Finnaly found these photo's of my first car a 1968 Ford Falcon Futura,Sport Coupe...learned the ropes of body and paint as this car was a basket case body wise..but the 289/C-4 Combo ran like a a banshee...the car was given to me by Mr Ed Huth A work Collegue of my fathers...he bought the car new,drove it daily till the fenders damn near fell off..litterally..when i got the car they looked like swiss cheese and the headlights were held in by coat hangers...the doors were solid,qaurters were fabricated with chimney type sheet metal..and coathangers to form the wheel lip along with fiberglass and bondo to bring back contour lines..lol well it worked..dad ordered new front fenders for it and we worked on her over the summer of 78,the car was painted by dad and i in August of 78.ready for my jr yr of high school...the kids thought it was a total differant machine as they seen it before it was done...when i showed it to Mr Huth after it was done He broke down in tears literlally. i drove the car through 1980 then it was hit behind the drivers door and all my work was toast lost my butt and intrest in it and sold it as it was...



The color " competition blue"

My first ride was a 69 Falcon, straight 6 and three speed column.

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taxreliever said:

My first ride was a 69 Falcon, straight 6 and three speed column.

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Very cool Ken!!! I had alot of fun with that car....Learned alot also from the experience...

BuzzGun79 said:

Very cool Ken!!! I had alot of fun with that car....Learned alot also from the experience...

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The worst part was not being able to downshift into first without first coming to a COMPLETE stop....made a ton of rolling stops in 2nd gear!

First gear also was geared way too high......imo for just getting going. That old straight six did awesome on the highway at 70 mph in 3rd gear!

Ken i can recall how those 3 speed trans worked....they werent syncronized very well back then. as far as the six a damn good engine....as for mine it was 289 /C-4 with stock gears...I can recall several occasions street racing a couple of my buds after school on several occasions...got beat by a 6 cylinder Gremlin light to light and a 68 buick skylark with a 250 6..lol but yet i would take out 283's and 350 olds like nothing...go figure..lol oh those were the days...hehe theres alot more for i really put that car threw its paces...broken motor mts by reverse slams...lauched it over a bridge one night after work..that took out the front coils springs..lol crazy times...

Cool pics and memories Bob!

DNFXDLI said:

Cool pics and memories Bob!

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Thank you Duncan.....Im wandering which memories you like....Good Buzz or BAD Buzz..lol "I Want the Best of Both Worlds" hehe....

BuzzGun79 said:

Ken i can recall how those 3 speed trans worked....they werent syncronized very well back then. as far as the six a damn good engine....as for mine it was 289 /C-4 with stock gears...I can recall several occasions street racing a couple of my buds after school on several occasions...got beat by a 6 cylinder Gremlin light to light and a 68 buick skylark with a 250 6..lol but yet i would take out 283's and 350 olds like nothing...go figure..lol oh those were the days...hehe theres alot more for i really put that car threw its paces...broken motor mts by reverse slams...lauched it over a bridge one night after work..that took out the front coils springs..lol crazy times...

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Hahahaha.....hearing those stories are just great!!! Man, I can almost picture myself right there too......not sure vehicles today could take that kind of abuse, eh?

Great story. My first was a Ford maverick that my uncle gave me when he was relocated to CA. I beat that car and it took everything I gave it.

Ken there is no way today's cars could hold up like the old cars did.

smokey said:

Great story. My first was a Ford maverick that my uncle gave me when he was relocated to CA. I beat that car and it took everything I gave it.

Ken there is no way today's cars could hold up like the old cars did.

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Haha....that's kinda what I thought.

I was watching an episode of fast and loud last night and the guy was repairing dents in a 67 Galaxy by just heating up the metal with a blow torch and said you can't do that with today's vehicles because the metal is way too thin.

Glad you guys enjoyed the ride down memeory lane....maybe just a few of todays rides could take that kind of punishment that i can think of....but their way out of MY League so to speak...lol