BRAWN AGAIN!
It’s the 1970s. A generation of Aussie kids is growing up fighting each other across the back seat of their dad’s Falcon V8 wagon. The Falcon GT is Bathurst-winning road royalty. The 1979 movie Mad Max is set – as the opening credits tell us – ‘a few years from now…’ and immortalises the Falcon V8 – and sadly predicts the future – with police mechanic Barry’s line: “Sh-she’s the last of the V-V8s!”
Ford’s V8 option in Australia began with the XR series Falcon in 1967 but the US-designed, Aussie made 302ci (4.9-litre) and 351 (5.8-litre) cast-iron V8s disappeared when the last Falcon V8 was built in November ’82.
It broke the lore of the Holden v Falcon legend.
To be fair to Ford, the early 1980s was an era of emerging high-tech: Most homes had a colour TV and the space-age magic of a
