finally drove the 63!!

Well if you recall my leeeeeengthy stoooory about my 63 Woodie that I got after 24 years fo tormenting the ol gal

Well I finally decided to drive her...(the wagon dat is)
..but not until i made some personal touches!!
...my TIKI door pulls...my Clay Smith antenna ball..(which i affectionately call ..'Woodie')

NOW the question is???....which wheels??????..I thru some stocker caps on it...but they aint cutting it!!

so...which wheels...the Gold Keystones??...the Wires?...so many wheels...so lil time..




stockers??



or one of these bad boys???

 

Stockers!

 

I'd go for the wires, unless you've got some secret powerhouse under the bonnet. The mags would get too many challenges on the way to work.

 

Hey I want a woodie!
I have a Clay Smith cam, so I think I qualify!

Wire and whitewalls all the way!

 

Wow - '63 Falcon Squire. Nice!
I'd go with the stock wheel covers unless you can find some dish-slotted mags (in aluminum). The gold wheels and wire covers just don't do it for me.
--- learned to drive in a '63 Falcon, BTW.

 

Yeah, the backseat is too small to learn much more!

 

Front what I remember, there wasn't a heck of lot room in the FRONT seat, either.

I was the oldest of all my neighborhood pals, and the first to get my D/L. Shortly after 'graduating' from permit to license, me and the boys went for a drive in the Falcon. Still being relatively inexperienced, I missjudged the closing speed on some approaching traffic when trying to execute a 3-point turn-around. Close call, but only horns were honked. My pals didn't want to go for joy-rides with me anymore after that.

 

I think the wire wheel covers are the "in" thing. Not many left. They were sought after a couple of decades ago.

I had some on my Plymouth Volare' Sport. Those were some hefty covers. I think they weighed about 15 lbs each.

 

We were lucky here in Driver's Ed. The Oakville Ford plant in Ontario got on the bandwagon and built a special Winter-Driving obstacle course, kind of like a military robotic firing challenge. Cardboard kid playing hockey in the street, cardboard kids rushing out from between parked mock-cars. By taking the basic course they dropped insurance rates by 25%. If you took the Winter course too ($50 back in 1966), they dropped it another 15%. Well, we had an ex-Highway Provincial Policeman teach us that, and then he took us to their driver training, for free. You wanted to change diapers for the first half-hour!

After that though, it became natural. I don't want to think about how many side-swipes and fender-benders I avoided, but that Officer had us doing full 180's at 40 MPH! We had three teenaged gals in this course thing too, and they went on to win many derbies and rallyes.

I think I used up about 10% of my lifetime supply of Adrenalin in that course, and another 10% racing fuellers over 200 MPH! Too much fun! :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

Rev,Raise that car up and DONKIFIY IT! Gets some 24's on it

 

...ya sickie!!

 

well...i still havent made up my mind....and just to confoose myself some more...i got some old 60's slotted aluminums with B60/13's on them the other day too!!

 

You are an unrepentant wheeler-dealer! And admitting it on Sunday!

Bet they look good though.

 

...its too HOT to work on anything...so i'm sweating here