AH, FORD Falcon! How we miss thee. You arrived in Australia as an American design, but you were soon adapted to local conditions. And when the Yanks cruelly dropped you, we kept the dream alive with our own spin on the concept, growing in size and sophistication with each generation until Ford gave up on local manufacturing altogether in 2016.
Steve Alldrick’s XR Ford Falcon ute
This killer XR Falcon is what happens when a 10-time Summernats elite hall veteran builds himself a work ute
Resto with grunt: BK Race Engines XA GT
It looks like an immaculately restored Red Pepper XA GT – but there is 670hp hidden under the stock aircleaner
Joel Smith’s 1967 Ford Mustang + 1978 XC hardtop
Joel Smith needed a family car to cruise while he finished his elite-level Mustang, so he built an XC hardtop at the same time
Rob Bertolacci’s Pro Street XB coupe
Chasing eight-second time slips is one thing but Rob Bertolacci reckons there’s no fun if you can’t drive it home afterwards
Turbo 347-cube 1967 Ford XR Falcon
Justin Gauci spent nine years building his smooth XR Falcon only to find he craved more power. It was time to go big or go home
1971 Ford XY Falcon 500 GT replica ute
Beneath this XY ute’s GT-tribute skin lurks hope for petrolhead humanity
Ford XD Falcon + ’57 Chev + VL Calais – Readers’ Rockets
We check out our readers’ cool rides from the February 2020 issue of Street Machine
Coyote engine swap into a Ford XY Falcon
Matthew Pankau of RRS shows you hot to fit a 5.0L Coyote mill into an XY Falcon, using the company’s trick Coyote swap kit
Barra-powered 1966 Ford XR Falcon sleeper
Ben O’Neill tackled the Barra swap in his XR Falcon almost entirely in his own shed
Andrew Holdsworth’s Pro Street XR Falcon
Through a 40-year immersion in the modified car scene, Andrew Holdsworth has been an innovator both in early street machining and the local performance industry
Matthew Carlyon’s Falcon XA GS van
This time-warp XA Falcon GS panel van is owned by an aircraft engineer
393ci Cobra Jet-powered Falcon XW burnout ute – Video
Dwayne McLaren’s dual-purpose ute runs old-school power!
369-cube 1984 Ford XE Fairmont Ghia – FATXE
When Jovan Batar realised his Ford XP project was going to take a few years longer than anticipated, he screwed together this tough XE to feed his speed bug
Peter Flint’s Ford XC Falcon ute – OLDHOON
Flinty, our man behind the camera, talks about his 532-cube big-block Falcon XC ute
Casey Thomas’s 1977 Ford XC Falcon
With his brothers in tow, Drag Challenge newbie Casey Thomas has brought his well-travelled XC Falcon to the table, racing in the Pacemaker Radial Aspirated class
Bruce Howie’s nitrous 1963 XL Falcon ute at Drag Challenge 2019
Bruce Howie brought his nitrous-huffing XL Falcon ute back to Drag Challenge 2019 for another crack at the Turbosmart Outlaw Blown class
2202rwhp BA Falcon wins Haltech Horsepower Heroes – Summernats 33
Maria Passos’s Barra-powered BA Falcon stomped all comers to take out the Summernats 33 Horsepower Hero award
1000hp Barra-powered XH Falcon ute
Mark Boxer slides a thousand horses of turbocharged Barra into an unsuspecting XH Falcon ute
1981 Ford Falcon – flashback
With an award-winning interior some reckon looks like a choccie biscuit, this XE look-alike Falcon XD is as tasty as they come
800hp pro street Ford XY Falcon
Tom Juric builds the 800hp pro street Falcon he dreamed of as a 16-year-old