OHHH...SHINY!
ADAM & ANDREA BRITZ’S PRO STREET 1960 FORD FALCON Chassis Type & Mods: Alston mild steel full tube chassis by UTP Race Cars. Suspension: FRONT: Mustang II suspension with Strange doubleadjustable shocks and Hyperco springs. REAR: Alston 4-link with Strange double-adjustable shocks and Hyperco springs. Body & Paint: PPG basecoat/clearcoat Volkswagen Techno Blue with custom Ford Shamrock Green tear-away graphics. Prepped by UTP Race Cars and Street Rods. Engine: 521 ci big block Ford assembled by owner. 4.390 bore/4.30 stroke, fully blueprinted. Ford Motorsport aluminum cylinder heads with ARP studs and Scorpion roller rockers. Kaase oil pump and CSR billet electric fuel water pump. Rotating Assembly: Scat stroker crank with Eagle rods and Diamond 14:1 compression pistons. Induction & Fuel System: Edelbrock Victor 460 intake with Holley 1150 carb and K&N filter. MagnaFuel electric fuel pump. Power Adder: NOS direct-port Fogger system with progressive controller. Electronics: MSD 7AL2 Plus. Exhaust: Custom ceramic-coated headers with 4-inch tubing and stainless Borla mufflers. Transmission & Converter: Ford C6 3-speed trans with manual valve body and 5,500 rpm stall converter. Diff rential: ChassisWorks Fab9 housing with Strange 35-spline axles and Pro Gear 4.30 gears. Best Performance: Passes pending fall of 2016 (new build). Special Thanks: “Jacob Hempel and “Big John” Litz for assistance in the build. Hemphill Racing Engines for machine work on the engine. Last but not least, my wife Andrea for supporting and helping with my hobby.”
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Ordinarily a photographer fights o stay OUT of the refle tion, but the fact that the Falcon sports a fi erglass front bumper that shines just like chrome makes it worth showing off
IN THE DETAILS Small touches like these cool little falcon-themed door lock pulls show the Britzs’ attention to detail found throughout the build.
rowed Strange 35-spline axles and a Pro Gear 4.30 gear set. Although the heavy lifting on the chassis had already been completed at the time of purchase, Britz still made it his own before slathering it with a flawless coat of PPG VW Beetle Techno Blue, also found on the Ford’s exterior. UTP Race Cars utilized a mild steel Alston tube chassis kit as a starting point. The frame sports Mustang II spindles
with Strange double adjustable shocks and Hyperco springs on a coilover setup up front, while the Alston 4-link suspends the rear on matching Strange double-adjustable shocks and Hyperco springs out back. Wilwood disc binders have been employed on all four corners, while a Strange master cylinder has been plumbed with hand-bent stainless lines throughout. A set of
polished Billet Specialties Street Lite wheels round out the killer pro street stance, with 15x3s rolling on Mickey Thompson Sportsman SR tires up front and matched-style but ginormous 15x14s with fat-n-sticky 31x16.5-15 Mickey Thompson ET Street R tires out back. Hable and UTP had already prepped and painted the car, spraying down a contemporary color combo with a classic pro street twist.