Not a buick, but a chance to make a few dollars. Hey, work is slow and trying to make a living here. Neat car. Doing a total restoration with a friend of mine on this one. I think this is rare car. 1967, 427, 2X4bbl, 4Spd, Disc-Brakes.....and only 39K miles. This car was purchased from the original owner in Nebraska. You cannot imagine how solid/nice this car is. John
nice car there john . funny this comes up , a guy i work with has a 66 GT that he is going to sell , i can probably get it for under 10k , its an original 390 ,4 speed car but its got a fresh non CJ 428 with edlebrock heads in it at the moment . its an original california car red with a black interior ...
66-67 Fairlanes (and Comets) have to be the neatest Fords ever built in my opinion. Great find! Buy it, John, wish I could! :bglasses:
It's not for sale. Oh, I am not buying it....I am restoring it for another person. I just thought it was a fairly neat car. I guess factory "R" code cars came with fiberglass hoods also. I haven't seen the engine or the hood yet, but this car is VERY NICE!!! I personally wouldn't have restored it....but I am not paying the bill on this one. It is a great survivor. Only 39K miles, and all no's matching. Rumour has it that this car belonged to a dealer in Nebraska. His coke-head son stole the car out of his dad's collection, and was out drag racing some "Chevy" in a street race. Supposedly, the chevy loses control, goes off the road...hits a woman strapping her child into a car seat....killing her instantly and permenantly imparing the infant. The police linked this car with the chevy and charges are pressed. I hear that this car was part of a collection, and ultimately a ford dealership that has been sold off to help clear the 5 million dollar lawsuit that is in place right now......I am told that this car was recently listed on ebay, and didn't reach reserve at $75k? John
From the pic, I'd certainly agree with your assessment that it really doesn't need restoring. How many nice original cars have gone that way by throwing away perfectly good original parts to put on "new" ones? I'll take an original part every day of the week. Repaint, rust/dent repair, no problem. But I see these cars that advertise all new sheet metal (quarters, fnders, hood, doors, etc., and it makes me wonder how bad the original was to start with. This car is WAY too nice for all that. How much are you going to do? Bet you could make a fortune selling the old, "used" parts that are replaced by the Chinese repops.
Keep it original as possible...... I am going to insist that nothing of value be removed. It won't need seat covers, it may need carpet, weatherstripping, headliner.....repaint. Plate bumpers...some trim needs replating. Basically a cleaning, painting, and detailing. Engine, trans, brakes and suspension gone thru. I cannot stress how nice this car is. Almost no rust repair whatsover. I am going to start posting pics of this restoration as we do it on my picturetrail website. John
:shock: :shock: 427, 2x4bbl and 4 speed? :3gears: I'm amazed the car didn't twist itself into a pretzel. Do you have a guess as to the horsepower to weight ratio is? YIKES! John
Those 427 Fairlanes weighed in at about 4000 lbs. The street 427 dual quad was rated at, uh, 425 HP, but in race trim, probably something like 525-550 HP. Nevertheless, it is a very rare car, can't recall just how many were built, but I'd bet less than 100 or so. :TU: From the Musclecar club website, 1967 Fairlane info: All Fairlane GT/GTAs gained standard power front disc brakes and had all vinyl interiors with bucket seats standard. Still available was the 427 "side oiler" which was now available with either a single four barrel carb ("W"), good for 410 bhp, or with dual quad carbs ("R") which was rated at 425 bhp. The 427 was also available with tunnel-port heads, which improved air flow and added an additional 30 bhp. Less than 200 427 Fairlanes were built. No info on the exact weight of the car, I found the 4000 lb number from another site. o No:
You Sure??????? 4000lbs sounds extremely overweight for a little fairlane uzzled: I would guess one of these closer to the 3350-3400(without driver) o No: Super Neat car :TU:
I seen one of these cars at bg afew years back. "R" code in those days stood for Race. That is my favorite Ford of all times. Love to see more pics.
excitment Well, I am aware that it is a ford....but, I LIKE IT!!!! All the more rare muscle cars of the era excite me. I am anxious to get going on this car. I think the research alone is fun. I have a good body/paint man who will make this car super straight and super shiney. The rest I will take care of as much as possible. I can't wait to have all the tear-down and clean up done, so we can get started on the detailing and reassymbly. Thanks for the words of encouragement JR. And by the way....duh!!! Dave I didn't realize which John you were talking to about buying it.......... John
Here it is........ Here is a link to the Picturetrail page where I posted some photos of this project. I will post more as we start to make progress. http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8313385&uid=1482799 John
I've heard the term reverse engineering, but never reverse restoration. That thing is gorgeous. Is that a body/frame car or unibody? I know it's significantly larger and heavier than the 64 and earlier Fairlanes which were unibodies.
It's a unibody. Same front architecture as Comet, Falcon, Mustang. 4000 lbs is pretty far off. My Marauder is 4100lbs.
No wonder you don't see that many around. Unlike Mustangs, they didn't build a gazillion of them. Full unibody like a Mopar or subframe like a Camaro/Firebird? I think GM made a good move on their A bodies when they ditched the unibody design for the 64 A bodies and went to a full frame. Lasted until 1988 and most held up well.
Full unibody. Shock towers and all. Part of the reason the factory manifolds are no where near the full size design like on the Marauder. I had a '64 Falcon with a 390 (NOM) and headers.......wow what an SOB working on those!
If i had a survivor in that condition, i would never think of restoring it. That looks beautiful just the way it is. Its only original once. I think its a shame, personally. JMO
OK, I finally remembered to look up the site which states what theFairlane weight was in 67. I can't verify the accuracy of this sites info, its something I found by a Google search. It doesn't state whether driver was included either.
