Vehicle Description
This clean, sinister-looking 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Pro Street
packs a nasty surprise for anyone foolish enough to pick a fight.
It's a brutal look with a great color combination, but where it
really shines is under the skin where you'll find a built 460 cubic
inch V8, a fortified automatic transmission, and a tube chassis
built to use every single last horsepower. If that's your kind of
fun, this incredible car deserves a closer look.
The Fairlane often gets overlooked with all those Mustangs running
around, and that's really a shame. The clean, chiseled lines of
this Sports Coupe are the perfect blend of '60s sensibility and
sporty attitude, and the combination of Silver Metallic and Black
with the Thunderbolt hood gives tradition a bit of a modern edge.
The paint is quite well done and shows great, although a nice
cut-and-buff would go a long way to smoothing things out to the
touch. Either way, it's probably too nice to race but too fast to
just cruise. This car isn't going to keep a low profile anyway, and
the gorgeous paint combo really makes a statement. The bodywork was
nicely done and the steel underneath is in very good condition
thanks to a lifetime someplace away from snow and salt. A black
stripe separating the silver adds to the sporting attitude and
matches the black vinyl top, and we have to admit that wrapping
most of the trim and both bumpers in gray vinyl really works well
on this beast. And if you're looking for the centered pair of
headlights in the grille you won't find them, as they've been
ingeniously replaced for intake tubes for the monster that lies
within the engine bay. The super slick overall look shows that
there's absolutely nothing on this car that wasn't completely
intentional. BEAST MODE.
The interior is combat-ready but still built for the street, thanks
to comfortable, leather black bucket seats with bright red lap
belts, full carpets, and nicely finished door panels. No crude race
car stuff here! A custom center console blends nicely into the
augmented dash, which is filled with Auto Meter Phantom gauges and
a push-button starter. The TCI shifter manages a C6 automatic
transmission and if you glance ahead of that shifter you'll notice
a Auto Meter tach that manages the revs. A 3-spoke billet steering
wheel with line-lock control has been wrapped in matching black,
giving the interior a consistent look. Yes, there's a cage, but it
stays out of the way pretty well and the rear seat area is now full
of wheel wells, so don't bother with any extra passengers. The
trunk is all business, with a fuel cell mounted to the subframe as
well as a remote-mounted battery.
The powerplant is a stout 460 cubic inch V8, and you'd better
believe it makes for some very exciting performance. It was built
to smoke tires and the C9VE-B block it was built in now holds
11.5:1 compression. D0VE-C heads, a steel crank, a solid lifter
camshaft, roller rockers, and a high-rise Weiand intake manifold
with a Quick Fuel carburetor all add up to huge horsepower and
torque. The TCI C6 is settled with a Hays 2000 stall convertor and
snaps through the gears with authority, while a narrowed Strange
9-inch housing with and 4.56 gears and 4.30 spool delivers the
twist. Obviously the custom tube chassis was designed to handle
those giant tires, with a QA1 adjustable coilovers at each corner
working to keeping it straight and smooth. Up front there's
rack-and-pinion steering, and Wilwood 4-wheel discs bring the whole
show to a stop. Custom headers feed a fat dual exhaust with
Magnaflow mufflers, and a quick flip of the electric cut-outs make
it sound absolutely monstrous. Big-n-little Weld wheels carry
26x7.50-15LT front and 29x18.00-R15 Mickey Thompson tires that make
it sit just right.
An extremely cool car with a lot more horsepower than you'd expect,
all wrapped in a package that promises a lot and delivers even
more. Call today!
