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Steve Harwood of Sequim, Washington, is the owner of this impressively built 1963 Ford Falcon delivery sedan. Definitely a rare car, you may not be surprised to learn that only 113 of these were even made, and this one was purchased new by the Seattle Iron Workers Union.
Steve has owned the car going on ten years now and he has put a lot of work into it over the last decade. This car has had a particularly interesting life and went through a transformation that most usually don’t attempt: from street car to gasser, and later back into a street car before Harwood bought it. But the unusual nature of this car doesn’t end there.
At a car show a gentlemen talking to Harwood revealed that years back he had a ’63 Falcon delivery of his own. The two talked for a while only to discover this had in fact been his car decades before. He went home and sent Harwood some pictures of what it had been like while he had it.
The far left picture is one that the previous owner gave Harwood and the second from the left is the car when it was a gasser. The second from the right is what the car looked like when Harwood bought it, and the far right are some images when he was working on it.
Harwood practically bought this car sight unseen. He knew he wanted a 1963, so when it went up for sale he jumped. As a matter of fact, he sent more than a dozen emails to the seller on Craigslist before hearing back from him at the end of the day. It had some rust and other issues that ended up taking four donor cars to complete the restoration. Harwood had to replace the doors, hood, fenders, tailgate, rear quarters, tail light sections, dash, upper and lower cowl sections and floors to make it solid again. 
The engine is a simple, but effective setup. It is a 5.0 liter EFI engine out of a 1988 Lincoln Mark VII. “It does about 260-280 horsepower, but the car only weighs 2,800lbs soaking wet,” Harwood told us. “It goes just fine.”
Harwood did everything but the interior and even powder coated the whole car before painting it. “I knew someone that could do it really cheap,” Harwood said, right after telling us that he has his own powder coating business.
The Falcon also features a four-speed automatic overdrive transmission, 8.8-inch rear end, rack and pinion power steering, power disc brakes, and “a really loud stereo,” Harwood detailed. It took six years to get where it is today. “This is the farthest I’ve ever built a car,” Harwood said. “I’ve done lots of other projects, but this one went the deepest.” We’d say he hit this one out of the park.
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