Ford ThunderCougerFalconBird part 1

...as a nice little nod to the writers of Futurama. This 62 Ford Falcon Ranchero was given to me for some work I did on some friends computer. The car was in bad shape, but there was potential and I love a good chalange.

So after the inital break down of the car, I started with some ideas that rapidly changed over time untill what will now be built as an open top roadster, incorperating varous designs of the time, like the Thunder bird. Now being a huge fan of Futurama, the name came naturally.

For the first part will be the basics of how bad the car was, and some of  the early repairs. in part two i will have more detailed info on how the car is going back together.

I will fill in any information that I feel needs to talked about, but mostly just pictures for part 1

here's the beast, the pre-mustang eara, and yes i have the hood, it's in the back corner of the shop.

Now Let's tear the car down and see what it's really made of.

used to be blue at one point in it's life. I've basically taken everly thing out that i can easly to start a cleaning process and evaluate how much work will be involved.

yes thats right the floor at this point was made of plywood, roofing tin, fiberglass, sprayfom and fiber glass insulation. for the tools Joe had at the time he did Ok to keep the car on the road, but this is just compleatly unsafe.

multiple hits to the front, with some bad brazing left the core support a bit of a mess.

found it funny that after all these years and bad paint jobs that pressure washing revieled some of the origional markings.