1965 Ford Falcon 289: Regular Car Reviews 

Wait, was that a curtains joke?

@@EggBastion I'll give you a hint, google "Happy Birthday Mr. President"

I feel like we're not talking about the meat of cow in that quote.

nice.

So was Miss Monroe a clean sandwich or roast beef just hanging all over the place?

He really is quite a good writer.

@@brokenacoustic "Quite a good writer," he is a poet.

We should get him to do a Yugo, Edsel, Aztek, Vector or one of those from the worst car list on Wikipedia

@@godwindracing6056 although ugly and expensive. The Edsel was actually a very good car with excellent features and ride. It just came out at the wrong time with the wrong price. There is actually a book of the worlds worst cars. Most of it is just a bunch of general motors cars. Chevy citation ect ect. But I'm with you on this. Quirky cars for sure.

@@key2theuniverse713 Yep, poets are writers lol

It was as unexpected as it was pleasing.

Good to see so many viewers got that reference. Just came to the Comment section for that. ❤

@@99Lezard99 Ha, same.

To this day, when I watch the Bebop series... I have to stop before the final two episodes. In my mind, Spike is still alive.

Yellow is the color of Spike's shirt.

CODE BROWN-CODE BROWN !!!

DR.BROWNSSSSS!!!

They skipped a decade right there in that corner.

B R O W N

Not to mention art and literary theory/history.

shit, JFK, RFK, MLK, X, EVERS...busy time for political murders

leah gon leave u hea beddit X is just a wife beater peace of shit and doesn’t compare to JFK or MLK

@@RaceboyYT not to debate you, but X turned his whole life around for the better before his death, and encouraged peace and love, if you read his bio or seen his movie, you'd be less of a dick about it...that bein said he's still just a man, J.Kennedy was a womanizing, adulterous hound, so was MLK (allegedly)...doesnt take away from their contributions, not sure what you heard about X, but i bet it was from white people...who at the time feared him shitless

@@buickryan88 I truly believe the course of human history was changed when RFK was assassinated that day. America (and therefore the world) would be totally different today.

@@MylesHSG i agree

Australia

Hello to you fellow Malaysian!

Same thing happen here in Indonesia, cheap 1.0 liter Toyotas rule the street. we do got the Australian Falcon with inline 6 in the 70's but they sold very poorly ( probably because Corollas were way cheaper and got better mpg ).

We'll be cry blood paying roadtax tax for a 5 liter V8

Yeah, KLIMS 2013 was the only time I saw any for the first time. Fun Fact: Tunku had a white 50's Bel Air.

I thought we drove Lada Nivas, Holden Geminis, Susuki Swifts and daihatsu Handivans... lory drivers excluded... glad to see roly smokers gain one.

Foxontherun2 rapid Roy's vehicular form

@@Thunderous117 that comment is almost too much to believe.

@@Thunderous117 jim croce reference... I'm in awe

AK02 gotta love Croce, especially rapid Roy, some of my favorite highway music

Mustangs can stay where they are if seen on the streets will be shot a number of times by the police.

Pretty sure you mean 3.9 mate

You mean EFI nnot mechanical injection

Au Falcons are the king of Falcons

not as good as a fella who goes by the name of fudge man

@@skipnick We aren't unpacking that joke.

Roy Poud Swapping in shorter rods, regardless of the pin location on the piston will not increase displacement.

@Roy Poud Capacity is a calculation of the swept area of the piston, I.e the area the piston covers in its travel. Changing the starting point (changing the rod length) doesn't change how far it travels

Roy Poud It would also lower TDC, therefore lowering compression, the crank is what moves the piston up down, the connecting rod you know just connects the 2

flyonbyya i stand corrected

RegularCars In a world of Trumpism...concession is truly refreshing and a rarity. I voted for Hillary too ( ;

God Bless Argentina.

2016 in Australia

@@sutherlandA1 God Bless Australia.

From Wikipedia:"The Argentine Ford Falcon is a car built by Ford Argentina from 1962 to 1991. Mechanically, it was based on the parent company's first generation Falcon". So, it was built until 91 lol

it's how you spot a hipster

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And now hes gonna inflate the 2nd gens lmao

Yeah, kind of like what Scotty Kilmer has done to inflate prices of 1994 Toyota Celicas. The demand is really skyrocketing as the supply dwindles...

That lean almost needs Regulators

But you can't be any geek off the street, if ya know what I mean. Gotta be handy with the steel, earn your keep.

You should see what "posi" + a 351 Boss Mustang will do on a wet street in a STRAIGHT LINE, especially when you back off SUDDENLY in 1st gear! I ONLY did this ONCE and almost ended up going in the opposite direction with cars parked on BOTH sides of the street. Had to go home and GET A STIFF DRINK!

From what I was told, the car sat in a field for many years, it was a base inline-6 with 3 speed on the tree. Wimpy tranny couldn't handle a V8, so it was converted to the C4 cause that's what was around with the donor 1966 mustang drive line. Eventually it might get a T5 swap if I can find the time and money to do so. However, it's setup pretty well for an in town cruiser, and occasionally stoplight drag. Surprisingly this car, once you start rolling at all the steering is easy-peasy, I can navigate a parking lot with one hand. Steering rack is geared right, and the car only weighs like 2500lbs. Probably my favorite car I've owned, and I have big plans for it.

Falcons (and their Mercury Comet brethren) were standard with column shift 3-speed manuals. You got a floor shift with a 4-speed, and if you had a 3-speed auto you could have either floor or column, depending on year and model. As for the steering wheel, I think it's just an aftermarket piece styled after the Mustang II. Those things were everywhere in the 80s and early 90s. No shit, I bought one from Kmart. Falcons and Comets in the mid-1960s were available with two different steering ratios. The manual steering cars got fairly 'high' ratios (slower steering but greater mechanical advantage to compensate for the lack of P/S), while the P/S models got a quicker ratio. If you had a manual-steering car and wanted more 'road feel', a small-diameter steering wheel was the cheap way to achieve it. The reason the guy who did the swap converted to automatic was because the six-banger transmission in those things (Ford's model 2.77 3-speed) would not reliably handle a V8, even driven conservatively. For V8s, Ford made the 3.03 3-speed standard, with the T&C (Toploader) 4-speed or 3-speed auto optional. The swap is at least mechanically correct, it appears - he did swap in the 8-inch axle. The 7-1/4 inch axle that was used in the six-cylinder models was a weak-kneed thing. It wasn't even suitable for a six-cylinder Fairlane, much less anything with a V8. And if he swapped the rear axle, he'll also have swapped in the larger 10 inch drum brakes, which is good, because the puny 9" things used with sixes weren't worth spit. RCR is dead-on when he describes the mistake he made - goosing an analog 1960s V8 on a turn in the rain is risky - especially a 'small' model like Falcon. These cars were not very forgiving and you definitely needed some good instincts to drive them hard.

Xa phase 4?

A phase 3 just sold for 1.8 Anton Rossitto

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It was still a dumb mistake? Why go a rear gear down in the middle of a corner, in a rwd car without traction control. In the rain.... surprised he didnt flip it.

You better keep that Mustang locked up or it is going to the junkyard.

It's a real one I assure you, most late 60s and early 70s Australian GT Falcons.

I got a tear in my eye

I have the same decal on my back window! :) don't know if it's technically the same from the same source. Bought mine from a group of guys at a-kon this year.

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good 289s will always out do them .

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Daniel Smith brings back memories of my old 9-3 Arc. People complain about the turbo lag but that’s what makes those cars exciting. There was nothing until about 3000RPM, at which point the turbo spools and you jump to light speed.

@@TheJacobshapiro it's more of a warp jump. Think TNG opening with the Enterprise stretching out then rubber-band-snapping away as the ship just continues going faster & faster. Cause you nail it, and it tachs up until the turbo boost builds and builds and builds and you just keep going faster & faster. My buddy's 2017 Golf sportwagon AWD with the Gomf R turbo is more of a Millenium Falcon jump to lightspeed. Hit the throttle, wait a split second for it to get ready, then WHAM! 60, 90, 120, 140, LIGHTSPEED!

Getting Aussies to call you out on something is almost as easy as vegans. Just say "falcon" or "the best inline 6 is..."

@@alexstromberg7696 I was joking you are aware of that right? :)

Yeah, the American Falcon has class like add a decade and flair to Galant, HQ, Sigma, Ford XG utes and of coarse the mighty Datsun 200b. Sure its a yaught though boats have their place.

But the SuperCab Falcon is not anything like the real car, just the exterior like Nascar.

Yeah in the dry it handles just fine, basically the weather was the worst you could ask for in that car. It hardly weighs a thing, has medium compound tires, so in the rain it has about zero rear end grip. Really this car is setup for straight-ahead stoplight drags.

Jeremy Killmon best looking muscle car

In 1970, the base Fairlane was renamed 'Falcon', the Falcon got a redesign and was renamed 'Maverick'. In 1971 the Fairlane and Falcon names were dropped and the entire Fairlane series of cars were renamed Torino. The Torino had previously been a trim package for the Fairlane.

Mustang II