XD Falcon..classic yet....or ever

[ALLMTR]

I've got two Falcons atm, AU shitter and BF pot plant.

[MRMOPARMAN]

I would say now would be the time to buy.

definately this. we have already missed the boat on ESP's

[chomper]

The XD/XE/XF Falcons were horrible things (even though I had an XF for 11ty years). How anyone can put XD/XE and valuable and collectible in the same sentence boggles my mind. The only good thing about my XF was that it was a manual, it stopped properly (something I am told was not the XF's forte) and didn't blow a head gasket (another thing they apparently did with regularity). Having said that, I am looking at buying my uncle's XF Fairmont because the bastard is light and would take a BF XR6T engine and would be epically fast :D.

[Spammy]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/FORD-XD-X...item20cb403ff1

[GTREA]

Yeah Granada was Cortina based, XD styled similar....maybe to look European as they would have known Holden was replacing the Kingswood with a European Opel?

[MZ21]

I can't wait for the reproductions door handle for these things, because the "collectors" are going to need them

[Dave]

wtf?

[irsa76]

Yeah Granada was Cortina based, XD styled similar....maybe to look European as they would have known Holden was replacing the Kingswood with a European Opel?

Ford started with the European influence with the XC, as much as they could with what was really an early 1970s US design. They got lucky with the XD in that Holden panicked and went the downsized Commodore, and manged to get the Falcon on the market at the right time.

I can't wait for the reproductions door handle for these things, because the "collectors" are going to need them

My local Repco has always carried XD-XF door handles. The local AutoPro has them on the shelf just behind the counter!

[chomper]

I can't wait for the reproductions door handle for these things, because the "collectors" are going to need them

I used to carry a full set in the car as the fucking thing ate door handles like a fat bitch on cake. Their design was fundamentally flawed, so no amount of makeshift engineering (not that any happened) would have cured them of their door handles woes.

[Mick_MY02]

The 80s for Ford was just a wasteland of mediocre crap. As said the 351 XD ESP with the Bilsteins and Scheel seats is a nice car but there is no way I reckon they should ever be considered a classic.

[Dave]

80s volvos are the hotshit

[Captiva Fan]

The XD/XE/XF Falcons were horrible things

This can't be disputed; but you have to compare to what the opposition was like. A VB SL with that raw 65-odd kW of carby 3.3 fire in it's belly wasn't exactly a great place to be either!
A mate's mum worked about 5km from where they lived, it was all on new multi-lane roads, and she rarely drove her car except to & from work. As a result her '82 XE GL (complete with 3 on the tree because they'd originally planned on fitting a bench-seat when Ford made them available) had something like 50k "highway" km's on it by the mid 90's when it was replaced; and that car made me remember that XD/XE/XF cars really weren't all that bad when new, but rather they deteriorated pretty quickly! You obviously wouldn't be winning any races in it compared to a VS or something, but as a daily driver in which you puttered around the burbs (or even driving on the highway) it really wasn't as stuffed-feeling as my memory of those cars had them being from the factory. It's gunna be the same with Commodes of that era, it's easy to think they were all shit & you'd have to have been insane to buy a new one, but I guess when they were new the driver wasn't in danger of suffering industrial deafness from the sound of the interior parts vibrating against each other as they fell off.

80s volvos are the hotshit

Well that's pretty obvious, innit?


IMHO, an XD will become collectible, but in the same way a pre-LJ/LC-shape Torana is, or those cool old 30's straight-8 powered American cars with 400Nm and 10kW and which are roughly the same length as the QEII. Not worth "northing", but not really worth all that much.

[Benonymous]

I suppose the "classic" aspect of an XD Foulcan could be that it's basically an XP floor pan with a nice, boxy, 80's body on it. Apart from that, a cooking model with a V8 won't be appreciating to stratospheric levels any time soon. What's the appeal with the ESP model though? I was in one once when it was about ten years old. The interior was falling apart, literally, the suspension was utterly shagged and it wasn't what you'd call fast. It made a lot of noise but that didn't translate to any actual performance. My VK ex-highway patrol car would've sucked the doors off it!

[Marv]

IMHO, an XD will become collectible, but in the same way a pre-LJ/LC-shape Torana is, or those cool old 30's straight-8 powered American cars with 400Nm and 10kW and which are roughly the same length as the QEII. Not worth "northing", but not really worth all that much.

Or E30 JPS BMWs, R31 GTS Skylines, CSV Commodores, all Citroens, all turbo Saabs, XR2 Capris or HSV Mantas, which is to say they're only collectable to wonky fanbois who rock those weird Amish/Dutch beards and dress like high school geography teachers/paedophiles (same/same, really). Kinda like old mate o'yonder here -

[Captain_Slow]

I don't think they'll be a classic in the sense that someone will one day offer you $50k for one, but all old Aussie cars eventually end up with some level of desirability/collectability simply by being old Aussie cars. Prices for fairly ordinary 70s Aussie cars are on the increase, so the 80s models can't be too far behind.