The REAL Wild Child 65 Ford Falcon FX is for sale!

[shucky]

My friend sent this over to me. Its the real deal 65 Ford Falcon "Wild Child" FX drag car. AWESOME.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-Falcon-WILD-CHILD-WILD-CHILD-Rankin-Ford-s-1965-A-FX-FALCON-HOTROD-/230550488224?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item35ade144a0#v4-39

[Hoosierfarmboy]

How could ya put a value on those pix? I saved them all. Good drag history.

[shucky]

How could ya put a value on those pix? I saved them all. Good drag history.

Same here. Nice reference material!

[Greg Cullinan]

I ran into this the other day on the Bay,it was out of my range though .

[Chuck Most]

a very interesting and cool car member here Oldman23 is building or was some replicas of this car i believe.

Yes- complete with detailed carb linkages and in-scale, working window mechanisms!

[Joe Handley]

Is it me, or did the front axle not look right?

[oldman23]

The front axle was twisted. These photos were taken during the restoration process.

The axle was bent from all the wheelie stands so it was pulled and sent out and straightened.

I'm currently building 2 Identical Falcons along with the trailer and the 66 Ford F-100 that pulled The Wild Child For Joe Germann.

I have close to 500 photos of the car and I am building these as detailed replicas of the 1:1 car. When complete I will have over 2000 hours in the project. I've seen the Wild Child up close and in person. You just have no Idea of the power of a SOHC motor until you hear it run. Did you see the pictures showing the 3 1/2 inch collectors coming off the headers? That is sweet

[Jon Cole]

Are decals available for us to build a replica of the Wild Child?

[oldman23]

Everyone I sent Joe an email and asked him point blank

At 07:22 PM 11/17/2010, you wrote:

Hi Joe are you really selling Her?

Ernie

Here is his reply

No, not really. Joe Bortz who has a huge collection

http://bortzautocollection.com/

posted that. I set a huge reserve so it would not sell. I really have no interest in selling the car but I let Joe toss it out there to test the market.

Joe

[oldman23]

Southern motorsport had some a few weeks ago try googling Model King Wild Child and see what pops

[Harry P.]

I was going to put in a bid, but my garage is already full and I really don't want to park it in the driveway with winter coming...

[shucky]

Oldman, do you have any pics of your Wild Child projects? I'd sure love to see 'em.

[FUSIONBOY]

Are test drives avalible?

[Peter Lombardo]

I see that there was a request to see this Model King Falcon kit built. A number of years ago I built that kit.

I made a few modifications to the kit. I opened and hinged the doors, added the safety net to the driver window and completely modified the engine intake system.

I did some research on the computer and found a number of photos of the car.

The kit supplied the fuel injection stacks for the engine only, if I remember correctly.

I preferred the dual carburetors with the dual plenums and the long intake hoses. I scratch built the plenums and the hose. Two other points…..at the time I did this car, I ran out of the photo-etched hood pin rings so I painted the rings on with the intention of dropping the photo-etched ones on when I got more…I got more, but just haven’t gotten around to doing it. Also, the dashboard supplied with the kit is wrong in front of the driver. I knew it was wrong, but didn’t bother to correct it as the interior is black and it is dark in there….and, this was never a “highly detailed†build for me, so I just didn’t want to invest the time in that modification.

The body was painted Viper Red and the top was painted appliance white. The decals came from the kit as did the wheels and tires….again, if my memory serves me. The carwas top coated with Future once it was decaled and dry.

Most likely, I would never have posted these pictures….but since there was a general request…here they are.

[Nick Winter]

I'll be damned she ran in St Thomas, and was Canadian built.