Charliewool Member 375 Member For: 22y 3m 13d Location: Melbourne Posted 15/03/03 10:10 AM Share Posted 15/03/03 10:10 AM Ok Guys.. Now the BIG question?? We have all had cars that were just IT!! You know ?..."Special"!!..Question is..What CAR was it & why is it not still with you? We have polished, adored, drooled, gone out to the garage in the middle of the night to just...well......just ......go WOW,, We have slept in em, ( ya know the feelin!) We have put every last cent into our "baby" ( forsaking food, beer,wine, etc) THEN you decide it's times up!!..WHY?, & for what reason? So come on?.....Fill us in? Personnally, I have smiles,& importantly memories, . One is secretly still the love of my life... My "brown bomber"...XRGT ( GENUINE!).. sold for $2700.00 to pay fines!( 1979) sh*t What price nowadays?.... 2nd ..."MY429" .. 56 red & white cusso .. Yes with 429 CJ, C6.. 9"..& lottsa goodies...... Sold to fund my wedding!... ( Gawd, I'm off to the garage to sit in the missues car!).... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasQLD Lifetime Members 1,197 Member For: 22y 5m Gender: Male Location: Albany Creek QLD Posted 16/03/03 04:44 AM Share Posted 16/03/03 04:44 AM As a past rally competitor and driving the best rally cars ever made, my choice is my old Escort. I have had a few friends drive it as well. Jim Richards, Kevin Bartlett, Dick Johnson, Colin bond, Greg Carr just to name a few.I have been lucky enough to competed in ex Works Escorts as well. 10,500 RPM in fifth gear in the Watagan mountains near Gosford was fantastic. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nfhotston Guests Posted 16/03/03 05:47 AM Share Posted 16/03/03 05:47 AM '78 Fairmont GXL 351 (white)- sold to sponser me in Europe for 12 mths. (holidays)XT GT 302 (white)- Cost $100 to fill 10yrs ago in Mt Isa. Sold to work in NZ for a couple of years. :nugget: '94 EF XR6 (red), sold to buy EL XR8 '97 EL XR8 (red), sold to buy my BA XR6Turbo. :D '02 BA XR6T (white) - for next 3 yrs at least. There were others, four in fact but none were fords and not as much fun. A bit boring with the colours I know, and even three of the others were white too. Only the Scorpian was blue. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdennis Brendan Dennis Member 750 Member For: 22y 6m 20d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, Vic Posted 16/03/03 09:05 PM Share Posted 16/03/03 09:05 PM Ah that's easy.Reef Green XW GT HO (yep a phase 1 - Genuine). Sh!t I miss that car. Did not have a garage to store it and sold it to fund the Europe trip with the wife.Oh well. Only a week or so before the Xr6 T arrives... Hopefully.! Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjs Donating Members 525 Member For: 22y 4m 9d Location: Sydney Posted 16/03/03 09:46 PM Share Posted 16/03/03 09:46 PM Actually I really missed my first car which was a Honda Accord '84' model. I only had a sound system and exhaust, but I wished that I did not trade it for an EL Ford Futura. The Futura was good but I regret getting rid of the Honda. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mals BA XR6T Member 381 Member For: 22y 5m 2d Location: Sydney Posted 16/03/03 11:42 PM Share Posted 16/03/03 11:42 PM 1976 ZH Fairlane (owned in 2000). I think it was the size of your average 3 bedroom housing commision house :lol: and the boot was the garden shedAnyway, it was fully restored... I'm sure you get the pictureIt had to go, we had one garage, and 2 cars. The other was a 323 BMW, and the mrs said, do we really "need" the Fairlane. Who am I to disagree... anyway, it had to go. A few years later we have the XR6T, and some how it seems all worth it. :D Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo6man Lifetime Members 4,084 Member For: 22y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: South Coast NSW Posted 17/03/03 02:25 AM Share Posted 17/03/03 02:25 AM My XC Cobra was probably my favourite out of a lot of good cars - sold after my son was born due to the difficulty with only two doors. It had a lot of work done to it and was very very fast - and a safe, comfortable ride. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falchoon I see red Member 5,758 Member For: 22y 4m 18d Location: nowhere in particular Posted 17/03/03 09:43 PM Share Posted 17/03/03 09:43 PM I had a Yellow Glow XY GT replica with 351C, toploader and 9" diff. Sold it to buy a house. Probably maybe could of possibly kept it but it would of been very, very tight financially. It was either sell it or spend another truckload of ca$h on it putting a blower on it.I had a hard time trying to sell it, heaps of people wanted to buy it but no one could come up with the money (was asking $10K). Eventually sold it at auction for $8500 and the dumb @r$e auctioneer let the buyer take the car before the cheque cleared and the cheque bounced! It took a few weeks to get this sorted but I got the money in the end. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellionXR6T I'm Back!! Thats right, long over due! :) Lifetime Members 4,348 Member For: 22y 6m 1d Gender: Male Location: West Brisbane Posted 18/03/03 05:58 AM Share Posted 18/03/03 05:58 AM hmmm, 1978 Monza Red Falcon XC GS Coupe did it for me. 4.0 cross flow but add some killer induction, extractors, modified suspension, 9 inch diff, toploader, 245's on the front, 265's at the rear and hmmmm, it was lovely. Too many things were going wrong with it, panel work was suffering from the 'classic rust trap XC swiss cheese syndrome'. She had her time, hell it wouldn't suprize me if she had done 380,000k+ (the odometer broke somewhere around 230,000...lol). Loved it but then it was time to retire the old girl. 1994 ED Polynesian Green XR6 was the next beast. Purchased her around March 1999. Ran it once again into the ground. 200,000k's, too many things were going wrong. Decided to get rid of her and get the 2002 AU III VCT in Silhouette. 8 months then the BA was too much to ignore, time for the BA Phantom XR6, yeah baby!!!! Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumpen Poison Fish. Poison Fish. TASTY FISH!!! Donating Members 5,181 Member For: 22y 1m 20d Gender: Male Location: The Bogan Shire Posted 19/03/03 07:38 AM Share Posted 19/03/03 07:38 AM Well I had a CenturaHad a corona but at tree interveened and also a Regal with a 318 that had more corrosion than metal also I just got my license so only my crappy XF counts.However I can tell you that my dads favourite car was his Daimler Majestic Major.It had a 4.5L hemi V8 and a three speed auto,weighed practically 2 tonnes but could still pull 125MPH!The owners manual said something like dont exceed 118MPH for over two hours.It had accelaration and top speed equivelant to around an XR GT.Not bad,and this WAS a 1962 Auto... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/1300-most-loved-past-drives/#findComment-13935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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