My 1960 Falcon

This is my car it's a 1960 Ford Falcon Tudor that my Dad bought new.....I've been driving it since 1971. I installed a 5 bolt 289 V8 from a '64 Falcon... A T-10 4 speed transmission from a '66 Fairlane.... A 9" Ford rear end that came from a '68 Cougar. With a 3:70 to 1 gear ratio. I have installed front Disc Brakes that came from a '76 Granada (using a  '63 two bolt idler arm) along with the 1" sway bar from the same car. But I wasn't satisfied with the results. Now I have a 65 Mustang repo sway bar. I replaced the front suspension with parts from a '63 V8 Falcon except for my 6cyl coil springs.

.... I still got a long way to go before I finish. I'm going to start on the interior next. The seats needed upholstery along with the door panels. The bucket seat's I had was from a '63 Falcon but now I have found a set of 6-way electric buckets from a '86 Cougar. I had to drill new holes in the floor pan and I use flat washers on both sides of the new holes for extra strength. I'm having a friend at a machine shop making me a 'box' to mount the switch on the floor between the door and seat. There's no way I'm going to cut any holes in the '62 Falcon console to mount the seat switch like in the Cougar. I tried my 'luck' at making my own door panels. I bought a 1/8" sheet of fiber board, new car headliner foam, and 2 different shades of gray vinyl from a local fabric store. They turned out OK, but I will try and make another pair. I know what to expect the next time around. I made my own headliner with cloth material I bought from the fabric store. It wasn't that' hard, but I had somebody else do the sewing. I just told her where to sew. I replaced the kick panels with the after market type that has speakers built into them. About the only thing left to do is getting the back seat upholster like the front seats. Then I hope to get started on the exterior. A flame paint job would look good along with some more custom paint sprayed along the lower rear quarters. I've transplanting the guts from my old AM manual tune radio with a new AM/FM radio guts. There is plenty of room in the old tube type radio. I couldn't see how I will get the dial indicator to move, it's not driven with a pulley and string, it is gear driven and the mechanism moves in and out, not side to side. So I glued it down to "Look" like it would move. It looks like the original radio except the little red light when it is on a stereo station. I did not want to drill a hole in the face of the radio for a AM/FM switch so I left it on FM while I was working inside it. (who wants to listen to AM?) Now I have a place to plug in my electric antenna so it can go up and down when the radio is switched on or off.

The Engine is a early 5 bolt 289 cubic inch small block. It is bored 0.040 over and TRW 10 1/2 to 1 forged pistons with Perfect Circle rings, the crank has been turn and polish along with the rods been shot peined and true. The fuel lines are 3/8" from the tank to carb. A Holley high volume mechanical fuel pump along with a 1406 Edelbrock 600 cfm dumps the fuel into an Edelbrock Tarantula manifold that I bought new back in the mid 70's. A Mallory Unilite distributor fires the Autolite's. As you can see in the photo above the Mickey Thompson valve covers are also from the same time period. The heads are from a '68 302 . I had them ported and shaved and the valves have been replaced with stainless steel Chevy valves along with harden seats. Roller rockers from Cam Dynamics requiring valve guides and chrome molly pushrods. The cam is a Erson hydraulic with a 491 lift and 280 duration. The exhaust is Red's TRI-Y Headers. I'm going to go back back to my Hookers 6102's after I get them 'Jet Coated'. They seem to breath a lot better at higher rpm's.

The rear end is a 9" with the common 28 spine axle from a '68 Cougar with a 3:70 gear from a '76 F150 truck. I do have a 4:57 that could be put installed in case I needed or wanted. I had replaced the rear springs with Falcon Station Wagon springs years ago when the original rear end came apart. They are rated a few pounds more that the sedan springs. The rear wheel openings was cut for the wide rearend and the sharp edges was finished with 1/2" electrical conduit and fiberglass to give it a stock looking appearance. The driveshaft was custom made from a local racing shop. The transmission is a Borg-Warner T-10 4 speed from a '66 Fairlane. A Hurst Competition Plus manipulates the gears.

I've got the Bill of sale that you can view Here
Want to see my other Falcon? 64 Falcon Tudor Station Wagon

This picture was taking in 1982

     This picture was taking in 2002

I installed Mustang shocks up front because they are about twice as cheap as the Falcon shocks. I had to use the Mustang top mount because they are different than the Falcon mounts. The only modification was to enlarge the top mounting bolt slots a bit to get new bolts to fit into the shock towers.

I also installed a Monte Carlo Bar to help strengthen the front end to help when undertaking the turns. Along with an after-market lower cross member. This should be well enough to keep it where I'm pointing it. I want to install frame connectors maybe next year and continuously weld the floor to the frame rails while I'm under the car. I know that will help a bundle too.

Click Here for a few tips on installing floor pans , disc brakes and dual bowl master cylinder

Most of the parts I have to convert this over to a V8 was obtained from a '63 1/2 Falcon Futura V8 parts car that I had years ago, and junkyards. The console is from a 62 Falcon. Most of the new parts I bought from Melvin's Classic Ford Parts, like the floor pan, tail light lens, fuel cap and a lot more. He's just a few miles from my house and I like to get the part when paying for it, (...and save shipping charge's) also they are very knowledgeable, friendly people there.

To see my first web page I did about my Falcon click HERE