unrelated question . when you do a 80's 5.0 in a comet did you have problems with the drag link hitting your oil pan?

Gives me shivers...

I have a 289 in my 64’ Fairlane, can’t beat the sound.

All the people that were actually racing in those days have looked at what this car is running and laughed. It wasnt a legend and it didnt win any races.

I miss my 2 70 challengers 340 and 440 😢😢

Yeah the car stock could run low to mid 13s depending on the reared,not 10s,if it ran 10s it was all souped up, and the car showed looks pretty much stock,so who is zooming who

The time period was it for cars and music other than foolishness of those few who prompted the war.

Really love the rally dash package.

its videos like this that help scratch the itch of enjoying this car. i got my baby sittin at a shop right now, same exact car and thankfully she's only been out of love for about 7-8 years so for the most part she's alright but definitely needs some love again. plan on getting her running soon and back in good shape by the end of the year at least. she's sat lonely in southern California weather so not a crazy amount of rust thankfully.

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My father was first elected as a county sheriff in 1963, but as deputy sheriff had been appointed county sheriff mid-way through the prior term of office. One of the most influential of county commissioners (three in total) was a cousin through family and that cousin had a younger brother who was one of my father's best friends. When it came down to what vehicle my father would use, my father spec'ed out a 1963 1/2 Ford Galaxie 500XL with the 390 P-code police interceptor package and the commissioner got the car purchase approved. My father drove the car hard, was out on patrol one afternoon at the recreational reservoir when the car had an electrical fire. Dad was just going to let the fire total the car when a well-meaning camper put out the fire. That toasted the interior lights. I don't know what transpired after 1969, when my father got the county to purchase a 1970 Ford LTD but the Galaxie was put into storage until I got my driver's license in April 1972 and around June 1972 my father handed me the keys to the Galaxie, and I was the new owner. I have no clue as to how he got ownership unless the commissioner swung some kind of deal (my father could sell you the shirt off your back). I drove the 500XL that summer and fall, then winterized it and revived it the following spring of 1973, then drove it spring, summer and fall of 1973, winterized it again until spring and summer of 1974. Seriously, that was way too much car for a 16-year-old to start out with. The 390 P-code engine allegedly had some work done on it by a local mechanic friend of my father such that it was more of a 400+. I don't know how I survived the summer/fall of 1972, spring/summer/fall of 1973 and the spring/summer of 1974. I was not allowed to take the car when I started university in the fall of 1974, so my younger sisters drove it until I took it back the summer of 1975 and again the summer of 1976 when I then drove it back to start my junior year of college in the fall of 1976 and became my daily driver from the fall of 1976 through to the summer of 1979, when I parked it and bought a 1974 AMC Matador to drive off to a summer intern job with Monsanto (St. Louis Missouri) in 1979. I have fond memories of that Galaxie through three years of high school and tree years of university. Two-door with white exterior and black vinyl bucket seats in the front (way cooler than those front seats in this video), and floor mounted automatic transmission shifter between the front bucket seats and similar rear seats as shown in this video with that large speaker grill in the rear center. I could lay rubber for a city block. From when I worked that summer of 1979 in St. Louis, then returned to finish out my B.S. in ChemE in the fall of 1979, then started my M.S. program in Jan. 1980 through Jan. 1981, finished up on my M.S. in ChemE (graduating in May 1981) and moved out to California to start work in Feb. 1981, I had no time to look back and do anything to the Galaxie as it was parked in the back yard of my mother's house and sat slowly sinking into the dirt until my mother found a buyer in 1985 (paid us $500) and I never saw the Galaxie 500XL again.

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What are the wheel and tire size on the car?

How many hours do you think it took start to finish to cut out and make the strut rod bracket alone? I have a 64 and believe I may be doing the same thing on passenger side. Ps. Great video!

Yo man, did you guys fall off the planet lol?

muchas gracias me ayudo mucho exelente informacion

Where’s the part 2? 4 years later and you never got it running?

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Fake legend. It’s bone stock. The guy who owned it was a legend but not due to anything with this stock car. They’re trying to say this was a street racing ledgent back in the day when it’s literally a stock car and there where so many other vehicles in the Detroit area that would wipe the floor with this car. fake story sadly to inflate the price of the car at auction.

14 second dud never a Legend, only in your mind

ROFLMMFAO, fraud story, exposed, and some moron paid a mill for it, ROFLMMFAO

Why are you glad that the trans is not a toploader? I have a toploader in my'63 fairlane sports coupe, and I love it!

The story may be hogwash but that's a really nice car. I hope it gets restored.

I have a 1965 mercury comet and was looking for more answers on what to do. Or who to call

LMFAO LOOK AT THAT STOCK ENGINE

FAKE. bone stock 100+K mile fully loaded optioned, auto tranny STOCKER. never a " Race Car"...

Truth is if anyone was winning races against cars the silver bullet which was a gm factory race project,names like jack Roush and other verifiable 1970s Detroit street legends people like Roush would have been telling the story. Absolutely a fabrication,not a fact ......it's a fact that this a nice car but not a fast enough car to race the streets of Detroit in the 70s let alone win anything more than high school drag racing

So,does anyone want to explain to the people that dont know cars that it's not even possible this car won races in Detroit in the 70's? ......fine,I will......this car is bone stock,nice car but runs a quarter mile in 14 secs Explain how it was even bothering to show up against known 10-11 second cars? Don't buy the story,buy the car ...... especially when the story is bunk.

Fake ass, BS STORY

Some muscle cars just hooked up. I had a 383 road runner that would out run 440 396 340 400 in the street Who knows

It's a fake legend

This is not the legend

My 1991 mercury capri four banger can outrun it in the 1/4

Nice 14 second car...😮

Content creator Uncle Tony exposed this fraud. It’s a bone stock 426 Hemi, and that makes it a 14 second car. No way could it ever be the phantom of the streets.

Mut and Jeff 😊

Lol

@Theoldcarchannel. Senpai, many questions. What gauge+type sheet metal, what size rod/wire, do you think TIG is better on sheet metal repair involving deteriorated metal versus MIG, what advice would you give someone trying to save one of these cars from a slow rusty death who's not experienced with sheet metal but 3/16 - 1/2 inch plate, and lastly how would you handle structural deterioration, have you ever used pieces from Autokrafter? Imma go watch the rest of your videos now......

I can comfirm the story, I've fought in 'nam with this guy, he used to tell me that when he'd come home he would take his challenger down to Alabama and start a shrimp fishing business, he never came back, but now I'm the leader of the bubba gump shrimps co

Just got a 1969 coupe seeing some points underneath to check on mine. Looks mostly solid though. Helpful vid fellas

Becuase we needed to see, and you had the perfect example! Thanks!!!!!

Thats a 1969 model

What has become of this 1967 Cougar? I have a 67 that has a seized engine and will be doing this project with my son. Thanks

The c2 is so much nicer looking than th c3 in my eyes 😊

Nice. Ride. I'm trying to put some 15" spokes on my 13 Accent. But ran into the four lug problems. So I jumped on YT in search for solutions. And came across this video. Cool beans

Mopar power 😊

It’s a nice car and if you take your time as it comes back to life in its schedule you will get the reward of 1963s best and understated car.

I think the rings are stuck. I would pour some JB down the carb and let it set the rings free. Let the cam rebreak in.

Rust grinde awat and a litt creative welding

Desire will do the work manifest it into reality, FOR REAL BELIEVE IT TO LIFE