That was a great car! My dad had a black one with the same red, vinyl interior. What a beautiful ride! It was the first car I ever drove (I was 10 years old!)
My 2nd car, '63 1/2 390HP Galaxie 500, 4-speed 3.85 trac lok, red over red, black buckets. Upgraded to a later Merc 410, then to a 427 duel from a '63 1/2 Galaxie. Good episode, thanks!
I have one but mine is an R code XL black with red interior. 100% correctly restored. BTW, the first Ford muscle car was 1957 with a super charged 312 Y block;
I owned one, in the same colors, for one Summer. It was a Sport, and had a 390 cu in. with a single Holley carb. Someone had put the 4 speed in it (cool), and my mechanic got into an accident while test driving a new clutch install. A VW Bug ran a stop sign and took it out in the front, and side. I was so pissed! I sold it to a collector/restorer, who owned several others. Sad, story, but it was scary fast, and I had an epic experience with it.
This is obviously a very important car and doing a feature on it is only appropriate. It has my respect. By the way good video, thank you, and good story. I've see only awesome cars on your channel 👍
This is the exact car my dad bought. Same colors exact same thing. He bought new without my moms permission. They couldn't afford it so she made him sell it. He lived in St Louis at the time. How many of these were made?
What's really cool, and unusual it's a one owner. He bought it when he was a senior in high school. It would be nice to know how much he paid for it. Those cars are definitely MUSCLE CARS!
Great survivor… remember seeing one of these when I was a freshman in high school in the parking lot. Back then it was the fastest car at our school. I was blown away when the Mustang came out a year later and the rest is history, my first car was a fastback mustang GT and I’ve been a Ford guy also ever since! I noticed from inside the car sounds like he has a header leak ticking away?
If you’re really going to say who the first modern muscle car is the first year Chrysler 300’s. And if you’re going to pre-war it’s either the Duesenberg or the Marmon 16. 63 1/2 Galaxies are my favorite and the 64 Country Squires with a Big Block is also really cool. Great Videos Thank You 🙏
Not to be disagreeable, b it the Duesenberg and Chrysler 300 were for rich people and the Marmon Meteors were land speed record vehicles with aircraft engines. They don’t exactly fit the recognized definition of American Muscle Cars.
@@musclecarcampy9922 Honestly if we’re really thinking of True American Muscle it would be from the Dart’s like you said and forward. The others after considerable thought are examples of unique muscle that had a specific niche. 1960 through the 70’s are the years when Detroit produced true American Muscle. So as long as we’ve been on the top side of the grass!! Lol!!! Still Great Videos, Thank You 🙏
Hey, you guys didn't leave them scratch marks in the church parkin lot, did ya? (By the way, did 63 Fords have optional "automatic blinker controls", or strictly mechanical?) (LOL)
Love your videos Campster, but the term "Muscle Car" has been so abused these past 10-20 years. And I'm sure you know what I'm talkin about. The term came out in the 80s, cause B4 then, no-one ever used it. But to the un-informed, "Muscle Car" was given to an intermediate (A body) car with a big eng, period. A Mustang, or Corvette, Camaro, or Firebird, also doesn't fit. Surely this full size is "not" an intermediate, and would not fit the category either, altho it does possess tons of muscle. Was the GTO "the" 1st muscle car? Maybe you could say the earlier valiants with a 413 were the 1st, but there's no doubt the GTO got everyone's attention. Just had-ta thro that out there. But your videos are still the bomb. Thanks. :) P.S. Ooops, I didn't listen to your entire video, B4 posting. Guess it's called.."open mouth, insert foot." Sorry. :(
I read an article from 1965 or so that called these vehicles muscle cars, so the idea that the term came out in the ‘80s is not quite true, though super cars was what most people called them back in the day. Now, anything with a V8 from 1955 to 1981 is a muscle car (even if it had a 2-bbl carb!
@@musclecarcampy9922 Maybe I lead a sheltered life Campy, but I was weaned on these cars in the Boston area, when the gas crunch of 73, ins, and government was putting the squash to us. Kinda rode the last wave of these cars, when they were still considered, "daily transportation". My mags of choice were 1st off Cars, Popular Hot Rodding, Car Review, Super Stock, Car Craft, and Hot Rod. I've also purchased mags from the 60s such as Car Life, and Motor Trend, (when they had performance Detroit cars), and still have these mags from the 60s, 70s, and beyond. And to my recollection, the term "Muscle car" wasn't ever mentioned in any abundance, if at all. Not trying to take anything away from your comments in the video, it's just I hear the term thrown around so much, pretty soon a Super-poo WRX, or Grand Nationals will be coined with the term "Muscle Car", and that's just flat out wrong. (IMHO) But keep up the good work with these vids, and enjoy the spring :)
@@joequillun7790 I promise right here: You'll never see a Subaru video on my channel. When I worked at MuscleCars magazine in the late 80s/early 90s, we considered GNs, 5.0 Mustangs and the like "Modern Muscle Cars" and the term has stuck to this day in my world.
@@musclecarcampy9922 Yeah, I hear ya. I know all about those cars, and how they performed. Past my time. I can be impressed by them, and their performance, but they just don't excite me. Same with anything OBD2. Can they be runners? Sure. But I'll still stick with the 60s, early 70s machines. For whatever remaining years I have left, or the government will allow.
According to my sensibilities, you've got Musclecars proper, which follow the formula of a Big Block, or near 400 cube engine, factory installed in a less than full size car. But then you've got the Full Size Muscle, which predated Musclecars by maybe nine years. Full Size Muscle might be the first Musclecars, but I'd want to see an example of someone referring to them as Musclecars, back in the early '60s. I am not sure when that term was coined. After 1970 and the final Galaxie/XL Sports Roof, full size cars never again had any kind of racy details like they had in the '60s. Those were relegated to Musclecars, which increasingly needed them to compensate for their decreasing levels of power/performance. Are those MOPAR center caps on them sweet chrome Magnum 500? I'd go for the red cloisonné centers which I believe they used on early-mid '70s Torinos. My crappy sound system makes the car sound like a lawn mower engine! I guess I'm hearing those solid lifters and directly coupled radiator fan, in concert with quiet-ish mufflers. My Dad's younger brother got drafted had to sell a new '68 Camaro SS396 4 speed. It was white with the black hockey stick-ish stripes, and loaded, with an Alarm, factory 8 track, AC, Rally Wheels, etc. He ended up getting sent to Germany, and my Grandparents eventually sold it - he'd brought it from California back home to West Virginia, where there's less of a market for a car like that. My Dad took me for a spin in it, but I was too young to remember it. He doesn't remember if it was an L78. I'm guessing L34. They drafted my Dad out of the same house, seventeen years earlier.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Wasn't the Chrysler 300 with the 1st gen Chrysler Hemi already recognized as a fast car by 1957? They were cleaning up in NASCAR since '55 I thought.
All that Hairy Horsepower- and a single reservoir brake system (this one has been upgraded✔️) and no seatbelts. It’s a wonder anyone survived that era, let alone this car.
@MrOnemanop, look again, this car does have seatbelts. Some things about this car are wrong, though, such as the wheels. Exhaust system is not correct either.
Best year of galaxies, drove one in high school, drive one now at 70 years old. Love em.
That was a great car! My dad had a black one with the same red, vinyl interior. What a beautiful ride! It was the first car I ever drove (I was 10 years old!)
Lucky you!
Ford’s sleeper that ruled the road and fit in with daily commuting inconceivably 👌🏼
What a beautiful ford,thank you for your service 7:29
Beautiful, beautiful car!!!
My 2nd car, '63 1/2 390HP Galaxie 500, 4-speed 3.85 trac lok, red over red, black buckets. Upgraded to a later Merc 410, then to a 427 duel from a '63 1/2 Galaxie.
Good episode, thanks!
Thanks for watching. I have a trio of great Fords coming in a few weeks.
@@musclecarcampy9922 I subbed yesterday on the first vid, Cobra. May binge tonight on what you have.
@@Ray56z Binging on my videos will definitely put you in the holiday spirit!
I have one but mine is an R code XL black with red interior. 100% correctly restored. BTW, the first Ford muscle car was 1957 with a super charged 312 Y block;
Great Car.....Great video....As usual Jim.
Thanks, pal. Hope your back is feeling better.
Not a Ford fan by any means. However, THIS is 1 of 4 Fords I have lusted over my whole life!
I owned one, in the same colors, for one Summer. It was a Sport, and had a 390 cu in. with a single Holley carb. Someone had put the 4 speed in it (cool), and my mechanic got into an accident while test driving a new clutch install. A VW Bug ran a stop sign and took it out in the front, and side. I was so pissed! I sold it to a collector/restorer, who owned several others. Sad, story, but it was scary fast, and I had an epic experience with it.
Great looking Ford Galaxy.
It sure is!
Awesome peice of history right there. 2 heros in this video
Absolutely.
I served in Vietnam also. 3 tours medevac duty. 3rd tour ended in 1969.
Thanks for your service.
Thats a beautiful love the 427 I had 2 two of them
Lucky you!
"our blessed lady of acceleration
church"
priceless.
🤣🤣🤣
Riffin on The Blues Brothers!
Always like to see a good car in the hands of a good man.
Yes it is.
I had a 63 1/2 390 4 spd. White with red interior. Not the lightweight one. I miss that car more than should be possible!!!
bad ass car and I applaud him for having it, but I think I would’ve had the exhaust leak fixed before I put it all over the Internet
Thinks get fixed slower when you are 77 years old.
I love this channel!
Thank you. Please let all your friends know about it. I am having a ball doing it.
Great find and awesome story!
Thanks!
Those 427 side Oilers wear just bad ass nice ride I wish it was mine all I can say bad ass
Thx for watching.
AWESOME! The original owner is proud!
As well he should be.
This is obviously a very important car and doing a feature on it is only appropriate. It has my respect. By the way good video, thank you, and good story. I've see only awesome cars on your channel 👍
Thank you so much.
Definition is production car,I love that Ford you have though 💯💯👍👍😎
I've seen one when I was a boy at Jerry's Ford in Arlington. I knew what it was then.
T, Totally awesome car! Sounds like it needs a little tuning and an exhaust leak repair.
One day I will find one of these cars so that I can race it.
It needs to have the primary carb rebuilt and that exhaust leak fixed, but we wanted to feature sooner rather than later.
@@musclecarcampy9922 it’s was still a wonderful show!
@@Goodvibrations-Impickingup Thank you for watching and commenting.
This is the exact car my dad bought. Same colors exact same thing. He bought new without my moms permission. They couldn't afford it so she made him sell it. He lived in St Louis at the time. How many of these were made?
3,857 R-code Galaxies were built in ‘63
Awesome engine! Nice roof line on this one!
Indeed. Thx for watching.
Beautiful 63 , but it really needs a tune up and the exhaust leaks fixed.
It does, but you don't come across 1-owner R-code Galaxies every day.
What's really cool, and unusual it's a one owner. He bought it when he was a senior in high school. It would be nice to know how much he paid for it. Those cars are definitely MUSCLE CARS!
Great survivor… remember seeing one of these when I was a freshman in high school in the parking lot. Back then it was the fastest car at our school. I was blown away when the Mustang came out a year later and the rest is history, my first car was a fastback mustang GT and I’ve been a Ford guy also ever since! I noticed from inside the car sounds like he has a header leak ticking away?
Amazing. Original owner.
Especially considering he went to Vietnam while he had it. Heard lots of stories about parents who sold their sons’ cars when they were overseas.
The Original Bad Boy car before 68 Chargers.😊
What a beast.
If you’re really going to say who the first modern muscle car is the first year Chrysler 300’s. And if you’re going to pre-war it’s either the Duesenberg or the Marmon 16. 63 1/2 Galaxies are my favorite and the 64 Country Squires with a Big Block is also really cool. Great Videos Thank You 🙏
Not to be disagreeable, b it the Duesenberg and Chrysler 300 were for rich people and the Marmon Meteors were land speed record vehicles with aircraft engines. They don’t exactly fit the recognized definition of American Muscle Cars.
@@musclecarcampy9922 Honestly if we’re really thinking of True American Muscle it would be from the Dart’s like you said and forward. The others after considerable thought are examples of unique muscle that had a specific niche. 1960 through the 70’s are the years when Detroit produced true American Muscle. So as long as we’ve been on the top side of the grass!! Lol!!! Still Great Videos, Thank You 🙏
@@bigmountain7561 Thanks for watching.
Very cool.
Thx.
The built this to go up against the super stock mopars.
And 409 Chevys and 421 Pontiacs.
Might not wanna be running it that far with the blinker on not turning.
He almost ran out of blinker fluid.
What about a 1962 Impala SS 409/409?
We’ll feature one if I can find a real one.
sounds like a straight 6???
That would be the exhaust leak.
Hey, you guys didn't leave them scratch marks in the church parkin lot, did ya?
(By the way, did 63 Fords have optional "automatic blinker controls", or strictly mechanical?) (LOL)
LOL.
I'd like to see more aggressive driving.
Sometimes things conspire against such things. In this case, the primary carb was really acting up.
427 lawnmower engine.
Me gusta el carro
Thanks for watching.
This car is NOT all original. It also has exhaust leaks.
One bad to the bone car.
Damn that thing's slow. 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, the original owner is 77 years old. Not as easy to work on it as it was when he bought it in 1963.
You drive and have the owner run alongside and I'd bet he'd win. 😁@@musclecarcampy9922
Love your videos Campster, but the term "Muscle Car" has been so abused these past 10-20 years. And I'm sure you know what I'm talkin about. The term came out in the 80s, cause B4 then, no-one ever used it. But to the un-informed, "Muscle Car" was given to an intermediate (A body) car with a big eng, period. A Mustang, or Corvette, Camaro, or Firebird, also doesn't fit. Surely this full size is "not" an intermediate, and would not fit the category either, altho it does possess tons of muscle. Was the GTO "the" 1st muscle car? Maybe you could say the earlier valiants with a 413 were the 1st, but there's no doubt the GTO got everyone's attention. Just had-ta thro that out there. But your videos are still the bomb. Thanks. :)
P.S. Ooops, I didn't listen to your entire video, B4 posting. Guess it's called.."open mouth, insert foot." Sorry. :(
I read an article from 1965 or so that called these vehicles muscle cars, so the idea that the term came out in the ‘80s is not quite true, though super cars was what most people called them back in the day. Now, anything with a V8 from 1955 to 1981 is a muscle car (even if it had a 2-bbl carb!
@@musclecarcampy9922 Maybe I lead a sheltered life Campy, but I was weaned on these cars in the Boston area, when the gas crunch of 73, ins, and government was putting the squash to us. Kinda rode the last wave of these cars, when they were still considered, "daily transportation". My mags of choice were 1st off Cars, Popular Hot Rodding, Car Review, Super Stock, Car Craft, and Hot Rod. I've also purchased mags from the 60s such as Car Life, and Motor Trend, (when they had performance Detroit cars), and still have these mags from the 60s, 70s, and beyond. And to my recollection, the term "Muscle car" wasn't ever mentioned in any abundance, if at all.
Not trying to take anything away from your comments in the video, it's just I hear the term thrown around so much, pretty soon a Super-poo WRX, or Grand Nationals will be coined with the term "Muscle Car", and that's just flat out wrong. (IMHO)
But keep up the good work with these vids, and enjoy the spring :)
@@joequillun7790 I promise right here: You'll never see a Subaru video on my channel. When I worked at MuscleCars magazine in the late 80s/early 90s, we considered GNs, 5.0 Mustangs and the like "Modern Muscle Cars" and the term has stuck to this day in my world.
@@musclecarcampy9922 Yeah, I hear ya. I know all about those cars, and how they performed. Past my time. I can be impressed by them, and their performance, but they just don't excite me. Same with anything OBD2. Can they be runners? Sure.
But I'll still stick with the 60s, early 70s machines. For whatever remaining years I have left, or the government will allow.
Has a bad exhaust manifold leak….😢.
Yeah, the owner was extremely old. He knew he had to fix it, but it would be a daunting task for him.
According to my sensibilities, you've got Musclecars proper, which follow the formula of a Big Block, or near 400 cube engine, factory installed in a less than full size car.
But then you've got the Full Size Muscle, which predated Musclecars by maybe nine years. Full Size Muscle might be the first Musclecars, but I'd want to see an example of someone referring to them as Musclecars, back in the early '60s. I am not sure when that term was coined. After 1970 and the final Galaxie/XL Sports Roof, full size cars never again had any kind of racy details like they had in the '60s. Those were relegated to Musclecars, which increasingly needed them to compensate for their decreasing levels of power/performance.
Are those MOPAR center caps on them sweet chrome Magnum 500? I'd go for the red cloisonné centers which I believe they used on early-mid '70s Torinos. My crappy sound system makes the car sound like a lawn mower engine! I guess I'm hearing those solid lifters and directly coupled radiator fan, in concert with quiet-ish mufflers.
My Dad's younger brother got drafted had to sell a new '68 Camaro SS396 4 speed. It was white with the black hockey stick-ish stripes, and loaded, with an Alarm, factory 8 track, AC, Rally Wheels, etc. He ended up getting sent to Germany, and my Grandparents eventually sold it - he'd brought it from California back home to West Virginia, where there's less of a market for a car like that. My Dad took me for a spin in it, but I was too young to remember it. He doesn't remember if it was an L78. I'm guessing L34. They drafted my Dad out of the same house, seventeen years earlier.
A few Day 2 mods on this car. They never came with Magnum 500s, so we forgive him.
@DanEBoyd, those are the standard center caps for the Magnum 500 wheels. BTW first true muscle cars began in 1957.
@@sergeantmasson3669 Wasn't the Chrysler 300 with the 1st gen Chrysler Hemi already recognized as a fast car by 1957? They were cleaning up in NASCAR since '55 I thought.
Uh what the heck is that ticking? Damn sounds like someone's cutting grass. Your going to n red outta blinker fluid dude!
All that Hairy Horsepower- and a single reservoir brake system (this one has been upgraded✔️) and no seatbelts. It’s a wonder anyone survived that era, let alone this car.
No kidding.
@MrOnemanop, look again, this car does have seatbelts. Some things about this car are wrong, though, such as the wheels. Exhaust system is not correct either.
You've got a better eye for detail than me. I looked again and you are indeed correct.@@sergeantmasson3669
Engine didn't sound to healthy
Definitely needs carb work and the exhaust leak fixed.