Man you said it right , if you get one keep it , and treat it right , these new cars are so unreliable and everything , people don’t understand how good the cars were back then and I’m only 22!!
Oh, this is a muscle car with that engine and the 4 speed on the floor. No air, no power steering, no power brakes to take some of the power away from this beast. I had a 65 4 door as my first car and loved every minute of it! It had the 352 with dual exhaust and a 4 barrel, and she moved with the much smaller V-8. To this day, it had the coldest air-conditioning ever had by me in a car or truck since. The metal registers would freeze it was so cold!
Im 66 and when i was a kid. A friend of mine, his well off dad bought him a new 64 ford galaxie 4dr hardtop. With the 427 dual quad setup & a 4spd. Black with a red interior. It was FAST and a beautiful car. We had alot of fun in that car. Years later i got a 64 2dr hardtop, 390-4spd. 62, 63 & 64 are my fav years of ford. Esp the 62-406. Nice video, thanks. Tom in Portland OR
Amazing. I grew up in the backseat of dad’s 65 390 LTD 4dr hardtop. His had factory A/C but dad loved to takes us to Jaxson’s Ice Cream then come home along the beach on A-1-A in Hollywood FL. All 4 windows down but the A/C blasting to counter the oppressive humidity in S Florida. 55 years later I remember those afternoons like they were yesterday.
I love cars like this- Cars you would never expect to find the super performance engine in...The “Barn Find Hunter” found one in a special order 1967 station wagon!! It’s a 1 of 1.
First car I drove when I got my license was my dad’s 1966 4 door Ford Custom 500 with a 289 and 3 speed on the column. It was a nice car surprisingly quick in the stoplight to stoplight drags in St. Louis. No power equipment, no AC. Lots of fun driving that in the late 60’s.
Great color, and those headlight covers are awesome. I was unaware that was an R code thing, nice touch by Ford. In addition; I can assure you that AM/FM radio was a very rare option in 65'.
You guessed it right - it was an unmarked police car ordered for high speed pursuits of very bad guys. I was a cop in the 60's and 70's and my first undercover Ford police car was a 1962 Galaxie 4 dr, plain jane white. It looked like a bar of Ivory soap. But it had a very special 390 with 3 2 barrel carburetors. It had solid lifters, an Iskederien E-2 cam, a three speed stick on the column with a 4.11 rear and a 2.79 pull-out overdrive. It didn't have a radio or power steering. When we took the engine apart to blueprint it we discovered it was a 405 hp 406. It seems the Ford "Police department" was installing these things in hundreds of police cars to test the engine for durability in secret. By 1967, many highway Patrol cars throughout the country were equipped with experimental 428 Super Cobra Jet V8's - again for a durability test. This engine was subsequently offered on the 1969 Mustang Mach One. I ran into one of these rare 428 Galaxies operated by the Briarcliff Manor P.D. in Westchester County New York. It was an Ivy green 2 dr Hardtop with a white vinyl interior and a 4 speed on the floor; 4.11 rear (no overdrive) and traction Lok. In the sixties - NASCAR motors and NHRA rear ends were tested on the sly in police cars for a year or 2 by Ford. And there was no getting away from them. The one you have there is typical of the Ford DSO's (Domestic Special Order.) with pre-production super-high performance engines and running gear.
***** The last 4 door XL hardtop was in 1964. The LTD was available as a 4 door hardtop, but the XL was only available as a 2 door hardtop, or convertible.
The writers of these videos are artists, But the first line calls this car a `Green´ car. 0:00 So it looks like Ford Starlight Blue. Even if you Googled Ford Starlight Blue, you get this car as an image. So I thought maybe my monitor was off color. 2:44 He calls it TWILIGHT TURQUOISE, which is close, but not as blue as this one. This is the prettiest Green I have ever seen.
In '65 the Ford color was Twilight Turquoise, with Ocean Turquoise for the Mercury code. The color is deceiving in the video. Here's a link to paintref.com, and they show this car as the sample as well. Thanks for the comment! paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?type=sample&paint=9313&ditzler=12893&syear=1965&smanuf=Ford&smake=Ford&smodel=Galaxie&sname=Twilight%20Turquoise&name=galaxie196512893&scomm=&rows=50
@@MuscleCarOfTheWeek Thanks for your reply. Makes sense now, I did some more research and using the the link you provided. Turquoise is a blue green, although I though it was a bit lighter shade of blue, like this Mustang ruclips.net/video/D6E3VzpR-Iw/видео.html This Galaxie is one of the best looking and best performance Galaxie I have seen. Thanks for doing a video on this one.
I bought one brand new in 65 with the 4 speed and was a special order. It was in the middle of the horsepower race. You would find many family sedans with the 390 4 bbl police interceptor but they would have auto trans, power brakes and steering. Mine was exactly the same as this one manual steering brakes. Black with red interior bench seats. First new car I ever bought. Wish I still had it. Can't really remember but believe the 352 was the smallest motor offered in the Galaxie 500, there was a 6 cyl offered in the custom.
Absolutely amazing car. When you see crazy combinations like this. You scratch your head, and ask yourself " who the Hell ordered this thing "? I am going to guess this car is one, of one. Wow !
The 65 500 390ci would lay a strip of rubber at 60 mph when she dropped into passing gear. The 4 barrel would just roar and like the song says make telephone poles look like a picket fence!! Galaxy 500. A true classic!
Some people just really like sleepers, I think thats why it was ordered that way. A friend of mine had a 79 4 door malibu and he dumped a lot of money into the 350 that came with the car and it was pretty fast and he used to have a 69 Bonneville with the 335 hp 400, he just liked sleepers. I would love to have that 4 door Galaxie I bet its fun to drive.
I love it! What a sleeper...I'd say put full wheel covers on it instead of those dog dish caps...it would look even more bread and butter, especially for that period. A friend's dad had a 65 Custom 300 4-door sedan (beige, even!) with the 352 and all manual everything (three on the tree...full synchro)...I remember it was bitch to park, and it didn't like being stopped much either. But it sure surprised a few at the stoplights. I really enjoy your presentations.
I prefer the convenience of the 4-door model. The driver and the front seat passenger(s) are not inconvenienced by someone entering or exiting the back seat. GREAT CONCEPT PUT INTO PRACTICE!
It was probably ordered special order exactly like it sits. I grew up during this time. I can remember seeing some of the weirdest combinations of vehicles ever ordered. Reason being, the oilfield. A lot of 'company' men and toolpushers that worked for the oil companies during the 60s and 70s were allowed to order whatever they wanted to order. The company would pay for whatever you wanted as long as you ordered it from the specific dealership or dealerships they did business with. Not just the 'key' supervisors that worked for the drilling companies but a lot of the service companies did the same thing. About every 2 years they would allow their men to get a new company car. Everything that had to do with the car was paid for by the company. You just had to keep a good expense report and turn it in every month. This included meals, lodging, and any other expenses associated with the job. This still goes on but in a very limited fashion. They will assign you a vehicle now. Most still provide vehicles to key personnel especially if they are on 24 hr call. A friend of my father ordered a Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser with any and everything that you could get in it. I'm not sure but I think it had a big 455 HO in it. Lots of strange vehicles you wouldn't think would have been ordered.
I remember years ago seeing a 1967 pontiac wagon with buckets and a 4spd hooked to a 428. It even had the 8-lug wheels. I don't know that it was a factory original but it sure did look like it.
There used to be one like you describe in the Miami area in about 1971, it had the Grand Prix front lights. It was 428/4 speed with everything on it. Was super nice. It got wrecked in late 71 or early 72 on I-95 in morning rush hour.
I looks slot like the 4 door 65 custom 500 that my Dad passed on to my brother. My brother had it painted firemist blue. Had the 289 with a c4. I have a 2 door 65 Galaxie that I hope to get back to restoring someday. 289 with 3 speed stick. I'm considering a slightly modified 390.
The headlights covers are awesome!Hard to believe they were factory options.Of course two or three years later they would not be allowed by the safety regulations. Were there any other US cars with covered headlights at that time?
My '65 Galaxy 500 LTD had 2 air vents, with fans, that came up to the back window deck. Does yours? It was great for us kids (before gramma gave me the car years later) because grampa smoked. He'd open the window wing vents and turn on the rear vent and the fresh air would caress our heads and the cigarette smoke would go right out the window vents.
I think it was a trade off between the wife and husband w/ kids. He wanted this car and the only way she would sign off was that it be a 4-door. That's my opinion and it sounds logical, of course the wife didn't know one engine from another so he got his 427, with her none the wiser.
That could be very well be plausible, or someone special ordered this car since it has a more upright and formal roof line compared to the two door model. Probably was special ordered since the thing that was a exclusive feature on the 4 door hardtops in 1965 and 1966 was the flow through ventilation, such a feature wasn’t available on the two door models.
No lie, Jay Leno himself may have ordered this car as a youth. If you check out his book, 'Leading With My Chin', he mentions how, as a kid, his parents 'allowed' him to special-order a new car for them! From what I recall, it was a mid-'60s Galaxie with a big block, and his father was angry since it had a 'racing engine.' Deserves further investigation...
Most guy's n gal's that own Galaxies only sit in car shows, lawn chair people. I raced my 66 XL on n off years and never broke anything except a rocker shaft. Billet shaft mounts took care of that! Mostly was a driver but did drag race at the track for fun, and attended the local cruise ins. If you got a hot rod you got to run it once in a while. My 390 was warmed over to about 400 hp, eddy heads, 584 lift Comp cam, 3000 stall, 4:11 gears still fine for street driving and turned 13.70s. I needed better tires traction was always a issue. On slicks it would of dropped a half a second. Never got around to buying em. I miss that car!
your story reminds me of my 65 galaxie back in 91' box stock 4 door sky blue with a 289 windsor , in the time i owned it it copped a fully worked 460 big block stalled c6 transmission and 3.9 rear end, drove it every day and went to the drags on street tyres and pulled mid 12's all day long,, then drove to work on monday,,, the most memorable 3 years of my life,, friends still remind me of it,, should never had sold it,,,
Me too! Had it 18 years. Sold it in 2014 becuse i was broke. Mid 12s wow quick. I wanted to put a stroker in the 390 to run mid 12s but going broke forced sale. My girlfriend in Germany is glad i don't race anymore she thinks i would crash. Ahhh all fun i told her, maybe some day i get another car but not if i move to Europe no drag strips in berlin i know of...
somebody obviously like their music they ordered am and FM with this 65 Galaxy which is pretty rare back then a family plate like opera music classical it's good now though beautiful car very very very strange probably a Moonshiner or something or a cop detective bought that car
The Ford's offered am/fm radios since 1963. They were not stereo but mono. Stereo Radios were not available until 68. Also the R Code 427 option did not allow for the selection of power steering. automatic and Air Conditioning. Ford said that there was no room in the engine bay for the power steering pump or the a/c compressor. They did not have a cruisomatic that could handle the torque, therefore a 4 on the floor was a mandatory option. The base price of a 65 Ford Galaxie 500 4 Dr hardtop without options was about $2736. The 427 with the mandatory 4 speed added about $1250 to the price. The red line tires cost an additional 33.00. The fm radio added another $133.00 to the ticket. All together this car's bottom sticker less tax and license was about $4250 back in 65. A very special car indeed. Incidently the 427 R codes were not offered on the Ford Wagons.
It's definitely a muscle car. It was probably ordered by a ranking state police officer to show up his rookies with their 390 police interceptor motors!
Manual steering stands for “Man steering “ Awesome one less oil leaking everywhere that’s what power steering does anyway...I love it so much insanity Galaxie
Should have mentioned mine was a real sleeper with no badging on the outside and the cheap hubcaps that went with the custom model. I bought mine for highway cruising. Traded it in 66 for a 455 Olds.
I don't care if it was a station wagon the 427r code was enough .my cousin had a Fairlane with one if he nail it you couldn't you couldn't believe the off the line torque
It would be cool if this did turn out to be the Jay Leno car but it's probably unlikely that car is still around. I suspect from the specification with the lack of "fluffy bits" that this car may have been specially built by Ford to try and convince police departments and government agencies to fork over more money on R-Code cars over Interceptors. I suspect if law enforcement had gone for these in a big way there would have been a lot of mid-'60s traffic light warriors hanging their heads in shame when they got royally spanked by a four-door Galaxie sedan. That's certainly the sort of thing Ford did in the UK into the 2000s and there are still cars and vans around in specifications that were never available to the general public but have never seen service as the first name on the registration was Ford Motor Company where they were demonstration or very occasionally assessment vehicles that were loaned to the agencies to try out, though most of those were destroyed when they were returned after the assessment period was finished...
I love these videos but why are all the videos on this channel just doing a burn out on the lot behind the shop show us a clip of it driving on the road what's the use in of owning it if you can't drive it nothing but trailor queens
This Galaxie is the most beautiful sleeper I've have ever seen!!!
Man you said it right , if you get one keep it , and treat it right , these new cars are so unreliable and everything , people don’t understand how good the cars were back then and I’m only 22!!
A four-door can be just as badass as a two-door.
+MrHeadbanger366 A lot of the big sedans were lighter than their two-door hard top or convertible siblings...
Absolutely
Absolutely
I don't care if it's a four-door or a station wagon.
If it's got the goods it's a muscle car.
Oh, this is a muscle car with that engine and the 4 speed on the floor. No air, no power steering, no power brakes to take some of the power away from this beast. I had a 65 4 door as my first car and loved every minute of it! It had the 352 with dual exhaust and a 4 barrel, and she moved with the much smaller V-8. To this day, it had the coldest air-conditioning ever had by me in a car or truck since. The metal registers would freeze it was so cold!
Hey my friend had one too. It was like riding in a stock car.
I'm not a big Ford guy but I love this car.
Im 66 and when i was a kid. A friend of mine, his well off dad bought him a new 64 ford galaxie 4dr hardtop. With the 427 dual quad setup & a 4spd. Black with a red interior. It was FAST and a beautiful car. We had alot of fun in that car. Years later i got a 64 2dr hardtop, 390-4spd. 62, 63 & 64 are my fav years of ford. Esp the 62-406. Nice video, thanks. Tom in Portland OR
My 1st car in high school was a 68 4 dr. Now retired I have a 65 galaxie 500 LTD 352 ac. Full rotisserie restoration. Love it
Amazing. I grew up in the backseat of dad’s 65 390 LTD 4dr hardtop. His had factory A/C but dad loved to takes us to Jaxson’s Ice Cream then come home along the beach on A-1-A in Hollywood FL. All 4 windows down but the A/C blasting to counter the oppressive humidity in S Florida. 55 years later I remember those afternoons like they were yesterday.
I love cars like this- Cars you would never expect to find the super performance engine in...The “Barn Find Hunter” found one in a special order 1967 station wagon!! It’s a 1 of 1.
His isn’t an R-code. It’s a 428 4 speed
First car I drove when I got my license was my dad’s 1966 4 door Ford Custom 500 with a 289 and 3 speed on the column. It was a nice car surprisingly quick in the stoplight to stoplight drags in St. Louis. No power equipment, no AC. Lots of fun driving that in the late 60’s.
Great color, and those headlight covers are awesome.
I was unaware that was an R code thing, nice touch by Ford.
In addition; I can assure you that AM/FM radio was a very rare option in 65'.
You guessed it right - it was an unmarked police car ordered for high speed pursuits of very bad guys. I was a cop in the 60's and 70's and my first undercover Ford police car was a 1962 Galaxie 4 dr, plain jane white. It looked like a bar of Ivory soap. But it had a very special 390 with 3 2 barrel carburetors. It had solid lifters, an Iskederien E-2 cam, a three speed stick on the column with a 4.11 rear and a 2.79 pull-out overdrive. It didn't have a radio or power steering. When we took the engine apart to blueprint it we discovered it was a 405 hp 406. It seems the Ford "Police department" was installing these things in hundreds of police cars to test the engine for durability in secret. By 1967, many highway Patrol cars throughout the country were equipped with experimental 428 Super Cobra Jet V8's - again for a durability test. This engine was subsequently offered on the 1969 Mustang Mach One. I ran into one of these rare 428 Galaxies operated by the Briarcliff Manor P.D. in Westchester County New York. It was an Ivy green 2 dr Hardtop with a white vinyl interior and a 4 speed on the floor; 4.11 rear (no overdrive) and traction Lok. In the sixties - NASCAR motors and NHRA rear ends were tested on the sly in police cars for a year or 2 by Ford. And there was no getting away from them. The one you have there is typical of the Ford DSO's (Domestic Special Order.) with pre-production super-high performance engines and running gear.
Whom ever ordered this car needed to get the ice cream home before it melted.
***** The last 4 door XL hardtop was in 1964. The LTD was available as a 4 door hardtop, but the XL was only available as a 2 door hardtop, or convertible.
Ford galáxie 1967
He succeeded
Seen a 4 door 66 Chevy Biscayne once with a factory 427 4 speed. Love the big sleeper cars like this
The writers of these videos are artists, But the first line calls this car a `Green´ car. 0:00
So it looks like Ford Starlight Blue. Even if you Googled Ford Starlight Blue, you get this car as an image. So I thought maybe my monitor was off color. 2:44 He calls it TWILIGHT TURQUOISE, which is close, but not as blue as this one.
This is the prettiest Green I have ever seen.
In '65 the Ford color was Twilight Turquoise, with Ocean Turquoise for the Mercury code. The color is deceiving in the video. Here's a link to paintref.com, and they show this car as the sample as well. Thanks for the comment! paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?type=sample&paint=9313&ditzler=12893&syear=1965&smanuf=Ford&smake=Ford&smodel=Galaxie&sname=Twilight%20Turquoise&name=galaxie196512893&scomm=&rows=50
@@MuscleCarOfTheWeek Thanks for your reply. Makes sense now, I did some more research and using the the link you provided.
Turquoise is a blue green, although I though it was a bit lighter shade of blue, like this Mustang
ruclips.net/video/D6E3VzpR-Iw/видео.html
This Galaxie is one of the best looking and best performance Galaxie I have seen.
Thanks for doing a video on this one.
Love it❤ had a 65 drop top. Built a 427 low riser and put in it. Best car ever
I bought one brand new in 65 with the 4 speed and was a special order. It was in the middle of the horsepower race. You would find many family sedans with the 390 4 bbl police interceptor but they would have auto trans, power brakes and steering. Mine was exactly the same as this one manual steering brakes. Black with red interior bench seats. First new car I ever bought. Wish I still had it. Can't really remember but believe the 352 was the smallest motor offered in the Galaxie 500, there was a 6 cyl offered in the custom.
Absolutely amazing car. When you see crazy combinations like this. You scratch your head, and ask yourself " who the Hell ordered this thing "? I am going to guess this car is one, of one. Wow !
427, 4 doors, 4 speed manual! Anything was (and is) possible)!
427 4 speed 4 door? Gotta be one of very very very few made.
That is crazy a 4 door 427 car and I see it has am/fm radio for 1965 fm was not a big thing what a crazy car
The 65 500 390ci would lay a strip of rubber at 60 mph when she dropped into passing gear. The 4 barrel would just roar and like the song says make telephone poles look like a picket fence!! Galaxy 500. A true classic!
Some people just really like sleepers, I think thats why it was ordered that way. A friend of mine had a 79 4 door malibu and he dumped a lot of money into the 350 that came with the car and it was pretty fast and he used to have a 69 Bonneville with the 335 hp 400, he just liked sleepers. I would love to have that 4 door Galaxie I bet its fun to drive.
I love 65 Fords.my family had one , I was 16,great car to "date" in.
I had 631/2 Galaxie 427 R Code and raced one of these 4 doors in 1965. It was an all white sedan.
I love it! What a sleeper...I'd say put full wheel covers on it instead of those dog dish caps...it would look even more bread and butter, especially for that period.
A friend's dad had a 65 Custom 300 4-door sedan (beige, even!) with the 352 and all manual everything (three on the tree...full synchro)...I remember it was bitch to park, and it didn't like being stopped much either.
But it sure surprised a few at the stoplights.
I really enjoy your presentations.
Hubcaps are so HIGH PERFORMANCE lol really they are useless serve no purpose what so ever
beautiful car!
When they rode comfortable and were fast was the way they made um. SWEET !
That's 1 heck of a car....I've had a lot of 4 doors over time....
love it .it belong to somebody from out of this world..they got back in there space ship and went home and left this car behind.....
Stunning!!!
I prefer the convenience of the 4-door model. The driver and the front seat passenger(s) are not inconvenienced by someone entering or exiting the back seat. GREAT CONCEPT PUT INTO PRACTICE!
This is probably the neatest, rarest "Muscle Car" but I would love to have had it.
It was probably ordered special order exactly like it sits. I grew up during this time. I can remember seeing some of the weirdest combinations of vehicles ever ordered. Reason being, the oilfield. A lot of 'company' men and toolpushers that worked for the oil companies during the 60s and 70s were allowed to order whatever they wanted to order. The company would pay for whatever you wanted as long as you ordered it from the specific dealership or dealerships they did business with. Not just the 'key' supervisors that worked for the drilling companies but a lot of the service companies did the same thing. About every 2 years they would allow their men to get a new company car. Everything that had to do with the car was paid for by the company. You just had to keep a good expense report and turn it in every month. This included meals, lodging, and any other expenses associated with the job. This still goes on but in a very limited fashion. They will assign you a vehicle now. Most still provide vehicles to key personnel especially if they are on 24 hr call. A friend of my father ordered a Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser with any and everything that you could get in it. I'm not sure but I think it had a big 455 HO in it. Lots of strange vehicles you wouldn't think would have been ordered.
I remember years ago seeing a 1967 pontiac wagon with buckets and a 4spd hooked to a 428. It even had the 8-lug wheels. I don't know that it was a factory original but it sure did look like it.
There used to be one like you describe in the Miami area in about 1971, it had the Grand Prix front lights. It was 428/4 speed with everything on it. Was super nice. It got wrecked in late 71 or early 72 on I-95 in morning rush hour.
1965 Ford was my first car. It was a 4 door with a 289 engine
I looks slot like the 4 door 65 custom 500 that my Dad passed on to my brother. My brother had it painted firemist blue. Had the 289 with a c4. I have a 2 door 65 Galaxie that I hope to get back to restoring someday. 289 with 3 speed stick. I'm considering a slightly modified 390.
Awesome cruiser
That would make my life to own.... such a cool car.
I would go to get groceries ANYTIME in this car !
I might not regret getting one soon
Spectacular!
The headlights covers are awesome!Hard to believe they were factory options.Of course two or three years later they would not be allowed by the safety regulations. Were there any other US cars with covered headlights at that time?
65 Imperials
And '65 Chrysler 300s.
Man! Pretty awesome!
very cool..reminded me of my car i built..1985 mercury fox body marguis .5.0.windsor head's. T5 Tran's.355 posi..
#3 on the bucket list,do the brother have a 1957 rambler rebel.....
My '65 Galaxy 500 LTD had 2 air vents, with fans, that came up to the back window deck. Does yours? It was great for us kids (before gramma gave me the car years later) because grampa smoked. He'd open the window wing vents and turn on the rear vent and the fresh air would caress our heads and the cigarette smoke would go right out the window vents.
Pure muscle.
I think it was a trade off between the wife and husband w/ kids. He wanted this car and the only way she would sign off was that it be a 4-door. That's my opinion and it sounds logical, of course the wife didn't know one engine from another so he got his 427, with her none the wiser.
That could be very well be plausible, or someone special ordered this car since it has a more upright and formal roof line compared to the two door model. Probably was special ordered since the thing that was a exclusive feature on the 4 door hardtops in 1965 and 1966 was the flow through ventilation, such a feature wasn’t available on the two door models.
Odd but surely a Muscle car....what a interesting story I wonder if anyone tried to find the guy who ordered this beast,but honey its a 4 door Lol !
Probably some gearhead working at a radar station in Alaska checking the boxes from a 65' Ford Sourcebook and counting the days.
Definitely a muscle car
There were some limousines made with the R motors. Remember reading of it.
It's a muscle car back in the day they used to call them a sleeper a stock looking Grandma's car anything but slow pure muscle a shock in all
I'd like to know all about that AM/FM in dash radio. Was it a factory option? I've never seen one before for '65s.
That is one bad ass grocery getter
No lie, Jay Leno himself may have ordered this car as a youth. If you check out his book, 'Leading With My Chin', he mentions how, as a kid, his parents 'allowed' him to special-order a new car for them! From what I recall, it was a mid-'60s Galaxie with a big block, and his father was angry since it had a 'racing engine.' Deserves further investigation...
I thought he said that he wrapped that one around a tree
No, that was a Falcon, he flipped on its roof. I'm dying to know if this was the same car a teenaged Jay Leno ordered...that would be crazy!!!
I just talked to Jay about 2 weeks ago, he said it was his.
@@Jgeneraledger23 Jay Leno’s Ford Galaxie 500 is from 1966 in burgundy red, this is a 1965 Ford Galaxie in metallic blue.
I like it.
THE FBI HAD SOME TWO DOOR BEASTS. TWO TO BE EXACT
Me gusta el carro un Ford Galaxie 500 1965
can you say Sleeper?
indeed
Don Garlits has a Coronet Hemi 4 door in his museum it was a former FBI car
The 65 427 had a 9 3/8" rear from the Lincoln..
Trivia.
its funny none of the comments are saying its the same engine in the little shelby cobra
We agree Kevin!
I love the horsepower ratings of the 60's. 425 horsepower? Yeah at 2500 rpm, lol.
Green!!!? What are you? .... frickin' color blind?
Blue buddy.... it's called *BLUE* !!!
NOT MUCH OF ford FAN BUT I LIKE 4 DOORS
Beast
Sweet! More fullsize with hot motors. Sick of mustangs, cameros, chevelles. Galaxie, Impala, Catilinas, etc.
I agree with you bro
Most guy's n gal's that own Galaxies only sit in car shows, lawn chair people. I raced my 66 XL on n off years and never broke anything except a rocker shaft. Billet shaft mounts took care of that! Mostly was a driver but did drag race at the track for fun, and attended the local cruise ins. If you got a hot rod you got to run it once in a while. My 390 was warmed over to about 400 hp, eddy heads, 584 lift Comp cam, 3000 stall, 4:11 gears still fine for street driving and turned 13.70s. I needed better tires traction was always a issue. On slicks it would of dropped a half a second. Never got around to buying em. I miss that car!
your story reminds me of my 65 galaxie back in 91' box stock 4 door sky blue with a 289 windsor , in the time i owned it it copped a fully worked 460 big block stalled c6 transmission and 3.9 rear end, drove it every day and went to the drags on street tyres and pulled mid 12's all day long,, then drove to work on monday,,, the most memorable 3 years of my life,, friends still remind me of it,, should never had sold it,,,
Me too! Had it 18 years. Sold it in 2014 becuse i was broke. Mid 12s wow quick. I wanted to put a stroker in the 390 to run mid 12s but going broke forced sale. My girlfriend in Germany is glad i don't race anymore she thinks i would crash. Ahhh all fun i told her, maybe some day i get another car but not if i move to Europe no drag strips in berlin i know of...
I liked it best in LTD form!
That is one 4 door that I would trade my 2 door for.
do these cars carry similar values to the early hemi cars?
Guys on the assembly line in "65....What the hell is this???Check the work order.....
I do too Kev!
This is the type of family car one buys, so when the kids start acting up in the back seat, your burn out and fill the cabin with smoke.
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️... (maybe the guy was a bipolar road patrol police officer... 😉.. 😁...)
It's a unicorn!
pretty crazy stuff ...but....there are 4 ? 4dr HEMI 66 Belvederes and Coronets out there....somewhere.....
Great car, just leave plenty of stopping room.
Call it the SLEEPER
I would love to see a 1965 Galaxie Woodie Wagon with this engine. I know it was optional but did anyone actually order one?
Saw a 67 Ford Woody Wagon with a factory 428 police interceptor with a 4 speed. Think it's the only one Ford made in 67
Galaxie Woodie Wagon = Country Squire.
guessing they made a single 4 bbl version
Rated at 410 h.p.
somebody obviously like their music they ordered am and FM with this 65 Galaxy which is pretty rare back then a family plate like opera music classical it's good now though beautiful car very very very strange probably a Moonshiner or something or a cop detective bought that car
The Ford's offered am/fm radios since 1963. They were not stereo but mono. Stereo Radios were not available until 68. Also the R Code 427 option did not allow for the selection of power steering. automatic and Air Conditioning. Ford said that there was no room in the engine bay for the power steering pump or the a/c compressor. They did not have a cruisomatic that could handle the torque, therefore a 4 on the floor was a mandatory option. The base price of a 65 Ford Galaxie 500 4 Dr hardtop without options was about $2736. The 427 with the mandatory 4 speed added about $1250 to the price. The red line tires cost an additional 33.00. The fm radio added another $133.00 to the ticket. All together this car's bottom sticker less tax and license was about $4250 back in 65. A very special car indeed. Incidently the 427 R codes were not offered on the Ford Wagons.
It's definitely a muscle car. It was probably ordered by a ranking state police officer to show up his rookies with their 390 police interceptor motors!
I have a 65 4dr LTD w/390 , thinking to make it suicide doors... eventually~!
Guess grandma and grandpa had to go to church in a hurry?
Is the car for sale if so I would like to buy it?
Not for sale, part of The Brothers Collection.
Manual steering stands for “Man steering “ Awesome one less oil leaking everywhere that’s what power steering does anyway...I love it so much insanity Galaxie
Good Lord. find out who the original owner was. theres a story here
Looks blue to me but what do I know?
Lol The original SHO!
I like the car do you want to sale it
Should have mentioned mine was a real sleeper with no badging on the outside and the cheap hubcaps that went with the custom model. I bought mine for highway cruising. Traded it in 66 for a 455 Olds.
I don't care if it was a station wagon the 427r code was enough .my cousin had a Fairlane with one if he nail it you couldn't you couldn't believe the off the line torque
It wasn't all that uncommon to see 4-doors with buckets & a 4-speed in those days. I've seen a '64 with a 390 equipped that way.
Moonshine car
Is that an R code?
Yes he says so several times in the video.
@@Troy_nov1965 Yeah, I noticed that. Satire.
It would be cool if this did turn out to be the Jay Leno car but it's probably unlikely that car is still around. I suspect from the specification with the lack of "fluffy bits" that this car may have been specially built by Ford to try and convince police departments and government agencies to fork over more money on R-Code cars over Interceptors. I suspect if law enforcement had gone for these in a big way there would have been a lot of mid-'60s traffic light warriors hanging their heads in shame when they got royally spanked by a four-door Galaxie sedan. That's certainly the sort of thing Ford did in the UK into the 2000s and there are still cars and vans around in specifications that were never available to the general public but have never seen service as the first name on the registration was Ford Motor Company where they were demonstration or very occasionally assessment vehicles that were loaned to the agencies to try out, though most of those were destroyed when they were returned after the assessment period was finished...
ummmm. 4 door Coupe
I love these videos but why are all the videos on this channel just doing a burn out on the lot behind the shop show us a clip of it driving on the road what's the use in of owning it if you can't drive it nothing but trailor queens
wouldnt be surprised if it was a law enforcement vehicle, or a wanabe one