Falcon on street in Boston

[Gliderman8]

I'm Up in Boston visiting my son. Took a walk and saw this '63 Ford Falcon. The car was unrestored and in great shape. Laying on the back shelf was the 1963 newspaper with the JFK assassination headline.

 

[HealeyRick]

Looks like NH plates on the old gal. Hard to believe it's survived up here without being eaten up by rust. A buddy of mine had one just like it, same color even. Slower than my brother-in-law. Until we dropped the 289 in it.

 

[aeronca65t]

I took my NJ driver's exam in a car just like that (it was my aunt's car....all our family cars were too decrepit to be used for the test

Our's was same colour with a 2 speed automatic and 144 cu in six. Not fast.

The newspaper is a nice touch!

 

[Gliderman8]

It was parked in Davis Sq. and it did have NH tags.

 

[HealeyRick]

It was parked in Davis Sq. and it did have NH tags.

Figures. More hipsters per square inch in Davis Sq. than in any other part of the city.

 

[Gliderman8]

That might be Rick but the owner was an "older guy"… still hip but old

 

[waltesefalcon]

Doesn't seem like it was that long ago that Falcons like that were just cheap used cars that weren't worth a second look, now here we are talking about one. Times they are a changing.

 

[DrEntropy]

At about age 16 I "liberated" me mum's 1961 Falcon as my first daily driver! A 144 CID, it got me to school, to work as a newspaper photog and to the retail photo shop where I worked! It was a standard trans three-speed "three on the tree" too. I'd have it back now. I rigged the parking lights to come on with the headlights, like the Euro-cars did.

...then in 1969 as a college freshman I found an MGB. Never looked back.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Mom's first new car after she and Dad split up was a '62 two door - no frills, 3 on the tree. Don't remember if it even had a radio! Took my first "lesson" in driving in it shortly before I went to live with Dad in '64.

 

[PAUL161]

Bought the wife a new Falcon Futura in 62 or 63, not sure, but it was white with a red interior and bucket seats. Nice little car at the time. PJ

 

[aeronca65t]

I just found a picture of the Falcon I took my driver's test in (at age 17). It was my Aunt Lil's and I'm sure she took this photo because she was always cutting people's heads off in the viewfinder.

I recall that we thought it was cool to have "144" on the plates with a 144 engine.

 

[DrEntropy]

I'm still hunting a photo of mum's Falcon. As a gag I put a set of stripes on it at the rockers mimicking the Shelby Mustang GT's. "GT 144" in place of the GT 350 numbers. Red car, black stripes.