Back in 1967, the Ford Motor Company offered all kinds of performance vehicles. Cobras and GT-series Mustangs (and I suppose the rare Ford GT itself) was for the young and rich. Broncos were just beginning to be thought of as off-road performance vehicles in addition to being utility vehicles. For the more “adult” enthusiast, the “7-Litre” was offered based on the Galaxie platform; while this solid Galaxie 500 for sale here on eBay isn’t one of those, it does have the graceful fastback styling and distinctive front end. The car is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and the opening bid is $3,300 with no reserve.
We’re told that the car was included with a property the seller has purchased but atypically the seller has a clear title. They also claim the car has only had one owner. Apart from putting a battery in and turning the engine over, nothing has been done to the car since discovery.
Although as a whole the body looks pretty solid, the seller does mention and picture a small windshield crack and of course, some rust. Do you like the vertically stacked headlights? I was trying to remember the other brands that featured these and I came up with Pontiac, Mercury, AMC, and Mercedes off the top of my head — can you think of others?
I think this is looking down into the trunk at the inside of the lower rocker panel, driver’s side (please correct me if you know better). The seller mentions some rust-through here and it certainly should be taken care of quickly before it spreads. Hopefully, it can be patched without needing to replace the entire panel.
While the interior certainly shows wear, it hasn’t been abused and I believe those are air conditioning vents in the lower dash. Remember, at this point in time, air conditioning was still a fairly rare option. That large steering wheel center was new for 1967 Fords and appeared in most products as a safety feature.
Based on the side emblems and the air cleaner on the ground in one of the pictures, this is a 390-cubic-inch V-8, which was the “in-between” engine between the 289 small-block and the honking 427 and 428 monsters. It was available in both a two-barrel (which I think this is) and a four-barrel version, with the two-barrel having “only” 275 horsepower when coupled with an automatic transmission like this one. Again, things look relatively original here with a belt on the air conditioning unit being a good sign that recommissioning is possible. What do you think of this giant fastback? Any Galaxie memories to share with us?
My favorite year of Galaxie!There’s one behind a house in our neighborhood.All I can see from the road is the front end.One of these
days I’ll knock on their door & ask to see it.
I had a ’68 Cortina with that same funky steering wheel cover.
Cadillac also had stacked headlights!
65-68 Plymouth Fury, 65 Buick Riviera, also 61-62 Chrysler and 58-60 Lincoln
@Barn Finds
You are correct in your assumption this ’67 Galaxie has a 2-barrel 390 engine. We can define this by the “H” code in the 5th position of its VIN. I have attached a list below of the engine codes used in 1967 Ford Galaxies. I hope this helps.
ENGINE
Code
A 8-Cylinder 289 (4V) Premium Fuel
B 6-Cylinder 240 Cubic Inch (1V) (Police)
C 8-Cylinder 289 Cubic Inch (2V)
D 8 Cylinder 427 (8V Hi Perf SOHC)
E 6-Cylinder 240 Cubic Inch (1V) (Taxi)
H 8-Cylinder 390 Cubic Inch (2V Spec.)
K 8-Cylinder 289 (4V Hi Perf)
L 8 Cylinder 427 (4V Hi Perf SOHC)
M 8-Cylinder 410 Cubic Inch (4V)
P 8-Cylinder 428 Cubic Inch (4V Spec.) (Police)
Q 8-Cylinder 428 Cubic Inch (4V)
R 8 Cylinder 427 (8V Hi Perf)
S 8 Cylinder 390 (4V)
V 6-Cylinder 240 Cubic Inch (1V)
W 8 Cylinder 427 (4V Hi Perf)
Y 8-Cylinder 390 Cubic Inch (2V)
Z 8-Cylinder 390 Cubic Inch (4V)
3 8-Cylinder 289 Cubic Inch (2V Lo Compression)
8 8-Cylinder 428 Cubic Inch (4V Lo Compression)
If i were near by i would be keen to look this one over, very informative lists of numbers for engine options for this year to ,cheers.
Back in HS, had a classmate that had this exact car. On “Senior Skip Out Day”, that’s right, I was a heck raiser in HS too, we all got pretty wasted, and this guy had to see how fast his Galaxie would go, on back roads, mind you. He misjudged a curve and took out 3 mailboxes. The mailboxes were toast, the Ford had a few scratches,,,
This was my first car. It was all lite yellow, black interior. 390,AC was a nice car.
I bought it from my parents in 1971 for $900. It looked great, fast as hell too. Had a few problems, Terrible suspension, tipped like it was going to flip in turns and curves. Worse than that, the power booster on the power brakes
was not made well. Brakes were so sharp and sensitive, would lock up all the time. was a manufacturing defect. Was power brakes but all drum. Im sure front disc would fix the problem today.