1964 Ford Fairlane 427 Thunderbolt

In the early ’60s, the mantra “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” was the gospel truth for American automakers. Enter the 1964 Ford Fairlane 427 Thunderbolt—a car that looked like your neighbor’s Fairlane but had the muscle to leave competitors eating dust on the drag strip. It might have looked like a sheep, but under the hood, it was the wolf of Super Stock racing. This Thunderbolt had the power to not only win races but also to race its way into car enthusiasts’ hearts and garages.

The car-buying public thought differently of racing in the early 1960s, and the American automakers knew that cars that won races were great tools to drive customers to dealer showrooms. You know the old saying, what “won on Sunday sold on Monday”.
This 1964 Ford Thunderbolt is a great example of such a machine, a car that still looked recognizable to the masses as a new 1964 Fairlane, but had the chops to get the job done in Super Stock drag racing.

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