1963 Ford Fairlane 500: Pop died & Maw couldn’t Drive. So I rescued it…But will it run? 

THAT WAS AWESOME, I LOVE CARS THAT 'S BEEN SITTING FOR A LONG TIME FOR YEARS,AND THAN GOOD MEN GET THEM RUNNING AGAIN,I WISH OLD CARS COME BACK AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH, RUTHIE, FROM MASSACHUSETTS,

Great video. Love watching you bring her back to life

Wow!!! What a nice old Ford!!! Great comment on those great Ford engines!!! Thanks for the video!!! I would like to see more on this car!!!

CAR IS EXCELLENT CONDITION

Really good I like is stile how talks about cars

Those are definitely ORIGINAL miles, ! Nice find Sir~!

I was watching the video and you checked the wear on the brake pedal right after I commented about that very thing. And….from looks of it, I’d say 41,000 miles is believable.

I had a 62 Fairlane with a 260 V8 and stick shift. Loved it. Been looking for them at car shows. Very few around.

We had one once upon a time of these 63 and a half Fairlane 2 door HT 289 V8. Drives great. A family car. When everybody got married and dad doesn't drive much anymore he sold it. So sad I should have kept it if I only knew..😢

Another great find my friend, engin sounds happy now that oil pressure has sent a good flow of oil, congratulations 👏

She’s a keeper

Good morning from the UK grand old car , fab channel

Neat ‘63. Love that year. You need some wind lace for around the inside of the doors. Wishing you the best on your restoration! 👍

Is that a 260 V8 and damn I love old school guys Cheers from Chicago Land

Great find,,a hand wash and polishing and that paint comes alive

Greetings to Arkansas from the Great White North, eh! Looks like a Saskatchewan car because ours in Ontario rust like butter in the Sun. Any Man who watches the wheel wobble to a stop on the floor is still a Kid at Heart - and proves it by skinning his finger on the Grinder (wink wink)... You Sir are alright - but I really subbed just because I know what a 'Tad' is ;) Respect

That's a nice one now

In 1981 I had a "73 Olds Delta 88" It was brown with terminal body cancer and a finish that was so bad that I used to wipe it down with mop and glow. It made it look nice and shiny until it rained, then it would have what looked like blue water spots. I don't think patina was a thing back then!

My favorite car I drove was a 61 2 door hardtop fairlane, stick with overdrive. I think it was a little 260 in it.....by the way that stuff around the door area is called windlace. In older cars it actually did function to a lesser degree, it was a rubber tube with cloth covering.

Good Job 👍

Love the color

i ran the old tires on my small road racer. just in the front. loved how they worked. no roll.

I’d stabilize that car, rebuild the mechanicals, detail the hell out of it and and use for a summer driver. Great car.

Another nice find my friend ! That's a low mileage car . With just a little work and $ that could be a nice little car.

brought back memories of my moms 1959 ford fairllane. same starter sound and engine. Forget how many miles on it when she gave up driving but sure it was over 60,000. Never had a single problem with it.

Nice old Ford

This 63 looks so much like my 66, it had 60 thousand on it Steve, my 66 Plymouth Valiant needs Wind Lace put in it to, I am watching you start it up with a funnel and hose, letting it oil up 😊

those are the original miles anyone wanna bet great job i like that car alot oh and thanks

Another one saved 🙌 nice one mate

I think they call that flexable moulding WIND LACE I believe it keeps the wind from whistling between the door when driving. Its like a seal Im not for sure.

I had one like this after it was used and beat up for a college car. It had a broken back spring and a leaky loud muffler. Didn't have money for repairs and drove it that way for a couple of years til I graduated. Would be cool today, though, if fixed up. Good video.

Great video Thx S

very nice car nice find.

If i were buying it brand new in 1963, I would not pick that color, but it does look good.

Spray tar is long forgotten. Mick Australia. Fish oil in the panel. God bless 👍

The a/c compressor is a real easy rebuild

I think it's probably a 41K mile car. Except for the hood, roof, trunk lid the original Vintage Burgundy paint would maybe polish up pretty nicely. By the fender badge I'm thinking it's a 221 but I"m only 6:45 in so far. @8:50 the trim you want to get is called windlace.

I found the part...it goes by black rubber edge trim molding, or door trim edging plastic edge trim. I found it on Amazon , with different sizes. Good luck!

I have been messing with these old cars for nearly 40 years. Most cars from the 1960s and older that still survive to today don’t have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles on them like a 15-20 year old car on a used car lot would today. Back in those days, with motor oil technology as it was back then, once you got up to about 90,000 miles, those engines were pretty tired; leaking and burning oil and there was blow by coming out the draft tube, oil filler cap, and dipstick. Engine rebuilding usually cost more than the car was worth back then, so people just dumped them instead of fixing them. Most “barn” or garage finds that have been setting for decades usually got parked with 100,000 or less. In as many years, I have had two with higher miles. A Studebaker Lark bought at 96,000 and the engine ran good but it was tired and smoky, and a ‘59 Ford sedan with 120,000 that, as we discovered later, was parked because one of the pistons was warped and starting to separate at the ring groove. That engine came back with a rebuild and one new piston. I have heard of old cars with hundreds of thousands of miles, but it was achieved by dedicated owners who were willing to fix and replace major components to keep their car going for decades and decades. Most people were not willing to do that, so the barn finds either got parked and retained with lower miles or were parked at the first major failure with the intention to repair it “one day” and one day never came. Some of those repairs were due on cars between 50-75,000 miles back then; which was considered “high mileage” 55 or more years ago. Remember, up until the mid 1970s, you could trade in your 2 year old, 20,000 mile car for a new one with $200-500 difference due. If your 45,000 mile car needed tires, brakes, a tune up, antifreeze change, a new radiator hose or two, and a muffler (all of which were common repairs back then and at much lower miles), it was cheaper to just trade it in for a new one than pay someone to fix everything.

You were lucky with that one, deserves a respray and new seat covers.

Great car😊

I wouldn't be surprised the AC would work if recharged.

Nice car, great video!

It will make a nice driver

From what I could make out from the shot of the data plate. Fairlane 500 4-door sedan. Heritage Burgundy/Corinthian White. Beige cloth and vinyl. Built Feb. 22,1963. ( I could be wrong on the date. It was hard to make out) DSO St Louis 3.25:1 axle Ford-O-Matic trans. 221-V8 Built at Kansas City KS . Assembly

Windlace, that's what you want for the trim

I have to admit, I cringed when you cycled those dry crusty wipers across that windshield.

I think the interior door seal is called windlace . I need some for my 58 Ford.

my first car was this car type. small small v8. think it was a 260. two speed auto. light blue in color. with a white top.

Patina purple perfect!

Well, the paint is well oiled.

That distributer loose. Got vacuum? Advance a lil

The long cylinder connected to the air conditioner is The Filter Dryer, it removes the moisture from the air conditioning system. on newer cars its usually a bigger cylinder on the passenger side of the engine compartment, it could be black or silver in color. What size engine does that car have?

Check wear on brake pedal and accelerator. The wear of 41,000 miles will be significantly less than the wear of 141,000 miles. (If the pedals are original). When I was a kid growing up, 141,000 miles was a lot of miles for any vehicle. Often times the pedals would wear out to the point that the rubber would wear thin and/or fall off the metal….🤓

Gday from W.a

The stuff around the doors you said you need I have always heard it called wind lace

Solenoid on the finger

They call that Wind lace that you ask use to reply 😊

I used to pressure watch floor mats with puble power

Nice car, don’t look like a lot to get it to run. Who needs air conditioning, two windows down and 65 MPH and you got air conditioning.

So if I’m not mistaken, I believe you went north of Columbus to pick that old girl up.

Hmm you started car from inside there? Key? You check ed neutral safety switch. Or you started w jump start switch.

Wind lace, I think

The three of them I'd like to have four how much is that pretty little forward

I see some dirt dauber nest under the car

Some seats I prusher watch some seat to

Play 62 galaxie 500 red on red 2 doors❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

wind lace

Is that a 260 or 289

260 or 289?

How much did you pay for it? If i may ask.

I work for a car lot and he buy sale cars that have to have a lot ataten we cleaned lot of cars

Door rib.

That is called wind lace around the doors