63 Fairlanes had a fin on the rear quarter panel; 64 Fairlanes had NO fin.

Thunderbolts were 2-door sedans, with posts around the doors.

I like the hardtop '64 Fairlane Sports Coupes the best.

Here ya go Mikie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

63 Ford Fairlane Resto Project
 

Lil Mike

The rarest Fairlanes are the 63 1/2 Sprint Sport Coupes, just like the 63 1/2 Falcon Sprint Coupes very hard to find in any condition, other than the super rare Thunderbolts.

I only have a few favorite Fords , 30's-early 40's coupes, sedans, wagons, and 1/2 ton panel trucks, 46-48 Woodies, 54-56 big window 1/2 ton pu's, 56 Birds, 65-66 GT-350R's, and the 63 1/2 Falcon Sprint Coupe. But I've always been more of a Chevy guy:LOL:

There is not a thing better than thrill you get when you are your age and it is "your" first car in the driveway, running or not.

Good luck and best wishes on your hunt , laddie:)

3507

Isn't anybody paying attention, here?? That was my baby brother that piped in here on Friday. Ya'll are so absorbed with this fairlane stuff that you didn't even welcome him. :(

He can only jump on very occasionally at work.
'Lil CoBro'.

hey, bubba! :)
K

ps. I might just make it to London, afterall..... the abbreviated version.

Ok sheesh MOM:LOL:

Welcome Bubba aka Lil Cobro:LOL:

Oops, Welcome to the insane side of CC Bubba!:LOL:

Brent,

If it is some junky Hemi, what would I do with an old barn. I have no room to put one. :LOL: :LOL:

Kristen,

Sorry about not knowing that LilCoBro was your baby brother. Now that I know his posts will be answered appropriately. :D

G.R.,

If that is your list of favorite Fords and you are a Chevy man, it would take a page to post your favorite Chevys I bet. My favorites are the ones that I see setting alngside the freeway waiting for a tow truck. :LOL: :LOL:

Ron %/

thanks, I feel better....
Gary, he doesn't live too terribly far from you. :)

hubby took my 2 hoodlums, and the 'english' 2 hoodlums fishing at 7. nice and quiet here, for awhile. We are mall shopping this morning.
I"m a little confused here. Mike wants a 631/2 fairlane, or such. Are the originals like cobra originals, out of sight, price wise? What are ya'll talking about with a replica? Original body, replica motor?? Please explain!
Kristen

Kristen,

The 1963/1964 Fairlane bodies aren't out of sight out here if you can find one. But for some reason they just never sold to well in this area and so there is a lack of them to locate. Original 1963/64 Fairlanes didn't come with the 427s in them and the fiberglass hood and all the other trick stuff to lighten the Thunderbolts. So any original body you get you would have to replicate the rest unless you have enough to buy one of the original Thunderbolts which are very rare and getting very expensive. I have seen one replica Thunderbolt with a 460 in it which just blew it as they never made 460s back then. The rest of the car was very nice. Ford only made 100 of the original Thunderbolts and they were sold or furnished to drag teams.

Ron :)

what is the going price of an original thunderbolt?

Sorry I didn't say Hi to your Lil brother, Mom........

Hi LilCoBro........welcome aboard the insane trane..............

next stop wackyville.....................................

Kristen,

The going price of an original Thunderbolt is $110K and up depending on the option and shape. Some had automatics and some had 4 speeds. I looked at one two years ago that was in a carhaulerand some guy had just paid $185K for it as it had a race hiostory and was in great shape. If you are thinking abuot getting one for Lil Mike, forget him and geet one for me. :D

Mike,

Take a look at this link from Hemmings Motor News to give you an idea of what 1963/64 Fairlanes are running price wise. There are many other places too. I will look in my Fairlane Club of america magazine as one of the members had a 1964 listed for sale a month or so ago.

http://www.hemmings.com/index.cfm/fu...ieds.carsearch

Ron :)

Eight cars in my shopping Kart
 

Ron61

After looking through the Hemmings there I now have a shopping list.

STEVE'S BACK
 

Now that Steve is back,Y'all need to quit saying all those things about him !:3DSMILE:

Steve,I don't care what everyone says about you.Your alright.:D








P.S. How was the trip & welcome back.

Bernie,

Every time I look through their cars I come up with a shopping list. Unfortunately my desires far exceedes my ability to pay. Next time you are over there go to their on-line car show and look at the Cobras and other cars they have. I don't know where they got some of them as I have never sent any of my cars pictures to them or any other magazine except the Fairlane Club of America. But they have some great cars in there and you can hunt by make, model, year, & etc. :)

Ron %/

Whew, Im back.

Now I hope you enjoyed the piece and some what correctness of spelling over the past few weeks but now we can wake this place back up..

We traveld to Colorado (Pikes Peek was CLOSED!) did everything arond there and decided to move on.

We named the Royal Gorge, "The Royal Gouge" It cost $ 70.00 to see it. We had seen it before but the kids needed to see it so we got the shaft, I am sorry, we saw the bridge.

Off the Yellowstone. If you have never been there it is beautiful. The last time we went (pre kidoes) was one week before the big fires in the mid eighties. The parks has not recovered very well. Hundreds of thousands of acres are still baren as if the fire just happened. NO reforestaion has been implaminted. There was another fire in 2003 that destroed over one hundred and fifty five thousand acres. Not in the same area as the first fire. The roads were closed due to major rock slides from the winter snow melt and existing snow in the mountains. Yes we saw old faithfull do its thing. That is really a site to see if you have not seen it. The Ranger was telling us that since Mt St Helens eruted in 1980 that the regularity of "old Faithfull" had changed. It now does it thing every 92 minites (sp). Before it spewed evey 28 mins. You can look up old faithfull on the web and seeit live from your desk. I will find the link and post it later. The park was still very nice and pieceull. No bears, loads of elk, moose and buffalo.

My daughter ask about why Mt St Helens could change the way Old faithfull was "regular". I had no idea the real answer so we decided to find out.

Off we went to Mt St Helens. Yea I know it is a long way from Yellowstone. But what the heck. We were having a blast and the drive was not a bad drive so we took off. Mt St Helens is located in beatuful country. We spent the whole day on the mountain. WOW. That was a BIG ERUPTION. When the land slide stared it was the largest landslide in the history of the world. The lake that was close by,I can't think of the name now. The floor of the lake rose 300' above the surface of the old lake. So it rose almost 400' up. The debries was traveling 390 miles and hour for 17 miles from the mountain. Trees with a diamiter of over twenty feet were shreded into toothpiks in seconds.

We decided to come down the Oregon coastline and see all the lighthouses. Carrie, my wife loves lighthouses so we went on some lighhouse tours. very interesting way of life for those folks.

We came down the caostline into Redwood natl forest. Now that is a beautiful place. The coast on one side and thousand year ols redwood trees on the other.

Down into Yosimte natl forest. The mountains in Yosimte are very nervracking to drive in. We spent alot of time looking at the wonderfull views. It is amazing how big the trees are. We had seen nothing yet.

Sequia Natl forest is by far the most beautiful place we visited. The trees are several thousand years old and are over 150' around at the trunks. Some are almost 275 feet tall. We saw all the really large trees and the largest living thing on earth, a tree. It literally takes your breath away to stand in front of it. Two hundred feet off the ground it is still over one hundred feet in diamiter. It has branches larger than most trees in Texas. What a site to behold.

from there we headed home. Went though Las Vgas, Roswell, Carlsbad Caverns,Grand Canyon and just saw the country side.

It was a wonderfull trip. All told 5,885 miles on the old truck. No problems at all. Killed one bird, (it was his fault I swear), and about seven hundred million bugs. We had to wash the truck three times while on the road.

Yes we saw Mt Rushmore and alot of other things. I can't put them all in here it would take two weeks to read it all. We had fun, I enjoyed the kids and now it's back to reality. The grass is two feet tall inthe yard so that is todays plan.

I'll post some pictures later in my gallery. We have some really neat pictures of my f250 in a tree.


Kristen:
Talkie bird...... I resemble that remark!

BTW: I thied to spell check and fix some typoes but when I do it types over the next letter. So I can't fix the spelling, sorry.

Welcome back Steve!


School is OUT!:D


Kristen, prices for an original thunderbolt start at about $100,000 and go up from there depending on the racing history. They're not even street legal (Just open headers for exhaust.)

Do any of you get the Mustang and Ford Trader? I have one from about 5 years ago, but I can't find a website for it and the stores around here don't sell them.

Ron, how about a link to the fairlane owners site;)


Need to get a work perment so I can eork towards getting that Fairlane. Or Falcon. Or Mustang. Or.... what ever I decide on getting. Too many ideas running around in my head. BB vs SB, AT vs 4 Speed 5 Speed, girls, Black vs Maroon vs Wimbeldon White, girls, i think my brains gonna seize up.:LOL:

Okay, I just got an FE for $5.50.

Could be the beginning of something new.

Steve,

Glad to se you back and that you had a great trip. Man am I old. When I went to the Royal Gorge the ride down the tram was free. I haven't been to Yellowstone or Mt. St. Helens after the big blow, but all of the other places I have. I worked at Yosimitie (spelling) when I was in college. Loved that place. Sequia is a really great place and those trees can kind of make you feel small can't they? Do they still have the small rail fence around the largest living tree? And did you go through the tunnel tree? Boy, that was a great trip and one that everyone should take. :)

Mike,

I take the Mustang/Ford Trader. I just received the July issue a couple of days ago. I am not sure that they have a web site as the only one that shows up is www.collectorcartraderonline.com
Their number for subscriptions is 800-877-6141.

Ron ;)