Now, this is a killer combo! This 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible left the factory with a 410 horsepower Q-code 427 V8 and a 4-speed, making it one heck of a drop top. It’s in rough shape, but there weren’t very many of these built, according to the seller just 8 were optioned this way. I just wish we knew a little bit about the person that ordered it, I feel like we would be good friends! You can take a closer look at this hot drop top here on eBay in Wylie, Texas with a BIN of $26k.
The Galaxie’s image is typically that of a big comfortable highway cruiser, but Ford actually turned a small number of them into full out lightweight racers. This convertible isn’t one of those obviously, but it had to have been one of the fastest droptops around! For whatever reason, it was parked in 1971 and that’s where it stayed until just recently. It was in Indiana, which explains all the rust. The seller notes that it’s going to need a complete restoration and there’s no questioning that. Thankfully, the Q-code engine and 4-speed are present though.
Speaking of that might 427 V8, here it is in all of his greasy and rusty glory. It will need a complete restoration like the rest of the car, let’s just hope it isn’t beyond saving. Ford rated this engine at 410 horsepower and it wasn’t even the most powerful version available, that title belongs to the 425 horsepower dual carb version. This Q-code should be more than enough engine to keep most of us content, especially in a 4-speed equipped convertible. If you need more power though, a few upgrades could make it a serious performer.
This is going to be a huge project to take on, but how cool would it be to cruise around in this thing with the top down? According to the 427Galaxie Registry, there are only two other 427 equipped 500 Convertibles registered at this time (there are several 500XL convertibles as well). It’s definitely rare and incredibly cool, but is it something you’d be up for restoring? It’s the kind of project that is going to take dedication, insane amounts of time and even more money to get going again, but how cool will it be when it’s done?
I watched a video where Dennis from Gas Monkey Garage was saying that if you buy this car you can be on the show.
So if Gas Monkey Garage can’t do a quick flip, this will be a project for someone with extra ordinary metalworking skills.
That’s where I know that jeep company from.
Extraordinary MentalWorking skills.
We don’t call it Smashed Monkey Gar-bage for nothing.
Where’s my bourbon?.
I had 3 ’64 Ford beaters. Love their looks but they were rust buckets.
Now this…
https://classics.autotrader.com/classic-cars/1964/ford/galaxie/100925478
Must be the Famous kobe steel
Great find. I would love to have one of these but I don’t have the skills or the money to take on something in this kind of shape. Bummer.
The data plate attachments have been tampered with. I sure would want to see the actual body stamped VIN. Rough example for 26K BIN. I know that the 64s did not have the frame rust issues that the 65-68s did, but with this amount of corrosion I would be looking at the frame also. A set of correct Kelsey Hays 15″ wheels will set you back at least 5K. Good luck to the buyer as anything is restorable with enough $$ and skill.
WHY…?….HOW…? could this once gorgeous car
get to this point…?..,so very sad..!I don’t know
if this would make financial sense,but it sure would have
to be a labor of love..The 64’s were very sharp when new,
and this had to be a blast to cruise in.Hope it is saved,and driven…!
Madmatt, they become just ‘old cars’, to answer your question.
In the 1970s, I owned a lot of stuff that’s worth an easy six figures, today, but was just considered old junk, back then. At the time, I paid next-to-nothing for them. It’s part of the evolution/life cycle of anything that we might consider ‘collectable’ (or otherwise).
I could imagine a cool quarter mill being spent restoring the Galaxie, as we’re looking at many, many hundreds of hours of labour alone. One wonders what the inside of that 427 must look like.
Tell me about cars in the (at least 5-figures) that were thrown away over minor (with today’s repop parts everywhere) I junked a 73 Road Runner after digging into it over relatively little rust. I still dream about that car. Here’s how it looked, but it’s not the car I owned.
Yeah..Beatnik…,that is how my dad
Has aquired all his stuff…from way long ago..,for
Next to nothing…. unfortunately,😑those days are long gone..!
Still can’t believe that someone along the way, didn’t buy this
A long time ago…,and preserve it, restore it…,very scarce indeed..!!
I agree. At some point in every car’s life they become just “old cars”. For a collector, that is the time to buy but recognizing that future gold mine is the trick. The gas crisis made “old cars” out of quite a few. I had a ’71 340 Duster 4 speed that was pristine.but it became an “old car” that was worth a fraction of what it is now. Same with a Lotus I had or the ’65 Dart GT 4 speed (that was unusually quick). It’s a short list but now an expensive one.
the decimal point should be moved over two places at least!
I seldom feel a car warrants a full rotisserie restoration. I think this one does. I doubt it will pay for itself when done,but still worth it
Now if you could get this car and the previous 67 Mustang drag car as a package deal for 26K and put the 427 / 4 speed from this car into the Mustang you have a great 67 Mustang drag car. That is if the 427 and 4 speed aren’t junk.
I personally believe that cars like this MUST be restored, and, of course it will require a person with DEEP,DEEP pockets but there are folks out there that love cars like this and have the $200-300,000 to restore it. Since I remember these monsters from when I was a kid, all I can say is “please, someone, save this magnificent beast!”……..and I’m a Chevy guy !!
Whomever let this happen should be sentenced to FIATville for eternity.
I concur.
I’m sure if you asked him 5 or 10 ore even 25 years ago if he’d sell it, he’d probably say “I’m gonna restore that one day when I get (pick one, two or all three) the time/money/place to do it”. I’ve seen so many cars go to rot because the stubborn owner can’t face the reality that the car is far beyond his skills or wallet. I know a low miles Olds Cutlass Rally 350 doing that right now. . .
Damn shame.
What a shame if this really is the car advertised, how could it get to this condition? Had to be a hoot to drive years ago.
We have said it before, A fool and his money, soon part.
This looks like a good overflow tank wrapped in rust (the rest of the vehicle). By the time you cut this thing up and replace all the rusted parts, what’s left? Assuming it’s legit, you’ll have so little of the original car, how can it be called a 64 427?
Be nice to see it back on the road, but that things going to cost more than most houses to rehab it IMO.
Rubbish
Looks to me that the 26 K BIN would be the downpayment on a LOT of heartache and most likely 4 times the purchase price to restore this rust bucket.
I keep seeing these negative comments about people who let vehicles fall apart. We seem to forget that at sometime, these were just worn out old cars. I remember going to the junk yard to get a part for my ‘64 Olds Starfire. I got what I needed off of a tired ‘’64 Starfire Convertible that was then just another old car. My car was 14 years old at the time. That same convertible in that condition today, would be restored. As I said earlier, at the time it was just another old car. Some of us forget how much fun the demolition derby was. Just old cars!!!!
The asking price is ridiculous; the car isn’t worth that, I don’t care how it’s equipped. If everything is there it’s maybe $800.00 with a restoration worth
six figures to resurrect it. There’s better ways to spend the seller’s asking price and get a really decent car.
am i missing something? motor and trans is all that’s left, smh
WOW, 26K in that condition. The one I have been looking at here in Mexico is a 1963 Galaxie XL Sunliner Convertible with a factory 406 tri power and he wants about 20K USD. I thought it was a lot considering it is not the original color.
This guy seems crazy. I know the 427 adds a bit but not as much as he thinks.
Here is the engine with A/C.
This guy did post the data tag, and it is a factory 406 tri power car, the ’63, not the featured car up above.
This is what the ’63 is supposed to look like even down to the color. That dealer only want $89,900 for his, and it has no A/C.
Ijole, Miguel, that’s one ‘que vo’. ’63 XL.
Totally agree with you that the ’64 is not worth anything near the asking price.
Nice looking 1963 Galaxie XL Sunliner Convertible. At only 21 cu in & 5 hp less the 406 powered car would be a tossup to the 427 in a race. It would come down to the little things for one to have the advantage over the other. I would buy this ’63 over the car listed in a heatbeat. I don’t have the money but I wish I could. Like the repurposing of the antifreeze jug.
Looks like it might have spent some time under water?
Hope somebody brings this Back??
Sometimes it’s better to let dead dogs lie. This is one of them.
and the Jeep boys score another trade in….gots to luv em’……..
Absurdity requires no comment.
Every time I see a 64 in this sort of condition I just whimper a little. I grew up in a household where Ford was king. My father had some amazing cars, both standard and not so standard, that have had quite an impact on me. At various times we have had a 57 T-Bird, a 70 Galaxie, a 57 Customline fitted with a big block in place of the old y-block to name just a few. I remember the Customline making a serious attempt on his life the first time dad drove it. He just stamped on the gas, and it sure didn’t respond like an old 272! However, the car that I remember most fondly was his 64 4-door. I know, too many door. But I just loved that car. I never forgave him for selling it.
$500.00 for the motor and trans, salvage top hardware and any other “goodies”, emblems, etc. For another $250.00 and send the rest to the crusher.
$500 for the engine AND trans??? You apparently have no idea of the value of these parts. Plus another $250 for other parts?? Again you have no idea of 64 Galaxie parts. Yes, this car is rough and rusty but there are way more than $750 worth of parts there.
This one is way cheaper!
https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/d/1964-ford-galaxie-code/6468049915.html
When I was discharged in 82 from Fort Gordon ga. I was driving a 64 Galaxie 500, void of any chrome,not even a front bumper….390 4 spd. 2 dr.hdtp., heading home to western ks. Somewhere in Tennessee, one of the counties “good ole boys” followed me bout 10 miles,musta checked my plates and figured I was good,let me get on about my business of enjoying my new found freedom and let me motor on home in that sweet old primered Ford.
If this car was worth restoring, Dennis Collins, with all of his money, would be restoring it. Shame that it got this far downhill.
That’s a bunch of dough, for a builder motor and trans….The rest is junk. Where did this guy store it? The bottom of a lake?
need a donor car with all that rust!
I think the data tag looks “Suspect”
We have one of the largest junk yards in upstate New York called “Trouts recycling”. He will pay $350.00 for this rare vehicle. CASH.