The big thing with this car is that it has a 289 cubic-inch V8 engine! I know! It should have up to 270 horsepower depending on which model it is and that’s a very healthy amount of power for this vehicle. You know, between Zoom meetings and watching Dragnet. Almost every part and piece for redoing the interior of this Falcon/Ranchero is available in the aftermarket world so it shouldn’t be a problem for the next owner to get everything working and pick away at the restoration as they have time. The interior is appropriately dirty and the X-marks-the-spot spider lug wrench on the seat comes with the car I’m guessing. The body looks great to me, I’d clean it up and keep it as is, at least for now. Thankfully, Selma, CA is a very dry area with under a foot of rain annually and it’s inland so hopefully rust isn’t a big issue. There are a few dings and small dents and some scrapes and the paint has seen better days. The seller says that it has been sitting for about a decade but, as almost always, it ran when it was parked. This particular Ranchero looks like a solid, really fun project car. Then in 1967, also in the third-generation, the Ranchero changed again with Fairlane sheet metal – at least the front clip – but they still used the Falcon platform overall and were known as the Fairlane Ranchero. For some reason, Ford kept the redesigned Ranchero within the second-generation category until 1966 when the third-gen Rancheros came out. The same with the early second-generation Ranchero made from 1960 through 1963. I’m a huge fan of the first-generation Falcon, the rounded version made from 1960 to 1963. for sending in this tip! Here is the original listing. This 1964 Ford Ranchero can be found here on craigslist in Selma, California, just southeast of Fresno, and the seller is asking $6,995. That’s info that most of you already knew but I always thought it was unusual that Ford didn’t start a new generation with this Ranchero redesign. The Falcon was redesigned and changed generations for the 1964 model year but the Ranchero, which was based on the Falcon at that time, stayed in its lane until the 1966 model year.
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