Anyone Remember the Ford Falcon Automobile?
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One of my friends in elementary school had a dad that drove one. I loved the huge backseat with the fold out stools.
Stock? My dad used to drag a 69 Fastback, up until his accident. I used to love helping him work on it, always timing issues. If he had of stayed in racing, I probably would have ended up on a completely different path. Mom still tells stories of him slamming that thing in the garage, with the blue lights filling the driveway shortly after. But, it eventually was traded for a Family LTD and then it was regular suburbia from them on.
One of my college roommates had an old Ranchero. It had a 2 speed automatic transmission. This meant the engine was never running at the right speed. Nice whiplash when it finally shifted from low to high going from approximately 6000 rpm down to about 100 rpm and immediately bogging down. Good times.
My parents first car was a 1960 Ford Falcon. One of my first memories as a child was June of '62, waiting at the bottom of the stairs for my dad and mom to come home from the hospital with my new baby brother in that Ford Falcon - of course no seat belts and no car seat!
Not a Falcon but parents drove me and siblings all over NY & Connecticut in a jet black Fairlane station wagon. early 60's (63? idk) Later in life I had a 1970 2dr Ford Galaxie which was an Ocean Liner compared to my previous Triumph Spitfire.
I remember my great grandpa’s Falcon. Rode in it a few times in the 70’s when I went fishing with him.
My dad bought a brand new ‘62 Falcon in Black the day before his wedding to my mom. Still has it, keeps it in mint condition.
Yup, back when the Big Three decided to sort of kind of compete with the various smaller European cars that were starting to come over. Chevy had the Corvair, there was the Plymouth Valiant and Dodge Dart, the Rambler American, and the Studebaker Lark. I seem to recall that we had a Rambler American, my dad being a Nash man at that time.
The Mercury Comet was the Falcon clone. In the mid 60's, they released the Comet Cyclone GT, which had a 390, so it was no slouch.
And if you live in the land of Down Under, they had the Falcon from the 60's to 2016. There were a number of high performance models, including this last year release, with a 351 V-8
I've driven a Ford Falcon and in 1981 I bought a 1964-1/2 Mustang that had seen its better days. My father bought a black and white used Ford Fairlane around 1962 but I was too young to drive it.
Mostly we were a Plymouth family. I remember us having a Plymouth station wagon with the push-button automatic transmission. I drove a Plymouth Fury II and a Gran Fury in high school.
Mostly we were a Plymouth family. I remember us having a Plymouth station wagon with the push-button automatic transmission. I drove a Plymouth Fury II and a Gran Fury in high school.
One more automotive blast from the past. When I was a tiny kid of about four years, our neighbor brought a Crosley, which was perhaps the first American compact car, this one a little station wagon, with a cast iron block engine. For a small kid, it was magic, a car more my size. The brand didn't last long, but was a trail blazer in its way. That was about 1950.
Powell Crosley also invented refrigerator door shelves, he was a true innovator. I have seen tiny Crosley two seaters at car shows, they are very cool little machines.
This is a nice article about Crosley automobiles:
Whatever Happened To: Crosley? - Historic Vehicle Association (HVA)
Hagerty Insurance's Glenn Arlt continues his series on short-lived automotive marques with a look at Crosley.
www.historicvehicle.org
My brother had a 1962 Falcon 4dr, 140 cid engine with 2-spd Ford-o-Matic. Was so slow you needed a sundial to calculate 0-60 mph runs. We swapped in a 170 cid 3-spd from a 70 Maverick, suited the car better.
That was the Ford Pinto. It was part of an extra customer care policy that Ford developed. In event of a crash, instant cremation saved the cost of a funeral. It wasn't popular, much to Ford's surprise.
Ford had a bit of an issue with the Crown Vics, also. There was a pretty big dust-up some years ago about police officers getting killed by their cruisers, in otherwise survivable collisions.
We had one as well. Never was an automobile more aptly named than the Rambler. That thing left a trail of parts wherever it weaved.
Ford had a lot of issues with their cars killing their owners. Some they kept quiet, and some got way overblown in the media, like the Pinto. But, this is what led to their slang... Found On Road Dead.
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