Hotrod For the Wife....1963 Fairlane 500

A neighbor has a 62 Fairlane Sports Coupe. Two door post with buckets and a console. Not for sale at this time. Has a bad engine but he has a 302 rebuilt to install.

 

Cool looking ride.

All of you guys with wives that dig the car hobby don't know how lucky you are. My wife puts up with my hobby, but doesn't like the cars at all and it's like pulling teeth to get her to take one of the cars when we go out.

If the rest of the car is original, I'd keep the original motor. Maybe get it spruced up with some stronger internals and a stroker crank to give it a bit more low end torque. I'm sure you can get some reasonable numbers out of that little v8 and it's just going to be a street cruiser anyway.

 

Nice! Good man for keepin the wife happy. I just met a guy who transplanted a 5.0 into one. The harness and FI actually didn't look to nasty and he's claiming to get 22-25 mpg out of it. Don't know how much your lady drives but might makes sense for ya. Either way, can't wait to see what ya do with it. Keep us posted!

 

NICEEE !!!!!! good trade ..

 

very nice!! i love those cars.

 

I can dig it. All it takes on some cars is just stance..... are you gonna get crazy and metal flake // lace // panel the top or just a nice red?

 

I say make this one a g***er too and then you and the wifey could drag race each other around town for control of the TV remote!

 

Nice score!

 

Dang thats clean. This is why people hate Californians (jealousy)!

 

Fairlanes are cool, 260's are rock solid motors! this was my daily for about 2 years.

 

Very Nice 63 Fairlane! Yours looks to be pretty straight and complete might have a few extra items if you need some parts. Have a 63 Fairlane that am rebuilding is the old g***er style drag car.

 

Almost finished.......

She got new paint, new 289 hi-po, new c4, new tires and caps, and new interior coming soon......

 

love to have it,,,,,,,would make me a cool tow v

 

Would love to have a 63 some day.

 

wow nice improvement
a guy in my high school had a 64 289 4 speed car it had the hipo 289 with autolite 4 barrell and a dual point distributor with 4.10 gears in the rear it wasnt the fastest thing in town but dam close

 

Damn ... I hate these threads that remind me of neat cars I don't have, especially when I have 2 cars, a truck, a motorcycle, only a 2-car garage, and live in an HOA!