In 1963 I had a neighbor who had 2. Both red with white interiors. His was a 1963 427 Galaxie and his wife's was a 1962 Galaxie 406. I was 11 years old. Another neighbor had a black 1962 Galaxie, 4 speed 406 with three two barrels (prior to that he had a beautiful 1956 Crown Victoria with a 312 and 4 speed) . Across the street the guy had a 1962 Impala with a 409 and 4 speed. These two guys would take me for rides in their cars. Great neighborhood, great childhood. Thanks for this educational post.
I'm a Ford Guy and love many FOMOCO Products. But, the 63 R-Model is my favorite. I've been blessed to own a non-lightweight one since 1974. Bought it from the original owner! There's nothing like driving a dual-quad big block FE! Long live the Galaxies!
I was 17 in 1968 and drove a '63 Galaxie 500 XL with a 352 ci with factory bucket seats and automatic shift in the floor. Gave it up for a 302 1970 Torino GT . Wish I had both of those cars now!
My first car was a 63 1/2 galaxie 500, with a 352 3 speed on the tree, had a lot of good times in that car, paid 800 bucks for it in 1966, and it was pretty clean, drove it till i got drafted in to the army in 71, wish i had it now
I bought one just like that, white with red interior, solid as a rock out of Texas last week. Arriving this coming week. Will probably put a 406 or a 427 in it. Paid a lot more than 800 bucks for it, but half of what I'm seeing other examples for on line. Glad to have it.
Mopar man here. But the 63 R-Code Galaxie is definitely one of my favorite Ford's ever. It's between this, a 66-67 R-Code Fairlane, and a 70 Cyclone 429 SCJ Drag Pack. The 69 428 Fairlane Cobra Fastbacks we're awesome too
Well get $247 K out because that's the price of a original R code 427 original 67 Fairlane's that's on sale, 3-7-19 with 22,000 miles. Only about 52 were made, damn
Yea I know. They only made like 50 of em in 66 and I think maybe 100 something in 67. Don't know the exact numbers but I know they're really scarce and most of them led a pretty rough life because they were basically a race car. Most 427's ended up in full size Ford's
There's one Ford I would love to have. It's a 67 Fairlane,. Station Wagon. But the guy ordered it with a 428, Cobra Jet, and a 4 speed. Only one made. The big boss man had to sign off on it. They wasn't supposed to do it. How awesome would that be?
When I was about 7-8 years old my mama sat me in her lap and I drove around country roads in a 63 ford my mamas had a 390 auto I still remember the feel of the big skinny steering wheel love those old fords
I was 15 in 1963, a year short of my license, and lived in Ford's backyard, Dearborn, Michigan. In my opinion, 1963 was the best looking model year in American car history - EVERYthing was good looking that year - Chevy, Plymouth, Mercury, Pontiac, etc, etc, and the Galaxie 500 /500 XL fastback was the king of the group, the best looking full size car ever made. I haunted Stuart Wilson Ford week in week out in January, 1963, going crazy waiting for the fastback intro, along with the 427 (only 406s before)....... What an era that was! A guy down the street from me had an older brother with a 1963 Catalina coupe with a 421 tri-power, 4 speed. Dark blue inside and out, bench seats, even! That was "MY" king car, until January brought me the ultimate............ ;-)
Yes. A friend down the street from me when I was 10, his dad had a 1962 Grand Prix and his mom had a 62 Ventura. Both were white. Great neighborhood and great times for cars.
Not a Chevy guy really but I always loved the look of the 62-66 full size Chevys..... particularly the 62 409/409 Bel Air bubble top, the 63 Impala Z11 factory lightweight, and the plain Jane 66 Biscaynes with the L72 427
not really and you seem to be not very bright and cant seem to grasp history...(NEW AGE MORON MAYBE?) look at a 62 bubbletop 409 impala.... this era of cars was great FOR ALL INVOLVED look at a similar year belvedere,amazing car and they all had similarities..maybe open your eyes once in a while before opening your uninformed mouth
@@branon6565 Only an incestuous boy (towards his crossdressing father, no less) would ever have to bring an entirely different engine into the argument, in a pathetic attempt to feel superior. In between moments of your daddy waxing your ass (which we understand are far and few, but just make do), could you provide a link to these claims of yours? Cuz, no can mysteriously find any, lol.
it went all ways mopar ...gm...ford..gm...mopar ...gm ......everyone had their day in the sun,being a fan boy is like being a giddy schoolgirl,is that you??
@@231mac nice!!! i fucking hate fanboys.....give me any brand from this era a hot belvedere,a 62 bubbletop impala or this galaxie and i would be happy.
I'm a Mopar guy but this is one of my favorite Ford's ever made. It's between this and a 66-67 Fairlane 427. And I always liked 67-70 Mercury Cougars better than Mustangs... particularly a 68 Cougar GT-E 427, the last car Ford ever made with the 427 FE under the hood. Although it was a single four barrel version with a hydraulic valvetrain to make it run smoother and quieter and not the raucous solid lifter dual quad R-Code 427, my favorite engine ever built by Ford
The toploader wasn't available until the 1964 model year, but this is the car that pointed to the necessity of the new transmission. The Borg-Warner T-10 was simply not up to the task.
You said the 63 lightweight came with a top loader 4 speed- I think if you research it the top loader was not available until the 64 model year. The 63 had a Borg Warner T-10.
All it took to put in the low to mid tens on a 1/4 mile was Mallory dual point ignition, a Dyno Don Nicholson Crane racing cam with Gold Racing aluminum rocker arms, and two 770 cfm Holley Street Avenger carbs. I know, I owned one!
My '63-1/2 Galaxie 500 2-door was baby blue with white top and blue wear-forever woven nylon seats and interior trim. Oh yeah - it also had the monster 260 2-bbl V8 with the 2-speed Ford-O-Matic transmission. Killer car, and seriously beautiful, too.😎
Good looking car anyway with an awesome factory hi po engine option. The famed 427 and just about the highest quality interior one could reasonably expect with the Galaxie XL 500 top trim level. Rivalled by Pontiac Bonneville which also had a neat interior and a transparent steering wheel rim.
I remember a couple of '63 galaxies that ran real well at the old and now closed Hawaii Raceway Park way back in 1964 when the track first opened . a black one with huge slicks used to consistently run in the low/mid 11's . This car was powered by a 427 . The driver's name was Rodney "China" Chung . I think ,before the black car , he drove a white one at the old Kahuku dragstrip .
TheGG794 I owned a 63 1/2 Galaxy 500XL 427,dual quad, 4speed,posi-traction,Rangoon Red,with white interior and black trim,all but the dash,which was red. I was 19 when I bought the car for $800.00. The car was used to transport 'shine in the Va. Mountains. It was clocked at 132mph while still in third gear by a not so happy state trooper,not to far from a place called Shooting Creek. Don't we all wish we had kept certain cars.
This car does not have the bubble hood with the hot air vent. It also does not have the cold air setup which removed the high beam lights and substituted a 4" flex rubber hose going to the carburetors. All of the lightweight cars were built with these features. The initial 20 cars also had fiberglass panels on the doors, but the remainder of the cars did not. The Ford lawyers were concerned that some owners might actually drive them on the street and if they got "T-boned" in the side the fiberglass door panels would offer no protection at all. Another little known feature was the cars had the lighter-weight frames of the low-price standard 6-cylinder models.
My ‘63 1/2 500 xl weighed 3280 with a 429 ThunderJet and a set of all new springs in the trunk, less than an ‘88 Mustang GT,...at the certified scale house for weighing over the road trucks. The light weight must have been light!
“Muscle cars” existed long before the gto or max wedge cars. -303 cubic inch 1949 olds 88 -331 cubic inch 1951 Chrysler Saratoga -317 cubic inch 1952 Lincoln Capri -early 1950’s Hudson Hornets ruled nascar from about 1951-54 -300 hp 1955 Chrysler C-300 -327 cubic inch 1957 Rambler Rebel These cars ALL existed long before the gto was introduced for 1964. Maybe generic motors capitalized on the term more than the others, but they damn sure didn’t invent the muscle car.
The thing is the white with Red intierior is so GALEXIE CLASSIC..I DIDN'T HAVE A 63 BUT A 72 2 DOOR WHITE WITH BLACK WITH A 390 SWAP.... FROM A COUNTRY SQUIRE STATION WAGON THAT WAS TOTAL..THAT SUMMER IN 76 WE MADE THE SWAP TOOK OUT THE 351 WINSOR FOR THAT 390 WOE WHAT A DIFFERANCE ..
Possible error here: Toploader transmissions were not available until mid '64 for regular production cars. Borg Warner T-10s were used up until that time unless Ford installed them in place of the lousy T-10s way before they were released into regular production. Any lightweight authorities here to correct me on this?
Actually, the car when set up by Holman and Moody (blue printed engine) and Socks& Martin carbonation adjustments still did not perform until I built an very exacting and precisely built exhaust system for it (it being the limited edition light weight model, really basic, not the 500XL with all the trim but the light weight model of which there were only 64 which were all sold to Ford dealers only back then from whom I (at 16 years of age) purchased one after it had about 70 miles of drag racing on its odometer) and still technically fully "stock". The major problem was it was so powerful it would break the axles all the time unless I installed a Detroit locker system (specially built steel axles were too expensive then). No way did the 500 lux model you presented turn low 12's at that time in 1963-4 right off the lot. Best times with this type car then was about 12.83 or so mostly because you couldn't really stop the tires from spinning too much all the way down the track even with slicks. And despite the current dialogue the Ford 427 (with a radio installed, had to have music when you race back then) actually was beating the light weight Chevy 427 often (those that were not cheating, if there were any no cheating) run by the Chevy professional dealership teams (some of who were seriously cheating with fuel, not gas, roller cams and bored and stroked engines and just used enough throttle to beat their competitors and not get torn down and proven to be cheating. Just to set the record of the time straight by someone was there and did that.
Never said i didnt like it but facts r facts, they never won one major nhra event, xcept for mike schmit and the desert motors 64 galaxie who pretty muvh ruled junior stock, im 70 years old i was there.
Had one three ninety t bird engine four in the floor bracket racer we called it the ss Billy it was baby blue an fast well up to ninty five but I could get there in a city block 👍🏻
Still considered? It was never considered a muscle car. No one ever accused my '64 Mercury Murauder fastback with a 390-4V of being a muscle car, either. In the '61-67 full sized Ford/Merc line, you really need to have two door with the top-spec motor before you go calling them muscle cars, like a 390('61) or 406('62) tri-power or a 427('63-65), and to lesser degree the('66-67) 428 (pre-Cobra Jet). Side note- Mercury had a 410 in '66-67 that was a combo of off the shelf parts. It wasn't a hi-po engine, but it was bigger than a base 390 (Mercury was positioned in a more expensive segment, ergo more engine) and they would run forever.
Had two white ones with red and one in blue with black, of course I had the more common 390 variety. Only the blue one was a 4 door, drove that one while in Germany, come to think of it that one was a 289 Still crazy fast for a big ass car..
My 65 Galaxie 500 FE 352 fast back weights only 3340 lbs. YES! The 63 1/2 only weighted about 300 more lbs if even that. This because in part because they did not have 500 miles plus of damn wiring,insulation, and fat ass millenniums driving them,ha ha. Being a Vietam army vet,obesity was pretty much a none existent issue in those great days.No one guzzled sodas or McDonalds (.35 cents).
"Giant boat", "Sled", yup, sign me up. I'd rather have one of these instead of today's crossover that typically looks like a bloated tick and underpowered to boot.
Great car but the galaxie never did squat in dragracing.these type of video is for millinals only, those of us that lived it, well mopar was the way to go.
Yeah and what happened when the Fairlane Thunderbolt came along in Drag racing ?Let alone Mustangs with the 427 sohc fitted.The same engine which had been banned from Nascar?Mopar ass got kicked didn't it?And yeah i'm not a Millenial.
Well the 427 engine was good enough to win Le mans twice before they banned the big engines ,and the 302 did it for another two years.The only American car manufacturer TO WIN THE 24 HOURS OF RACING over there is Ford.
Yeah ,and even when the 427 sohc was banned from running in Nascar Ford still kicked ass with the 427 side oiler..But what always amazes me people like you who don't like these cars seem to think that your opinion matters ,particularly to people like me who love these cars.Good luck with the Mopars but they are not my scene.
Highly valuable rare car.
You might get cold or hot but never bored behind the wheel of that Galaxie!
Beautiful car 🚗
Bad ass drag car.
In 1963 I had a neighbor who had 2. Both red with white interiors. His was a 1963 427 Galaxie and his wife's was a 1962 Galaxie 406. I was 11 years old. Another neighbor had a black 1962 Galaxie, 4 speed 406 with three two barrels (prior to that he had a beautiful 1956 Crown Victoria with a 312 and 4 speed) . Across the street the guy had a 1962 Impala with a 409 and 4 speed. These two guys would take me for rides in their cars. Great neighborhood, great childhood. Thanks for this educational post.
best looking Galaxie ever built.
Yep. I like the 1963-1/2 Galaxies better than the 63 or 64.
I think the 63 1/2 was the best looking Galaxie too.63 1/2 R-Code 427 Galaxie is definitely one of the my favorite Ford's ever
Agreed
amen
I'm a Ford Guy and love many FOMOCO Products. But, the 63 R-Model is my favorite. I've been blessed to own a non-lightweight one since 1974. Bought it from the original owner! There's nothing like driving a dual-quad big block FE! Long live the Galaxies!
This design was all over the place if my memory serves me right. A family up the street from me had a black one!
I was 17 in 1968 and drove a '63 Galaxie 500 XL with a 352 ci with factory bucket seats and automatic shift in the floor. Gave it up for a 302 1970 Torino GT . Wish I had both of those cars now!
My first car was a 63 1/2 galaxie 500, with a 352 3 speed on the tree, had a lot of good times in that car, paid 800 bucks for it in 1966, and it was pretty clean, drove it till i got drafted in to the army in 71, wish i had it now
I bought one just like that, white with red interior, solid as a rock out of Texas last week. Arriving this coming week. Will probably put a 406 or a 427 in it. Paid a lot more than 800 bucks for it, but half of what I'm seeing other examples for on line. Glad to have it.
It would be worth some money now. I wish I had my dad's 64
Had one like this when I was 16. Only had a 289 though. Constant oil leak.
Nice ride
What a great classic Ford! The amazing R-code 427 dual quad 63 Galaxie 500 lightweight! Simply amazing!
Getting it on strong in a Galaxie! Gotta love it! Ford Power!
@@billkerstein1637 Ford!
Mopar man here. But the 63 R-Code Galaxie is definitely one of my favorite Ford's ever. It's between this, a 66-67 R-Code Fairlane, and a 70 Cyclone 429 SCJ Drag Pack. The 69 428 Fairlane Cobra Fastbacks we're awesome too
Well get $247 K out because that's the price of a original R code 427 original 67 Fairlane's that's on sale, 3-7-19 with 22,000 miles. Only about 52 were made, damn
Yea I know. They only made like 50 of em in 66 and I think maybe 100 something in 67. Don't know the exact numbers but I know they're really scarce and most of them led a pretty rough life because they were basically a race car. Most 427's ended up in full size Ford's
There's one Ford I would love to have. It's a 67 Fairlane,. Station Wagon. But the guy ordered it with a 428, Cobra Jet, and a 4 speed. Only one made. The big boss man had to sign off on it. They wasn't supposed to do it. How awesome would that be?
When I was about 7-8 years old my mama sat me in her lap and I drove around country roads in a 63 ford my mamas had a 390 auto I still remember the feel of the big skinny steering wheel love those old fords
THESE WERE SURPRISINGLY FAST,I CALLED THEM SLEEPERS! WHAT A DREAM CAR!!!
That car is glorious!
I was 15 in 1963, a year short of my license, and lived in Ford's backyard, Dearborn, Michigan. In my opinion, 1963 was the best looking model year in American car history - EVERYthing was good looking that year - Chevy, Plymouth, Mercury, Pontiac, etc, etc, and the Galaxie 500 /500 XL fastback was the king of the group, the best looking full size car ever made. I haunted Stuart Wilson Ford week in week out in January, 1963, going crazy waiting for the fastback intro, along with the 427 (only 406s before)....... What an era that was! A guy down the street from me had an older brother with a 1963 Catalina coupe with a 421 tri-power, 4 speed. Dark blue inside and out, bench seats, even! That was "MY" king car, until January brought me the ultimate............ ;-)
My dad owned 3 LWGs. The most notable was formerly campaigned by Ed Martin Ford out of Indianapolis. The other two were “body in white” cars
My favorite car, along with the 63 Chevy Impala, both were beautiful.
My all time favorite example of a full size muscle car.....closely followed by a 62 Pontiac Catalina 421 Super Duty
Yes. A friend down the street from me when I was 10, his dad had a 1962 Grand Prix and his mom had a 62 Ventura. Both were white. Great neighborhood and great times for cars.
Way better looking than the GMs and Mopars of the same time.
Not a Chevy guy really but I always loved the look of the 62-66 full size Chevys..... particularly the 62 409/409 Bel Air bubble top, the 63 Impala Z11 factory lightweight, and the plain Jane 66 Biscaynes with the L72 427
Things went weird from 59-61 for most of the brands.
@@waterheaterservices The 1961 Ford Galaxie Starliner was a beautiful looking car.
not really and you seem to be not very bright and cant seem to grasp history...(NEW AGE MORON MAYBE?)
look at a 62 bubbletop 409 impala.... this era of cars was great FOR ALL INVOLVED
look at a similar year belvedere,amazing car and they all had similarities..maybe open your eyes once in a while before opening your uninformed mouth
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 lighten up, Francis. You obviously have problems with someone expressing THEIR opinion.
1963 daytona 500 first 5 places was Ford Galaxie . Tiny Lund 1st place, back when stock car racing was stock.
I had a '64 Comet Cyclone and would give a LEG (the left one) to have it back. I could shift just fine ;)
I LOVE early '60s FOMOCO products.
These 63 Galaxies with 406’s & 427’s ruined the day of many 409’s and 427 bow ties.
They sure did didn't they!
@@branon6565 Only an incestuous boy (towards his crossdressing father, no less) would ever have to bring an entirely different engine into the argument, in a pathetic attempt to feel superior. In between moments of your daddy waxing your ass (which we understand are far and few, but just make do), could you provide a link to these claims of yours? Cuz, no can mysteriously find any, lol.
it went all ways mopar ...gm...ford..gm...mopar ...gm ......everyone had their day in the sun,being a fan boy is like being a giddy schoolgirl,is that you??
@@231mac nice!!! i fucking hate fanboys.....give me any brand from this era a hot belvedere,a 62 bubbletop impala or this galaxie and i would be happy.
I.was.sixteen.at.time..and.hichin.to.work.and.guy.gave.me.a.ride.in.one.it.was.so.fast.i.thout.we.never.make.it.fastest.big.car.i.ever.rode.in.made.a.ford.guy.out.of.me.50.years.ago.?
4 2 7 the magic numbers
Love the widened steelies on the back
I'm a Mopar guy but this is one of my favorite Ford's ever made. It's between this and a 66-67 Fairlane 427. And I always liked 67-70 Mercury Cougars better than Mustangs... particularly a 68 Cougar GT-E 427, the last car Ford ever made with the 427 FE under the hood. Although it was a single four barrel version with a hydraulic valvetrain to make it run smoother and quieter and not the raucous solid lifter dual quad R-Code 427, my favorite engine ever built by Ford
I was always a Chevy guy. But, I love about all the 60's cars. I'm a 64 model, so they was plentiful. If I had just been smarter.
Beautiful piece of American Muscle! Just love Amerivam muscle cars.
Nice l also like the 63-64 Fairlane
Love that alluminium bumper I weighed my 60 F100 front bumper 26.5 pounds!
They had clocks. It was the gas gauge so you knew when it was time to refuel. And the tachometer so that you knew when it was time to up-shift.
The toploader wasn't available until the 1964 model year, but this is the car that pointed to the necessity of the new transmission. The Borg-Warner T-10 was simply not up to the task.
Excellent Narration
Thank you kindly!
A few months ago I got a red 63 1/2 fastback 390. These were always the best of the bunch IMO. Your R code car looks perfect. Thanks for sharing.
My brother had one 63 and would take me with him on telegraph rd in detroit thats why i built my owen and still have it today
That thing is totally bad ass! Good looking too.
My great grandpa has a red one
Can I have it? lol
You said the 63 lightweight came with a top loader 4 speed- I think if you research it the top loader was not available until the 64 model year. The 63 had a Borg Warner T-10.
All it took to put in the low to mid tens on a 1/4 mile was Mallory dual point ignition, a Dyno Don Nicholson Crane racing cam with Gold Racing aluminum rocker arms, and two 770 cfm Holley Street Avenger carbs. I know, I owned one!
No rear gear change or slicks?
T.R. Freeman A full 2 second drop with essentially a cam swap??? That's so amazing it borders on stupidity...
@@231mac or pipe Dream.
Wow! Great video presentation of a truly classic race car! ...Thank You! ... I just added driving one of these Lightweights to my bucket list. LOL!
My '63-1/2 Galaxie 500 2-door was baby blue with white top and blue wear-forever woven nylon seats and interior trim. Oh yeah - it also had the monster 260 2-bbl V8 with the 2-speed Ford-O-Matic transmission. Killer car, and seriously beautiful, too.😎
The just something about them old School Ford hot rods i like they are just bad ass and plane cool! 😎
Good looking car anyway with an awesome factory hi po engine option. The famed 427 and just about the highest quality interior one could reasonably expect with the Galaxie XL 500 top trim level. Rivalled by Pontiac Bonneville which also had a neat interior and a transparent steering wheel rim.
great presentation on a great car
My first car. Got it when I was 14.
my first car also, 63 XL 390
Oooooh baby. Exactly what I dream of
Beautiful
Awesome car
I remember a couple of '63 galaxies that ran real well at the old and now closed Hawaii Raceway Park way back in 1964 when the track first opened . a black one with huge slicks used to consistently run in the low/mid 11's . This car was powered by a 427 . The driver's name was Rodney "China" Chung . I think ,before the black car , he drove a white one at the old Kahuku dragstrip .
TheGG794 I owned a 63 1/2 Galaxy 500XL 427,dual quad, 4speed,posi-traction,Rangoon Red,with white interior and black trim,all but the dash,which was red. I was 19 when I bought the car for $800.00. The car was used to transport 'shine in the Va. Mountains. It was clocked at 132mph while still in third gear by a not so happy state trooper,not to far from a place called Shooting Creek. Don't we all wish we had kept certain cars.
I bet a lot of people spend a lot of time looking at the tail lights
bill thompson
Amen Brother! I’d LOVE to have one of Them or a 427 Thunderbolt! I’m almost drooling just thinking about it! :€)
They do.
This car does not have the bubble hood with the hot air vent. It also does not have the cold air setup which removed the high beam lights and substituted a 4" flex rubber hose going to the carburetors. All of the lightweight cars were built with these features. The initial 20 cars also had fiberglass panels on the doors, but the remainder of the cars did not. The Ford lawyers were concerned that some owners might actually drive them on the street and if they got "T-boned" in the side the fiberglass door panels would offer no protection at all. Another little known feature was the cars had the lighter-weight frames of the low-price standard 6-cylinder models.
Bob, you might be referring to the Thunderbolt... those had the hoods and intake hoses you mentioned. ruclips.net/video/KFcUlqm2V2k/видео.html
Very good synopsis.
My ‘63 1/2 500 xl weighed 3280 with a 429 ThunderJet and a set of all new springs in the trunk, less than an ‘88 Mustang GT,...at the certified scale house for weighing over the road trucks. The light weight must have been light!
They never came with a Thunder Jet… unless it was installed in the car later. The 429 TJ came out for 1969 full size cars.
I put it in there from a 68 t-bird......
AWESOME!!!!!!!
NICE
wonderful....when the factories , especially Ford would giv 'er whatever it takes to win whether it was the drags, stockers , Indy, SCAA, LeMans.....
Kelsey Hayes's rims
65 custom 500 fast back with the 390 4 speed kicked ass for a low production car ! Boxy but fast !
I LIKE IT... I WISHD ID HAD SOME DAY 4 GALAXIES 2 RED ONES AND 2 YELLOW ONES
You almost had a camera operator run over eh? There was that moment right around 4:13 where it broke traction and started to pick a new direction.
Built Lightweight for maximum horse power!
Pretty sure this car is a 1963 1/2 - fastback roof line
If my husband had this car i know he would have shown the young chumps round StLouis where its at!
I know if a Black one. Grandpa bought it new. His grandson drove it to the Sonic back in the mid to late 80's. They still have it
I'm A FORD man First On Race Day
And they say the GTO was the first “muscle” car. This car along with the max wedge Mopars were the true beginning.
“Muscle cars” existed long before the gto or max wedge cars.
-303 cubic inch 1949 olds 88
-331 cubic inch 1951 Chrysler Saratoga
-317 cubic inch 1952 Lincoln Capri
-early 1950’s Hudson Hornets ruled nascar from about 1951-54
-300 hp 1955 Chrysler C-300
-327 cubic inch 1957 Rambler Rebel
These cars ALL existed long before the gto was introduced for 1964. Maybe generic motors capitalized on the term more than the others, but they damn sure didn’t invent the muscle car.
63 would have had a t10 from the factory if I’m not wrong
The thing is the white with Red intierior is so GALEXIE CLASSIC..I DIDN'T HAVE A 63 BUT A 72 2 DOOR WHITE WITH BLACK WITH A 390 SWAP.... FROM A COUNTRY SQUIRE STATION WAGON THAT WAS TOTAL..THAT SUMMER IN 76 WE MADE THE SWAP TOOK OUT THE 351 WINSOR FOR THAT 390 WOE WHAT A DIFFERANCE ..
Possible error here: Toploader transmissions were not available until mid '64 for regular production cars. Borg Warner T-10s were used up until that time unless Ford installed them in place of the lousy T-10s way before they were released into regular production. Any lightweight authorities here to correct me on this?
I like it
these videos are done right
63 and a half Ford
Love to own this beauty and I am not a ferd person
As a long time drag racer my question is what does it weigh? Seems like they would mention that 🤔
Still have a 63 Galaxie 4dr.HDT,factory 4spd.390 that has had alot of improvments,looks good but needs repaint.
Cool
Actually, the car when set up by Holman and Moody (blue printed engine) and Socks& Martin carbonation adjustments still did not perform until I built an very exacting and precisely built exhaust system for it (it being the limited edition light weight model, really basic, not the 500XL with all the trim but the light weight model of which there were only 64 which were all sold to Ford dealers only back then from whom I (at 16 years of age) purchased one after it had about 70 miles of drag racing on its odometer) and still technically fully "stock". The major problem was it was so powerful it would break the axles all the time unless I installed a Detroit locker system (specially built steel axles were too expensive then). No way did the 500 lux model you presented turn low 12's at that time in 1963-4 right off the lot. Best times with this type car then was about 12.83 or so mostly because you couldn't really stop the tires from spinning too much all the way down the track even with slicks. And despite the current dialogue the Ford 427 (with a radio installed, had to have music when you race back then) actually was beating the light weight Chevy 427 often (those that were not cheating, if there were any no cheating) run by the Chevy professional dealership teams (some of who were seriously cheating with fuel, not gas, roller cams and bored and stroked engines and just used enough throttle to beat their competitors and not get torn down and proven to be cheating. Just to set the record of the time straight by someone was there and did that.
4:11 that's what I was waitn for
Spical vehicles not for the faint at heart wish I kad this in my garage
Mike shmidt and the desert motors galaxie wich ran a/stock was the only one that did well.
My name's Friday. I carry a badge.
They weren't all white! I had a friend who owned one that was all red. It also had a fiberglass top and trunk lid. It ate 409's for breakfast.
He did not SAY they were all white.
@@spaceghost8995 I've seen them in black too.
I had 1 when i was 15
Man! That would be a cool car with an LS in it! (Said the 20yo gearhead)
So this is the grandson of the police ford interceptor
Never said i didnt like it but facts r facts, they never won one major nhra event, xcept for mike schmit and the desert motors 64 galaxie who pretty muvh ruled junior stock, im 70 years old i was there.
Well how much did it weigh?
I do not know the curb weight, but I do know these were about 425 pounds lighter than a regular Galaxy 500. That's a hell of a difference!
Had one three ninety t bird engine four in the floor bracket racer we called it the ss Billy it was baby blue an fast well up to ninty five but I could get there in a city block 👍🏻
1963.5?
So I have a 1963 ford galixie 4 door is it still considered a muscle car?
Still considered? It was never considered a muscle car. No one ever accused my '64 Mercury Murauder fastback with a 390-4V of being a muscle car, either. In the '61-67 full sized Ford/Merc line, you really need to have two door with the top-spec motor before you go calling them muscle cars, like a 390('61) or 406('62) tri-power or a 427('63-65), and to lesser degree the('66-67) 428 (pre-Cobra Jet). Side note- Mercury had a 410 in '66-67 that was a combo of off the shelf parts. It wasn't a hi-po engine, but it was bigger than a base 390 (Mercury was positioned in a more expensive segment, ergo more engine) and they would run forever.
rarring sleet No.
What you have is a neat old Ford. How much muscle it has is proportional to your wallet.
That entire video and you didn't tell us how much it weighs
Thought they only came in black
Had two white ones with red and one in blue with black, of course I had the more common 390 variety. Only the blue one was a 4 door, drove that one while in Germany, come to think of it that one was a 289 Still crazy fast for a big ass car..
My 65 Galaxie 500 FE 352 fast back weights only 3340 lbs. YES! The 63 1/2 only weighted about 300 more lbs if even that. This because in part because they did not have 500 miles plus of damn wiring,insulation, and fat ass millenniums driving them,ha ha. Being a Vietam army vet,obesity was pretty much a none existent issue in those great days.No one guzzled sodas or McDonalds (.35 cents).
Not sure what Vietnam has to do with this.
Radio delete is expected, but no heat!
"Giant boat", "Sled", yup, sign me up. I'd rather have one of these instead of today's crossover that typically looks like a bloated tick and underpowered to boot.
Great car but the galaxie never did squat in dragracing.these type of video is for millinals only, those of us that lived it, well mopar was the way to go.
Yep, I towed a bunch of them home with my 63. But they were fast, until they broke.
Yeah and what happened when the Fairlane Thunderbolt came along in Drag racing ?Let alone Mustangs with the 427 sohc fitted.The same engine which had been banned from Nascar?Mopar ass got kicked didn't it?And yeah i'm not a Millenial.
Well the 427 engine was good enough to win Le mans twice before they banned the big engines ,and the 302 did it for another two years.The only American car manufacturer TO WIN THE 24 HOURS OF RACING over there is Ford.
Yeah ,and even when the 427 sohc was banned from running in Nascar Ford still kicked ass with the 427 side oiler..But what always amazes me people like you who don't like these cars seem to think that your opinion matters ,particularly to people like me who love these cars.Good luck with the Mopars but they are not my scene.
Terry Harding You have Winger videos on your channel! lol Ain't NO way you were around drag racing in the early 1960's! lol
Sorry I meant American!
This is a 1963 1/2
Junior Johnson bootlegging car ,,lol
Junior Johnson raced these cars!He has now left us.R.I.P Junior Johnson, a legend.