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From: Milton on 9 Jul 2010 08:42 "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message news:4c3707ff$0$45612$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... > > "Milton" <millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:4c36f896$0$28639$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >> What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a great >> car of the day. > > They were a fair car, if you considered a car that had no brakes and > cornered like a drunk snail to be fair. Calling the XR "Mustang bred" was > an insult to one's intelligence though. The Mustang was actually based on > the *Falcon*. Not the other way around :) > > -- > Regards, > Noddy. To a degree. The first of the Mustangs had that ridge over the back arch before the XR was built and it (the XR) also had the ridge over the arch. That was probably the only resemblance to "Mustang bred " though. Did they share the same V8? Regards Milton
From: D Walford on 9 Jul 2010 08:42 On 9/07/2010 8:23 PM, Milton wrote: > > "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message > news:4c367866$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > > > >> We had a 67 Mk1 for a while, reliability was comparable with anything >> else of that vintage, not without problems but a good car in its day >> and a much better drive than any same year Falcodore. > > What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a great > car of the day. The Commodores weren't even invented til way way later > in '79 (I think it was). For a start the 1800 had disc brakes and rack and pinion steering unlike the Ford which had dodgy drums and very vague steering, they also had the best ride and most comfortable interior. Like I said they weren't without their problems but they did have lots of good points. Daryl
From: Atheist Chaplain on 9 Jul 2010 09:18 "PhilD" <replytonewsgrouponly(a)aussient.com.au> wrote in message news:mcyZn.454$Yv.123(a)viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com... >>> Interested to see if this reply gets outside of the Bigpong news servers >>> at the moment. >> >> I'm on Optus using news.x-private.org and it got out fine :-) >> > Bigpong has had a lot of news server troubles of late, but their no-help > desk has had people frustrated as their front line people don't seem to > understand what Usenet is. Many groups have just disappeared altogether > and it's taken a while to get groups to see any new messages. If it > weren't free I'd be using an alternate Usenet source. > That's why I gave Optarse news servers the flick and went to x-private, sometimes they go down but never very hard or for very long, bit like a wife ;-) -- [This comment is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Church of Scientology International] "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi
From: Clocky on 9 Jul 2010 09:22 Milton wrote: > "D Walford" <dwalford(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message > news:4c367866$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > > > >> We had a 67 Mk1 for a while, reliability was comparable with >> anything else of that vintage, not without problems but a good car >> in its day and a much better drive than any same year Falcodore. > > What??The XR was the first of the mustang bred Falcons and were a > great car of the day. The Commodores weren't even invented til way > way later in '79 (I think it was). > September 1978 and introduced a month later, well that is the Australian Commodore but it's based on the Opel Rekord E from 1977.
From: Noddy on 9 Jul 2010 11:07
"Milton" <millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4c371929$0$11118$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > To a degree. Not to a degree. The Mustang *was* a Falcon. It just used different sheet-metal. It was based on the Falcon platform with shared machanical components. Just like a HK Monaro was basically a HK Kingswood with two less doors. Everything under the outer tin is the same. > The first of the Mustangs had that ridge over the back arch before the XR > was built and it (the XR) also had the ridge over the arch. That was > probably the only resemblance to "Mustang bred " though. "Mustang bred" was Ford Australia's advertising pitch to flog the then new XR Falcon in 1967. The Mustang was already well known here, and Ford Australia was capitalising on it's American reputation by touting the locally made XR Falcon as something "new and sporty". The fact of the matter is that the Australian built XR Falcon was a direct lift of the 1966 US built Falcon and had nothing whatsoever to do with the US built Mustang in terms of it's body styling. To further support their advertising blarb, Ford Australia imported 600 1966 model Mustangs for sale in Australia. Their idea was that the Falcon was the bread and butter car, and if they could get enough Mustangs on the road locally it'd inspire the average Joe to buy a cheaper but similarly equipped Falcon. All 600 Mustangs were converted to right hand drive at Broadmeadows, fitted with "Ford Australia" build plates compliance plates and distributed to their dealerships for sale as new cars. > Did they share the same V8? The locally made XR Falcon was only available with a 289 V8 option, but that was the same engine as fitted to other American cars including the Mustang. In fact, most of the mechanical components were identical save for the differences between left and right hand drive variants. The locally built XR GT was identical to a Mustang 289HP under the skin. -- Regards, Noddy. |