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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">In a message dated
10/25/2005 1:57:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes:</font><br>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000">&gt;&gt;The Falcon is still in
production. It has a 4.1-liter DOHC 24V<br>
&gt;&gt;straight-6 (with or without turbo) or a US-made V8... there's
even a<br>
&gt;&gt;4WD wagon based on the Falcon.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">I remember from a
trip to Argentina, Buenos Aires was loaded with early 60s Ford
Falcons. They were still produced there in the early 90s and maybe
later. And when I say still produced I mean they were making 1963
Falcons in 1990. They updated the grill, bumpers, dash board&nbsp;and
tail lights a bit, but it was still the 63 body. No planned
obsolescence for the Argentineans.</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Here are two links
from a cursory Google search. The first shows the New Zealand
Falcon--a modern sport coupe-- and the second shows the 1991
Argentinean Ford Falcon.</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href=
"http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Ford/auction-36584486.htm"
><font
color="#000000"
>http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Ford/auction-36584486.<span
></span>htm</font></a></blockquote>
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color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://galerias.netfirms.com/galmodel.htm"><font
color="#000000">http://galerias.netfirms.com/galmodel.htm</font></a
></blockquote>
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<div>The Australians began building US falcons in the early 60s. They
had to be reengineered because the body was flimsy... they would
actually break up on the corrugated dirt roads. I guess the
later-60s/earliest-70s XY &amp; XW Falcons were heavily modified, but
looked like the US Falcons of the time; it had the usual lethargic
sixes and a 5.0 V8 option. In about 1973 the car was enlarged and as
far as I know changed completely, to a contemporary all-Aussie design
(XA) sedan/wagon/coupe, which went through (with facelifts XB, XC)
into the latest 70s, when&nbsp; the XD came out... an angular thing
very much styled after the Grenada (facelifts XE, XF), with no coupe
version; none of the XY-XF cars aged well. In about 1989 the EA Falcon
came out, which was a vast improvement on the XD series. The new
3.9/4.1 sixhad the same bore-spacings as the old but was all-new, with
SOHC &amp; 12V. The car actually looked good. But build quality
remained poor, as it does to this day. The EA was facelifted a couple
of times (EB, EC), then replaced by a Taurus-wannabe, the hideous AU;
with its droopy nose &amp; tail, it sold like bitter potatoes and
burned Ford badly... who on earth signed it off for production?? So a
crash facelift was done and introduces way ahead of schedule, the
good-looking BA... dunno why the letter change, because it's an AU
with new nose &amp; tail grafted on. At present it's a better and
better-handling car than the modified Opel made &amp; sold as Holden
Commodore (which includes the Monaro coupe version, sold in England as
Vauxhall Monaro, some places as a Chevrolet and the US as the current
&quot;Pontiac GTO&quot;. To my knowledge the Aussie Falcons have not
been exported outside Down Under, though some may have gone to SE Asia
and perhaps South Africa &amp; Saudi Arabia.</div>
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<div>Andrew Grebneff<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
Dunedin<br>
New Zealand<br>
Fossil preparator<br>
&lt;andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz&gt;<br>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut<br>
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