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Date:         Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:44:10 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: NVC Re: Wait a minute, I drive a Ford Falcon!
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<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --></style><title>Re: NVC Re: Wait a minute, I drive a Ford Falcon!</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">In a message dated 10/25/2005 1:57:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes:</font><br> <font color="#000000"></font> <blockquote><font color="#000000">&gt;&gt;The Falcon is still in production. It has a 4.1-liter DOHC 24V<br> &gt;&gt;straight-6 (with or without turbo) or a US-made V8... there's even a<br> &gt;&gt;4WD wagon based on the Falcon.</font><br> <font color="#000000"></font></blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">I remember from a trip to Argentina, Buenos Aires was loaded with early 60s Ford Falcons. They were still produced there in the early 90s and maybe later. And when I say still produced I mean they were making 1963 Falcons in 1990. They updated the grill, bumpers, dash board&nbsp;and tail lights a bit, but it was still the 63 body. No planned obsolescence for the Argentineans.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Here are two links from a cursory Google search. The first shows the New Zealand Falcon--a modern sport coupe-- and the second shows the 1991 Argentinean Ford Falcon.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><a href= "http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Ford/auction-36584486.htm" ><font color="#000000" >http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Ford/auction-36584486.<span ></span>htm</font></a></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><a href="http://galerias.netfirms.com/galmodel.htm"><font color="#000000">http://galerias.netfirms.com/galmodel.htm</font></a ></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>The Australians began building US falcons in the early 60s. They had to be reengineered because the body was flimsy... they would actually break up on the corrugated dirt roads. I guess the later-60s/earliest-70s XY &amp; XW Falcons were heavily modified, but looked like the US Falcons of the time; it had the usual lethargic sixes and a 5.0 V8 option. In about 1973 the car was enlarged and as far as I know changed completely, to a contemporary all-Aussie design (XA) sedan/wagon/coupe, which went through (with facelifts XB, XC) into the latest 70s, when&nbsp; the XD came out... an angular thing very much styled after the Grenada (facelifts XE, XF), with no coupe version; none of the XY-XF cars aged well. In about 1989 the EA Falcon came out, which was a vast improvement on the XD series. The new 3.9/4.1 sixhad the same bore-spacings as the old but was all-new, with SOHC &amp; 12V. The car actually looked good. But build quality remained poor, as it does to this day. The EA was facelifted a couple of times (EB, EC), then replaced by a Taurus-wannabe, the hideous AU; with its droopy nose &amp; tail, it sold like bitter potatoes and burned Ford badly... who on earth signed it off for production?? So a crash facelift was done and introduces way ahead of schedule, the good-looking BA... dunno why the letter change, because it's an AU with new nose &amp; tail grafted on. At present it's a better and better-handling car than the modified Opel made &amp; sold as Holden Commodore (which includes the Monaro coupe version, sold in England as Vauxhall Monaro, some places as a Chevrolet and the US as the current &quot;Pontiac GTO&quot;. To my knowledge the Aussie Falcons have not been exported outside Down Under, though some may have gone to SE Asia and perhaps South Africa &amp; Saudi Arabia.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Andrew Grebneff<x-tab> </x-tab><br> Dunedin<br> New Zealand<br> Fossil preparator<br> &lt;andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz&gt;<br> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut<br> <br> HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE<br> <br> DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR</div> </body> </html>


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