As some of you may recall, I have been helping a close friend sell off his collection of vehicles in northern Georgia, right on the Tennessee line. I haven’t posted in a while as the inventory was changing so quickly that many of the cars in question were already gone by the time I had the article posted; you can see my last update here on Barn Finds, but I’ll make a new one soon. In recent months, a nearby car enthusiast has become a friend to the property and recently documented his rescue and revival of one of our listed cars – a rare 1970 1/2 Ford Falcon sedan. Find Bill’s updates here on the Flat Broke Garage YouTube page.

Here’s Bill, everyone. Bill has a great sense of humor about how it goes when you rescue a derelict car as you’ll see in his video, as the plans to drive the Falcon home didn’t quite go as expected. Steve, the property owner, gave Bill a lift on the rollback to get the car home, but to Bill’s credit, he did have it running and did the usual assortment of must-do tasks when reviving a long-idled car, like sorting out the brakes and making sure the tires hold air. This isn’t his first rodeo, either, having revived an abandoned F150 just in time for the most recent Hot Rod Power Tour.

Now, since getting the Falcon home, Bill has been busy getting it sorted out. Why, you might ask? What’s the hurry? Well, Bill noted the old-school dealer badge still hanging onto the trunk lid and decided to reach out to Sunset Ford in Missouri. Turns out there are some real-deal enthusiasts there who went through the trouble of examining the archives to confirm many intricate details about this Falcon’s history, and they want Bill to drive the car out to the dealership for a place of honor in the showroom! As you can see, the paint cleaned up pretty nicely for a car that’s been parked for decades.

This is an odd duck of a car, as it looks all the world like a Torino but there really was a 1970 1/2 Falcon. It’s also likely fairly rare by today’s standards as while many of the two-doors likely were saved, four doors were hardly worth preserving. Bill has already gotten quite a bit done (and ironically, the thing fired right up after it was parked at his house) but there’s far more to do if he wants to get this to Sunset Ford in the near-term. I thank Bill for rescuing a car from our property and be sure to follow the updates on his channel.