Australian Cars In The UK

[stuboy]

On 03/11/2025 at 19:27, Six-cylinder said:

The guy in the photos was going to refit them, but had a heart attack!

jeez.................. the bloody cheek

[Six-cylinder]

24 minutes ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

This is currently on Ebay, if you fancied another one...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/227059068913

I like that better than mine as it is an Auto and that is right for such a car, plus leather and air con which I don't have.

[Bmwdumptruck]

On 02/11/2025 at 09:35, comfortablynumb said:

There was one of those monaro's in red, in a village not far from me.

Nice car, until it wasn't, pretty major nsf damage, sat for a couple of weeks on the drive, and then vanished.

Shame 😕

I pass a red one just up the road from Milbrook test track.  Been there a while now, looks pretty spotless.  

[ianbmw]

Just to chip in here, if anyone wants to refit the timing belt, engine mount, plugs and inlet manifold……feel free!

 

if not, I need to do it within the next two weeks before it gets super cold.

 

also, it’s stopping ne from fixing the car k want to fix, that 1800cc carlton

[hairnet]

wheeler dealers now

they buy an xr8 and have their arse handed to them by a holden

eeexcellent

[danthecapriman]

Falcon XA

 

[green200b]

A couple of press photos I have recently acquired:

The XY brochure is going to a friend in Australia who owns an XY. I am keeping the XA brochure.

Neither registration is recognised on the DVLA website when searched.

[Billy - Medhurst]

There is one near me 

JUNE 1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

JUNE 1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

On the road for a short period and then parked up for years under a makeshift car port on the garden.

1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

Revamped - used briefly and now sat 10 years back under that cover.

[JeeExEll]

Tax due Aug 1989. Last V5 issued Mar 2008.

[danthecapriman]

4 hours ago, Billy - Medhurst said:

There is one near me 

JUNE 1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

JUNE 1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

On the road for a short period and then parked up for years under a makeshift car port on the garden.

1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

1972 CHRYSLER 5212cc CHARGER AUTOMATIC UPU811K by Jonathan, on Flickr

Revamped - used briefly and now sat 10 years back under that cover.

Cant say I’m a fan of the steering wheel or seats!

Still, at least it hasn’t been smashed to bits.

[MorrisItalSLX]

9 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Cant say I’m a fan of the steering wheel

That’s standard fitment.

[danthecapriman]

19 minutes ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

That’s standard fitment.

The wheel itself is fine, but why paint the lower bit red!? 
Colour coded to the seats I suppose, but it doesn’t look great imho. That one in your photo looks lovely though, I really don’t know why people feel the need to change it.

It’s the same with wheels on US/OZ cars. The factory fitted wheels and trims look brilliant and yet for some reason people always take them off and fit gigantic ugly modern wheels instead. 

[green200b]

19 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

Tax due Aug 1989. Last V5 issued Mar 2008.

Sadly, we know the fate of this one....

http://www.aus-ford-uk.co.uk/html/the_scottish_gt_s.html

[green200b]

Spotted today in North London, a Ford BF Falcon hearse.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Co-op have/had quite a few 

[quicksilver]

I've actually travelled in an Aussie Ford without knowing what it was. My late grandmother made her final journey in one of the Co-op's BA hearses like that with an accompanying BA limousine.

I snapped this one a few years ago. The reg lies as it's not a V8 and the owner said it was a repainted ex funeral limo he was using for weddings. Even more bizarrely, it was legally a bus as that's a PSV operator's licence in the windscreen.

 

 

[quicksilver]

I was wondering how many Coleman Milne Fairlanes were sold and found an article saying it was nearly 1000. That might mean Coleman Milne imported more Aussie Fords than Ford themselves!

Also I can't believe we're ten pages in without a photo of the best-known Aussie Ford in the UK.

 

[danthecapriman]

I wonder how well those Ford’s like @dollywobbler one would have sold over here if they were a standard Ford UK model?

We obviously lost the Granada/Scorpio and it wasn’t really ever replaced by anything. You just got a full fat Mondeo if you wanted a big wafty luxury rig. Imagine if they did offer these as the Granada/Scorpio successor. Ford Europe’s flagship model!

[DodgeRover]

On 07/12/2025 at 22:16, JeeExEll said:

Tax due Aug 1989. Last V5 issued Mar 2008.

That went on to become one of the Scottish falcons, is a well known story

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

I was wondering how many Coleman Milne Fairlanes were sold and found an article saying it was nearly 1000. That might mean Coleman Milne imported more Aussie Fords than Ford themselves!

Also I can't believe we're ten pages in without a photo of the best-known Aussie Ford in the UK.

 

I didn't think they imported them my AU2 ute was imported by a dealers in Thames ditton I think it was I've seen several with the same reg.

[robt100]

Loving the boot stickers @sheffcortinacentre how very australian 😄
Local farm near me seems to have a BF Falcon Ute that I see from time to time. Very tempted to get one myself, or at least a BA/BF/FG barra 6 at some point.

[sierraman]

16 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I wonder how well those Ford’s like @dollywobbler one would have sold over here if they were a standard Ford UK model?

We obviously lost the Granada/Scorpio and it wasn’t really ever replaced by anything. You just got a full fat Mondeo if you wanted a big wafty luxury rig. Imagine if they did offer these as the Granada/Scorpio successor. Ford Europe’s flagship model!

Badly I would have thought. The Scorpio was hard work, I think it would have been too much niche interest perhaps. Late 90’s nobody wanted big ‘regular’ cars like Renault Safranes, Omegas, Signum, Scorpio etc. The money was going on BMW/Audi etc 

[sierraman]

15 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

I didn't think they imported them my AU2 ute was imported by a dealers in Thames ditton I think it was I've seen several with the same reg.

It sounds awesome as well. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, robt100 said:

Loving the boot stickers @sheffcortinacentre how very australian 😄
Local farm near me seems to have a BF Falcon Ute that I see from time to time. Very tempted to get one myself, or at least a BA/BF/FG barra 6 at some point.

Both are from Aussie eBay, super roo is from early 70s falcons, I have a similar one in rear window, plus one for when an AU won Bathurst.

I'd like a dealer one too especially from one of the ford drivers dealerships.

It's  4.0 S6 ( 12v last year before 24v barra head) factory LPG currently  mid 80p litre does equivalent of 30mpg ( no petrol)bench seat column change auto done 66k.

It's actually a late 02 ( presume that by time it arrived, had the UK mods, was sold etc it was early 04 unfortunately I've no history due to data protection bollocks) I've had it over 10 years. Regularly get don't see many p100s now ( confused looks when I reply you've not seen one now)  

I was offered a blue 5speed ( non runner stood 5 years £1k ono about 18 montha ago , I'd guess crank sensor,stuck LPG valve. There's only electronic ignition,temp sensor,idle valve ,lambda sensors at worst a basic aftermarket brain.

Was very tempted lost number ages ago.

[Knotty Ash Towers]

20 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I wonder how well those Ford’s like @dollywobbler one would have sold over here if they were a standard Ford UK model?

We obviously lost the Granada/Scorpio and it wasn’t really ever replaced by anything. You just got a full fat Mondeo if you wanted a big wafty luxury rig. Imagine if they did offer these as the Granada/Scorpio successor. Ford Europe’s flagship model!

I think the Aussie Ford Falcon/Fairmont should have been sold here and in Ireland from 1985, instead of the abysmal MK 3 Granada and its successor.

[danthecapriman]

1 hour ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

I think the Aussie Ford Falcon/Fairmont should have been sold here and in Ireland from 1985, instead of the abysmal MK 3 Granada and its successor.

I didn’t mind the mk3, although it was nowhere near as good as the mk1 and 2. The Scorpio ‘bug eye’ type was terrible though. What on earth were they thinking??

That said, I’d definitely agree, the Falcon/Fairmont should have been offered instead once the mk2 Granada ceased. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Ford did consider it & had aleast on for evaluation. Think there's a YouTube video on it.

[quicksilver]

14 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

I didn’t mind the mk3, although it was nowhere near as good as the mk1 and 2. The Scorpio ‘bug eye’ type was terrible though. What on earth were they thinking??

That said, I’d definitely agree, the Falcon/Fairmont should have been offered instead once the mk2 Granada ceased. 

I'm not sure I agree. For one thing the Falcon was significantly bigger than the Granada, which was itself at the large end of European cars, so I think it would have been a bit too cumbersome for the UK and wouldn't have sold anywhere near as well as the Granada did. Maybe it could have been offered as well as the Granada, as a niche alternative to the Mk3 for those who wanted something more like the Mk2. That said, Ford pretty much tried that with the XD LTD and the initial batch of 50 sold so slowly that the rest of the order was cancelled and it spelt the end of Aussie Fords in the UK.

[DodgeRover]

[sheffcortinacentre]

Phew that's handy as I'm always getting the fast back versions mixed up.