[gbic1]

Ok I thought I started a build thread but I could not find it. So here it is.
Bought this old rusty body at a swap meet a year and a half ago. Plans are a 428 4 speed. It is going to be a track car. I would like it to be more period correct that the fastest. I have been busy and not much time to work on it so I have been acquiring parts. This is my starting point.

glass hood and fenders

 

[gbic1]

1957 Ford Nine inch set in.

Traction bars I found 1 mile from my hous at a swap meet

Swap meet seats. Not sure what they came from.

 

[gbic1]

Cut out the rusty floor pan and set in the new one for test.

Making a Mustang firewall fit the Falcon ( I had it in stock)

 

[gbic1]

Going to be a lot of fab but I have more time than money. Going to head to Harbor Freight to get a shrinker stretcher to make tunnel reinforcement.

It is a little on the rusty side.

Have to order these to do the back next.

 

[My427stang]

Cool stuff, keep it coming!

 

[mustangboy]

Taking notes for whenever I get to my 63.

 

[Gydyup]

I am no longer wanking about the condition of my car, you have a lot of work there. Like to know how the shrinker stretcher works.

Just picked up a couple of el cheepo paint guns from Northern tool. See how they work, only need to work for this one project, I aint never doing this again

 

[B.S.R.]

Cool project car you have there! Are the glass hood and fenders something you got at a swap meet? Or are they still being made And available. They look the same as my 63 falcon convertble fenders.
The 57 ford 9 inch rear end just bolt in? Or did you have to narrow it?
Is this car gunna have a straight axle on the front?
Man your gunna have one way cool gasser there!!!

 

[ScottURnot]

looks like a fun project, in to see the progress

 

[gbic1]

9 in is a bolt in . No narrowing required. Yes I have a tube straight axle to install in the front. Hood was ordered form Crites in Ohio. I bought fenders off craigslist but they are also still available new. I am getting ready to get back on this project. Still have some metal work to finish on my sons Coupe to fast back project. Thanks!

 

[gbic1]

Picked up these for the front.

 

[65falkone]

I see you are looking for FE fender well headers...good luck with that

You may end up having to make them. If you do, check out Rick's custom set he built for an FE in a 62 falcon on tffn

http://www.tffn.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=29642&start=45



Pierre

 

[chunger]

I see you are looking for FE fender well headers...good luck with that

You may end up having to make them. If you do, check out Rick's custom set he built for an FE in a 62 falcon on tffn

http://www.tffn.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=29642&start=45



Pierre

Link doesn't work. Looks like you have to be a member to see it? Bummer. Forget fenderwells, what you need are some zoomies up through the hood!

But - NICE project! Subscribed.

 

[1946Austin]

If you don't mind reworking the headers a bit; look at Speedway's BBC Tri 5 fenderwell headers. They wont take much to cut the flanges off and put BBF flanges on them. They're only $200 at Speedway too!
Big Block Chevy Fenderwell Headers for 1955-57 Chevy, Black - Speedway Motors, America's Oldest Speed Shop

 

[1946Austin]

Whatever became of your Falcon gasser project? Must be finished by now?