The xa was prretty badass too, I had a shitbox XF that was a pre owned movie or tv car, i now know why it was such a shitebox, they beat the living hell outta those things on set hahaha.

The XF was a floating lounge on wheels.

Growing up in New Zealand the Falcon coupes were pretty common. If you couldn't afford a Mustang you got one of these instead. You could still pick them up for reasonable prices in the early Nineties. All the classics went a bit mad in the early 2000s, then settled after 2008 crash, but by that stage Falcon coupes had become rare. They are effectively gone from NZ now, I think the Aussies came and got a few of them then the Americans caught on. You can see them at car shows but they hardly ever come up for sale, when they do they cost an order of magnitude more than a Mustang.

@@jamesfrench7299 I think you'll find it to be a CD James. My parents had a XE Fairmont the model between XD and XF.

@@jamesfrench7299 XD

I’m about to start my XB project 😂

doing the 666 with his hands lmao even back then ....wanker he is

He is just hanging around.

Yeah , I laughed at that too . Australia.............

Jacko would make a great corrupt cop.

Jacko...how is this even possible?

at least he wasn't singing 'I'm an individual'!

Never heard of this movie….. I can understand why.

Jacko didn’t win an Oscar for this?

Shame they destroyed that 73 falcon. What a awesome looking car.

That was the only crime

nowadays they sell for the whole budget of that film LOL

$250,000 at least. I saw a rusty coupe shell w/o engine selling for $40,000

@@MikeWhiskyTango my god

Yep, and it was a 6 cylinder at that.

true

Are there still any Falcon Ute’s left down under?

&white bay powerstation!

King oath.

A girl on the old Telecom public phone booth.

And it didn't even need a Holden

They should have been sucking down some VBs, chomping on a Four and Twenty plus smoking some Winnie Blues to top it off.

used to be, til the company sold out to china mate. Sad sad story.

@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi We still have a 1976 HH in the back yard.

I reckon one in my backyard is close to an antique!

We used to have three of us hanging off one

They all sold out ; (

Lovely.

They’d sell like hot cakes if they did a re run.

Not sure, the XA front had a lot more shape

@@xpusostomos Agreed, XA definitely has the nicer front end, I'd argue the nicer rear as well on the sedan side

@@MuscleCarLover yes, the XB became more bland at the back.The one good thing about the XB was the Mustang bonnet scoops

Oi!

Jacko! thats his name! I knew his face but couldnt remember the name! thanks

Energizer 🐰👍

Me brain hurts!

An andabloodyvidual ya can fool me 😂

Sadly, that looked like a factory sunroof on the coupe. Incredibly rare option.

Probably worth more now than the profit that show ever made 😂

@@robroaring7175 Yeah, you NEVER see them with a sunroof

😂😂

oi!

Trust me the xd needed all the help it could get to spin the tyres. They were such a slow pos. I ahd an xf with the 250 x flow man it was such a bag of dogshite. My next car was an ef xr8 not much better than an b series ii xr6 turbo that was just better off the lot. Still all the plastics fell apart, But after a fair bit of work shed get up and create instant clouds of white smoke lol

It rains indoors all the time in Sydney!

​@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi serves you right for buying a 250

@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi Just need a lift mate! And OR Oil. Cortinas were pretty nice with the 250

@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi depends on which version of the XD. The GL with the 250 that they were driving was absolutely slow AF but that was the stock standard "granny" car. The Cleveland motor in the upper models was a monster, Dick Johnon won two championships in a Cleveland based XD. But of course a B series Xr6 will be better, there's about 20 years difference of technology there lmao (plus the B-series cars had the fkn Barra engine, comparing that to a Xflow is nuts lol)

Or the consistency of the Ford factory

@@xpusostomos lol

Yep I miss that Sydney

Could catch a 3.3 auto XB apparently

The planning and development of the XD began in 1976 when Ford Australia decided to use the floorpans of the XC to base the new all Australian built Falcon chassis upon. The XD shares only the floorpans in the (smaller on the outside, but just as big on the inside) chassis. Apart from the floorpans, the XD is a whole new car. Of course, there were a few shared items otherwise like, rear vision mirrors, indicator and wiper stalks, plus a few more cost saving bits. There's even parts that are used in all 7 generations of the Falcon 1960 - 2016 and are easily interchangeable.

@@davidcarr2649 I must have read it in Wikipedia, although 1976 might have been when they knew what the final design of the car would be like but 73 was the absolute genesis of the future model project without having any idea what the final product would comprise. The XD brought two innovations for an Aussie car, one that would be the norm for the future, plastic fuel tank and moulded plastic bumper for the front clip which enhanced the Grenada based look. The Granada looks wrong to my eyes with it's steel bumper. Yet people keep thinking Holden was the bees knees when they were generally behind Ford in design and usually played catch up if at all. Plastic bumpers, alloy head engine, over head cam sixes, sixes that remained home grown where Holden used one from another car maker altogether getting unearned praise and then relying on an American GM division for the 3800 V6, yet claim to be Aussie as Aboriginal art! Ford left them in the dust for being Australian.

@@jamesfrench7299 while we are in the realm of ‘fun facts’, have a look at the origins of Aboriginal art. They were taught to create their current style by an art teacher by the name of Geoffrey Bardon. Has acrylic paint been an ancient technique used for generations in Australia before European settlement?

@@rsoul7282 You mean the coloured dots in sections? We have very stereotyped and inaccurate simplistic portrayal of Aboriginal culture trotted out by the media.

@@jamesfrench7299 just about any piece of Aboriginal art that you will see is created using acrylic paint. It replicates their traditional drawings that were stencil based, or drawn in sand. That and rock etching, and many other techniques. Please don’t mistake my comment for racism, I have seen genuine art in person with my own eyes, and it is mind blowing, all I’m saying is that much of what folks consider to be aboriginal art is of a technique that only dates back 50 years or so.

About 20 years ago, while in a junkyard looking for a LH mirror for a HQ Holden. I actually found a 6 banger XB coupe. This would've been about 2002ish, or somewhere around there. She was completely rusted out. And they were literally cutting it in two to fit in to the yards car crusher. It was sad honestly. We can bullshit about a cars value today. But back then, when no one else loved, and wanted them. All they were good for was scrap. Just heart breaking.

Jacko needed cash once Energiser batteries stopped using him in their ads….oi 😂

Along with Warwick (you're not me) Capper later on.

VFL player. Also WAFL player. Never an AFL player.

Most of them rusted out before they could be converted. I had a shop in Dandenong over 30 years ago, A guy couldn't pay for an engine job, so he gave me in leu, the complete running gear out of an XB GT coupe that had rusted off its wheels!

Are you serious ?

He did Energizer battery commercials for the U. S. market back in the 80’s too. They can be seen here on KZfaq. Worth a look. They’re pretty funny.

Mark "Jacko" Jackson. Big bastard too. Shit actor though.

Mark "Jacko" Jackson, the song was out a few years before this film.

@@Tiger351 "I'm An Individual" We must've been starved for entertainment, hey? :)

Mark “Jacko” Jackson I believe

Yeah, 1979 vs 1988 😀

They were being used as taxis until 1990. My dad drove an XD taxi in 1984 and again in 89!

@@jamesfrench7299 Taxi is different.. they always kept the cars up to date with the police.

@@T.W.I.T. I know. I heard there was a Valiant AP5 or 6 still being used in 85 and there were still plenty of Holden Kingswoods in use until the 6½ age limit was introduced in NSW in 1990.

@@jamesfrench7299 Footage was from 1994 movie, therefore no chance there were XDs or not the even a Kingswood cop car. As for an ap6 (would have been 20 years old in '85) still being used as cop car, the fairy which you "heard" that from, needs a kick in the nuts.

I remember seeing him interviewed when he went to the states and at the end the host said, "well I guess that's why the football players here wear helmets".

Plenty of cars had square lights before the XD:- XC Fairmont, TD Cortina, Volvo 260 series, VG Valiant, UC Torana to name a few.

@@noelgibson5956 I knew someone much smarter than me would say something different. And correct. All I have is a teenage memory from a teenage brain, so that's not much to go on. I remember when the XD came out, every cop car and every cab was suddenly an XD. Maybe I lived in an area where we had more cops than Volvos 🙂

I remember that series. As I recall the Vickers had its field of fire limited by 2 upright pieces of wood.

Energiser, oi I remember those 😂😂

I miss that Sydney

@@afungula1 me too mate

I can't remember a time you could get a decent one for 1000

@@xpusostomos yeah I might be exaggerating a bit, I wenr through a few decent runners for that though.

Houses were affordable on a blue collar wage.. Was a great place. Agreed

Lucky they didn't side swipe the hills hoist or neither of those cars would have driven again.

Pretty sure mad Max was XC, not that it matters much since they altered the front end

@@xpusostomos Wrong...it's an XB 1973 model..exact car in video

Damn straight it is... Was lol

@@xpusostomos XB it was .. I thought it was a XC as well for years because of the headlights but no. It's an XB... Weird tho isn't it ?!?

@@psynriter I been fascinated with that car since 84 lol

Imagine a 70s style car with fg shit and everything that a modern day car has YEAHbOI

Except that all of the warehouses near the harbour are all gone now, replaced by apartment blocks, and XB and XD Falcons are (almost in the case of the XD) too valuable to drift anymore. Only thing that hasn't really changed that much is the amount of meth around the place.

Out of that body shape, the XD still looks good, whereas the facelifts, the XE and XF have aged horribly.

​@@jamesfrench7299 don't think the XE has aged

@@xpusostomos You see it that way, I don't and I used to admire the XE's slightly left of field frontal appearance. It represented advances but the XD has the prettiest front by far and I find the taillights more pleasing and in keeping with the overall design. The Grenada mark 2 continued with the same styling beyond the XE I believe, even though it dates two years before the XD's debut.

@@jamesfrench7299 pretty similar but the XE tail lights were like Mercedes which seemed more modern at the time. At least we can agree the XF was an abomination

None of the doors fitted properly and the left ones were badly rippled under the body mould and had a quick jam job paint, so you just know that its going to have a short life.

@@gjmob fukn fantastic comment mate ... eat a dick ....you must not be a car guy

No way an xd door handle could last more than 2 openings. Used to carry aleast 2 spares at all times.

Was meant as a joke ... sorry for trying to have a laugh

Yep

You're kind of 40 years too late to stop it

That sounds like the NSW police of the time.

@@bradevans7935 theyre still that way, Australia wide

@@mysty0 Yep - the best money can buy!🤣

Never ride in a taxi in the 80’s???

@@dunxy I did once or twice back then. Memory is failing me I guess.

My dad got a XD Fairmont as a company car. Had 4.9 on the guard. It was yellow and had black carpet I think from memory. One of those Huge old digital clocks in the dash and mmmmaybe it had power windows

dont bring those horrendous Australian tv memories back please

I still remember swinging on ours when I was a kid. Mum would get so mad.

Mark Jackson looks like the male version of Pauline Hanson.

Yes, that's because they fall into the same "pony car" category. Personally, I have a '73 Ford Falcon XB in my Hot Wheels collection. Mine is colored Metallic Blue with Silver rear wing and silver hood.

Yes, XD Falcon styling was based on the Mk.2 Granada

Yep the 79-81 (XD model) Falcon was loosely based on the Mk2 Granada, even shared a few common parts (headlights, some of the exterior trim and the long wheelbase LTD used the Granada rear lights. I've owned 2 of them previosly (and an XB wagon).

It was ford global styling at the time. While many cues came from Europe (the earlier XC Fairmont is a lot like the mid 70s Granada too) the side pressing style and swage lines on the XD were also shared with the Fox body Fairmont/LTD in the US. Even the early Fox mustangs had a similar swage. XF tail lights and the Fox mustang update tail lights are also similar in style too.

@@commodorenut XD-XH commercials used the XA-XC tailgate and tray inner panels with the updated exterior styling. XD-XF wagons used the Fox-body Fairmont tailgate. All part of keeping development costs down where possible, just like they used Mercury Comet front guards for the XP Falcon, and 'compact Fairlane' suspension and steering parts to beef up the XL and XM when early XK's were found wanting under Aussie conditions.

I was thinking that. I couldn't imagine driving my dad's XD like.

especially as that XD was a GL, pretty sure those ONLY came in either the 3.3 and 4.1 I6 options... absolutely slow as dogcrap at the time. Admittedly the one I drove was the EFI version in an LTD. Thirstiest car I ever drove but even at 20 years old it was super comfy.

He had his feet hooked around the Towel rail on the Boot lid!

XDs had V8s. so did the XEs. the XFs that followed only had 6s

Mad Max was: "last of the V8 Interceptors" Sequels are in a fictional apocalyptic world Interceptor, was old lingo for a Hwy Pursuit We've had loads of V8 Cop cars since 1973

Most of the were unless they were H/way patrol.

And bare basement model 3.3L no less..😂 a VW Beetle would outrun it.

@@brianlove8413 I've owned a few column shifts in my youth

One of its finest moments on film for sure.

If we had of known that they would turn all our cars into rusting tin cans ,and remove Holden and Ford from the buying guide ,I think most would of held on to them. I blame slack arse men and their 'job' getting scrap metal. More than anything else. Although I do blame noodle pricked men trying to be race car drivers and writing off all the HQ's and Toranas and many others throughout the 90's and early 2000's..

But it they saved them all and there were lots of them around, it WOULDN'T be worth more than anything else