This thread is so surreal! Just today by coincidence I was thinking of the Canadian-exclusive (elusive?) 1965 K-code HiPo Falcons. Back around 1980 I remember another 1965 Falcon HiPo for sale around Hamilton. It was a Futura Sport Coupe (hardtop!) and had some custom graphics and underhood brightwork typical of show cars before the restoration craze took hold. Perhaps some of you might have even seen it, the car was called (this is so cheesy) 'Falcon Around'. It was black with orange and yellow graphics, had Centerline wheels and typical braided stuff under the hood.

I am in a small local car club with some young and middle-age guys (guilty!) plus a few older guys that are retired as well. One of the older guys told me that in 1965 he owned a new 1965 Falcon Futura convertible with a 289 HiPo. I wonder if it could be true? With only 7 HiPo 289 Falcons out the door in Oakville it must be verifiable. It is a big question mark in my mind. It would be neat if this convertible was legit. I doubt they would encourage K-motor installation in the flexible convertible body style, but with additional factory bracing it was almost like a frame added to the unibody.
Another member of the club currently races a 1971 Torino SCJ and had been racing since the late 1960s around southern Ontario. He knows people like Barrie Poole and John Petrie. He also remembers a 1961 Falcon drag car with a really built 300 straight six called The Pepper Mill. I remember the car always parked on the lot of a Shell gas station in downtown Dundas, Ontario. Around 1977 that car was sold and the guy built a 1972 Vega Panel Express (a sedan delivery) with a race ready small block Chevy under the hood.

I am getting my motor build by Tom Morano of Affordable Performance. Tom was into racing for a long time. In 1965 he bought a new Mercury Comet Caliente coupe with a 289 4-speed (not a HiPo). The Comet is more or less a Falcon. He went through many different configurations, from four 2-throat Webers and maybe a tunnel ram, plus I think he said he once even ran a 427 SOHC (a museum piece). He sold the 289 he built up and it continued to hold up under flogging in a new hot rod. Well Tom somehow managed to hold onto his Comet all these years. About 2 months ago I snapped some pictures of it. The car had been in storage for 25 years and still had 1984 stickers on it. He is now building a 5.0 with Cleveland heads to drop in it (sounds a lot like a Boss 302). Tom has been building strokers for decades, even before they were really know (he is 68 now). He builds the racing motors for several people I know and he is thorough and knowledgeable. Hes nearly finished turning my 250 six into a 296 (its a lot easier to start with a tall deck 292 than to clearance a 230 or 250, plus all the custom made parts get expensive). I went that route because I need the underhood clearance on my 1967 Chevelle when running twin downdraft carbs on it while looking stock outside.