- Multiple AACA award winner, including 19 Repeat Preservation
awards
- Futura Sport convertible with bucket seats and console
- Factory wire wheel covers with spinners
- Featured in Legendary Ford Magazine, January 2008
The Falcon finally received a convertible version for 1963 in three
levels of trim�Futura, Futura Sport, and Futura Sprint. The Sprint,
which included Falcon's first V-8 engine, arrived mid-year. As the
fanciest of Falcons, Futuras included a chrome horn ring; rear
armrests and ashtrays; two horns; Futura wheel covers in place of
the standard hubcaps; a Futura logo on the "C-pillar" (on coupes);
chrome side-window, windshield, and rear-window moldings; a
horizontal chrome strip between the taillights; and a horizontal
arrow-style chrome strip on the bodyside. Sport versions added wire
wheel covers as well as bucket seats with a center console.
Ford built 18,942 six-passenger (bench-seat) Falcon Futura
convertibles and 12,250 five-passenger (bucket-seat) Falcon Futura
Sport convertibles for the model year. This example is equipped
with the optional 101 hp, 170 cu. in. inline six-cylinder engine
and Ford-o-Matic automatic transmission. Base Futura convertibles
were priced at $2,470, while the fancier Sports were priced at
$2,591 before options.
Finished in Rangoon Red with a matching red vinyl interior and
white convertible top, this Lorain, Ohio-built convertible has been
the beneficiary of an exacting restoration to original. It received
its AACA First Junior award in 1992, along with its Senior and 1st
Preservation awards later that year, a 1st Grand National Award in
1994, and a Senior Grand National Award in 1996. It has won 19
Repeat Preservation awards through and including 2009 and was
featured in Legendary Ford Magazine in January 2008.To view this
car and others currently consigned to this auction, please visit
the RM website at
rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/hf19.
