Now that we have had the Falcon out in public and the word is out that it still exist. I keep getting messages asking if its for sale. I guess there are a lot of collectors of these factory race cars. NO she is not and never will be. The students and I have to much of our hard work, blood, and sweat in it. The students will be racing this piece of Ford racing history this summer. Painted white and fully relettered. To me it is now priceless. One day after dad passes I will make the school a legal non for profit. Plans for big building and museum are already in my head.
My Nostalgia super stock Falcon history goes like this. I had a buddy his son ran this car with a 6 cyc ford with Clifford research parts on it . My buddy passed away and the family sold the car to a fellow Willys collector in Kalamazoo Mi. He had the car sitting next to his barn on his open car trailer. His wife could see it from the window in the kitchen and did not like the view(lol). She said get rid of it I am tired of looking at it. So he went and bought a blue tarp and covered it up. She seen this and had a fit that is not what she wanted and the blue tarp stood out from the gray barn. SO he went and bought a gray tarp. Need less to say that pissed her off even more and said it goes our you do! He gave me a call because he knew about my school and said" Want to trade me something for the Falcon. Only thing is what ever we trade has to fit in the back of my truck she said "if you come home with anything on that trailer your out of here' lol
So I ended up with this old beat up race car for me and the kids to rebuild. I was going to call it the mule. I posted pictures on face book and a old racer from the Quaker City area message me. He said he had been keeping an eye on that car though its racing life. He told me of mods made to car over the years and where it went as it moved from owner to owner, The mods he said helped me confirm his story. He told me car was tuned by Fred Harzog and Jack Bridenthal. I did some research and both men had passed. I could find NO info on them even running a 67 Ford Falcon, The one day someone posted the picture. One of two pictures taken the same day of this car. Sweet. I then knew I would not change her much from its long racing updates but honor its great history. It even ran a 429 boss motor for a wile. I will paint it white and re letter it as is was.I added a white custom interior plans for keystones back on front and steel wheels back on back. My students will drive it and we have a 351 roller cammed 351w in it.
To this day my Buddy kicks is own ass for trading me a car with such a cool history..
