1964 Galaxie 427 4V

Red 1964 Ford Galaxie 500XL two-door hardtop, low front three-quarter view on a paved lot with a rocky hill behind, showing the quad-headlight grille — 1964 Ford Galaxie 500XL hardtop in red Ford Motor Company Archives

Red 1964 Ford Galaxie 500XL two-door hardtop seen from the rear three-quarter, showing the sloped roof and round taillights — 1964 Ford Galaxie 500XL hardtop in red, rear view Ford Motor Company Archives

Red and white 1964 Ford Galaxie NASCAR race car, number 55, with 427 cubic inch hood lettering and sponsor decals, displayed on a checkered museum floor — Tiny Lund's number 55 1964 Ford Galaxie NASCAR stock car on display at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame Photo: BWard 1997, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Factory statusFactory configuration

Body styletwo-door-hardtop

Trim / package500/XL

Engine427 cid engine

Inductionone four-barrel

Published power410 hp · Ford advertised hp; basis not further identified

Published torqueUnknown

Forward gears4

Transmissionfour-speed manual

Matched period road testUnknown

What this record proves

The badge is only the beginning.

The 410-horsepower single-four-barrel 427 in a Galaxie 500/XL is the full-size proposition the GTO was implicitly arguing against: more displacement, more car, and a four-speed behind it.

Ford advertised the output without stating the basis, and no torque figure is recorded for this configuration at all. The specification table therefore publishes torque as unknown rather than borrowing a number from a related 427, because inferring across engine variants is how false precision enters a corpus.

This record covers a street-orderable configuration. Ford's 1964 competition activity ran in parallel and belongs to the racing account, where the Thunderbolt and its lightweight equipment are treated as a different kind of vehicle entirely.