People in most car subcultures tend to have brand and model preferences – if you think about lowriders, chromed sporty coupes and convertibles come to mind. The today’s project presents a very different take on the lowrider aesthetic, and one that is show-worthy.
Gary Villeggiante discovered this 55-year-old Ford Falcon Club Wagon sitting abandoned on a curb, found the owner and persuaded them to part with it for a token price of $1,000 USD. He had originally intended to give it a slight brush-up and put it on air bags, but his friend from TP Custom Chop Shop insisted that the van would do better as a full-blown restomod.
Thus did the work begin. The video tells you the whole story, while we will only summarize the highlights here. The Falcon received a complete body restoration with a light greenish-blue livery, an open top, a richly detailed and trimmed interior, and a Chevy Express V8 rated at around 300 hp (225 kW). In the past few years, the project won a couple prestigious show awards in the USA, proving that a bus can be a lowrider, too.