Projects 1963 Ford Galaxie build

Just a thread for mine and 204carcrazy's build on a 1963 Ford Galaxie.
By no means are we as talented as some of the guys on here, so bare with us. lol

Bought the car off the internet sight unseen from British Columbia, Canada. This is how it looked like when it showed up.

 

We tore it apart and quickly realized it wasn't as clean as it looked.

 

We did some rehab on the body & floors

 

We found a donor motor for the car.



we swapped an XL interior in

 

we got the car on the rotisserie and bare



204carcrazy sprayed it with Upol Raptor liner

 

the original Galaxie frame had some rust issues, so we were lucky enough to find a clean frame to restart with



204carcrazy modified tranny crossmember for the new tranny



we repaired the rear frame rails, removed the rear leaf mounts, and filled the access holes

 

we tacked the 4 link in place

 

Damn dude...great work but you could have started with a stack of sheet metal and your tools!

 

Really nice work and a very interesting project.

Always loved this years Fords.

Jimbo

 

Hi just found this thread .I've got a 63.5 galaxie fast back I was told mine was rust free .when I got it it was full of rust. I'm liking what you are doing. any updates.
cheers paul

 

Welcome Aboard Ty

 

Cool thread. Looking forward to following along

 

most important part. wilwood brakes cleared the 14" supremes

 

Love these cars. A friend had one in high school back in 1971. Black with red interior. 390 automatic. Sat up kind of all the way around with frosted mag front runners and black steel's with H78x15's on the rear. Looked like it was going a 100 mph standing still! But slammed with white walls and supremes is another way to go lol!! Nice build, enjoy and continue to post.. Larry

 

got the frame put together. with the 14" supremes it will sit 2.5" off the ground without body weight.


also got the body back on the frame.

lifted


lowered

 

WOW, IMPRESSIVE WORK SO FAR, I'LL BE FOLLOWING ALONG FOR THIS BUILD.

 

This thread is awesome. Keep it coming

 

a little more progress.

we fitted a '64 500xl parcel tray in.




we also mounted Vintage Air a/c unit in place

 

Looking good...

 

Will check back...

 

Where did you source your four link from? and did you update the front suspension also?

 

Really liking this project, great workmanship. My first new car was a 63 Galaxie 500 convert. 390 4-sp. list price was $3600, paid $3000 off the show room floor, the 64's just came out.

 

for the 4-link we pieced it together. lowers are from thorbros.com and uppers are from welderseries.com

in the picture i was using a flaming river rack (but it was really tight with my headers), so we swapped it out for a borgeson box and fatman tubular control arms.

 

polished cluster

 

Wild work! Do you have a shop work short I can buy? Sounds dumb but I want one. PM me

 

I imagine that factory tach must be pretty rare! Never saw one.

 

I like this! Impressive work, will be a fun ride when you are done!

 

Awesome work. I'm hooked on this one. I always wanted a 63.5.but for now have settled on a 61 Starliner. Great work man.What is the make and year of the rear end?

 

that's because they didn't make one.
we had New Vintage USA make us a tach that would look correct for '63.

 

It's a 8.8 out of a Lincoln Mark VII. The Bill Blass edition has 3.08 gears and the LSC edition has 3.27 in case your junk yard has a choice between the two.