If you’re in the market for a classic automobile project for under $1000, you know how slim the pickins can be – especially nowadays with YouTube people snapping them up left and right. Well, here’s your chance to get one just like them. It’s up for auction here on Copart in eastern Pennsylvania, and current bid is under $500 at the time we write this. Interested? Let’s look closer!
The Galaxie name dates back to the late 1950s, but by the mid-1960s, Ford saw the need for a complete redesign of the already successful line of full-size cars. At the same time, Ford of Brazil decided that they wanted one for their market, so the two distinctly different-looking but similarly-sized models hit showroom floors. You could get a number of different options, and buyers of the car between 1965 and 1968 could choose from 4 styles and up to 8 different engines…including the famous 7-Liter.
We look now at the example up for bids. The listing doesn’t give us a whole lot to work with, just the basic requirements like mileage and overall condition, and status of paperwork. We’re told that it has 96,000 actual miles and comes with a clear New Jersey title. We can see that it’s sporting a V8 and what looks to be automatic transmission. We’re also told that the damage is “mechanical”, which leads us to believe that it might not run. There’s plenty of dirt and dents, and some weight-reduction, and with all due respect, it looks like it just came out of either a barn or uncontrolled storage of some kind. It may have been donated to one of those charity groups that takes the proceeds and helps those less fortunate, but the listing doesn’t specify.
This car looks like it belongs in one of the “revival” or “First Start In 25 Years” type of videos on YouTube. I’m half-tempted to buy it myself for exactly that purpose, but my YT channel and household budget isn’t big enough nor cool enough for all that stuff. Hopefully, it goes to a good home that will ‘revive’ it or use it for parts, not to a U-Pull yard like the beige ’68 wagon that I saw over the summer. That thing was rough, but it had a lot of useful bits and bobs.
What would YOU do with it? Let us know in the comments!
I sure hope that the mechanical problem
they mention isn’t frame rot. That’s what happened to my ex-FIL’s car. His
was identical to this one with the exception that his was dark red with a
white top and black interior. And like this car, his had a 289 cube V-8/C-6 automatic for power. He bought it off my BIL in ’77 for $500 to use as a beater
during the winter months while he stored
his near mint ’66 Rambler American. Don’t think either one of them knew about the the rusty frame until the rear
suspension started to come off the car
and it started to dog track down the road! If you buy it Russell, be sure to find a way to inspect the frame bumper
to bumper so you don’t waste your time
and money restoring it later on. I like it,
but the shipping costs from PA. to Florida would do me in. Great buy for
someone, just wish it was me!
Worth it for the die cast LTD/XL grill alone
Looks like a good candidate for a sleeper. Drop in an FE, upgrade suspension and brakes. Clean it up stripping chrome trim and any and all extraneous weight. Nice. Like mentioned probably available at under $1,000.
Get it running and drive it around! Why not? It would be more fun than a modern car.
I inherited virtually the same car but in navy blue when my father-in-law passed back in ’74. I think it had 125K on it. Inline 6 cyl. It had been “rode hard and put up wet” much of its life. Served me well as a second car for about two years. One time I moved a full sizre refrigerator with it by unbolting and removing the trunk lid. Easy peasy (except for lifting the ‘fridge.) Changing the oil on that car taught me one important lesson: if you’re going to need a new oil pan plug because you stripped the original, be sure the car you are working on IS NOT BLOCKING ALL THE OTHER CARS IN THE DRIVE! Walked to parts store for self-tapping plug…
What’s not to like for a driver? Pay $500.00, take it home, give it what it needs and you have a nice nothing serious driver. You’ll be in it about $2000.00 just
eyeballing it if it doesn’t need open heart surgery. Go look at it.
any copart car is a nightmare as its very much like a flipper (sale only thru auction, national/internat exposure, -0- investment in heart/mind/maintenance) – at a junk yrd tho. All kinda undisclosed fees, other minor’n major issues (at least 4 me).
Luv the model & make, straight lines of early ’60s still onit. ANY stacked hdlght model, I think merc was 1st (in dwn szed Calliente` or sompin bout ’64) esp ford – is much to my liking. If I was not searching out the dwn szed wagon of ltd/marquis ’83/6 – a sedan (moredor) like this would B just right…
Had one just like this in 1972 ,302 v8 auto ran it way up to 200k and tranny puked . watch out for frame rust over rear axle. this one seems to be running if it is running on a gas can under the hood . loved the one I had
Don’t forget Coparts added “fees” will probably be in the neighborhood of $400. But car looks like it could be decent project.
What fees?
If only I could tow it up to Canada for cheap for it to become my first car…
Quite likely the frame is rusted through.
Well guys i ended up getting this car and yes between the rotted frame and copart fees it wasnt much of a bargain. I might have to start posting videos on youtube to try and get this thing started. It is almost all there for trim and interior parts. Looks like it sat in a field for years. Last time on the road was 1989 according to window sticker. Trunk is stuck closed and lock missing. Back door on driver side stuck closed as well. If i can get a local shop to patch up that nasty frame i might go all in and put it back on the road. Otherwise it will be somebody elses project as i do not intend to part it out.