A modern Coyote 5.0 crate engine and a nearly sixty-year-old full-size Ford should not look this comfortable together, but this 1963 Galaxie makes the case. Tan PPG paint, a custom brown leather interior, and a Tremec manual behind Ford’s four-cam V8 turn a car built for NASCAR ovals and dealership showrooms into something genuinely usable. Read on for what the 1963 Galaxie originally was, and what it takes to modernize one properly.