I was trying to look up production numbers for my 63 Falcon. Its a 1963 red on red Falcon Futura convertable with a factory 4-speed manual tranny and 170 straight 6 engine and bench seats. I've googled this many times and came up blank. Any help would be awesome.

 

Try the Falcon club of america

 

Four speeds I believe were a little more rare than the 3 speeds. And in my personal opinion the bench seat is so much nicer to have because you always need room to sit extra people.

 

The convertibles are fairly rare. I have a 63 Futura Convertible too. There are a few places to find parts but body panels are scarce. Mine has a three on the tree with buckets and console. It's a project at this point. I have all the stuff for a V8 conversion and 4 wheel disk brakes. One tip you might want to convert the mason jar master cylinder to a newer one with dual reservoirs as one leak in the brake sysytem and you have NO brakes.

 

That's where the emergency brake actually became useful in older cars. Learning the old way to drive is the best way to learn. Failures aren't fun but if noone learns to handlea situation noone really knows how to drive. And you don't learn that in drivers ed. Dual master cyliders add weight and prolong the problems. Everything has its ins and outs really. Dual master cylinders and disk brakes are good for speed but for regular driving keep your old stuff. Single master cylinders and drum brakes tend to wear the pads 100 times less giving you less time spent repairing and replacing pads. Also calipers are 100 times more expensive to manufacture and buy than wheel cylinders. Also lost is the art of learning to slow down with the assistance of your transmission (auto. or manual). Plus those replacement caliper pad sets can go out of production easily and if they don't sell enough of the factory stuff - that gets hard to find too - plus going back is a b**ch if you've already modified your ride. To be safe (if you go that way) try plugging in parts from a newer Ford production car that will cross over easy to save yourself the possible hassles.

 

Do yourself a favor and change the single master to a dual master cylinder like rodbender said. The single master is a POS and is dangerous. If it fails at speed your emergency brake may help but why take the chance. As far as disc brakes they do stop better than drum brakes and require less maintenance. You could use mustang parts for the conversion as the Falcon and mustang were closely related.