1963 Phil Bonner Ford Galaxie 427 Lightweight: Muscle Car Of The Week Episode 261 V8TV
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- 1963 Phil Bonner Ford Galaxie 427 Lightweight: Muscle Car Of The Week Episode 261 V8TV
This 1963 Ford Galaxie was built for racing, with lightweight fiberglass and aluminum components and a high-strung 427 for power. It was campaigned by Phil Bonner in the ‘63 NHRA Super Stock class, and is is basically the same today as it was in racing trim back in the day. Good for low 12’s in the quarter mile, these cars paved the way for the F/X and Funny Car classes in the heyday of 1960s drag racing and is one of several 1963 Galaxie lightweights in The Brothers Collection. Photos from The George Klass Collection: www.georgeklass.net/
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The old factory Superstocks were the coolest of the musclecars...awesome rides!
I owned a 1962 Ford Custom sedan - police car. Three speed stick on the column, with a factory 4.11 and an overdrive pull-out knob on the dashboard. Ford said it had a "High performance" solid lifter 390 with an Isky E2 cam, and they rated the police model at 375 instead of the 335 of the publicly offered 390. Well, when we took the engine apart we found it to be a thinly disguised experimental factory 406. The 406 connecting rods were unmistakable even at first glance. The 4.11 rear was NOT traction-lok. The police were against rear lockers for some reason. It had a 11.75 compression ratio and green flames three feet long used to come out of the dual exhaust when it backfired. It idled at 1,200 rpm - and this was a plain Jane 4 door sedan, white in color. No power steering , no power brakes, no a/c, no radio. I put a 406 tri-power holley setup on it with an aluminum medium rise manifold. when we took that cast iron 390 intake manifold off, I swear it weighted 150 pounds. First gear took you to a SCREAMING 75 miles an hour and second would take you into a whole new stage of manhood.....never drove such an animalistic, fast, savage beast of a car again, and I've owned 90 high-performance cars since the 1960's.
1963 Ford Galaxie was one of the best lookn cars ever built, there was a guy from my home town that bought a 63 Ford Galaxie 427 dual quad 4 speed. Man that was the nicest car I'd ever seen Wow! Chuck
Something about full sized muscle of that era..
The 1963 1/2 and 1964 fastback Galaxies were the ONLY good-looking cars that Ford made in the 1960's outside of the Mustangs. I absolutely LOVE these things. I came extremely close to buying a 1963 1/2 fastback Galaxie about 12 years ago...red with a red bucket seat interior, 4-speed and a 390 (although it wasn't an original 390 car). The only thing that stopped me was someone on the Chevelle forums randomly posting an ad they had found for a 1969 Chevelle SS on Craigslist. The car just happened to be only 30 minutes from where I live and it was a factory Burnished Brown car with factory parchment (white) bucket seat interior, a 4-speed an NO center console...and it was a numbers-matching L34 car.
My dad gave my sister his 63 1/2 galaxies 390 4 speed for her graduation. I love that car!
Watch that last burnout closely, the front wheel stays locked up (he's riding the brake for a better burn) but the slicks still grip enough to push it across the pavement. That's a pretty cool Ford.
Great car, great information.
more old fords... many many more plz...🤘
The 427 Galaxie in NASCAR was where it really shined.
Definitely a piece of Ford racing history. Keep up the good work covering all the brands.
Love it!
When I was a kid, I remember a 63 similer to this coming to the house on a lot of Sundays and loading up with
Wonderful video Kevin, great research, these early cars always are minus head rests, my neck hurts just watching, dual holleys, solid lifters, wow!! I wish I could get a tour of the collection. These guys really know their cars and what's special and what's not worth collecting.
I had one in 1970. It was a true screamer. Boy I'd love to still have it.
Absolutely love these cars!
Fun collection. Every one of them is nice to see.
Beautiful car! Absolutely beautiful! The narration is pretty decent too 👍
I love old Fords! I always was a 390 fan, and had a '70 LTD 2DR at one time. I wish I had it back. Fold down head lights, beautiful red on the outside and white on the inside. I used to blow away modern cars from stop light to stop light every day.
Great cars from the 60's, love em all.