1964 Flairbird overdrive available?

[thunder2010]

Just wondering if these cars ever came with overdrive? or has anyone added it to these cars?

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[biddle]

Put the model year in the subject and summarize your post. I edited for you. "Flarebird overdrive" could mean anything.

 

[jack-in-sac]

Just wondering if these cars ever came with overdrive? or has anyone added it to these cars?

to the best of my knowledge 1959 was the last overdrive until the 1980s. It can be added but it would not be cheap.

 

[64ZCODE]

Agree it could sure use an overdrive to lower the revs at highway speed. Alternatively, crank up the stereo🙂

 

[Gary Tayman]

There was no overdrive that I know of, at least for this series. I think all of these cars were automatics, including the export models. Whether or not a newer tranny would bolt up, nice idea I suppose. Agreed it would make a nice resto-mod to put a modern transmission in it, and fuel injection in place of the carb. I'm sure it would improve on gas -- but how much I don't know. As for cranking up the stereo, I just got home from a car show, and yes -- stereo was playing a Saturday night dance party on an HD channel.

 

[64ZCODE]

There might be an OD unit that bolts between the tranny and differential. Alternatively, perhaps a more modern Ford AOD tranny would work with an adapter plate, tranny mounts and shift mechanism adaptation.

 

[jack-in-sac]

look for an AOD for a 390

 

[thunder2010]

thanks everyone for the input

 

[65SlowRoll]

Have you looked into an over/under drive set up? i was planning a c6 upgrade with one. they are about 3k but it more or less splits gears and adds an overdrive to each gear. these are the ones i was thinking of.

gearvendors.com/f2wd3s.html

 

[thunder2010]

those are cool but pricey...lol