Around 1964 when I was 12 years old, two of my neighbors had great cars. Both 4 speed. A 1962 Galaxie 406 3x2 and a 409 Impala. I loved riding in both cars. A block away, husband and wife cars. 1962 406 Galaxie and 1963 427 Galaxie, both red. For some reason I've always been a Mopar guy. 1968 440 Charger RT, 1969 440 GTX, 1972 340 Challanger RT and a 1970 440 Challanger RT SE. All with torkflights. Never got to own a Hemi. Great times to grow up and great cars. I loved the Max Wedge 413 and 426. Awesome engines. Until and including 1971, all of the Muscle Cars were Great. 1972 lowering of compression ratios and horse power was the beginning of the end, but still lasted for a few more years until all that was left of the past glory was just a fender "sticker"...
I like the Ford Galaxie. I own a 1063 Ford Galaxie 500 convertable with a not numbers matching 427 center oiler 4 speed 308 posi rear axle. I love driving the car it runs and drives Great!
LMAO! I had a '62 Galaxie with the 406, 6 bbl, 4-speed, 411 out back. At the same time my sister came home with a '62 Dart 413 Max auto. I LMAO looking at it until she asked me to check the exhaust because it was loud. Popping the hood there sat that damn wedge. No, it couldn't beat my '62 galaxie-but I did have headers, lower gear, better width rubber against a fully stock Dart.
I am a Ford man, I had 1961 Ford galaxie 500 390/401 hp tri power . I like the 1962 Galaxie 406 for the looks, I was able to beet those mopars back in the day in Detoit.
With all that displacement and carburation you would expect power output to be commensurate with the noise output. Those big sleds just lumbered down the strip. Tire technology had a ways to go back in the day too.
Dad had one was a huge hunk of iron , 352 same block as 390 rode great. Not good on gravel roads. Lol neighbors had dodge 300 with wedge 61 I think anyway I miss both love both. That was about 1969 , I was 11 12 .
The Dart looks like it was designed in Mother Russia....The Galaxie looks like a Ward Cleaver car....but I like them both. Been a Ford guy most of my life but I like ALL cars...I don't bleed Ford Oval Blue like some I know.
Sorry guys I'm a Ford fan.never had any luck with a Dodge..had a D-100 pick up, yeah 318 but a nice workhorse..and a deer magnate. So back to Fords I went.
I was down at Fort Bliss Tex in the early 60s. All I can tell you is that at the midnight Fri nite drags nothing Ford ir Chev could beat a couple of 413s with 727 auto transmissions. No contest.
I test drove a brand new 1962 Ford Galaxie XL500 ragtop in 1962, 406 tri power 4speed. Came to a stop sign on the road test and I asked the salesman if I could get on it and he said sure, to make a long story short, I wasn't impressed with the get up and go, it would never catch or match a '62 409, and I have always been a Ford man and still am today at the young age of 76.
You may call them ugly, but, Bitchin hot and therein lies the beauty. I thought they had the greatest in your face - I dare you to try. I had the opportunity to drive the chromed up, spinner hubcaps, Dodge Polaris 500, 383 c.i., hp, I don’t remember. My dad was a Ford guy, but, he said that Polaria put a grin that couldn’t slap off my face. It had the 727 trans, great trans. Loved it, wished I had it now, but the 1967 Belvedere Plymouth looked better. Damn, damn, damn!
My 76 year old grandfather bought one just like this one cause he wanted something to go around the slower cars on the old two lane roads there were back in the day cause he wanted to make sure he could get around them in plenty of time before the oncoming traffic got to him. Believe me I had some really scary rides with my old grandpappy. I didn't mind though cause I was with my Grandpaw and he actually let me drive it when I turned 13. I found out what a fast car was when I was 13 years old. And I don't see where there is anything ugly on that Mopar. I had some very good lines for back in 62.
my only question , me having owned two FE engines 352 , 390 cu in, did ford in 1962 do anything to improve the breathing capabilities of the grossly under performing 352-390 cylinder heads. When ford introduced the FE series engines in 1958 , they rated the largest cu. in version [352cu in] available in a ford at 300Hp. That engine was lucky if it produced 200HP. I installed a 352 4bbl into a 57 ford 210 & was waxed by 283 225Hp , 4spd, Chevelle.
Have a 62 406 car in my junkyard front clip was sold off it 50 yrs ago. Engine and trans was sold to stock car racer all of 50 yrs ago. Body still in fair condition. My dad started yard in 1957.
Once again Mopar is King! Ford is just an also-ran! Yeah I'm trying to pick a fight! love your Channel! By the way, you know very well they never called it a six pack! The designation six-pack was created 1969 by Chrysler Corporation also called a 6 Barrel for Plymouth!
A classmate was the son of a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer. We car-pooled to grade school. His mother drove various dealer demo cars. One day his mother claimed that the ugly compact with push-button transmission that we were in was "the fastest car made in America today". She drove it without demonstrating its speed. I was skeptical that it could be faster than my father's '62 Buick LeSabre [curb weight 4000 lbs.] with it's 410 [ft lbs of torque, 401 hp] Wildcat engine. But I guess she was correct. The Dart had a curb weight of just 3,350 pounds.
The 413 Ram Inductions was untouchable, right out of the show room, without a wrench put to it. The song Shutdown was part bull, when the words indicated the stingray would catch up and pass it top end in the standing quarter. The words were correct, when they depicted the hole shot as the 413 pulled out leaving the stingray in the dust. The words written were partially true. "The 413s lead is " then they wrote "Starting to shrink" that would never happen, unless the 413 stopped for coffee.
I'm 75 years old and a bowtie guy..Used to feel the same way about the looks of some MOPAR rides but over the last ten years or so they look better every year..Take a long second look at the white Dart without the hood scoop..I like it better than the Ford..One man's opinion..
People can say what they want about the 406 Ford but I have ridden and driven all kinds and I have never seen anything that would run with the one I was around !
These Mopars were designed around what people thought a rocket ship might look like. This was SPACE RACE TIMES..... Also, I was raised in a 62' Dodge Dart. 318/727 2-door.
Funny how people talk about how ugly that the Dodges were in the front when all people could really see are the taillights. My dad grew up a Ford man and he told me back in the early 60s and mid 60s that everyone that cruised were terrified of the Mopar’s on the street.
You can hardly compare 289,302, 351 to a 413 give your head a shake. Ok let's compare your 413 to 427 they used in Nascar do you think that would be fair?
In 1962 MoPar came out with their 5 year/50,000 mile Warranty to boost their dangerously lagging sales and it worked. Also that push button automatic transmission was the first automatic to gain respect at the drag strip. A guy at MoPar named Herman Moser and his Ramchargers was the brains behind the Ram Induction design. The Beach Boys sang about the 413 in their song.
gojoe283 LOL, playing solitaire???? Look again sir, you’ll see that is a software that groups symptoms and corrections together for quick diagnosis. Solitaire........ lol that’s funny!!!
Here is some news for you. In 1962 the NHRA Nationals Super Stock final a 409 Chevy was up against a 406 Ford. So that Ford beat every Dodge, Chevy, Pontiac, and Plymouth, that he lined up against to that point that day. He did lose the final but only by a few hundredths of a second. So, think again if you think the 406 Ford was not competitive in 62. And by the way Dodge danced to their own drummer and owned Super Stock/Automatic for many years. That 413 Dart is a work of art.
Toss up I grew up around these cars as I'm a dyed in wool Mopar guy I'm going to go with the Dodge. That being said both were ugly as homemade sin. Neither car design features were cool until 1963/64 the Dart got smaller and more compact but lost it HP to the B body Coronets& Poloras and Plymouth Savoys/Furys/Belvedere's& Satellites. The Ford Galaxy on the other hand got refined in 1963 and got the NASCAR 427 top oiler with 2x4bbl carbs then refined further in 64. Nicer looking but still a heavy car compared to the 64 mopar B body counterparts.
I agree things were heating up in 62' and the 413 max wedge that led to 426 weege. But Dodge boys were already on it by 1951 331 hemi then 352 hemi , then by 1957 392 hemi was 390 hp..for whatever reason these were over looked. But Don Garlits was making some huge hemi power Pre 62' but i get what your saying. SUBSCRIBED. great video
Ford all the way. The Dodge is nice but my uncle had an old Dart. If the weather was right and the star aligned...it might crank lol. If a dog pissed on its tires or it rained that old 413 wouldn't turn over for crap. Plus the Ford is way better looking in my opinion. And if it had a 427 side oiler or SOHC...that Dodge wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in hell.
62 Ford all day long and twice on Sunday. I’ve noticed the last several years that people are really starting to appreciate the 60s Fords again. Chevy has dominated the average guys garage for decades because they are simply cheaper to play with. But now Ford engine parts are cheaper and guys are really enjoying the old FE engines 👍😎….including myself.
I owned a '62 Galaxie with the 406 in high school. It was the baddest car at school. When my girlfriend at the time crashed it, I had put on M/T valve covers, 1300x16 M&H slicks on it and had the back end jacked up with Gabriel air shocks. I wish that I had kept the engine so I could put it in my '67 Mustang project car. The 4 speed was for s---; I blew the main shaft about 3 times. I also blew the front u joint at Irwindale Raceway, and it caught the emergency brake cable and broke the piviot off the rear brakes. I actually borrowed a floor jack from John Mazmanian to strip the brakes out of it, plugging the rear brake line at the line lock. It was one heck of a car that I poured lots of money into.
The 62 is my least favorite of all the 60s full size Ford's. The 62 was sandwiched in between the two best looking big body Ford's...the 61 Starliner and 63 1/2 Galaxie fastback. Really the 62 is the only one I don't like out of the big Ford's of the 60's. The 65-66 Galaxie's are favorites of mine too
One more thing, you didn't need the 413 to run against that Galaxy. Every 383 4 barrel with a set of headers put that thing on the trailer! It was a dog....great car for your mom to drive, kind of a forerunner to the minivan.
Dodge cool cause I had 63 dodge in high school golden commando 383 highway patrol optioned 2 dr car that beat 85 % of the lunch hour race crowd and it pure stock nothing done except kept tuned back in'76
Galaxie is spelled in french and Galaxy is in english. The only reason Ford spelled Galaxie in French is because they couldn’t have the copyrights for the English version. I’m definitely a Ford man and not a Mopar guy. But in this particular case I have to disagree with you. The 1962 Max Wedge Dodge Dart was very charming and pretty. Chrysler Chevy, Ford, AMC and Studebaker came out with beautiful models, during the 1960’s. Thank you!❤️
Owned both-just called them all 6bbl so people knew what I was talking about. Tell a MOPAR guy you had a tripower and he'd say sixpack and you had to correct, tell a FOMOCO guy you had a sixpack, same results. So it was plain ol' 6 bbl for me.
@@garyjubar5733 That zoomed over ya. Said I just called em 6 bbl because when a FOMOCO guy says Tripower-as in it has Tripower, about your own car-to a MOPAR guy they want to argue 'you mean Sixpack. And being a MOPAR guy too, I've said Sixpack to FOMOCO guys that wanted to argue 'you mean Tripower '.
@@garyjubar5733 Mine's not bald, but 'high' forehead, but shaved daily. I was agreeing with you but pointing out how fans of one make-more so MOPAR-thought all 3X2bbl setups were called after their favorite brand. As a FOMOCO and MOPAR fan-Ford 1st-and having several cars of both brands with the 3X2 setups, I dealt with it a lot. Just glad I've never owned a gm product.
When i was a kid my mom drove a 63 valiant light blue ,blue interior with the rear trunk lid fake spare tire shape in it, i thought it was ugly then , but now i would love to have one .had a slant six and automatic good on gas and it always ran , dependable for years , hard to believe that was 55 yrs ago seems like yesterday.
@@vincentenk4449 whatever year it was Vincent, hasnt anything to do with the memory if it was 60 to 70 year of car,you would comment, on not the right year ,you have to much time on you're hands Vincent, you need a hobby.
Wrong Boys,the 406 was also available in 1962 Mercury Monterey S-55. But only 124 were built .father has one. It's a factory tri power, 4 speed, with 4:11:1 gears and underrated 405 hp. Check it out. It's long ,strong ,and built to get the friction on! He bought it new,and has all the documents .I have no idea how many of the 124 built are left.but it's not a Ford,it's a Mercury. So I guess we are both right. Lol , love your platform . New Subscriber .
ford had a twin in canada. it was a ford canada ltd. called the meteor. the meteors, originly put the meteor on a ford body, with a mercury interior, in the 1960's the meteor was on a mercury body with a ford interior, mercury was history in canada after 1962. canadian dodges, were just plymouth clones, with plymouth interior and tailights, both built in windsor, ont.
One thing to keep in mind is that Ford realized the 406 simply wasn't getting the job done, so, in January of 1963 they totally reinvented the wheel by introducing the new fastback body style in the Galaxie, AND introduced the 427 with dual quads. Sheer horsepower was now no problem......... BUT, you could not get this engine with an automatic trans, PS or A/C. Chevy or MOPAR, no prob with the order sheet, but with Ford, your high perf came with very few creature comforts. I'm pretty sure the original hot shoe Mustand, the 271 HP 289 HiPo had the same restrictions - no PS, no A/C, 4 speed only.
My unkle joe had ford galaxy 406 a lot of teenagers use ask My uncle if they could see the engine then he would start it ] we get behind it ba ba ba love the sound
Don't see anything wrong with either car. Just look at them, sometimes ya just gotta look at em. Car manufacturers should resto bod original bodied cars. Don't change appearance.
The basic Ford 390’s were pigs. No power but burned a lot of gas. My father had quite a few of them over the years and Zi always thought they were hopeless. Then one day my buddy and I took his father’s 390 Torino out for a spin and it was like a completely different engine. That thing made big hp and torque compared to any other 390’s I had experience in.
The '62 Plymouth was a bit better looking than the Dodge. Both the Plymouth & Dodge were restyled in '63 and the performance only got better. Ford knew the Galaxie was an overweight lump so they put the 427 FE motor in the Fairlane and called it the Thunderbolt. It was a real performance car. By '64 Mopar came out with the 426 Hemi and it was game over for For & Chevy.
@@CJ-ib2jy It's the winged SuperBIRD that came out in 1970...not the Super BEE. The Super Bee came out in 68 and is the Dodge equivalent to the Plymouth Roadrunner. Whole different car. And you left out the part about the 426 Hemi powered Chrysler wing cars being so dominant that NASCAR imposed a 305 cubic inch displacement limit on them in 1971...so all the Mopar drivers switched to either a 71 Roadrunner or 71 Dodge Charger body so they could still be competitive. No such restrictions were imposed on the Ford/Mercury aero cars that had the BOSS 429. That tells me right there that the Hemi Mopar wing cars were obviously superior to the BOSS9 Ford aero cars...so much that NASCAR had to hit Chrysler with a 305 ci displacement limit to level out the playing field
BACK IN THE DAY MY NERDY NEIGHBOR BOUGHT A 413 DODGE WITH A PUSH BUTTON ON THE STEERING WHEEL... ..HE LET ME DRIVE IT ON SATURDAY...I TOOK IT TO THE TRACK ANSD WON SUPERSTOCK ELIMENATOR...lol...
1962 was the last year Virgil Exner was chief designer at Mopar....the Dodge design is pretty "controversial", either you love it or hate it....I quite like the "in your face" design.....but .big changes came in 63. Don't forget Dodge also had the 880, based on the Chrysler platform. In 63, Chrysler hired a stylist from Ford.....hence, the big change in design of pretty well all of the offerings from the firm. The cross ram design works well....provided the fuel doesn't "puddle" in the flat portion of the plenum, it'll load up on you and throttle will stumble at low end. The Ford looks very clean....but the max wedge engine speaks volumes...The Mopar offerings were just an all round better package.
Even though I wasn't born until 1967 I kill like the 1962 Ford Galaxie, even though I like 4 doors better this car looks nice & looks better with the stock wheels than the crazy looking wheels. On the "Andy Griffith Show" during this time frame the sheriff drove a 1962 Ford Galaxie.
Hi Kevin, thanks for your comment. It’s really a funny thing, mispronunciations, typos, or other types of small things seem to be troublesome for many? I appreciate the kindness you seem to share, so many others are and can be vicious with comments. It’s really telling about them as individuals. for me...6 pak, triple deuce. 3-2’s, its all essentially the same thing......There are 3 2 barrel carburetors on top of the manifold. Again, thanks for being kind with your comments.
Put me down for liking the 62 Ford. I was parking cars back in the day, and if you had to park a dodge, when you tried to open the door to get out, your elbow would hit the seat. I mean when you grabbed the door handle and pulled, the door would not open, cause your elbow would be up against the seat, so you would have to contort your hand and wrist to pull that extra few inches to get the door open. Terrible design. And, it reminded me of an earlier car, the studebaker. I would have to hide it in the back of the lot cause it was so ugly. Hell, the Ford Edsel looked better than the Dodge. I confess, I owned a Ford 406 and loved that car, and yes, the dodge 413's were faster. I always liked the underdog.
In 63 I was a Marine stationed at Fort Bliss. They had midnight drsgs out on a section of 2 lane. A lot of different cars showed up. The high buck guys of course showed up in the 63 cars. 406 Fords 426 Max Wedge cars and 409 Chevys. My friend had a 60 Ford Starliner with the 360 hp 352 a d a transacted top loader 4 spd. Pretty t y quick car but not in the same class as the 63 cars. Bottom line. The 423 and 426 max Wedge cars almost always beat the 406 Fords and 409 Chevys. They were lighter and had the great Torque flight automatic. The engines made more power also. Some years later I ran a Thunderbolt. Corrrct 437 hi riser 4 speed 410 ocker rear 13 to one compression I cod usually beat the max Wedge cars IF they were 4 speeds. I usually lost by less than a tenth to the automatics. The hemi Savoy in my opinion if stock were not as fast. Probably due to the extra engine weight. Also took them a while to spool up. I KNOW ALL THE HEMI LOVERS WILL GO CRAZY BUT JUST SAYING...THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCES.
My first car was a 1962 Dodge Dart I bought in 1973 for $ 150. Sadly it didn't have the 413, it had the old super dependable 225 c.i, Slant Six torquer. It was beautiful car. I found it light and it handled beautiful. I took it on an empty highway one day and took it right up to top speed of 98 mph. With those fins we were almost airborne ! I miss that car to this day !
Great Tip's Thank you
Building a 62 Dart 2dr post now so need I say which is my favorite, Love them.
Around 1964 when I was 12 years old, two of my neighbors had great cars. Both 4 speed. A 1962 Galaxie 406 3x2 and a 409 Impala. I loved riding in both cars. A block away, husband and wife cars. 1962 406 Galaxie and 1963 427 Galaxie, both red. For some reason I've always been a Mopar guy. 1968 440 Charger RT, 1969 440 GTX, 1972 340 Challanger RT and a 1970 440 Challanger RT SE. All with torkflights. Never got to own a Hemi. Great times to grow up and great cars. I loved the Max Wedge 413 and 426. Awesome engines. Until and including 1971, all of the Muscle Cars were Great. 1972 lowering of compression ratios and horse power was the beginning of the end, but still lasted for a few more years until all that was left of the past glory was just a fender "sticker"...
I like the Ford Galaxie. I own a 1063 Ford Galaxie 500 convertable with a not numbers matching 427 center oiler 4 speed 308 posi rear axle. I love driving the car it runs and drives Great!
LMAO!
I had a '62 Galaxie with the 406, 6 bbl, 4-speed, 411 out back. At the same time my sister came home with a '62 Dart 413 Max auto. I LMAO looking at it until she asked me to check the exhaust because it was loud. Popping the hood there sat that damn wedge.
No, it couldn't beat my '62 galaxie-but I did have headers, lower gear, better width rubber against a fully stock Dart.
Beautiful MOPAR'S
Tires,tires, tires. We were limited to 7 inch wide cheater slicks in the stock classes back then. A real trick to get a good launch.
I am a Ford man, I had 1961 Ford galaxie 500 390/401 hp tri power . I like the 1962 Galaxie 406 for the looks, I was able to beet those mopars back in the day in Detoit.
I always liked that Dart body .
I like the Ford because I was 12 when they were new and I remember asking my Dad about the 406.
With all that displacement and carburation you would expect power output to be commensurate with the noise output. Those big sleds just lumbered down the strip. Tire technology had a ways to go back in the day too.
I have a 66 Galaxie so I have to pick the Ford but that Mopar is cool as hell
The 62 galaxie hands down
7:12 By the way Horsepower for an Hour-the brochure used for the Galaxie was a '63 instead of the '62.
Dad had one was a huge hunk of iron , 352 same block as 390 rode great. Not good on gravel roads. Lol neighbors had dodge 300 with wedge 61 I think anyway I miss both love both. That was about 1969 , I was 11 12 .
i had a 62 406 and i ran 13.12 quarter miles and it still did it at 80k miles on it
I am 57yoa.......I could cruise with a '62 413 dart with my wife anytime...... :-)
The Dart looks like it was designed in Mother Russia....The Galaxie looks like a Ward Cleaver car....but I like them both. Been a Ford guy most of my life but I like ALL cars...I don't bleed Ford Oval Blue like some I know.
Sorry guys I'm a Ford fan.never had any luck with a Dodge..had a D-100 pick up, yeah 318 but a nice workhorse..and a deer magnate. So back to Fords I went.
No contest! That loop fendered Mopar was bad to the bone and the Ford was a slow boat anchor!
pontiac did that with the catalina 2+2, with the 421 c.i.d
1964 Ford Galaxie 500 considered one of the best designed cars ever.
A video over 2 years old but the galloping Galaxie for me .
I like 63 Fords the best!
The dodge for me and I am a ford fan!
in its day, was gm's thm400, the best auto. trans. made? popular mechanics said it was.
I was down at Fort Bliss Tex in the early 60s.
All I can tell you is that at the midnight Fri nite drags nothing Ford ir Chev could beat a couple of 413s with 727 auto transmissions.
No contest.
I test drove a brand new 1962 Ford Galaxie XL500 ragtop in 1962, 406 tri power 4speed. Came to a stop sign on the road test and I asked the salesman if I could get on it and he said sure, to make a long story short, I wasn't impressed with the get up and go, it would never catch or match a '62 409, and I have always been a Ford man and still am today at the young age of 76.
You may call them ugly, but, Bitchin hot and therein lies the beauty. I thought they had the greatest in your face - I dare you to try. I had the opportunity to drive the chromed up, spinner hubcaps, Dodge Polaris 500, 383 c.i., hp, I don’t remember. My dad was a Ford guy, but, he said that Polaria put a grin that couldn’t slap off my face. It had the 727 trans, great trans. Loved it, wished I had it now, but the 1967 Belvedere Plymouth looked better. Damn, damn, damn!
I would give a hundred for either one !
My 76 year old grandfather bought one just like this one cause he wanted something to go around the slower cars on the old two lane roads there were back in the day cause he wanted to make sure he could get around them in plenty of time before the oncoming traffic got to him. Believe me I had some really scary rides with my old grandpappy. I didn't mind though cause I was with my Grandpaw and he actually let me drive it when I turned 13. I found out what a fast car was when I was 13 years old. And I don't see where there is anything ugly on that Mopar. I had some very good lines for back in 62.
I'm with you TBull!
I like that year of ford galaxy better myself and a bit later for the dart
Liked a 63 Dodge nose, with a 62 Plymouth ass
Dodge Dart or Barney Fife's patrol car?
Gimme a break.
Dodge Dart is awesome.
Not even ugly in my eyes.
my only question , me having owned two FE engines 352 , 390 cu in, did ford in 1962 do anything to improve the breathing capabilities of the grossly under performing 352-390 cylinder heads. When ford introduced the FE series engines in 1958 , they rated the largest cu. in version [352cu in] available in a ford at 300Hp. That engine was lucky if it produced 200HP.
I installed a 352 4bbl into a 57 ford 210 & was waxed by 283 225Hp , 4spd, Chevelle.
Have a 62 406 car in my junkyard front clip was sold off it 50 yrs ago. Engine and trans was sold to stock car racer all of 50 yrs ago. Body still in fair condition. My dad started yard in 1957.
Once again Mopar is King! Ford is just an also-ran! Yeah I'm trying to pick a fight! love your Channel!
By the way, you know very well they never called it a six pack! The designation six-pack was created 1969 by Chrysler Corporation also called a 6 Barrel for Plymouth!
Dodge Dart 413, once you see it, you won't forget it. Sort of like a compressed Bat-mo-bile!
406 grew to 427 then Mickey Thomson put Hemi heads on 427 making 600 hp.
Brother bought the Ford 406 x 6 brand new. Too bad a was only 2 years old at the time.
A classmate was the son of a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer. We car-pooled to grade school. His mother drove various dealer demo cars. One day his mother claimed that the ugly compact with push-button transmission that we were in was "the fastest car made in America today". She drove it without demonstrating its speed. I was skeptical that it could be faster than my father's '62 Buick LeSabre [curb weight 4000 lbs.] with it's 410 [ft lbs of torque, 401 hp] Wildcat engine. But I guess she was correct. The Dart had a curb weight of just 3,350 pounds.
I had a 413 wedge motor in my 15 ton garbage truck , it worked well carrying a 20 ton loaded truck, WOW
The 413 Ram Inductions was untouchable, right out of the show room, without a wrench put to it. The song Shutdown was part bull, when the words indicated the stingray would catch up and pass it top end in the standing quarter. The words were correct, when they depicted the hole shot as the 413 pulled out leaving the stingray in the dust. The words written were partially true. "The 413s lead is " then they wrote "Starting to shrink" that would never happen, unless the 413 stopped for coffee.
I'm 75 years old and a bowtie guy..Used to feel the same way about the looks of some MOPAR rides but over the last ten years or so they look better every year..Take a long second look at the white Dart without the hood scoop..I like it better than the Ford..One man's opinion..
People can say what they want about the 406 Ford but I have ridden and driven all kinds and I have never seen anything that would run with the one I was around !
These Mopars were designed around what people thought a rocket ship might look like. This was SPACE RACE TIMES..... Also, I was raised in a 62' Dodge Dart. 318/727 2-door.
The Galaxy should have had the 427 in it
I'm a Chevy guy but that Ford looks way better than that Dodge, and I would rather have the Ford
Funny how people talk about how ugly that the Dodges were in the front when all people could really see are the taillights. My dad grew up a Ford man and he told me back in the early 60s and mid 60s that everyone that cruised were terrified of the Mopar’s on the street.
I love both cars but if I had to pick one it would be 62 Dart.
Had a 62 Plymouth 413. made fools of many a 327 impala and Fords especially Mustangs.
You can hardly compare 289,302, 351 to a 413 give your head a shake. Ok let's compare your 413 to 427 they used in Nascar do you think that would be fair?
In 1962 MoPar came out with their 5 year/50,000 mile Warranty to boost their dangerously lagging sales and it worked. Also that push button automatic transmission was the first automatic to gain respect at the drag strip. A guy at MoPar named Herman Moser and his Ramchargers was the brains behind the Ram Induction design. The Beach Boys sang about the 413 in their song.
Not ugly at all,you pull up with this dodge, you got noticed, us babyboomers love unique.
I'm a Ford guy... But I always respected Dodge.. Then came the Fairlane and the game changed
Note the ATRA tech playing solitaire while he's looking up transmission specs...
gojoe283 LOL, playing solitaire???? Look again sir, you’ll see that is a software that groups symptoms and corrections together for quick diagnosis. Solitaire........ lol that’s funny!!!
had a bitchin 1964 galaxy coup with a 390/4 speed
Here is some news for you. In 1962 the NHRA Nationals Super Stock final a 409 Chevy was up against a 406 Ford. So that Ford beat every Dodge, Chevy, Pontiac, and Plymouth, that he lined up against to that point that day. He did lose the final but only by a few hundredths of a second. So, think again if you think the 406 Ford was not competitive in 62. And by the way Dodge danced to their own drummer and owned Super Stock/Automatic for many years. That 413 Dart is a work of art.
That beautiful Dodge wouldn’t be caught dead with you in it.
Toss up I grew up around these cars as I'm a dyed in wool Mopar guy I'm going to go with the Dodge. That being said both were ugly as homemade sin. Neither car design features were cool until 1963/64 the Dart got smaller and more compact but lost it HP to the B body Coronets& Poloras and Plymouth Savoys/Furys/Belvedere's& Satellites.
The Ford Galaxy on the other hand got refined in 1963 and got the NASCAR 427 top oiler with 2x4bbl carbs then refined further in 64. Nicer looking but still a heavy car compared to the 64 mopar B body counterparts.
Do you have any info on the Polaris?
Hi Mary, as of recent, we have not researched the Polaris model. Thanks for the idea, will ask the guys upstairs to look into it.
I agree things were heating up in 62' and the 413 max wedge that led to 426 weege.
But Dodge boys were already on it by 1951 331 hemi then 352 hemi , then by 1957 392 hemi was 390 hp..for whatever reason these were over looked. But Don Garlits was making some huge hemi power Pre 62' but i get what your saying. SUBSCRIBED. great video
MOPAR or No Car!
Ford all the way. The Dodge is nice but my uncle had an old Dart. If the weather was right and the star aligned...it might crank lol. If a dog pissed on its tires or it rained that old 413 wouldn't turn over for crap. Plus the Ford is way better looking in my opinion. And if it had a 427 side oiler or SOHC...that Dodge wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in hell.
62 Ford all day long and twice on Sunday. I’ve noticed the last several years that people are really starting to appreciate the 60s Fords again. Chevy has dominated the average guys garage for decades because they are simply cheaper to play with. But now Ford engine parts are cheaper and guys are really enjoying the old FE engines 👍😎….including myself.
I owned a '62 Galaxie with the 406 in high school. It was the baddest car at school. When my girlfriend at the time crashed it, I had put on M/T valve covers, 1300x16 M&H slicks on it and had the back end jacked up with Gabriel air shocks. I wish that I had kept the engine so I could put it in my '67 Mustang project car. The 4 speed was for s---; I blew the main shaft about 3 times. I also blew the front u joint at Irwindale Raceway, and it caught the emergency brake cable and broke the piviot off the rear brakes. I actually borrowed a floor jack from John Mazmanian to strip the brakes out of it, plugging the rear brake line at the line lock. It was one heck of a car that I poured lots of money into.
Never cared for the 1962 Ford. Liked the 60, 61, & 63. Go for the 62 Dart.
The 62 is my least favorite of all the 60s full size Ford's. The 62 was sandwiched in between the two best looking big body Ford's...the 61 Starliner and 63 1/2 Galaxie fastback. Really the 62 is the only one I don't like out of the big Ford's of the 60's. The 65-66 Galaxie's are favorites of mine too
One more thing, you didn't need the 413 to run against that Galaxy. Every 383 4 barrel with a set of headers put that thing on the trailer! It was a dog....great car for your mom to drive, kind of a forerunner to the minivan.
Ford for sure
Dodge cool cause I had 63 dodge in high school golden commando 383 highway patrol optioned 2 dr car that beat 85 % of the lunch hour race crowd and it pure stock nothing done except kept tuned back in'76
Galaxie is spelled in french and Galaxy is in english. The only reason Ford spelled Galaxie in French is because they couldn’t have the copyrights for the English version. I’m definitely a Ford man and not a Mopar guy. But in this particular case I have to disagree with you. The 1962 Max Wedge Dodge Dart was very charming and pretty. Chrysler Chevy, Ford, AMC and Studebaker came out with beautiful models, during the 1960’s. Thank you!❤️
The Dodge Dart reminds me of an A-10 Warthog. Ugly, but gets the job done.
In the Ford manual, the 3X2 barrel setup was called TriPower. In later Mopars the 3x2 barrel setup was called a SixPack.
Owned both-just called them all 6bbl so people knew what I was talking about. Tell a MOPAR guy you had a tripower and he'd say sixpack and you had to correct, tell a FOMOCO guy you had a sixpack, same results. So it was plain ol' 6 bbl for me.
@@Ray56z Guess they better change the tv commercials and the owners manuals.
@@garyjubar5733 That zoomed over ya.
Said I just called em 6 bbl because when a FOMOCO guy says Tripower-as in it has Tripower, about your own car-to a MOPAR guy they want to argue 'you mean Sixpack.
And being a MOPAR guy too, I've said Sixpack to FOMOCO guys that wanted to argue 'you mean Tripower '.
@@Ray56z yup, it sure did, lol. it slid right over my bald head real easy, lol.
@@garyjubar5733 Mine's not bald, but 'high' forehead, but shaved daily.
I was agreeing with you but pointing out how fans of one make-more so MOPAR-thought all 3X2bbl setups were called after their favorite brand.
As a FOMOCO and MOPAR fan-Ford 1st-and having several cars of both brands with the 3X2 setups, I dealt with it a lot. Just glad I've never owned a gm product.
When i was a kid my mom drove a 63 valiant light blue ,blue interior with the rear trunk lid fake spare tire shape in it, i thought it was ugly then , but now i would love to have one .had a slant six and automatic good on gas and it always ran , dependable for years , hard to believe that was 55 yrs ago seems like yesterday.
'62, '63s didn't have "the toilet seat".
@@vincentenk4449 whatever year it was Vincent, hasnt anything to do with the memory if it was 60 to 70 year of car,you would comment, on not the right year ,you have to much time on you're hands Vincent, you need a hobby.
Can any one see the......FORD ZEPALIN.....from Ford of England, on the front of the DART.......I can.
Wrong Boys,the 406 was also available in 1962 Mercury Monterey S-55. But only 124 were built .father has one. It's a factory tri power, 4 speed, with 4:11:1 gears and underrated 405 hp. Check it out. It's long ,strong ,and built to get the friction on! He bought it new,and has all the documents .I have no idea how many of the 124 built are left.but it's not a Ford,it's a Mercury. So I guess we are both right. Lol , love your platform . New Subscriber .
I would pick the Ford.
Which car won about 90% of all the money races in 1962 duh it was the MOPARS. And many were DRIVEN to the strip and driven back home.
I love UGLY. MOPAR 4EVER
ford had a twin in canada. it was a ford canada ltd. called the meteor. the meteors, originly put the meteor on a ford body, with a mercury interior, in the 1960's the meteor was on a mercury body with a ford interior, mercury was history in canada after 1962. canadian dodges, were just plymouth clones, with plymouth interior and tailights, both built in windsor, ont.
One thing to keep in mind is that Ford realized the 406 simply wasn't getting the job done, so, in January of 1963 they totally reinvented the wheel by introducing the new fastback body style in the Galaxie, AND introduced the 427 with dual quads. Sheer horsepower was now no problem......... BUT, you could not get this engine with an automatic trans, PS or A/C. Chevy or MOPAR, no prob with the order sheet, but with Ford, your high perf came with very few creature comforts. I'm pretty sure the original hot shoe Mustand, the 271 HP 289 HiPo had the same restrictions - no PS, no A/C, 4 speed only.
But I think if you ordered a Chevy 409 before '66 with an automatic you got the slug 2 speed PowerGlide/PowerSlide...
62 Dodge first choice no question
My unkle joe had ford galaxy 406 a lot of teenagers use ask
My uncle if they could see the engine then he would start it ] we get behind it ba ba ba love the sound
Don't see anything wrong with either car. Just look at them, sometimes ya just gotta look at em. Car manufacturers should resto bod original bodied cars. Don't change appearance.
The basic Ford 390’s were pigs. No power but burned a lot of gas. My father had quite a few of them over the years and Zi always thought they were hopeless. Then one day my buddy and I took his father’s 390 Torino out for a spin and it was like a completely different engine. That thing made big hp and torque compared to any other 390’s I had experience in.
The '62 Plymouth was a bit better looking than the Dodge. Both the Plymouth & Dodge were restyled in '63 and the performance only got better. Ford knew the Galaxie was an overweight lump so they put the 427 FE motor in the Fairlane and called it the Thunderbolt. It was a real performance car. By '64 Mopar came out with the 426 Hemi and it was game over for For & Chevy.
@@CJ-ib2jy It's the winged SuperBIRD that came out in 1970...not the Super BEE. The Super Bee came out in 68 and is the Dodge equivalent to the Plymouth Roadrunner. Whole different car. And you left out the part about the 426 Hemi powered Chrysler wing cars being so dominant that NASCAR imposed a 305 cubic inch displacement limit on them in 1971...so all the Mopar drivers switched to either a 71 Roadrunner or 71 Dodge Charger body so they could still be competitive. No such restrictions were imposed on the Ford/Mercury aero cars that had the BOSS 429. That tells me right there that the Hemi Mopar wing cars were obviously superior to the BOSS9 Ford aero cars...so much that NASCAR had to hit Chrysler with a 305 ci displacement limit to level out the playing field
MOPAR or NO car!
My dad had a car like this and it was solid as a rock!
fade resistant drum brakes - no, they were not - first hand experience -
The 1962 Dodge and Plymouth 413 were the first true muscle cars ever produced,
other than the 1955 Chrysler 300
@@michaelwallbrown3726 The C-300 was way too big for it to be a muscle car.
BACK IN THE DAY MY NERDY NEIGHBOR BOUGHT A 413 DODGE WITH A PUSH BUTTON ON THE STEERING WHEEL...
..HE LET ME DRIVE IT ON SATURDAY...I TOOK IT TO THE TRACK ANSD WON SUPERSTOCK ELIMENATOR...lol...
1962 was the last year Virgil Exner was chief designer at Mopar....the Dodge design is pretty "controversial", either you love it or hate it....I quite like the "in your face" design.....but .big changes came in 63.
Don't forget Dodge also had the 880, based on the Chrysler platform. In 63, Chrysler hired a stylist from Ford.....hence, the big change in design of pretty well all of the offerings from the firm.
The cross ram design works well....provided the fuel doesn't "puddle" in the flat portion of the plenum, it'll load up on you and throttle will stumble at low end.
The Ford looks very clean....but the max wedge engine speaks volumes...The Mopar offerings were just an all round better package.
Even though I wasn't born until 1967 I kill like the 1962 Ford Galaxie, even though I like 4 doors better this car looks nice & looks better with the stock wheels than the crazy looking wheels. On the "Andy Griffith Show" during this time frame the sheriff drove a 1962 Ford Galaxie.
Ford didn't call the 3+2 set up the six-pack that was Dodge! Lol. Not trolling just saying. I liked your video.
Hi Kevin, thanks for your comment. It’s really a funny thing, mispronunciations, typos, or other types of small things seem to be troublesome for many? I appreciate the kindness you seem to share, so many others are and can be vicious with comments. It’s really telling about them as individuals. for me...6 pak, triple deuce. 3-2’s, its all essentially the same thing......There are 3 2 barrel carburetors on top of the manifold. Again, thanks for being kind with your comments.
It was rated 375hp
But actually it was just under 400hp...🤑
Put me down for liking the 62 Ford. I was parking cars back in the day, and if you had to park a dodge, when you tried to open the door to get out, your elbow would hit the seat. I mean when you grabbed the door handle and pulled, the door would not open, cause your elbow would be up against the seat, so you would have to contort your hand and wrist to pull that extra few inches to get the door open. Terrible design. And, it reminded me of an earlier car, the studebaker. I would have to hide it in the back of the lot cause it was so ugly. Hell, the Ford Edsel looked better than the Dodge. I confess, I owned a Ford 406 and loved that car, and yes, the dodge 413's were faster. I always liked the underdog.
In 63 I was a Marine stationed at Fort Bliss. They had midnight drsgs out on a section of 2 lane.
A lot of different cars showed up.
The high buck guys of course showed up in the 63 cars. 406 Fords 426 Max Wedge cars and 409 Chevys.
My friend had a 60 Ford Starliner with the 360 hp 352 a d a transacted top loader 4 spd. Pretty t y quick car but not in the same class as the 63 cars.
Bottom line. The 423 and 426 max Wedge cars almost always beat the 406 Fords and 409 Chevys.
They were lighter and had the great Torque flight automatic. The engines made more power also.
Some years later I ran a Thunderbolt. Corrrct 437 hi riser 4 speed 410 ocker rear 13 to one compression
I cod usually beat the max Wedge cars IF they were 4 speeds. I usually lost by less than a tenth to the automatics.
The hemi Savoy in my opinion if stock were not as fast. Probably due to the extra engine weight. Also took them a while to spool up.
I KNOW ALL THE HEMI LOVERS WILL GO CRAZY BUT JUST SAYING...THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCES.
Simply more proof that a 64 GTO wasn’t the first muscle car.
We had a '62 Galaxie 500 four door in South Africa. Really great car.
Nice video and wish you all a great weekend. Thumbs Up liked for you.
My first car was a 1962 Dodge Dart I bought in 1973 for $ 150. Sadly it didn't have the 413, it had the old super dependable 225 c.i, Slant Six torquer. It was beautiful car. I found it light and it handled beautiful. I took it on an empty highway one day and took it right up to top speed of 98 mph. With those fins we were almost airborne ! I miss that car to this day !