1000-HP Ford Galaxie Shows No Mercy

[Loony Toon]

I don't remember seeing this on here before, but if VIN has already been here this deserves to be seen again.
Awesome piece of work here "BonesFab"

 

[4Waters]

That car is gorgeous in the video but it's 10k time better in person

 

[nowski]

I've seen another one of Bonefab's video's with the same Galaxy at the NHRA Museum, he's definitely talented...

 

[SBMech]

Bones is the MAN!

Fucking bad ass.

 

[Loony Toon]

I was surprised when this video showed up on MSN home page news clip.

 

[Shlbyntro]

@bonesfab This is the engine you need to put in that Continental!

 

[HBCraig]

Freaking sick

 

[bonesfab]

Thank you for the kind words. The car is now sitting in the vault at the Peterson Museum, The widow donated after the owner passed. Shame as we did not get to play with it as much as I would have liked too.

 

[wash11]

Thank you for the kind words. The car is now sitting in the vault at the Peterson Museum, The widow donated after the owner passed. Shame as we did not get to play with it as much as I would have liked too.

RDP is a melting pot of so much talent, it's ridiculous. I've seen bits and pieces of your work over the years but I honestly had no idea that you were a fucking artist. Speechless.

 

[stokerwhore]

i had to upgrade my "like" to a "love" after watching that. seriously bitchen.

 

[FreeBird236]

RDP is a melting pot of so much talent, it's ridiculous. I've seen bits and pieces of your work over the years but I honestly had no idea that you were a fucking artist. Speechless.

Well said.

 

[TomD]

Very cool!!! Bone Head didn't look happy, not riding shotgun.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Guy sure does know how to build a car. Beautiful work

 

[nowski]

Very cool!!! Bone Head didn't look happy, not riding shotgun.

If you keep making those bone head comments Big Jim may be taking your lunch money, have a nice day...

 

[bonesfab]

Very cool!!! Bone Head didn't look happy, not riding shotgun.

He is not used to being second fiddle. The world revolves around him. Just ask him.

 

[bonesfab]

I submit the following evidence.

 

[bonesfab]

Some pics of the car too.

 

[rivrrts429]

That’s a stunning car and the cammer is icing on the cake!

 

[Cole Trickle]

Galaxy 500 is easily my favorite ford of all time. Gorgeous car

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

Did we hear you right.... right after the builds complete the new owner dies?

 

[bonesfab]

Did we hear you right.... right after the builds complete the new owner dies?

Yes sir. Never even sat in it. He was a weird dude. He made me a deal, I build it, he pays for it, I get to use it for all the promotional I want. Wasn't a bad deal. I was supposed to be able to keep the car till it sold. Widow didn't honor that. But a car we built is now in the Peterson museum. Still a win in a way.

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

Yes sir. Never even sat in it. He was a weird dude. He made me a deal, I build it, he pays for it, I get to use it for all the promotional I want. Wasn't a bad deal. I was supposed to be able to keep the car till it sold. Widow didn't honor that. But a car we built is now in the Peterson museum. Still a win in a way.

Dang.... wonder if he knew he was at deaths door when contacting you in beginning. Most likely not.... thats an awfully special project to never even experience. But like you said; weird cat.

I saw there were a couple BonesFab decals on it. Did they make it into museum.... that'd be sweet.

 

[bonesfab]

Dang.... wonder if he knew he was at deaths door when contacting you in beginning. Most likely not.... thats an awfully special project to never even experience. But like you said; weird cat.

I saw there were a couple BonesFab decals on it. Did they make it into museum.... that'd be sweet.

He had some health issues but nothing terrible. Went to bed on a Saturday night and didn't wake up in the morning. Two days before that a new 911 GTrs2 Wiesbach carbon edition showed up. Never drove or sat in that either. It went into the back corner of his mancave and sat. The wife didn't find out about it till later. Super nice guy but had some weird idiosyncrocies.

 

[rivermobster]

For any of you guys that have been been to Jim's shop, it is definitely worth the drive out there.

 

[mjc]

I need to get one of the tours down in the vault at petersen,s again. There is some really nice stuff down there.

 

[Bigbore500r]

Awesome car @bonesfab !

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

You Sir are the real deal, that car is wicked, as is everything you put out!!

 

[rrrr]

Thank you for the kind words. The car is now sitting in the vault at the Peterson Museum, The widow donated after the owner passed. Shame as we did not get to play with it as much as I would have liked too.

It's a beautiful ride, Jim. I was a little surprised the build cost was mentioned, usually that's kept under wraps. However, that allows people to understand the amount of hours that go into building a one off outer limits custom. I suspect it took around 36 months to build it, from concept to completion.

What a shame the customer didn't get to enjoy it.

If we're going to talk about Galaxies, we have to talk about my great uncle Slick. I apologize to @Loony Toon for hijacking his thread, but I want to share some of his life with you guys.

He was born in 1915, was in the Navy during WWII, moved to Las Vegas in 1957, and went to work at the test site. He also began buying real estate, much of it on or around South Las Vegas Blvd.

In 1978, he bought some acreage and built a house and shop just off Hwy 95, out in the boonies but near where the Santa Fe casino was eventually built. He put a fence around it. The main gate had an arch, and there was a tripod mounted .30 caliber machine gun and some steer skulls on it. He named it the Draggin' Ass Ranch.

Oh yeah, the Galaxies. Slick thought Galaxies were the best car Ford had ever made. I don't remember a time when he didn't own one. By the early 90s, Fonda and I visited him often, and it seemed like every time we came, there was another one in his shop or under a tarp. They all had 390 FEs.

He had a guy who changed the cams, added headers, and did other work on them. The early Galaxies had 14" wheels and tires, and Slick put 16" wheels and tires from a pickup on the rear axles of his. I don't know how dealt with the different PCDs on the car and truck wheels. The car was 5 X 4.5 and the truck was 5 X 5.5. But he made it work. He had the speedometers regeared, and told me the taller tires upped the top end to 140 MPH. Eighty years old, and he bragged it took him less than 40 minutes to make it from Searchlight to the Boulder City split on Hwy 95.



Slick was generous to Fonda and I. Even though we could easily afford it, he insisted on calling and asking us to visit, then paying for the trips.

One year he sent me tickets so I could come to Vegas and watch the Super Bowl with him. I flew in on Saturday afternoon and took the red-eye home on Sunday at 3 AM.

That was the time I took him to the McDonald's near the Santa Fe for lunch, and he asked the 16 year old girl at the counter for a date. I wanted to melt into the floor, but she just laughed and told him he was cute. Then we went to Smith's, and got some party food from the deli.

Slick really liked pinto beans and cornbread, and Fonda was always worried about him because he wasn't eating much as he got older. She would cook up a big pot of ham and pinto beans, bake some cornbread, pack it with some of those blue ice blocks, and send it to Slick via FedEx.

Slick passed away in 1994, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Phoenix. Because of the long term investments in Las Vegas properties, his estate was worth millions.

His son, my cousin, told me there wasn't a will, and asked if I had expectations of a share of the estate. No. I didn't want money. I asked him to give me three things I had admired, a 1943 US Navy diver's knife, a Model T spark box, and a mason jar full of kid's agate stone marbles, known to generations of kids as "aggies".

They're some of my most favorite possessions.