My brand new old car

thats rite, i got my first second hand old car.

Its a 1978 ford falcon station wagon, V6 6 cylinder, 4.1 liters and well she's a babe

Its not exaclty looking the best it has in its life, but i love old cars, and this is a great project for me to do up, and spend way to much money on

I think the best word i can think of is, "potential" potential to look great!

So as you may or may not know i like playing around on the web, and i have made on my blog a special section for my restoration project, so if your interested in checking out my progress with making her beautiful again!

here is a few photos,

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If your interested in checking out the journal, images, and everything else i have set up on the site for this, there URL is

jord070.com

and than click on special: car restoration


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Jordan

sorry its just 6 cylinder, not V6, but i just say stupid things like that, its part of who i am not really

kingers not free

You may also want to learn how to cut out rust, supercheap auto have good kits for beginners.

Nice one Jordo.Love the old fords. But listen to knotboard on this one.
Your biggest expense with that baby is gunna be petrol.The rest of the car will rust away before your eyes.. Looks like it has a headstart already.Considering where it will be parked most of the time...... at the beach



The old green limo i bought for fifty bucks and drove across the country 4 times
I don't think i spent more than a cupla hundred bucks to keep her going for about 5 years... Rust got to her in the end
All spare cash should be spent on windsurf gear. Cars are to get you to the beach and back.

just cover the rust holes with more stickers

Jordo, there seems to be one minor thing missing ..... a towbar.

You'll need this to tow around a trailer full of jerry cans full of fuel just to get from Melville to Woodies

Your first car should be used for figuring out:

1) When the engine is low on oil, it makes a nasty ticking sound, and the oil light comes on when you go around right hand corners
2) Engines need water to run
3) How much damage your first crash can cause...

At least that's how it was for me!

Don't bother doing it up, if you want a nice looking car then save your pennies now, and buy one that someone else has done up.

Current car is back at the mechanics, he's muttering strange incantations and waving talismans at it as we speak...

What are ya talking about? My old XC only used about $5.00 worth of juice to get us to the beach and back, and that was about a 150-200kms round trip... mind you I was a bit younger and slimmer back then.

PS Get a bench seat in the front, if it hasn't got one already... it gives ya somewhere to put ya fish'n'chips while ya eat em on the way home.

Steak goes better on the exhaust manifold, the rocker cover is good for roast chickens though.

Ahhh, I hate to be technical, but even push rod engines have cams, and in this particular case its fed from a timing chain, not a timing gear like some other push rod engines.

Having said that, I think a timing chain failure on these types of engines is pretty unlikely. It would more likely just stretch slowly and last another 400k kms. Changing one of these would probably not be worth the effort involved, and where do you stop?

Its sort of funny with some modern cars needing timing belt changes at less than 60k kms or you can run the risk of it breaking and expensive damage resulting. To make it worse these same engines often have a strange setup where you have to remove a lot of stuff just to change the belt.

Jordo, just do as everyone else has said and replace the fluids and fan belt(s). Once you start fixing minor problems you can end up finding other problems that you want to fix...

Jordo, don't waste good money on an old car, just drive it into the ground

I spent multiple times what my 86' (good year that!) VL Commo (and that's a half decent car too) just getting it running

In the 3-4 yrs I had it did:
-Air intake
-Computer chip air intake
-Gear box
-I crashed it and did steering damage
-Immobiliser broke

i miss my old XB Falcon station used to have an electric back window and two way tail gate.
Done 3 trips to Sandy Point-numerous around s.a and 3 months over in WA it was still going well when i sold it.