Its funny how people complain about car prices today, they were always expensive compared to what people earned, you could have bought a nice house for what this car cost back then
First video I’ve seen from you guys and after watching it I subscribed. Done an amazing job boys, very impressed. Turned that car from a junker to a head turner. Very well done!
Awesome work. Too many of these great aussie cars end up rusting away in someones back yard, stripped for parts or crashed and burned by joyriders. I picked up a BF Fairlane earlier this year after my stage 3 tuned Astra VXR cracked a piston and the navara I bought to use while I was saving for an engine build had a timing chain failure a month after I bought it. To top it off, the Astra got flooded and written off, the payout just enough to cover the loan, so I was broke AF by this stage, and managed to find a BF Fairlane ex limo with 600k on the clock, asking price $2.5k, but needed some work so I managed to pick it up for a grand. As a fleet car, it's always been serviced, so the km's dont worry me, it runs beautifully, is as spacious as a stately home, and only needs a bit of suspension and exhaust work, probably all up will have cost me $5k by the time it's done and even with 600kms on it will still outlast any of these shitbox imports (Though I did love the Astra, its was a rocket and cornered like a housefly). The government should have done more to keep thge Australian car industry alive - Someone actually calculated that the industry as a whole - Including all the little companies making components for the cars, not to mention income tax and GST from spending from all the workers involved, was worth something like $600-800 in tax dollars per year for the government, yet they couldnt even muster up 1/10th of that to help subsidise the industry and keep it going, absolute lunacy. Thanks for the content, I'm glad I found your channel, it will def help me with doing the bits and pieces I need to on my Fairlane, and if I have any money left after Christmas and there is any spots left, I'll def grab a vip membership, and a chance to win this Bordeaux Beast (You probably already know this, but the colour was named after a red wine from the Bordeaux region in France, which has a distinctively rich deep red colour - Here is a link to a wine colour chart, and you can see it's pretty much bang on : creativebooster.net/cdn/shop/articles/Shades-of-Wine-Color-chart-with-names-and-hex-codes.jpg?v=1683614665&width=1500)
Beautiful car, always thought they were a bit dull and were old man cars back in the 90's but man they've aged well, I'm actually surprised they're not more popular now.
The vl got me hooked on the channel but I’m really enjoying your editing and content. I think this channel is really growing. Good job mate keep it coming 👌🏼👌🏼
I owned a 1997 5.0 model for 18 years. It was a beautiful luxury family cruiser. They don't do interiors like that anymore. BTW those wheels are a perfect fit. I never liked the originals.
Might have to make my dad enter the giveaway… would love this car as a P plater in a few years. Would match with my dad’s series 2 240kw AU XR8 and a terry turbo ghia. We would have a ford family!
That is great you have saved it my son has same car same colour. How are the sills? The colour is pronounced Bor doh. As in the French red wine region.
I’m happy with our little working bee 🐝 too ! No way we have a twin survivor , it had the bulk of it amazing nothing major at all , had a tiny bit it one of the corners I got as much of it out as I could , treated it and patched it up
You and I are similar. I chuckled when you said you removed the rear lights to clean behind them because I did the same thing and people said I was mad. “If you’re going to do it, do it properly”. Well done 👍🏻
Mate, I enjoyed this video. Honest content of you having a go and doing well, Car is looking fucking Mint, Maybe give it a birthday on the suspension? It will be due, replace the bushes, shocks and springs, that plus a new set of tyres will have it driving like 1995. I just bought an entry into the draw too. I would weekend the shit out of that LTD, best crusing car hands down.
Great resto. Love what you do as always. Saved a few myself and you have helped me with parts before, but a Bordeaux DL or DF would have to be my favourite of all time, so I am drooling over this. Of course, I’ve entered in hope 💙
Thankyou mate ! I really appreciate it , unfortunately Can’t sell this one as we just hit over 100 people in the draw to win it , I’d be letting everyone down and have to refund them all , but I guess for 35k anything’s possible ….. joking haha 😜 not sure if you missed the part where I said I’m giving it away
@@georgeauto I would enter the draw if I didn’t have such reservations about these car giveaways. Wishing you all the best, mate. I hope you get more value than what you spent on the car. Good luck!
Haha I’m glad someone liked it, if only u knew how long and how much stuffing around it was for that little bit , trying 10 downloders for the song that didn’t work , then having to screenshot , and photoshop the white backgrounds out of the emojis , then track the love hearts with the motion of the camera push in movement haha , I was laughing about the idea in my head when I thought of it so had to be done
Correct me if I am wrong is this car basically a GT as far as running gear goes GT40 heads etc LSD diff I know Ford made a Fairlane Concorde with options. I don't know a lot about these cars appreciate any info
@russelblackwell6041 not this model mate. The one you're talking about is the Fairlane By Tickford. Incredibly rare, they only made 106 of them. This is a standard Fairlane, no GT40 heads basically a standard HO engine. The FBT also got GT brakes, Tickford adornments, Adaptive shift gearbox, cappa Momo steering wheel and the gorgeous two tone interior.
@stevelewis0106 not 65,000 as it was new, but sure is nice to see it back on the road with a hit of love! Better this way than left to rot in a driveway. Don't be so negative mate!
Enter at: www.georgeauto.com.au
Thank you for restoring this piece of iconic Australian History! Never again.
Another one saved; thank you!
The LTD looks stunning ❤️🔥 -I’m in love my dream paring would be a Caprice and an Ltd
Its funny how people complain about car prices today, they were always expensive compared to what people earned, you could have bought a nice house for what this car cost back then
Do you realise how dumb this comment is ?
Wages were better, and there were less things to spend your money on like phones, computers, and whatnot
You cleaned it up amazing, not even a ford guy but this thing is mint.
Great, please keep fixing these old gems!
Way to save a classic mam, well done.
Amazing video, really enjoyable watch, Greetings from NZ
They are a great old car a timeless shape
Entered!! This car looks absolutely amazing compared to how it was when you first got it. Love these videos boys!!
Love this content, thanks
First video I’ve seen from you guys and after watching it I subscribed. Done an amazing job boys, very impressed.
Turned that car from a junker to a head turner. Very well done!
Awesome work. Too many of these great aussie cars end up rusting away in someones back yard, stripped for parts or crashed and burned by joyriders.
I picked up a BF Fairlane earlier this year after my stage 3 tuned Astra VXR cracked a piston and the navara I bought to use while I was saving for an engine build had a timing chain failure a month after I bought it. To top it off, the Astra got flooded and written off, the payout just enough to cover the loan, so I was broke AF by this stage, and managed to find a BF Fairlane ex limo with 600k on the clock, asking price $2.5k, but needed some work so I managed to pick it up for a grand. As a fleet car, it's always been serviced, so the km's dont worry me, it runs beautifully, is as spacious as a stately home, and only needs a bit of suspension and exhaust work, probably all up will have cost me $5k by the time it's done and even with 600kms on it will still outlast any of these shitbox imports (Though I did love the Astra, its was a rocket and cornered like a housefly). The government should have done more to keep thge Australian car industry alive - Someone actually calculated that the industry as a whole - Including all the little companies making components for the cars, not to mention income tax and GST from spending from all the workers involved, was worth something like $600-800 in tax dollars per year for the government, yet they couldnt even muster up 1/10th of that to help subsidise the industry and keep it going, absolute lunacy.
Thanks for the content, I'm glad I found your channel, it will def help me with doing the bits and pieces I need to on my Fairlane, and if I have any money left after Christmas and there is any spots left, I'll def grab a vip membership, and a chance to win this Bordeaux Beast (You probably already know this, but the colour was named after a red wine from the Bordeaux region in France, which has a distinctively rich deep red colour - Here is a link to a wine colour chart, and you can see it's pretty much bang on : creativebooster.net/cdn/shop/articles/Shades-of-Wine-Color-chart-with-names-and-hex-codes.jpg?v=1683614665&width=1500)
Beautiful car, always thought they were a bit dull and were old man cars back in the 90's but man they've aged well, I'm actually surprised they're not more popular now.
This is a Fairlane LTD, The back looks like an Early 2000's Jaguar...
Wow, love it 👍🏽 as an Aussie kid I remember politicians being driven in them and Statesman's 😊.
Thankyou Josephine yes me too these were the rich people cars when was a kid
The vl got me hooked on the channel but I’m really enjoying your editing and content. I think this channel is really growing. Good job mate keep it coming 👌🏼👌🏼
Cheers mate! Appreciate the love. And glad to have u here , do you have any cars yourself ?
Absolutely love it. You know I had to enter. Beautiful job guys. 10/10❤❤❤
Cheers mate, I'm glad you liked it! And good luck see u in the group !
Good work, love the video
it's a windsor yeh?
I owned a 1997 5.0 model for 18 years. It was a beautiful luxury family cruiser. They don't do interiors like that anymore. BTW those wheels are a perfect fit. I never liked the originals.
Looks mint 👌🏽
These are absolutely P plate legal, man! I've had one, myself.
Way too big for that little 5.0 to push at speed 😂
@@s4ss.m8 nothing a big old supercharger would fix.
Might have to make my dad enter the giveaway… would love this car as a P plater in a few years. Would match with my dad’s series 2 240kw AU XR8 and a terry turbo ghia. We would have a ford family!
Where did you get 240kw from mate
It’s a 220, but he installed a cold air intake, exhaust and tune and got 240kw.
Sorry bout not saying that
@Beau-x3f Nice 🙂
What products are you spraying on the stained interior that brushes off clean?
That is great you have saved it my son has same car same colour. How are the sills?
The colour is pronounced
Bor doh. As in the French red wine region.
I’m happy with our little working bee 🐝 too ! No way we have a twin survivor , it had the bulk of it amazing nothing major at all , had a tiny bit it one of the corners I got as much of it out as I could , treated it and patched it up
Love the vid mate
You and I are similar. I chuckled when you said you removed the rear lights to clean behind them because I did the same thing and people said I was mad. “If you’re going to do it, do it properly”. Well done 👍🏻
Looks better than the American crown Victoria
Mate, I enjoyed this video. Honest content of you having a go and doing well, Car is looking fucking Mint, Maybe give it a birthday on the suspension? It will be due, replace the bushes, shocks and springs, that plus a new set of tyres will have it driving like 1995. I just bought an entry into the draw too. I would weekend the shit out of that LTD, best crusing car hands down.
Well that's too bad I'm a damn Yankee in southern California, this car sounds and looks great lol.
Well Done! I entered
That wheel guy... DOG ACT
Great resto. Love what you do as always. Saved a few myself and you have helped me with parts before, but a Bordeaux DL or DF would have to be my favourite of all time, so I am drooling over this. Of course, I’ve entered in hope 💙
Luxury Trim Decor or LimiTeD?
Hey George, is that the bushido cross from Zendo Kai i see?
Certainly is
@georgeauto honour amongst brothers in martial arts Osu
3:39 bro, you look 25 yo
Mans a machine
hahah really
love your work mate. would you be interested in selling it private, price ?
Thankyou mate ! I really appreciate it , unfortunately
Can’t sell this one as we just hit over 100 people in the draw to win it , I’d be letting everyone down and have to refund them all , but I guess for 35k anything’s possible ….. joking haha 😜 not sure if you missed the part where I said I’m giving it away
@@georgeauto I would enter the draw if I didn’t have such reservations about these car giveaways. Wishing you all the best, mate. I hope you get more value than what you spent on the car. Good luck!
Im to scared to pressure wash my fairlanes engine bay probably wont start afterwards
1:07 🤣
Haha I’m glad someone liked it, if only u knew how long and how much stuffing around it was for that little bit , trying 10 downloders for the song that didn’t work , then having to screenshot , and photoshop the white backgrounds out of the emojis , then track the love hearts with the motion of the camera push in movement haha , I was laughing about the idea in my head when I thought of it so had to be done
nice
Correct me if I am wrong is this car basically a GT as far as running gear goes
GT40 heads etc LSD diff
I know Ford made a Fairlane Concorde with options.
I don't know a lot about these cars appreciate any info
@russelblackwell6041 not this model mate. The one you're talking about is the Fairlane By Tickford. Incredibly rare, they only made 106 of them. This is a standard Fairlane, no GT40 heads basically a standard HO engine. The FBT also got GT brakes, Tickford adornments, Adaptive shift gearbox, cappa Momo steering wheel and the gorgeous two tone interior.
@@hamoudy07 Thank you so much for the info mate cheers
bordeaux its pronounced "baw-dow"
change the channel name to George Auto give a ways :)
Its junk not worth that much so all u did was detail it lmfao
@stevelewis0106 not 65,000 as it was new, but sure is nice to see it back on the road with a hit of love! Better this way than left to rot in a driveway. Don't be so negative mate!
Worth more now than it was in that driveway mate. Good to see it back on the road with a bit of love like it deserves. Don't be so negative mate