Mystery Car of the Week… Solved!

Don’t ask me how I stumbled upon this particular clip… It’s obvious that the original uploader was selling some mid 50s era 8mm footage on eBay and he decided to show part of it on YouTube (with a huge, annoying watermark) so folks knew what they were bidding on… Fair enough. But the first car in the film is a crazy-looking custom that must have been scratch built running at the Santa Ana Drags?! I had to know more. The video was titled ‘Falcon’ sports car (and five years before Ford used the name), so that was something to go on for my search. I was all set to throw this out to you on the HAMB to solve when I found this story written by Geoff Hacker for Undiscovered Classics back in 2013! Turns out the Falcon was a father & son project built in Fullerton, California with a shortened steel chassis, Nailhead Buick motor, and completely hand-formed fiberglass resin body using wooden bucks, just like real coachbuilders would. And amazingly, the car was completed in 18 months!
Who knows if the Falcon still exists today?