anyone remember this falcon drag car?

i just picked up this 65 falcon futura drag car
here is the story on the car
i bought it off a local wheeler dealer wko bought it from the guy who built it
he raced this car back in the day with his son who was 18 at the time.
the son was in a fatal car crash with his comet daily driver.
the dad was so crushed he put it in the corner of the garage and there it sat since 1979.
from n.e. ohio
original 289 4 speed bench seat car
had holes cut in core support for ram air
using 2 spun aluminum velocity stacks
289 hi po motor
spun a rod bearing
ford 9 inch
5:38 gears
nodular case
homemade ladder bars welded to rear end
rolled and stretched wheel wells in rear
any info helpful
36000 original miles

 

Holy ****! Unreal!

 

Great score. Please post some better pics when you get a chance.

 

Never saw it before but a great find and no doubt some history if you can find it

 

I'll bet if you contact a old racer from Thompson Raceway Park or maybe from Lucky's Drag City near Erie, PA, they'd know the car.

 

oh yeah...much cooler than the coupe. Nice score. now when do I get to do a smokey burnout?

 

i already did one for ya,dan-o!
gotta love those 5:38s

 

I dont know anything about it, but Im in love.

 

thanks

 

Kenny,

The Falcon looks bad ***!!

Later
Dave

 

nice find

 

Another great Falcon. Good luck with finding the history, it took me almost 3 years to uncover my Falcon's history.

 

i found out my falcons history today.
just for giggles i looked for the original owners number in the phone book.
he still lives in the same house he did back in the sixties.
turns out he built the car(not the kid and his dad).
turns out the car raced h/modified production cl*** with it and won a u.s. nationals at dragway 42 back in the day.
the guy answered the phone all old and crabby and got all young and happy when he heard i had the car and it was untouched since 1966 .
the bottom end was done by miles/gellner engineering.
the heads are 66 289 hi po s with stainless 1.94 /1.6 chevy valves
done by mickey hart of hart automotive.
he said he always wondered what happened to the car.
he started a family in the late seventies and had to sell the falcon because he was hard up for cash.
he invited me over to look at all the old pics of the car from the sixties.
the guy still has the 30 plus trophys he won with the car from the 60s.
the falcon was his last race car ever and he never had another
he is now retired and said he cant afford to build another car.
but he is glad to hear i am keeping it as it was back then.
i made arrangements for him to come look at the car this week.

 

cool story. great looking car.

 

Man that's great, keep us updated with how the visit goes.

 

Be sure to take a pic of him with the car.

Dave

 

Man, what a wonderful find. If you run out of room to store it, there is a good salt free home for it in North GA. Hope you get it going soon. Try to get copies of the photos he has and post them please. LOVE them Falcons.

Falconred