Cars you don't see many of anymore

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

Peak hour traffic heading home from G-town today

AU1 XR8 (or XR6VCT) in Galaxy, full body kit including that double spoiler

Looks amazingly different to how auto styling has gone, they were on another planet with that effort, but only those who were enlightened ascended to enjoy that dimension.

This is the classic press release photo of a young exec on their way to bet the company's pension fund on pets.com:

https://www.carsinvasion.com/gallery...xr6-vct-04.jpg

Tried to keep up but traffic light gods said no. If it's one of you with the AU, well done!

I looked at an AU XR6 HP when searching for my first car, same Galaxy Blue colour too but without the full Tickford body kit. In the end, I couldn't get past the swathes of grey plastic Ford used in the S1.

[onemanempire]

Today's car spotting adventures...

Didn't get a pic, but it was a 2 door soft top Galaxie in gold or silver. Can't remember. Never seen a convertible Galaxie 500 before, that I can remember, anyway, it was something like this:



The paint on this XR8 "daily" was pealing badly on the bonnet and roof. Hard to tell from the way I got the pic.



BA Fairlane G8. BA? BF? Don't know, haven't seen many of them tho.




And who can forget the TE Corty wagon... yep, big block 4.1 4 speed... tacho dash and all. Can't say I'm a fan of the stance, but hey, whatever floats his boat...



Cheers,

One Man

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by onemanempire

Today's car spotting adventures...

BA Fairlane G8. BA? BF? Don't know, haven't seen many of them tho.
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One Man

Being a G8, it would have been a BF model. On BA, it was called the G220.

[onemanempire]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Being a G8, it would have been a BF model. On BA, it was called the G220.

Ahh, I see. I have seen plenty of the G220 models, just not the G8 models.
Thanks for clarifying that for me.

One Man

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by onemanempire

Ahh, I see. I have seen plenty of the G220 models, just not the G8 models.
Thanks for clarifying that for me.

One Man

Not many were made. From my image thread -

All up, there 5247 BF Fairlane’s and 279 BF LTD’s made.

https://www.fordforums.com.au/showpo...&postcount=299

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by onemanempire

Me to.. But I would still pay someone to change the dizzy cap, leads and coil.
What an absolute ***** of a place to put them.

A friend was wrecking a VQ Stato that had been sitting for a few years. We tried to get it running. Bugga. Got no spark, pulled the dizzy cap and discovered the rotor button key way was sheared and not turning due to some muppet not refitting the dizzy cap correctly. Simple enough fix yeah?

Nah.
I ended up using a recip saw to cut the wiper cowl in two places, then folding the cowl up towards the windscreen to give me easier access to the dizzy. ***** ***** ***** of a job. Got it going with a Ford rotor button funnily enough..

One Man.

Mine has a blanking cap on it and it's just used as a CMP

Absolute potato job on those things to change, same with the plugs on the high series cars next to the ABS pump

[roKWiz]

In the boring black and white sea of SUV's along Eastern Valley Way and I spot a lovely metallic green Valiant Ranger wagon complete with the white venetians along the back windows.

While walking back, spotting the other nice Merc parked 2 streets from the one post a couple of days back.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

In the boring black and white sea of SUV's along Eastern Valley Way and I spot a lovely metallic green Valiant Ranger wagon complete with the white venetians along the back windows.

While walking back, spotting the other nice Merc parked 2 streets from the one post a couple of days back.

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That reminds me of the 280SE I spotted yesterday morning, same colour and condition as pictured. Driven by an older gent, it had a lovely exhaust tone.