This summer I bought in my town of e-bay a 61 Falcon Ranchero in storage fromthe early 90's. New fluids and tires and driving in a day. It has 95K Miles on the 144, Ford-o-matic and after market AC. It was completey serviced and new brakes then stored. The AC still worked, breakes are like new. After 2000 miles of fun I had the head rebuilt, 300 miles later is sucked a valve. I have the engine and trans out now and will make a visit to the shop that rebuilt the head for $800.00 that caused my engine to puke. I just bought a 170 and plan to rebuild the 170, the 144 was a little light on power with the AC on. The ownwer gave me the Gem Top Canopy if I promised to keep him up-dated on the restoration progress. The canopy is nice.

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Glenn in Oregon