Johnny Hawkins spent years chewing through AHRA competition behind the wheel of a 1964 Ford Falcon nobody expected to matter, backed by Drew Ford and powered by nothing more exotic than Ford’s first small-block V8. The Falcon’s humble economy-car reputation made it the perfect sleeper, light enough to out-accelerate cars carrying far more displacement. Read on to find out how a car built to be cheap ended up rewriting Ford’s small-block legacy.