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Old 09-12-2011, 12:40 AM   #1
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This here UK website which is dedicated but not limited to Australian Fords... most specifically... the Fairlanes and Falcons that used to find their way there.

Filled with gems... and pictures, catalogues of Ford's not native to the UK with pounds pricing.

Some of you are probably members... but what a great find this site is.

http://www.aus-ford-uk.co.uk/html/so...ackground.html

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Old 09-12-2011, 12:44 AM   #2
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There's a couple of UK members here that have Aussie Fords ... current and old.
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Old 09-12-2011, 01:28 AM   #3
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Love the advert of a rear view of an XY (?) wagon with 'We offer the wide open spaces of Australia"...how much mileage could Ford Australia get out of an advert like that if they 1: still bothered building a Falcon wagon, and 2: grew a pair and got into the export market with a unique product like we make here?

I also notice links to an Australian Ford register in the UK, and one of the cars is a TD Cortina with the 4.1. When we had our TE Cortina 4.1, I recall reading older British magazines about Cortinas and the 1.3 and 1.6 Kent engines were the normal ones, and if you were really lucky and had a Ghia, you might get "the big engine", the two liter OHC motor. Here the "little engine" was the two liter and only Australians were mad enough to see a four cylinder pommy car, look at the Ford Falcon with a huge cast itnr 4.1 liter six in it, and think "Hmmm...."
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Ahhhh .... the TE Cortina 4.1 was a great car with the 4-sp manual behind it.
God it would have been a dog with the 4-cyl in it.
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Old 09-12-2011, 09:45 AM   #5
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This here UK website which is dedicated but not limited to Australian Fords... most specifically... the Fairlanes and Falcons that used to find their way there.

Filled with gems... and pictures, catalogues of Ford's not native to the UK with pounds pricing.

Some of you are probably members... but what a great find this site is.

http://www.aus-ford-uk.co.uk/html/so...ackground.html
Yep - had this one in my 'favourites' for a number of years... very informative... and in fact better than alot of the Oz based Ford pages...
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Old 09-12-2011, 09:59 AM   #6
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Ahhhh .... the TE Cortina 4.1 was a great car with the 4-sp manual behind it.
God it would have been a dog with the 4-cyl in it.
I beg to differ, my very first car was a 2L 4sp TC Cortina and it went like a scalded cat. Not on par with the 200 & 250's but it was enough to keep a red 6 at bay. More than once I had that little green meany wound off the clock and still pulling. By TE they had gone off the boil with all the pollution crap and weight though.

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Old 09-12-2011, 10:06 AM   #7
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The great man who setup that site is a UK AFF member with username sandy

A true gentleman.

Many people use his site from all over the globe - Aus, NZ, UK and USA

The Ford community can never have enough enthusiasts like him!
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Old 09-12-2011, 08:28 PM   #8
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Ahhhh .... the TE Cortina 4.1 was a great car with the 4-sp manual behind it.
God it would have been a dog with the 4-cyl in it.
I thought they had a reputation as lead tipped arrows, understeering pigs.

My dad had a lime green 200ci TD wagon, with black vinyl seats and metal seatbelt buckles that would give you third degree burns on a hot day.

Whenever the sun came out the towels would go straight onto the seats, or your skin would end up melting off.

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Old 09-12-2011, 09:03 PM   #9
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That is a cool looking wagon.......
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Old 09-12-2011, 09:11 PM   #10
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I wish i could find a photo of the old X-Pac 4.1 we had.
Silver with orange/red twin striping, bumper overriders, factory fog/driving lights, grey vinyl roof. At least it was a cloth interior and had the 4-spoke sports black steering wheel.

They were a sloppy ride ... but a good country road cruiser ... being manual though you could at least "drive it" out of a corner. God it went well for what it was back in the day though.

I remember the old vinyl seats ... my Dad has a Datsun 1200 as a work hack ... and in summer those metal seat belt buckles were scalding. Ahhhh Memories.
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That is a cool looking wagon.......
My dad loved the grandpa spec even when he was young.


It was written off by a guy who ran a red light and T boned it 30 odd years ago.
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Old 09-12-2011, 10:52 PM   #12
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Such a shame .... I have tried hunting down our old car ... but no luck.
I am having a hard time looking for photos from that era as well.

I'd love to get one again and restore/lightly modify ... but finding a decent base at all is hard enough in the configuration that I want as well.
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Old 10-12-2011, 09:00 AM   #13
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My dad had a lime green 200ci TD wagon, with black vinyl seats and metal seatbelt buckles that would give you third degree burns on a hot day.
Gee, your Dad went easy on the old TD.

Here's our old TE with 5 of us in it!



There's a 15HP Evinrude somewhere in that lot to, just to add a bit more weight.
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The wagon is a TC and the above is a TD.
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Yep - had this one in my 'favourites' for a number of years... very informative... and in fact better than alot of the Oz based Ford pages...
+1....One of the best in my opinion....
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The wagon is a TC and the above is a TD.
I don't know why I posted that it was a TE. Must've still been asleep.
It's a TC.
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all good, have had a heap of cortinas myself. 2 TC, 1 TD, 1 TE. and as stated the 6 was a good motor in the cortina, the 4 speed 2 litre wasn't that bad either.
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Old 10-12-2011, 02:53 PM   #19
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The wagon is a TC and the above is a TD.
So its a TC then, ok.

Not too sure how to tell a TC from a TD.
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TD's had the square headlights didn't they?
My Mum used to have a Brown TC XL with Bone Vinyl Roof, which was an auto 2.0L
It was a great car and served both her and myself well.
Whenever I as getting some work done to one of my big V8 Falcons/Fairmonts, I'd hijack the cortie to get to to & from work, and to hoon around.
And add me as another to have the aus-ford-uk site as a favorite for a long time. Lots of useful pic's and info there!
Edit: Still think a real clean manual TC/TD XLE with a 250 would be a great car to have. Then whack a 2V head on it for that bit more.
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From back when we owned two Cortinas...


A 1970 Cortina GT, all original, and a 1979 TE Cortina Rally Pack, worked 4.1 iron head x-flow and a four speed.
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Didn't those 4.1lt Cortinas go !!!!
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I had a 2L Pinto with the 3-speed auto box. It was the Mk5 or the '80 model. Went very, very well, but rusted like you would not believe.

Still... with a Weber from a 3-litre Capri and a Kent cam it went very well!

Anyway, there's more aussie Falcons that you'd think in the UK. Did spot an AU V8 supercar racer on eBay.co.uk recently.
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i didnt think anything could rust more than an x series though, the cortina takes the cake...
good mechanically, but the "lightened" versions are everywhere haha
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Ummm, nice cortina, but the pubic hair in the top left distracts a bit...


But OT, the world just ain't what it used to be...hopefully one day the G6ET will be sold over there...one day.
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I'll think you'll find that its pen scribble sicko
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I had a 2L Pinto with the 3-speed auto box. It was the Mk5 or the '80 model. Went very, very well, but rusted like you would not believe.

Still... with a Weber from a 3-litre Capri and a Kent cam it went very well!

Anyway, there's more aussie Falcons that you'd think in the UK. Did spot an AU V8 supercar racer on eBay.co.uk recently.

Thats the second time the AU supercar V8 has been on. Good luck to the chap in selling it.

Seen it racing on a few track days around the country but not road legal so pretty usless at that price.
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