GOLD STAR ZB FAIRLANE
Whenever one of Australia’s Big Three car-makers needed a prestige model, all it had to do was pick up the phone to Head Office in the USA.
WFor decades, the parent companies’ North American plants had been churning out flat-pack versions of their popular products for assembly ‘down under,’ so when Ford Australia wanted a flagship for its XR-XT Falcon range, Ford USA had a car to do the job.
The ZB Fairlane was the updated, facelifted version of Australia’s first Z-Prefix Fairlane; a model that set markets alight when it appeared a year earlier.
Other brands had no answer to the Fairlane and wouldn’t until 1971 when the Holden Statesman appeared. Hardly anyone in the market was fooled by Holden’s Brougham and its extra few centimetres of rear sheet metal, and Chrysler was in even bigger trouble.
With developmental money being pumped
