. Whoops. Took a while for the smell to go away.

It is home! Handed the gentleman the cash, pulled the choke and hit the key and it fired right up. He warned that the gas was about 18 months old so I grabbed a 5 gallon can and filled it with fresh so I could drain the tank. Drove it for half an hour or so and it seems fine. Then about 2 miles from the house it started surging at cruise.

I slapped a new fuel filter in place, drained the tank and refilled it now I just need to run it around for a bit to see if that helped. If not it is time to crack the carb open and see what is up.

It has new points, plugs, cap and rotor already installed with zero miles.

The seller bought the car last summer and then was diagnosed with some illness that wouldn't let him drive it so he just tinkered on the car to kill time.

The three speed is easy and kind of fun but I think I want a proper transmission in there.

Look at that powerhouse!

In reply to ditchdigger:

Tee hee! That is a cute little inline six!

My Hero.

That car is so cool...

And so straight!

Nice car! You have the "bigger" engine.

I took my driver's test (in 1968) in a similar car with a 144 cu in six.

Eventually, our Falcon rotted out so my Dad put that 144 engine in a '56 Ford pickup that needed an engine. After the swap, I actually used that truck to tow my racing Sprite out to Bridgehampton. That Falcon engine lived on for a long time! When I was in college, I had a friend who had a '63 2-door with a 260 V8. He had added a roll bar and Mustang disk brakes. It was his attempt to built a replica of the factory Monte Carlo Sprint rally cars. All these years later and that car still seems cool to me.

These days I have a friend who used to work for Alan Mann back in the day; that was the glory days for Falcons (although there are still some cool Falcons in Oz).
Click Here for tons of Falcon historical info.

Anyway, it's your car so enjoy it and do as you please. But if it were me, it seems like such a sweet old "Aunty" car: I'd leave it with the six and the 3-on-the-tree.

Im afraid you overpaid

That is so damn cool. The red interior is what makes it for me.

Nice buy.

Downright awesome car, ditchdigger. One of few antique cars I have abject approval from SWMBO to buy.

Gearheadotaku wrote: I like the 5speed swap idea, but would keep the 170 and add injection/better ignition. wasn't there a larger displacement version of this engine, 240? (The 300 is all different right?)

The 170 has the intake manifold cast into the head so FI would be a real PITA. I suppose one could create a home-brew TBI setup but one would need a two-barrel adapter so the whole thing would be a complete Jerry-rig and I'd know because that's my name. Suffering and spending for maybe five horsepwer and one extra MPG is not a good time. As for the bigger sixes, this engine family also spawned 200 and 250-inch versions but they all have the same bad head. The 240-incher is a different engine family which has a 300-inch bigger brother. These engines appeared in full-size sedans and trucks. They have a separate intake manifold but one would have to either cut the firewall or mount the radiator on the roof in order to shoehorn it in there. Besides, those two engines are heavier than the thin-wall SBF.

Personally, I think the car is cool the way it is. It would be worth more if left stock. However, if one felt the need for speed, one could find all the parts necessary for dropping an SBF in that tiny little hole if one was so inclined. Then one could spend one's hard-earned clams on going faster and handling better rather than sinking money into an engine for which one would not be satisfied with the final result.

Great score, by the way.

I vote for the engine in the lower left of this picture.

plance1 wrote: Im afraid you overpaid

Me?!?! I felt $2500 was a steal for a car this clean, rust free and straight. I have zero regrets.

I rebuilt the carb yesterday. Of the 3 check valve balls needed, zero were actually in place. Now the accelerator pump circuit actually functions! It runs pretty well, with more than enough grunt to keep up with traffic.

I also rebuilt the brakes front and rear. It still stops like crap The search for 5 lug disc brake hardware is on.

While I had it on the lift I threw some 2 inch lowering blocks in the rear and lopped 2 coils off the front.

I should have held off on lowering it. It needs strut rod bushings and shocks something fierce and now it has a lot of toe out. I won't pay to have it aligned until the other bits are in place and they won't be delivered until next friday at the earliest.

It looks amazing though.

ditchdigger wrote: It looks amazing though.

yes, it does

$2500 is a steal for that car. Very well bought.

In reply to ditchdigger:

Ignore Plance1. Lately he just likes getting on anyone's purchase thread with something 'funny' (and negative) to say.

Fantastic buy - exactly what I've been shopping for as of late.

In reply to Feedyurhed:

Agreed, also that looks freaking great!