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I bet Harry was glad he didn't use the XK, the front ball joints would been knackered. IIRC the XL's onward got the USA Fairlane balljoints.

Geez, how old was Harry Firth even back then?

No the colour is Velocity. I used to own a bionic xr6 turbo & bionic was a flat (non metallic) colour. I can see metallic flakes in the video which makes me think the colour is Velocity..

Thanks for uploading Mark. When I think about the power of the pursuit motor and braking of the 4 wheel drums in the XL falcon, I’m not considering going rallying. Mind you the roads in Melbourne are starting to look like they did in the 60s 😅😅

Those roads would now require a $100k fourwheel drive to go along.

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Have you driven a Ford, lately? At least you can drive a new Ford today, unlike Holden (she’s a beauty) that turned their back on Australia after years of misplaced loyalty.

One of my favourite models especially in Hardtop form

Here is a cool old TV ad for the Ford Falcon XM wagon. Please enjoy it and give this classic a 👍Like and Subscribe for more old car videos. Plus, check out the Old Car TV ads on the Playlist. 👍

Ford is the going thing! (If you disagree, try buying a new “Australia’s Own” Holden from your local Holden dealer). After 100 years, Ford is still selling cars in Australia, unlike the traitorous and treacherous GMH., which abandoned Australia. (Bitter and twisted Aussie who can’t believe that Australians were hoodwinked into believing Holden is more Australian than Ford). Thanks and well done Mark!

Here is an old TV ad for the Falcon XL, as recommended by Harry Firth. Please Like and Subscribe. Plus, check out the old car TV ads on the playlist. 👍

Further to my other comment, we had a fair few of these XR6s (BA thru BF) as company cars for the sales guys and some of the middle managers. They were better value on the lease than an XT because the resale value was much higher as a % of the purchase price, so the monthly payment was over. Win-win for our reps at the time, getting an XR instead of an XT. Couldn’t get an SV6 though, as the difference between a VZ exec and SV6 wasn’t like the Ford, so the only Holden option was a VZ Exec. You can see why the XR6 was way more popular!

Nice car Mark. I’m surprised it has the premium sound, but still has cloth trim. I have only ever seen premium sound paired with leather (aka the XR luxury pack). With the headlights, if you turn them on and back off again (once the car is started) it will cancel the always-on function, but you have to do it each time you start it. If it has been sitting outside for a while you may want to check the boot channel and seams near the hinges, as that’s where my company one started to rust when it wasn’t even 3 years old. Ford played hardball and wanted to dispute it. They claimed it was “owner error” because I parked it nose-down in my driveway each night, and the boot hinge area on each side would be a swimming pool each time it rained. After a few months it developed a water leak past the boot wiring grommet, and would wet the underside of the RH rear seat, and rear footwell. When they tried to put the blame back onto me for the water leak, I asked them what utopia they live in where every road and driveway is dead flat, and they didn’t have an answer. It got a new boot harness in an attempt to stop the leak into the cabin. When I bought my FG for myself, I fitted drain tubes using 10mm pneumatic pipe and push-in fittings. I started out with 1/4”(6mm) but they blocked up too quickly. The 10mm tubes stay clear.

You must have a BIG storage area for these compact 😆 cars Mark.

Hi Mark, may I ask how many project cars you currently own?

Thank for reply Mark . Iv owned a XJ white limited 1997 . Traded my TJ Jeep on it which did 530000 ks in 13 mths also owned one of the last XJs in the country in cherry red . I think there were only 53 at the end of the XJs beautiful Jeep . I did own a FSJ 360 AMC with the T/ Flight white with caramel interior and floor shift . Back in O5 boy did she have a nice exhaust note and drove great great . Did a deal with a bloke on my 78 4x4 F. 100 custom long wheel base with the tub on that Jeep 😮. Yes driven daily it was a factory 351 manual .iv had 3 TJ s bought new in Tamworth far as I know I brought the first and last TJ Jeep in Tamworth i do have another one which nearly half a million ks and still drives great . Yes were had 4 Good F.100 s will you do a story on the F. 100s in the 70s 👌🇦🇺✌️.

Nice colour cool car

Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful car and impressive collection. You should do video with a walk through and quick history on all of your cars.

Hi Mark. I love your videos. I love how you just simply love cars for what they are, regardless of make/model/value/popularity. I'm so much the same. I currently own a '66 XP Falcon Deluxe Wagon, '72 VH Charger 770 & '99 s1 black au manual vct, and owned [and most regrettably sold] around 50 other cars, varying from a 1960 Singer Gazelle (my first, for $300 & a rebuilt lawn mower) to a 2005 Peugeot 206cc. I also love cars and love experiencing different cars. This is nothing on you 😁 This post, noting all your continentals, then just casually mentioning on the Edsel you've got 🙂 Seriously, I'm in Tassie ( Love you JB btw), and to be honest (tbh in modern language), for me a great holiday would be coming up to the mainland and spending a couple of weeks with you and your cars 😁 A little constructive criticism though (gotta say because sorry, i was a bit disappointed), is that with $30 of fuel, the old girl would have fired up, kept going and loved it. This I feel would have made for a much better ending. Bit i still did love the start-up attempts. Been there many times 😁

Absolutely Gorgeous car the Landau hardtop , I’ve got the Chrysler CH hardtop and this is the only car that would almost prise it out my hands

Why oh why did our government let this happen to Australia. Ford and Holden was our life. They let cheap small crap cars in. No we didn't need trade partners. We needed to look after ourselves.

I always like seeing what parts made it onto Ford Australia cars e.g. mirrors, door handles and locks, interior lights, vents etc

I love these videos!!! Makes me want to take my P6 LTD out for a drive.

🥝✔️ 224 hp net of sybaritic Big Block grunt.

Hi Mark. Have you ever thought of a museum to display your cars? Is there such a thing for American cars already here in Australia?

She lives, another nice old goer Mark. Probs need 10 to 20 lit in tank before she will pickup again. I'm coming to your house to live. More toys to play with.,..!!!!!

Hi Mark, I've recently purchased a BF XR8 in a rare Chromaflair colour called Fantasy with only 75K kms. It was off an ex FCSD colleague that he brought brand through Duhig Ford (now Essendon Ford). It has many options, including a Sunroof and still have the original number plate. Please have a look. Cheers

I totally agree with you about these cars that even today they are not that appreciated in the USA and would be more appreciated somewhere else as long it is not neglected in the open rotting... I sometimes dream of doing some of the trading up sales to sell overseas cars in other places where I know they are appreciate and where people have the capital to buy... (Don't have the energy or capital sadly, but who knows)...

Congrats on your purchase, Mark. I have the same in a Turbo, which was an ex Ford Credit car. It would have been even better to have the ZF6 & climate control option however its presents beautifully in Neo with low kms.

You are right. Here in America they did not appreciate the home brands and the cars. They have a better image outside the United States.

I prefer this to the 1979 for sure!

Three Mark V's? Wow. I like the Mark V too. That was interesting seeing the right hand drive. Mark V was really popular and sold well at the time. That Collectors Series is special. The only Mark I was not a fan of was Mark VII. All the others were great.

Beautiful old American car, but where’s the temperature gauge?

Hi Mark, these start way better than all the earlier cars as these have high energy electronic ignition coupled with a high crank output heavy duty battery and they will always start as long as fuel present. When I first moved to Victoria 16 years ago and Dermot was storing my big '79 Collectors Series 4 door Town Car it hadn't been started in ages, however, reconnecting the battery, pumping the gas pedal and cranking up the little spring in the choke mechanism, turn the key and whooska mine was running. One of the differences in the Aussie built Ford Aust Homebush Bay RHD factory 1972 &'73 MK4 Conti's, was Ford Aust fitted GIANT Mallory dual spark distributors which were huge AND had twin enormous stainless-steel points in them. In all the years I owned my built late 1972, but a '73 model MK4 Conti', I NEVER needed to change points they never burned out nor failed, what the tips were made of, who knows, in the filthiest wet weather, or in a cold winter morning with its big high compression 460 ci V8, it would start first go and the starter motor on that car was a fast turn over one too not a slow starter like some Ford engines have fitted, like my 1965 Galaxie with its giant FE big block 390ci engine, you'd always virtually say a prayer that it would start, even with everything perfectly set.

Nice colour. I have a xr6t bf2 in deja vu green, i m not sure if i like the colour. clear coat has gone needs front spoiler headlights faded, got combo for 650 of ebay new. Former owner thought zf was gone it was leaking pretty badly and banged beteeen gears and would shut down when you put the foot down. To fix i put slightly longer thread bolt in gearbox from where it was leaking (which fixed leak) Actuator on turbo causing management to shut down engine, 2 cam actuators gear shifter as it wouldn't shift manually replaced centre bearing plus ball joints, and its been 3 years and ran perfect since. Its is the nicest car to drive and the one i drive all the time out of my patrol np300 and Gt 335. Handles beautifully on the open road and the smooth balance of the 6 makes it soo nice to drive, i have had many cars in my years new and old, from slr 5000s brock commodores to brand new cars ect ect. and for me the bf probably in the xr6 with good handling suspension comfy seats and plenty of grunt is my favourite car ever.

What a machine!

Roman Numerals!! I never heard that in a car before!! :D A bit too "over done" for me but I'd love one just the same as it has all the features and way way more... Also what I'd describe as "quint essentially American"

Illuminated door locks ten years before Aussie LTDs got them. About the only part of the MkIV that I don't love, is the dash... I think that Ford Australia did so much better with so much less on the P5 LTD.... its' dash just looks classier than the Lincoln. Mark, could you show the operation of the rear side windows...

Hi Mark, this was the MK4 as Des Wahlberg designed it, Sermon E. Knudsen and Henry Ford 2nd saw it loved it and the car SAW NO CHANGE from concept, to what was sold to the customer, very rare as usually there is major alterations to make it easier and or cheaper to build. All the usual engineering and body pressing engineering guys were NOT ALLOWED by HF2 & Knudsen to alter anything. So it looks terrific with the tall grill and the beautiful multi-angle rear bar. In fact Ford won an industrial manufacturing award for two items on the early MK4 Conti's, the gigantic seven foot long bonnet pressing due to its multiple fine pressings to get the knife edge sharp lines in the bonnet and at the front it has the square cut sharp central section, but at the sides it has to curve downwards and there is an area which must morph and blend, similar story with the rear bar multiple curves and angles in a small area on the same piece of steel. Very hard to produce as a drop forge tool/tooling, however the engineering guys did it and won a high level award for their excellent ability to mass produce such a complex pressed body panel, and complex rear bumper. Re the differences, the 1973 model just had the heavy 5 mph damage proof front bumper and shorter grill, but rest of the car was the same with the lovely award winning rear curvaceous bumper, plus with fuel filler behind rear numberplate, the lower boot floor, taller rear mudguards, and way larger fuel tank, The last 3 years of the Mark4's were almost a different model as the rear quarter panel is entirely different with lower rear mudguards, a higher rear boot floor which cuts the size of the rear boot capacity, further is lost with the fuel pipe pressing intrusion as well from its relocated fuel tank filler on the rear left mudguard plus a way smaller fuel tank sitting over rear axle, instead of under the boot floor like in the first 2 model years, there's around a 20 litre difference. Re the external bonnet catch, the internal locking (with key) bonnet release was an option you paid extra for !!

Agreed, 72s are the lookers of the range, especially at the front. Kind of like a classier 71 Galaxie.

Still have my BF2 XR8 ute. Use it as a daily driver. Great with the 6 speed manual. My son had a warmed up BF2 XR6 turbo ute which was quite a beast but he sold it when he got married.Thanks for sharing. PS the colour is Bionic,same colour as my ute.

Classy looking car.

How good is the stash of 8 tracks!

Depth/variety of models back in the states back in the day is amazing. We were very much the poor cousin.

Nice car, with the added bonus of having the bonnet double as a banquet table for outdoor functions. 👍😉

Are you in contact with other Lincoln owners, Mark? I know of one collector in Victoria with a nice private collection that you'd probably like to see. If you have an email address, I'll provide you the name and location, and you can contact him or not as you choose.

One of my daughters has the same car as yours same model . In dark grey metallic XR6 . She also owns a mint VK Valiant 265 auto with sanky Benson mags 14 x 7 with white letter Tyres does have some engine mods . She also owns a mint XF Ute and a nice XJ classic Jeep . We own quite a few Jeep’s in the Family . Nothing bets the sound of a E38 or E49 6 those Webers bring music 🎧 to you ears . 👌🇦🇺✌️.

Thank you for sharing this Ford Falcon. You are really keeping your collection in shape. I guess that is half the fun and enjoying your vehicles as well.

It's a Ford, Mark. So, I love it! Seriously cool rumble with that gorilla big block.