Back in the day what car would you buy

[Cav]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

200 6 cyl ?

Boy forking out for ER 70 Tyres in 1972 would of stung ya.

I remember people bagging people for forking out for such tyres back in the day and steel belt only became popular around 1976 say in general as most were running on rags that I remember.

My 90yo mate is still stuck in the 1960's with tyres as the only point he has is mileage you get out of them and nothing other is of interest to him, he claims that the more the tyre weighs the more rubber is in them thus a better tyre. that I am sure was correct back in 1930's to early 60's, so he argued that I was wrong and he went to a tyre bloke that knows his stuff and spun his line to him and this bloke flew off the rocker and gave him back both barrels yelling that he had no idea what he was talking about.

Wash ya mouth out Mick

250 cubic inch.

And the tyres were Aquajets which are now regarded as rubbish, but compared to skinny tyres back in the day they were an improvement.

There were some changes in late XYs.

My mirrors looked like this



The engine internals were also varied and Ford placed a blue stip across the top of the motor to differentiate from other XY 250s.

I had the car for about 6 years and traded it on an XC Falcon 500 3 speed manual fitted with bucket seats in 1978 when the Govmint reduced the sales tax on new cars.

I loved XCs so much that two cars later (after a 2 litre Escort and XB Fairmont, I had an XC 302 V8 Fairmont 4 speed manual with houndstooth upholstery.