![]() ![]() One step up from the Custom 500 was the far more appealing Galaxie 500 which, in the upwardly mobile mid-’60s, was the most popular series. The Custom 500 was only marginally fancier, with carpeting, chrome windshield and backlight trim, and abbreviated chrome side spears. The Custom was a fleet/cheapskate special that came equipped with hubcaps, no chrome trim, rubber floor mats and a 223 cu in, 138-hp six-cylinder engine with a single-barrel Holley carb. There was a full lineup of full-size Fords. With the vinyl roof covering and chrome “top seam” as shown above, it could pass as a top-up convertible with ease. Aerodynamics aside, it was a sharp roofline. All two-door hardtops featured the semi-fastback styling that had been introduced on the “1963 1/2” Galaxie hardtop with an eye toward NASCAR competition. The full-size Ford was particularly attractive, although the family resemblance shared by the 1961-63 Fords was gone with the ’64– except for those trademark taillights. ![]() All their car lines, from Falcon to Fairlane to T-Bird, were completely redesigned. Nineteen sixty-four was a big year for Ford. Sadly, this most excellent tail lamp would appear on full-size Fords for the last time in 1964. Ford was pretty smart to make a taillight so distinctive even at night, when the rest of the car was hidden from view, you could definitely tell that the car in front of you was a Dearborn dreamboat. Witness: The classic round Ford taillights. ( first posted ) Today’s Fords, while competent and popular, just don’t have that “certain something” that their forebears had in spades. ![]()
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