johnwitzke

This one right? My guess is light gold (champagne) like the 1964 Thunderbolt. I would say this car was campaigned after 1963. If you look in the background there is a 1964 GTO parked

Not this car either?

Correct, red oxide primer on floors and the 427 engine was black, not blue.

I would like to add that a very good friend of mine, Rocky Rotella wrote an article about this car in a issue of High Performance Pontiac a number of years back. The last I knew the original car still exists and is located in small town in Nebraska, about 60 miles from where I live

Oh I know that I am right. Not only am I very well versed with Dick Brannan's Super Stock Fords, I am equally if not more well versed about the Pontiac Super Duty 421 cars, Catalinas and Tempest. At some point I will be building all 12 of the 1963 Super Duty Tempest (coupes and wagons). I did forget to mention that the wheels are gold too. It will make into a NICE model. Keep up the good work. I like you attention to detail, especially with the seat design.

While the interior on this car is blue, the seats will need to be a gold color on this model. The model that you are building is AKA as A/S 655

All the lightweight cars had the lightweight bucket seats. The R-code 427 was also available in other Galaxies, not just the lightweights.

Thanks for the note. No additional updates yet. I will still show you a step by step how I transform the seat

Wish I could have the Dick Brannan's A/FX 65 427 SOHC Mustang ready for your show but I will not have it finished in time. I was shooting for the 2017 IPMS Nationals, provided I can get both of his 62 Galaxies finished early enough to compete the Mustang.

Here is a photo of the rubber mat in a real 1962 lightweight

Yes, it is a tape product for vinyl tops from The Model Car Garage. It is already black and I like the appearance. When going over the transmission tunnel it doesn't lay down perfect which is perfect since it doesn't on the real car.

Here are the wheels in body color (Baffin Blue)

Here is a mockup of the firewall. The interior firewall was exterior light blue color. The rubber mat went half way up the firewall. Since this was a Wayne Assembly car (all 11 lightweight cars were produced at Ford's Wayne Assembly Plant), the engine side of the firewall is also body color, which in this case is light blue.

Here is a couple of shots of the 406 405 HP with dual 4bbl's. Wiring is per correct firing order. I still have some minor details to be added. Yes those are 406 rocker cover decals that I had custom made

Here is a the floor pan with light blue body color over red oxide primer.

I have been working on Dick Brannan's 1962 Lightweight 406 Galaxie and have added a black rubber mat to the floor like the real car. Should look really good once the front and rear seats, door cards, dash and steering wheel have been painted silver blue. I have also modified the interior firewall so that the mat goes up the firewall half way exposing the light blue exterior color. I will post a photo of the firewall once completed.

Slowly making progress. Adding some body color to the underbody red oxide primer. The light blue (Baffin Blue) is for the #823 lightweight car and the dark blue (Oxford Blue) is for the all steel #717 car. Front wheel wells still need to be black. Also wheels and tires for the #717 Oxford Blue car. Engines are almost competed and will post photos when complete.

Experimenting with a possible display for my two Dick Brannan 62 406 Super Stock Galaxie's. I also have a lightweight label that was originally in the glove box of the 62 lightweight for his light blue car. I plan on mounting these on a wood base. Doing this for the 2017 IPMS National. I plan to have a similar base planned for Brannan's 63 lightweight too.

Thank you. I try.

Yes. I will provide a step by step with photos when I convert the second seat.

Model Car World (MCW) makes a resin interior kit for the 1963 Lightweight Ford Galaxie. Overall MCW captured the interior detail well, dash has radio and heater deletes, door panels have the armrest removed. The front seats included in the MCW kit are not accurate for a 1963 Lightweight Galaxie. They are however correct for the 1962 Lightweight Galaxie. To correct this flaw for the 1963 Lightweight Galaxie that I am building to replicate Dick Brannan's car, I have modified the kit seats. The seat on the left is the original kit seat, the one on the right I modified to replicate the actual 1963 lightweight seat.

The gold paint that I used was Tamyia Gold TS 21, cleared after the 406 decals set up

Getting closer to complete 406 Super Stock engines. Oil filters are red to replicate the original Rotunda filters

Ford had a Silver Blue Code Y color for 1965

Wiring will be next and will be done according to the correct firing order. I will post up when I have finished engines.