Ultimate sleeper cop car - Falcon Phase III | Unique Cars Magazine
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- From our cover story on issue 401 of Unique Cars magazine, Australia.
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In 1971, at the age of 19, I was living in Canberra and driving like a dickhead along Northbourne Avenue in my Dad's Datsun 1200 sedan. I was stupidly lane changing in heavy traffic when I was stopped by a cop in a white Falcon 500. When he unfolded from the car he was about 6ft 19 inches tall and as scary as ever I could have imagined.
He roasted me (deservedly) and was about to throw the book at me when I told him that I was leaving town the next day for the trip home to Adelaide. I showed him my bus ticket and very fortunately he let me off with a stern warning.
I can still vividly remember that moment of seeing this white Falcon 500 next to me and seeing the 351 badge on the lower section of the front left guard.
It is vividly etched into my memories of ACT police cars.
that is beyond cool. imagine in '71 thinking, how the heck is that falcon 500 still in the mirrors of my shiny new holden monaro gts 350 !!
Absolutely gorgeous car. Nice take on the HO & a great piece of history. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely beautiful. Love seeing this kind of history.
Its good how it reminds us more how much oh a "common" drive those collectibles of today were, given how cop version of those cars existed at the time.
Powder blue in Victoria too, there was a rumor going around that there was a big block powder blue one floating around Melbourne back in the day
IN U.S ALL EMERGENCY VEHICHLES WERE REQUIRED TO HAVE RED LIGHTS BY FEDERAL LAW, IN 1968 THAT CHANGED.
It’s a great story. I knew a Vic Highway cop who owned a bronze wine falcon xy Highway car which I believe he drove in the job. It was a genuine T engine I believe. Hope he has still got it.
Under the front seat is a 1971 white pages to help with those ''crooks'' confessions.
Or an auto trader to try and buy a real car. Would be wise to import one from the U.S.
And save a ton of money. You can get two or three mint 70s Mustangs for what this would be worth.
Hahahahahaha
God i miss them days
@@GSF1974 but mustangs are shit they only had 3 good looking years and weaker components then the falcon not to mention it is left hand drive
That is soooo lovely
Awesome car! I love the sun visor above the windscreen. Nice touch.
My uncle has blue nsw xa 351 sedan ex cop car
Fucking flew. It even had a switch near the drivers head which would of been for the siren. Thems were the days 💪😊
Back in the 1970's here in W.A. local Shire Councils did all of the traffic control etc in their Shires. They used XU1s, E38 Chargers & Falcon Gt's * HO's. A bit difficult to out run them.
Sweet looking XY Falcon.
Nicely done!
Haha good work mate, nice find
A peace from here and a peace for there . LOL :) its the ducks guts mate. :)
Wow Dunlop Aquajets, i remember those, had a set on my AP6
Had Aquajets on my HK GTS . Not good in the wet
Wow, i learn something new every day, i thought i new everything.....
Good luck Peter very nice, look after it..
The Aquajet was okay until they went out of round, then they were good as tree guards.
The car is beautiful even though one of them were used to book me, my Suzi 500 was no match.
Interceptors, fastest of the falcons.
Another gem
Absolutely mint 😍
IN MAJOR CITIES, POLICE CARS WERE MID SIZE OR COMPACTS, MORE MANUEVERABLE AND BETTER ON GAS, (PETROL).
its the ducks guts eh Maxie
It should not be called a Phase III. Its not a GTHO or even a GT. Its a bog standard XY Falcon 500. The NSW police bought them too but theirs had bigger disc brakes on the front. Theirs had the standard dash because they mounted the Chronometric speedo in from of the gauge cluster. The 351 option and the LSD plus GT suspension were the only differences. The Auto was a Borg Warner, not the C4 that was on the auto GT. They stood out like dogs balls because who would buy a plain old Falcon 500 with a windscreen sun visor and no trim rings in civilian life.
Xt ?
XY. Get it right.
My DAD!!!
Very cool
super cool
Sweet
HO or GT spec? NSW Police had very few Ford pursuit cars of which most were manual. Were 351 4V with Falcon 500 trim including steering wheel. Only a few had the instruments. But had 12 slots! And some had sunvisors.
And yes the manuals were TopLoader and 9" LSD
Detectives never got Pursuit cars, just an unmarked Falcon 500. This from a NSW cop of the 70s.
Plus to even be allowed to drive those pursuit cars they had to have gone through the hi performance driving school.
How would you get the hub caps off without scratching or chipping the paint on the rims ??
Once upon a time all cars had painted wheels and hubcaps and it was never a problem.
@@Rob-fc9wg It wasn't a problem if you didn't care about the scratches. It was just accepted as it's just inevitable for the wheels to become scratched over time when you pull hub caps on and off several times. You had to lever them off with a tyre lever too remember ?
What's the car worth today?
Wow..what an amazing car. Sadly some idiot will probably convert it into a fake GT when you sell it.
If that engine bay is legit,this could be one of the biggest crimes in Australia painting this xy?
Absolutely FN brilliant!
Look me if you're considering selling.
Killer
Was
4 door shit box. Wheezer Ford
Nice fishing
what bullshit , some people will make up any crap , its a 6 cyl falcon ,what rubbish
Are you deaf and blind?
It's a 351 Cleveland V8 GTHO.
@@Rob-fc9wg dude its a mockup, it was once a 221 six, its all bullshit, people making money , making up stories, lots of online info about this car, OPEN YOUR EYES AND EARS, lots of fake cars around, people making lots money mocking cars, scamming people like YOU that just believe the bullshit story
@@volksdeutschewaffenss9670
How do you know?
@@Rob-fc9wg do some research, unique cars have had a bad history reporting on car stories bullshite, one buyer going through the courts as the car brought was fake, its big money , even grays auctions sold a stolen car for big money, they dont care about the history just the story to sell the car, its buyer be ware, mock ups were a joke 30 years ago, now a fake 50k car sells for 500k, dont believe everything you read in car mags