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133 messages, Last post on Feb 05, 2008 at 7:50 AM
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I got my license at 15 in 1965 and that's so long ago it's hard to keep track of the family vehicles back then. My father traded his '53 Buick for a Valiant in the early 60's. The Valiant threw a rod in front of a little Ford dealership on the way to the fish camp and he got a 2 door Falcon. I think it was a '63 or '64, but it didn't look near as good as the ones pictured in here.
What I mostly remember about the Falcon (other than it was pretty gutless) was getting it stuck on the railroad track off some farm road. I managed to jack it up and push it off the jack a couple of times and got back on the blacktop 20 minutes before the Memphis freight passed. I'm not sure if anyone in the family would've minded it getting smashed.
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| The LA-series 273 probably weighed about 525 lbs., I'd guess The similar 340 engine, introduced for '68, was quoted as 539 lbs. with a single four-barrel carburetor. The LA series 318, added in '67, was about the same, maybe a bit lighter (less beefy casting, lighter crank). The earlier A-series 318, introduced in '56 as a polyspherical head on the smaller original Hemi block, was not a thinwall casting, and weighed about 55 lbs. more. At one point around '65 or so Chrysler was planning to discontinue the 318 entirely, leaving the 273 as the economy engine and the B engines (361/383/413/426/440) as the step-ups, but I think they decided the 273 didn't have enough torque for the bigger intermediates and standards, so they upgraded the 318 instead. | |
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Hi all...looking for a repair manual for a 1966 Ford Falcon. Does anybody know where I can get one (and not on CD)? Thanks
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Replying to: dirt41 (Oct 10, 2006 3:12 pm) Maybe try going to www.google.com and searching for "1966 Ford Falcon Repair Manual" or something like that? Might return some useable hits.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Oct 11, 2006 4:13 am) Also go to www.hemmings.com and check classifieds under (I think) literature. There are certainly dealers around the country who have this manual. Last resort--find a Ford or Falcon club...these clubs often reprint factory manuals if there is enough demand. You can also find these clubs through hemmings.com or google. |
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I am selling my pride and joy to pay off some of my medical bills.If anyone is interested, i am selling her for $2500.00 
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Replying to: blown62falcon (Dec 31, 2006 11:48 am) Best thing to do here is start your own page on Edmunds' www.carspace.com and show your great little car there. We generally don't allow private phone #s to be posted here since we can't verify them. Good luck with the sale, MrShiftright Host |
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Where are you? Talk about unique! I see it has the amber turn signal lenses out of a 1963.
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