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US $16,000.00
Year:1969 Mileage:0
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No disappointments here!

Well over 30K invested-1969 Ford Falcon- Built for Drag Racing easy conversion to Street Rod. Professionally built 429 CI by Jay’s Automotive Machine Everett, WA- Holley, Dominator 1050 CFM Four Barrel -- MSD ignition W/Rev-limiter-special NASCAR style oiling system- Professionally wired, all lights work. Header Stinger plates- Narrowed 9" all set up by a professional chassis builder using a laser measurement bench- Richmond Gears --Strange Engineering Spool and Axels-Frame Kit 10 Point Roll Cage & Ladder Bar Suspension w/ Coil Over Shocks all Art Morrison Racing-This car is solid- C-6 W/Trans Brake- Line Lock-Hurst shifter-Fuel Cell-Auto Meter liquid filled gauges- 4 wheel disc brakes-Wilwood Rear disk  - Shift light tach.-90/10 Front Shocks Weld Racing Rodlite 93-Series Wheel's. Stock Wimbledon white with custom art. Re-plated bumpers. Full Exhaust system, new headliner and matching custom seat. Super straight body –Look at the fit of the hood and deck lid- No rust. Best of everything and done right. Lovingly built by this current owner -- it took me 4 years. It has only 16 Passes on it. 12 second E/T. Can do better the driver is not very good.

 

                                        Why "Pest Control"?

By the name of the car one might suspect I own an exterminating business, not so.

Read on and see what it means.

(Little known fact is that the Falcon is the fasted diving of all of the birds of pray) 

This art work is not only depicting a Falcon in full dive flight, it is also depicting part of the heritage of drag racing. Using a little humor only a hard core car person would get.

It is literally a challenge to a Chevrolet powered racer, a gauntlet if you will.

Here is why. 

Obviously it is a caricature of a Falcon; they do not really wear 1930's style goggles and pilot caps let alone smoke cigars. Where it becomes a challenge to the racer of a Chevrolet powered car is in the talons and the name of the car "Pest Control" Notice in the talons are two rodents (Pests). One is a rat and one a mouse. Both are wearing Chevrolet "Bow Tie" emblem hats. They are obviously being dominated by the "Ford" Falcon. In car guy vernacular the euphemism for the Chevrolet small block engine is "Mouse Motor" likewise the Big Block engine is called a "Rat Motor". Thus the name of the car "Pest Control" Get It?

 

 

 

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