I'm sitting in the middle of United States and it's still broke my heart to see that falcon XB wrecked. That's the best-looking falcon I've ever seen! I was just getting into the movie 2.
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.
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.
As a former spray-painter in 1994. XB Ford Coupes were nightmares to block sand & prep., with rear quarter's that seemingly never ended. Was tormenting seeing this one get trashed.
Death via Hills Hoist, Jacko, a bloke called Bazza, Ford Falcons, a form guide, Darling Harbour, monorail, a nippy Blue Cattledog....this is the most Aussie show ever!!!!
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
@@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)
I'd love to know where they found a base model 6 banger XB coupe for this, pretty much all of them would have had V8 transplants by 94, also a bit weird to see a bog stock "police pack" XD that long after production (most got stripped for parts pretty early). Then there Mark "Jacko" Jackson, former AFL footballer and a bloke known to do pretty much anything for fame 🤣 even ended up joining with infamous underworld figure Mark "Chopper" Reed on his talk tours at one point.
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
As a teen with mates I was actually chased by Jacko once when he was with some bird eating in the window of a pizza joint in Camberwell and we sang "You're a fucking idiot you can't fool us". 🤭
Ah the days of the XD falcon. The first time Australians had seen a car with square headlights. See square headlights at night and you knew it was a cop. Or a cab. It was a confusing time.
@@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 🙂
Never has a beaten up ex fleet XD Falcon six cylinder sounded so good when going really slow. The foley guy on this series, must have put in some overtime. Also props to the guy who spent the morning watering the concrete in the warehouse for the cars to skid on. No, I don't know why the floor would be wet either. Its just that kind of movie, so go with it.
Remember being a child and my grandfather would let me hold the steering in his old XB and steer down the street as we drove to the park - rest his soul - miss the old man and his car.
I had one of these new Fords in the day, I got is from the Altona auctions, it was an ex Police car, It had good visibility through the front pillars of the front window, the bloke with the blond hair was a famous AFL player, He had a smash hit with a song at the time.
How did I miss this piece of Aussie comic genius? Those show's that weren't meant to be funny but were accidentally hilarious are our gift to the world. Comedy gold! Jacko didn't even utter "Aw good eyes Bazzah!" 2:01 nor did the voiceover even sound like him....so who was in the back seat? The editing was top shelf. 5 out of 5 "Ya can't fool me(s)".
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.
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.
Laurie Moran, playing Jacko's partner Bazza, played Corporal Doyle in The Cowra Breakout. Doyle was the mini-series stand-in for Private Ralph Jones, a WW1 vet too old for frontline combat in WW2, but assigned to guard prisoners. He and Private Benjamin Gower were posthumously awarded the George Medal for manning their Vickers Gun until overrun by escaping Japanese prisoners, at which point Gower removed the breech block of the Vickers and hid it, rendering it useless to the escaping prisoners. Both men were hacked to death by the gun they did not abandon.
I was 17 years old back in 1980. Bought my first car for 400 bucks. It was a XA falcon. Put a twin 2 inch exhaust onto tuned extractors via two 18 inch hotdogs put on back to front. People swore it was a V8. It drank more oil than petrol and would still do 115 mph. Oh, the memories.
Gotta get this movie. Another Coupe wrecked. If we only knew how much they were going to be worth.They are Aussie Muscle Car Classics. And Jacko. He's a Individual you can't fool him. Location looks like the old warehouses in Sydnem. Where some of the classic Midnite Spares was filmed.
Kinda sad they just wrecked it like that, I actually liked the cool mods it had like the sun roof, louvers, splitter and rear ducktail spoiler. Too bad it didn't get more screen time.
I drove XB Falcons when they were new. They were dreadful cars in every respect. Everyone much preferred the Mini van to drive. The XB was styled on the mid engined De Tomaso Mangusta but was a front engined car with fake air intakes in the rear guards and at the back.
If only they knew that in 30 something years, an unbent XB hardtop would be worth nearly half a million dollars, they'd never have wrecked in on camera :(
@@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
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
The XD's looks still mesmerise me to this day and I first noticed them in 1980 as a seven year old. I was astounded such a radically modem looking car emitted the same sound as the previous models like the XB. Fun fact: the development of the XD seen here chasing the XB began in 1973 as the XB was introduced.
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.
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
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.
Hey OP do you know the movie or TV show where a red chevelle (I think) would come out at night and ram people off mountain road cliffs? I saw it back in the 80's and am trying to find it. It was either a made for TV movie or an episode from a 70's/80's cop show
Today in 2023 that XB would be worth a fortune with many people bending over backwards to own it, me included. To think we grew up with these and many others and never thought "Hey" I think I will keep this and not just scrap it. Dumb!, we were so dumb!
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..
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".
In hind sight, it should have been a punishable crime to wreck a coupe like that.
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
I'm sitting in the middle of United States and it's still broke my heart to see that falcon XB wrecked. That's the best-looking falcon I've ever seen! I was just getting into the movie 2.
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
1:30 "There's someone dead on a clothesline". "is he dry yet"?😆
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.............
As a former spray-painter in 1994. XB Ford Coupes were nightmares to block sand & prep., with rear quarter's that seemingly never ended. Was tormenting seeing this one get trashed.
I’m about to start my XB project 😂
That XB coupe would be worth more now than the entire budget for that scene 😢
Yep, and it was a 6 cylinder at that.
true
Are there still any Falcon Ute’s left down under?
Those hills hoists are built well!
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 ; (
Death via Hills Hoist, Jacko, a bloke called Bazza, Ford Falcons, a form guide, Darling Harbour, monorail, a nippy Blue Cattledog....this is the most Aussie show ever!!!!
&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.
Absolutely top class work by Mark “Jacko" Jackson. Huge budget, impeccable script, had me on the edge of my set the whole time….. 😅
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?
Outstanding police work by Jacko
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 😂
XB is the most beautiful Ford ever made.
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
These 70s Falcons are so sexy!
So much raw acting talent, such compelling production values, brilliant writing. Makes me proud to be Australian.
There's no way that 3.3L auto XD is catching anything.. 😂
Could catch a 3.3 auto XB apparently
RIP Falcons x2 😭
Love the water randomly placed everywhere they needed to do another handbrake turn.
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)
That 73 Falcon is a beautiful car
I'd love to know where they found a base model 6 banger XB coupe for this, pretty much all of them would have had V8 transplants by 94, also a bit weird to see a bog stock "police pack" XD that long after production (most got stripped for parts pretty early).
Then there Mark "Jacko" Jackson, former AFL footballer and a bloke known to do pretty much anything for fame 🤣 even ended up joining with infamous underworld figure Mark "Chopper" Reed on his talk tours at one point.
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!
YES!!!!!...THE MADMAX CAR!!!
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
R.I.P Falcon XB 1973...
funny thing about this is that they wouldn't have a XD Falcon cop car when The EA falcon was around... 🤣
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.
Drifting falcons in a warehouse full of meth look like Sydney hasn't changed one bit
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.
Is that the guy from the Engergizer commercial?
Yep
I call bullshit ..... jacko opened that XD driver's door without a coat hanger...
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
Used to walk about the rail yards around there with mates as a rail buff teen at night, now it's all units and casino and .. crappola
Yep I miss that Sydney
This is sooo bad yet I couldn’t stop watching 😂 geez we made some crap TV shows but worth it just for the cars👍
Hills Hoist. Tuff as fk! Couldn't do that stunt today.
Lucky they didn't side swipe the hills hoist or neither of those cars would have driven again.
Can't beat the good ol' aussie movies 😳😆😅😂🤣
As a teen with mates I was actually chased by Jacko once when he was with some bird eating in the window of a pizza joint in Camberwell and we sang "You're a fucking idiot you can't fool us". 🤭
Happy memories of waking up on the old Hills Hoist with a hangover and no idea how I got there.
😂😂
Jesus, those rear drums on the XD, must be getting hot😅
Back when Sydney was a great place and you could pick up a decent xb coupe for about 1000 bucks
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
Ah the days of the XD falcon. The first time Australians had seen a car with square headlights. See square headlights at night and you knew it was a cop. Or a cab. It was a confusing time.
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 🙂
Ahhh no😢😢 there goes another mad max to the junkyard.
Never has a beaten up ex fleet XD Falcon six cylinder sounded so good when going really slow. The foley guy on this series, must have put in some overtime. Also props to the guy who spent the morning watering the concrete in the warehouse for the cars to skid on. No, I don't know why the floor would be wet either. Its just that kind of movie, so go with it.
If only one more car was to be made by Australian ford co I wish they bring back the old school the old school memories 😊
Imagine a 70s style car with fg shit and everything that a modern day car has
YEAHbOI
Just goes to show the strength and reliability of the good old Hills Hoist.
Remember being a child and my grandfather would let me hold the steering in his old XB and steer down the street as we drove to the park - rest his soul - miss the old man and his car.
Outstanding work by Jacko. Terrific bloke, should see more of him.
oi!
back in the 90's i used to drive the exact same way on those exact same streets.
ahh, the memories.
I am loving this. Mucking around in cars. Dry Aussie humour. Jacko. Shots of Sydney. This has the lot.
I had one of these new Fords in the day, I got is from the Altona auctions, it was an ex Police car, It had good visibility through the front pillars of the front window, the bloke with the blond hair was a famous AFL player, He had a smash hit with a song at the time.
He did Energizer battery commercials for the U. S. market back in the 80’s too. They can be seen here on RUclips. 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
Jacko really was a fantastic actor.
Are you serious ?
BAZZA 😂😂
"Is that blood?!?!" "No it's lipstick...melted" plot twist!
@6:00 "You find your man and we'll PUT him at the scene!" ..
That sounds like the NSW police of the time.
@@bradevans7935 theyre still that way, Australia wide
@@mysty0 Yep - the best money can buy!🤣
How did I miss this piece of Aussie comic genius? Those show's that weren't meant to be funny but were accidentally hilarious are our gift to the world. Comedy gold! Jacko didn't even utter "Aw good eyes Bazzah!" 2:01 nor did the voiceover even sound like him....so who was in the back seat? The editing was top shelf. 5 out of 5 "Ya can't fool me(s)".
R.i.p those falcons.... Some of the best auzzi cars of their day
That '80 looks like a Granada, whereas the '73 is more of a cross between a Mustang and an AMC Javelin.
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.
Laurie Moran, playing Jacko's partner Bazza, played Corporal Doyle in The Cowra Breakout. Doyle was the mini-series stand-in for Private Ralph Jones, a WW1 vet too old for frontline combat in WW2, but assigned to guard prisoners. He and Private Benjamin Gower were posthumously awarded the George Medal for manning their Vickers Gun until overrun by escaping Japanese prisoners, at which point Gower removed the breech block of the Vickers and hid it, rendering it useless to the escaping prisoners. Both men were hacked to death by the gun they did not abandon.
I remember that series. As I recall the Vickers had its field of fire limited by 2 upright pieces of wood.
I assume we lost Bazza!!
I was 17 years old back in 1980. Bought my first car for 400 bucks. It was a XA falcon. Put a twin 2 inch exhaust onto tuned extractors via two 18 inch hotdogs put on back to front. People swore it was a V8. It drank more oil than petrol and would still do 115 mph. Oh, the memories.
It's the authentic missing trim panel from the front right quarter of the XD that shows the attention to detail of the film crew.
Or the consistency of the Ford factory
@@xpusostomos lol
Gotta get this movie. Another Coupe wrecked. If we only knew how much they were going to be worth.They are Aussie Muscle Car Classics. And Jacko. He's a Individual you can't fool him. Location looks like the old warehouses in Sydnem. Where some of the classic Midnite Spares was filmed.
You're kind of 40 years too late to stop it
Throw a set of sway bars at that XB at once! 😅👌
What a scene!
Kinda sad they just wrecked it like that, I actually liked the cool mods it had like the sun roof, louvers, splitter and rear ducktail spoiler. Too bad it didn't get more screen time.
I drove XB Falcons when they were new. They were dreadful cars in every respect.
Everyone much preferred the Mini van to drive.
The XB was styled on the mid engined De Tomaso Mangusta but was a front engined car with fake air intakes in the rear guards and at the back.
73 Falcon
If only they knew that in 30 something years, an unbent XB hardtop would be worth nearly half a million dollars, they'd never have wrecked in on camera :(
But it they saved them all and there were lots of them around, it WOULDN'T be worth more than anything else
Jacko you legend 😀 XD is still a good looking car in 2023
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
I had no idea the XD Falcon came with a column shift.
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
The XD's looks still mesmerise me to this day and I first noticed them in 1980 as a seven year old. I was astounded such a radically modem looking car emitted the same sound as the previous models like the XB.
Fun fact: the development of the XD seen here chasing the XB began in 1973 as the XB was introduced.
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.
At first I thought it was Donald Trump and and Darryl Eastlake chasing the baddies!
Bought 351xb coupe same as that in1986 in brisy for$1200 + 5 slabs of 4x
I've got a real strong urge to buy some Energizer batteries, can't quite put my finger on why...
Looks like Matlock Police meets Midnight Spares. I met Jacko once. He seemed like a decent bloke.
Another great $500 budget Aussie movie. Obviously the prop buyer was a Ford Falcon nut. I'm glad they didn't use a GT Fake HO
(GTFO)
Go the XD column Shift ,,
One of its finest moments on film for sure.
They killed Bazza!!!
At least it didn't have that stupid econo vacuum gague thing on the dash like the XE...
Those sure are some damn strong plastic rear windscreen louvers for someone to hang off of... normally they fall off if you slam the boot too hard.
He had his feet hooked around the Towel rail on the Boot lid!
1973 Ford Falcon she the last of the V8 as said in Mad Max film.
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
XB Hardtop with the Jacko Energy Bunny on the back...Oi! 🥝✔️
Mark Jackson looks like the male version of Pauline Hanson.
Was that cop who was driving one of the idiots from BMX Bandits?
Good work to the stunt drivers, the XB drove like a tank and the XD drove like a brick, well done
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.
They would have made more money parking the XB in a shed.
If that filmmaker knew knew how much an XB Falcon coupe was going to fetch in later years I think he would have chose XB sedan instead!
Wow this brings back memories that blonde cop was in a few ads here in NZ in the 90s
Energiser, oi
I remember those 😂😂
i never even heard of this movie...damn il have to get it somehow
Best acting award goes to: The Hills Hoist
I still remember swinging on ours when I was a kid. Mum would get so mad.
What a tragic waste of a classic Aussie muscle car 😢
Mark Jackson driving the cop car, got to love his hit song in the 80s, Im an Individual
Awesome never knew this one even existed thanks!!
Hey OP do you know the movie or TV show where a red chevelle (I think) would come out at night and ram people off mountain road cliffs? I saw it back in the 80's and am trying to find it. It was either a made for TV movie or an episode from a 70's/80's cop show
Great scene those xbs were superb and they were everywhere through the 80s and 90s then they just vanished now they worth a fortune.
is this Mad Max before things hit the fan testing out the new pursuit special?
If they knew what they would be worth today they wouldn't be crashing it😂
"you find your man and we'll put him at the scene" said before any evidence was found ... some things never change
Bloke in the left seat reading the form guide
Good advert for Hills Hoist Australia..
Low speed car chase
Who was the hottie blonde in the telephone box?? Asking for a friend...
Whoever it was is no longer hot
Is that the car from mad max 1 and 2 ?
It looks like it was modified for the mad max films.
Yeap, that is what the car looked like before the Mad Max mods, although this one looks to be a six cylinder Falcon.
The 70s were the panicle of everything good, look at how the designs got worse
Technically the 60s were the end of everything good since the XA was designed in the 60s.
Today in 2023 that XB would be worth a fortune with many people bending over backwards to own it, me included. To think we grew up with these and many others and never thought "Hey" I think I will keep this and not just scrap it. Dumb!, we were so dumb!
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..
OMG this clip has given me 1970's flashbacks. I hadn't thought about Jacko for years.
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".
The XD was the beginning of Ford’s demise
XD to XF was a golden era for Ford. Sales were off the charts. EA was beginning of the rot.
@@noelgibson5956 XE losing the V8 was the beginning of the rot
whoa I can't believe we made tv shows this bad, how different Sydney looks now
Oh the Australian film and tv archives are going to be a real treat for you.
And here I am being nostalgic for the most useless form of public transportation. F in the chat for the Sydney monorail.
I remember Jacko promoting this movie on the radio. Saw it on TV but the only thing I remember was Jacko training at City Gym.
They don't make clothe lines like that anymore 😂
Rip the old hills hoist