Is you Sunday lacking in awesome? We have the cure right here in the form of this video. Filmed in 2009 at Laguna Seca during the Monterey Historic races, the car you’ll be riding in is a 1963 Falcon that is running in the configuration it sported while competing in the 1966 FIA Mexican Road Rally. That means you’ve got a 289 that is pissed off beyond belief backed by a four speed top loader transmission that gets worked like a circus pony during this nine minute video. Things go from cool to completely flipping sweet about a minute into the video when the green flag flies and the driver of the Falcon goes hammer down and starts ripping gears like no one’s business.
Over the course of the video you’ll see the screamin’ Falcon slice and dice with Shelby Cobras, Mustangs, a worked up Sunbeam Tiger, and a bunch of other old school race cars. Apparently this car normally runs with a different group but due to other factors, it was in this race grouping for the event. The car sounds absolutely freaking perfect. The little engine has plenty of suds and the driver seems to be pretty skilled as well. The thing we really love about the video is the three way split screen. You’ll see out the front of the car, out the back of the car, and a driver’s view which shows the racer himself at work in the car. Is it weird that we’ve got lumber for the fact that the car has a factory three spoke steering wheel in it? No big thick rimmed modern wheel. The old school piece is right as rain.
Enough gushing, just press play and watch nine minutes of screaming, gear banging perfection from a 1963 Ford Falcon that is running the way it did in ’66. NOTHING you’ll see today is cooler than this.
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE A ’66 FALCON GET AFTER IT AT LAGUNA SECA!
Way cool. You know he had to be pleased to hold off the GT350, and then get past the Tiger. In a Falcon.
nice………he can definitely bang some shifts
it’s always good to use a falcon as the camera car when you have a sweet Sunbeam to record