Customs 1963 Fairlane Bellflower

This followed me home today, 1963 Fairlane. Needs loving in the interior, but everything is there. Engine has been gone through, new shocks, springs, brakes, gas tank, etc,etc... Drove it home, and besides a rattle from the rear view mirror I can find nothing to complain about. The only cancer is by the drivers heel and can be covered by a quarter. Solid survivor. The main ****ty part is the rattlecan paint--fixed easily enough. Plan is to give it a mild Bellflower treatment (paint, wheels, drop), pull the interior together, and do some minor un****ing in the engine compartment, then I'll just cruise it until somebody makes me an offer I can't refuse.

 

Cool find!!!
The engine compartment could use some more motor.... Hint hint....

 

It could. But since there's only like 4k on the rebuild I'll back-burner that for now. It did have a set of V8 motor mounts in the trunk though, with all of the other extra stuff.

 

I like it keep us posted

 

WTF is a “Bellflower”?

Ray

 

Early to mid 60`s style Custom. Or normally called A Watson style. Bellflower exhaust tips are located under the rear quarter panel

on the car.

 

Something like this.

 

Un****ing ! LMAO.........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Great find, cool ride! Is that the "big" 200 engine or a 170? Either way it should be cheap to run. Throw some "Indian blankets" on the seats and drive it.

 

Hope that bungee is pre-65.
Great car. I've always liked those.

 

Thank you for the clarification.......

Ray

 

Actually you are wrong, probably more people of Dutch decent than any other. And more were mild level customs than tail than tail down, with equal mix of every style. A few on hydro pumps. M*** lowered and wheel package

 

Small update, paint is done.


Sprayed satin black


Flaked scallops all over. Here's a taste.


Heavy flake on the roof. Posting from the phone so I hope the video works.

 

Keystones are cool, **** the haters. Good sunlight profile pics this weekend...

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Looks good! Love the flake scallops.

 

Need some overall pics but so far...........I like it!!

 

Well, the weather never cooperated so I never got a "flake sparkling in the sun" pic, but here's the full profile.

 

Previous pics that help show flake roof.

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if you really wanted to show roof in sunshine you would have jumped in and drove till you hit sunshine

 

Yep, much better! She's a cruiser!

 

Got some sunshine over the weekend. "They're coming to get you Barbara.."

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looks more 60's without the skirts... you still need to hooks up some Bellflower tips. Great job!!! What size are the rims and tire combo? you know for reference.

 

The famous Bellflower vid.

 

15x6 with 155R15 Dimax Radar cl***ic whites.
Tips will probably be this winter--previous owner put a fresh exhaust on it, and as a notorious cheapskate I'm having a hard time justifying pulling it.

 

Watching that over lunch almost made soup come out my nose. I think I work with that guy!

 

You made it look pretty cool.. Great job....

 

Great job, I'm liking it.

 

Love the wheels.

 

Something I've been dragging my feet on. You don't need a headliner to enjoy your ride, so I've been putting it off for a year or so now. Wife and daughter are at dance cl*** all damn day and I've got the boy so I'm stuck in the house. He takes a long nap, so I had about 3 hours to be productive. Busted out the sewing machine and boom, headliner.

 

Winter project. Shaved door handles with some other needed bodywork and a big boy paint job. Final will be black & silver, flaked and buried under burgundy candy.

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