1963 Phil Bonner Ford Galaxie 427 Lightweight: Muscle Car Of The Week Episode 261 V8TV
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1963 Phil Bonner Ford Galaxie 427 Lightweight: Muscle Car Of The Week Episode 261 V8TV
This 1963 Ford Galaxie was built for racing, with lightweight fiberglass and aluminum components and a high-strung 427 for power. It was campaigned by Phil Bonner in the ‘63 NHRA Super Stock class, and is is basically the same today as it was in racing trim back in the day. Good for low 12’s in the quarter mile, these cars paved the way for the F/X and Funny Car classes in the heyday of 1960s drag racing and is one of several 1963 Galaxie lightweights in The Brothers Collection. Photos from The George Klass Collection: www.georgeklass...
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Very nice!
Road in a 63 galaxy 406 convertible 3x2 barrels 4 speed, she was a bear. Also she looked really sharp a night. Thanks for posting, brought back nice memories.
Fantastic stuff
The LaFayette Ford logo on the rear quarters brings back memories of Fred Lorenzo and Holman-Moody era. No turbo, no super chargers just raw cubic inches and brave drivers.
@beboboymann3823 - "The Golden Boy" as he was called, was Fred Lorenzen.
Sweet that is one healthy motor I wouldn't mind that on the track
My first car.I reversed the shackles , too.
I likes those Ole Big Inch Ford and Ford Products!!!
Coolest muscle car ever built. 👍😄🇺🇸
Miss the days when you could really tell one car company from another, nowadays it just looks like a sea of different colors moving down the freeway.
Eric Voet, you're absolutely right but unfortunately the sea of different colors are mostly shades of grey too.
Lol
Also all look like they were squeezed out of a big squeeze tube of shit.
Mostly grey, silver, black, and white are the modern colors...It's like watching an old B&W TV !
Except the Japanese stuff can start looking really weird. I don't understand where their stylists' heads are at. Taillights that look like a cat's eyes and offset vertical pillars where one pillar is missing. Not necessarily butt ugly, but just plain weird stuff.
What a beauty!! 12:1 compression back then with big cams gave cars that unmistakable sound.
They definitely put out over 425 hp . I have a 64 Galaxie that I have gone through and added the same dual snorkal air inlet . Differnt air cleaner and a built 390 . And its definitely faster and more powerful than I had expected . And its only a 390 . Although it has multiple improvements like ported Aluminum Cylinder heads and several other things. And just being a 390 it chassis dynoed at 394 RWHP and 431 RWTQ.
Super Nice Car ! Thumbs Up liked for you.
wheelbase is altered as well
This is the real deal
That old hotshot still has a spot on state of tune. Absolutely no bog when he lights up those recapped slicks. Simply perfect in every respect.
Awesome Ford! Had a 63 Galaxy in the family for years, Great car red on red , 390 Four Barrel...
A real drag car. I know because I had a new 1963 427 Ford Galaxies with 425 h.p. .
Love the Galaxie
Beast
That's the baddest Beast you had on so far. Now that's a car!!
There's some Ford drag racing history.. awesome!
I have always loved full sized factory race cars...no matter who manufactured them.
If that bucket made over 500hp it'd be running a lot faster then 12 second quarter miles.
Escelent ! Very nice rebel flag :)
Ford #1 in my book the history of ford is legendary love this car all 60s ford cars nd trucks FORD FOREVER
Excellent car!!! Ford #1
Love it, because i own one 63 1/2. Please do more old NASCAR and DRAG Racing Cars
I saw a mid 60s Dart lightweight with the 426 Hemi in my hometown. Another factory built drag car and the team showing it said very successful. Those were the days. I wasn't a "brand" guy. I saw each of the big three dominate at different times. And the competition meant new and improved technology for all. I guess the biggest story of that era was the GT40s domination at LeMans, and that gave Ford bragging rights hard to combat. But the Hemi's success at the drag strip was unmatched for a while and GM had some pretty impressive numbers of their own. Then the 70s hit. Pollution control, safety regulations, the wimping of the auto industry. From a Boss 302 to a Mustang II? Oh my lord. Many years elapsed before cars became fun again.
I'm having a Fordgasm !
I was there to see two of these great cars race. The Thunderbolts beat just about everybody! Even my "K" Code Fairlane 500 was fast back in those days. Ran mid-13s. Fast for small blocks in 1963.
I love the dawn of the performance BB. Chevy and Ford both introduced 427's, Pontiac unleashed the SD 421 and the mighty 426 wedge and later Hemi. The all sported big bores and fairly short short stroke and could rev. The availability of pump 100 octane fuel allowed manufactures to use some insane compression ratio for the time and it's set the ground work for some really awesome small blocks.
A lot of east tn north Carolina racing card then wish I could have ordered one then just born.
i had a friend that had one. he put the over cam in it and run in the low 10s.
That was a great time to grow up.
That is tire shredding horsepower!!
Love that hood release.
Saw my 1st 63 fasrback at Hull-Dobbs in Winston Salem, but it had the aluminum front fenders with decals that read, Do Not Lean on Fenders-Aluminum.
Awesome car now that's oth0some power great year I was born. Man everything that's unique or rare the brothers have it in their stable
Back when a manufacturer could team up with a southerner that was proud of his heritage and not be labeled a racist....
What a fantastic machine. The factory lightweights are some of the greatest automotive endeavours ever thought up. No frills, no high tech. I don’t care how fast a new Demon goes, you can’t touch the sound of these cars and the way they shake the ground. Brutal!
Absolutely right my friend! And these cars were affordable for the average working man to buy. Mopar 413 and 426, Pontiac 421,Ford 427,and Chevy 409 and 427 in these basic, lightweight,no frills cars was an incredible combo!!!
Bro if you dropped 707 hp into a 63 Galaxie lightweight the Demon would need prayers to win...those push 4300 pounds ...
@@jeremythompson9895 Yes! I like the old system where a buyer could run an item by item order build ...what you want and nothing you don't need...
Powered by FORD.
Beautiful ride. Love the flag.
The tires were worthless. Put some modern slicks and a better ignition and see what these old collectables could do.
It's good to see him flogging on it !! No museum piece here!!
The top oiler never had any problems that I ever heard of, beyond rumor. It did not "starve" the bottom end, but on start-up the oil pressure will rise from top to bottom. Once pressure is established, it is the same throughout the system. The welded-on oil channel that created the side-oiler was an improvement by Ford to allay the concerns of people about the top oiler. But there are no occurrences documented that I know of (if anybody has some please reply it would be cool to see!) to show that the top oiler ever had bottom end oiling problems. Having said that...I think we can all agree the side oiler destroyed all of the NASCAR competition in the 60's. For several years the only brand on the track was Ford powered. Chrysler and GM abandoned NASCAR completely for several years because they could not compete with the 427 powered Fords. Quite an accomplishment, given that the FE big block is actually a bit smaller (length) than the GM and Chrysler alternatives.
Thanks: my first Super Car familiarity was 1963/.5 SCATBACK 427 Galaxie Black/Black 4SPD: older Schoolmate has for short times: quite a sight & sound.. Seemed to be some quality, though engine blew , and lots of tires wore, etc.....
Hus voice equals cool car. Kudos!
In.my opinion,I LIKE IT.👍 👍
My understanding they were on the lighter custom 300 frame. That steering wheel makes me "gag"
Thank you for making my day... oh so sweet.
my favorite full size!
Head to Cumming, Georgia...Phil Bonner's hometown and his restaurant "Mr.B's". Just South of Dawsonville.
very nice i love it
Nice, but Galaxies to me were mostly king of the big oval superspeedways. I prefer the Fairlane Thunderbolt for ground pounding, tire melting, straight line rocketry.
It was a great time to live . Give me two please. I personally liked the ( tear drop ) Thunderbolt.
It’s great to see old factory drag racers like this. It’s also great to see the comeback of factory racers today. Maybe some modern/vintage factory race car comparisons are in order? What do you think? 🏁🇺🇸
That's how you should feature American Muscle...BURNOUTS. 👍
Wow what a car!
How fast did the 63 Ford running a quarter of a mile
That isn't a medium rise intake manifold. It is a low riser. All 1963 427's are low riser. Medium riser appeared in 1965!!!
@G hrvyck if you have a medium riser intake manifold, it isn't and original 1963 Ford 427!! I actually own one as well. ALL 1963 427FE engines were Low risers. Medium riser came out in 1965.
The stuff that dream are made of !
Fun Old Ride Dammitt...
Love it!
Awesomeford
Loved the 427 ford engine, only the Hemi could compete with it.
Absolutely right my friend! Mopar 426 Hemi and Ford 427 the two baddest engines ever put into any muscle car of that era!
I'm a hardcore Mopar guy but the 427 SOHC and the L88 427 engines are my second favorite for sure
@@kainpope3550 I like the Pontiac 421 Super Duty too. The factory only rated them at 405, but I saw a bone stock 421 SD dyno 488 horsepower at 6000 rpm. The same day I saw a bone stock 426 hemi dyno 497 horsepower at 6000 rpm. They put a stock 409/409 Chevy on there too but that only made 406 horsepower at 6000. They didn't have a Ford R-Code 427 on hand though. I'd like to see how they stack up against the others
@@kainpope3550 The 427 SOHC is one bad ass engine for sure. If Ford actually put that in a production car they'd probably be the fastest muscle cars of that era. That was a crate engine though. The L88 is definitely the baddest engine Chevy had. It's too bad it was only available in those stripped down Vette racers. I was never a big Corvette fan really
@Jeremy Thompson they actually did put the SOHC in the 64 Thunderbolts which could be bought for street use
Be a great weekend warrior, expensive as a bitch to fred tho no doubt.
I miss the days when muscle cars ruled the road.
So damn cool!
I know it is not a racer now but I assure you that the car did not sit like that in 63. At 30 seconds, pause the video. The left rear is higher than the right side. This is opposite of how it should be. The passenger rear side should be higher for hooking up purposes. Just an observation.
So the street version was the 63.5 galaxy dual carb 427 4 speed?
I had a galllixeb with a 289 engine
It would bark the tires in second gear light car
OK, I didn't know about the coolest hood release ever.
That was factory on those. What class.
I grew up during this period and still don't understand how this motor doesn't get the same respect as the 426 hemi. I knew 3 people who had hemis and they all said the same thing. You can't keep the hemi tuned for any amount of time. They were glad to unload them because as they said I want a car I can drive without having to work on it every month. I know all high performance motors have higher maintenance requirements but it seems that there were plenty of motors, including the 440, that could run with the hemi without all the headaches and expense. Even the infamous superbirds and charger 500s that dominated Nascar didn't do it because of the hemi, they were faster because of the aero and wing package. Hemis didn't dominate like that before or after that.
HOT! HOT! HOT!
616hp is what I remember from a particular 1964 example
Now to me that's a real Hot Rod Muscle car. Not all the NOS and Turbo boosting.
I don't care what anyone says, there's nothin like the sound of an American Big Block V8.... #FordAllDayEveryDay
1:18 that’s not a 61 Starliner. It’s a 62 Galaxie with the Thunderbird roof
Yep, just a '62 Galaxie standard coupe "Boxtop".
I WISH Y'ALL could do a uto on the single over head camed mustang of 1966 or gas ronda.
Could you give some of the history of this car? Where it's been? Who's owned it? I'm guessing it's been restored.
Ted Bundy had a VW Bug.
Matt Farah's Million Mile Lexus - That explains the way he ended up...
I think I just became like #429. That's pretty Boss.
Type R FE-427
2 questions :--- This car seem to sit lower at the right : to counteract the torque ? ... or abuse just let sit like this ? ( don't know which way the engine turn ) .--- In those days these cars was street legal or not just like the modern Cobrajet , Copo and Challenger Drag Pak ?
Cars
Awesome looking car ! But not a medium riser. Only Low and Hi riser in 1963 thru early 1965.
first on race day
4 DS 4 EVER
...with 4.11 gears you can really get lost...
65 was the Falcon. Not Fairlane.
In 1963 mopar was the 1st SUPER STOCK TO BREAK INTO THE 11s And heck the 413, 426 Max Wedges and later the Hemi ( of course) dominated and in some classes they still do.
That said this car is very cool and the video was awesome
Don't you mean he was out of drag racing by 1970?
That was not a Fairlane
Are those stock rims, if not what rims are those?
Yeah who doesn't love cars like these. Those were the days for sure. Lots of room under the hood to work on your car and simple compared to all the electronics needed to manage all the engines systems and parameters today. No catalytic converters either. Lets not forget the smell off high octane fuel compared to the garbage cars are running on today. Garbage fuel that your lawn mover and garden tractors don't even like.
That is an altered wheelbase Falcon, NOT Fairlane!!!
It's neither... it's a standard wheelbase Galaxie.
Kevin commented that he ran an altered wheelbase fairlane.The car pictured at that time is a Falcon, which is altered wheelbase. Smart ass!!
Not a ford guy
Keith Campbell so you actually clicked on a video of a car that you know you didn't like and then you commented on it. What an idiot
Keith Campbell - I'm sorry...
So what's your point?
I'll bet you "R" now.