Whats your Ford story(the origin of your passion)

[Windsor220]

When I was growing up through school everyone used to go on about Holdens and I wasnt the sheep type. Just got interested in Fords. I do like other cars too but Fords are my main passion. After owning quite a few and becoming a mechanic and working on heaps of different cars it reminds me why i like them .

[platinumXR]

Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

Me at 13 years old, a passenger in a (real) GTHO doing 240kph, that's all it took. :sm_headba

Not far off for me.

I walked into an Auto apprenticeship at a local servo at 15 and my boss was an (mid 1980's at the time) former tin top racer with god given dobs of talent - Anglia's, Capri's, Falcons...or whatever and was then heavily into ski boats (read: Clevor with Yates alloy heads, Roush manifold, AVGAS...ah the memories) His whole family was Ford and high performance Ford at that (Ph 1 XW HO's, XW GT's and so on), an old school teacher had a Falcon Cobra, I had Uncles and friends with XB GT's, mates with RS2000 and twin turbo XD utes, I had a fairly smart XC GXL sedan at the time so a life of Ford was pretty assured.

Anyway, one day a friend of my boss called into the servo in his ordinary XB sedan which was coughing, backfiring etc...I thought it was a bucket...anyway my boss yelled at him to bring it round the back so off I went for a look.

As I approached, off came the dual IDA (from memory) Webers from the cross over manifold sitting atop a Holley Strip Dominator and on went a (from memory) 780 from under the bench and onto a genuine dyno sheeted 500+ fwhp Clevo. This thing started and sounded like the world was coming to an end.

So off for a test drive all four of us (Owner, boss who was driving and 2x apprentices) went. Wheel spin in EVERY gear the toploader had, face distorting acceleration and a more than competent steerer at the tiller through corners at speeds mere mortals dare not dream of. The speedo read waaaaay past the indicated 240 kph and I was assured it was as accurate as a GS dash in the mid 80's could be...I was scared and convinced...

[smciner1]

Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

Me at 13 years old, a passenger in a (real) GTHO doing 240kph, that's all it took. :sm_headba

LOL, as good a reason as any!

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[Big Bird 17]

1970 Bathurst 500,me 7 years old & mad about fords ever since.Thank goodness a ford won that race!!!

[PepeLePew]

Originally Posted by Cobra

I grew up in Geelong .

Oddly so did I, maybe there was a influence there driving past the engine plant 5x a week with my parents in the 70's

[ToxikXR6]

interesting reads.

me, my first word was Ford. no lie.
my mother and father were both massive Ford blooded people.
god imagine if i became a Holden kid, i dont know where id be.
so ive been raised in a Ford household & been to that many V8 events
that any kid could dream. Clipsal 500 at 6years old.. onwards.

and adding in, i follow a Ford footy team! GFC.

dads got an XTGT and he done up a Fairmont - but i hated it as a kid.
did own a Toyota 4wd for a while, but it still had about 10 Ford stickers on it.

and still to this day i love owning/driving my BF XR6.
..will always have blue blood.

[Phyber]

I was into Holdens purely due to thinking they were the only real Aussie car...until finding out in my early teens that they were owned by GM. Happened to be gifted an XF Fairmont by my awesome cousin (cheers Tom) as he was working over east and it wasn't worth freighting over.

The thing was a tank. Slow and indestructible hahaha...I loved it, soooo comfortable those big seats. Split a hose on te freeway once...thing was overheating massively as I had to take every single exit to refill the radiator! When I first realised, I pulled over and switched it off...but it kept turning over...cripes.

The beast was finally sent to it's grave long after I'd moved to an EAII MPFI (wow what an upgrade that was! I tell ya)...a friends gf was driving and get it up the rear from a drunk bloke. I happened to drive by and spot the crash! His car was mashed up good, the fairmont was bent around the rear wheels like this --^--- hahaha...nothing major other than that but it wasn't worth repairing.

Also turned out that dad had an XW GT when he was my age (early/mid 20's) and he's a Ford fan...and mum from California drove around in Mustangs burning off Firebirds etc etc (she loves to boast about the positraction diff they had lol) and also loves Fords. Maybe it's genetic

[BluXR6T]

Although I grew up with my Dad owning Holden's actually to this date; I got hooked on Fords in my early teens when i used to go to Oran Park in the early 70's with my mate and his brother in law who owned an XR Falcon. Watching Alan Moffett in the XY GT and his coca cola Mustang did it for me.

I have never owned anything else but Fords till this day. Actually we have 5 in the family at the moment an FG XR6T, Mondeo Cabriolet, Fiesta, Lynx, 75 two door MK1 Escort and my Project 71 XY Replica. I'm sure my veins have blue blood running through them.

[SVTVNM]

For me it was growing up looking at the old family photo albums, Even we were not a specific Ford family, in so many of the photos there were my uncles, XM, XP's, it just stemmed from there really. At 17 came across a GT replica for sale on the side of the road, and the rest is history.

[bcr2734]

My parents are older holden lovers. But all we had was Toyota's and trucks. I really turned mad around the EL and then came the Au and i fell in love with the T series. And the rest is history.

[Bossxr8]

My dad just recently retired after 42 years of service for Ford, my grandfather worked there, my uncle worked there and now my brother and I work there. Its just been ingrained in us.

I'm a blueblood from birth.

Ironically my dads dad was a Holden lover and so was his brother, they restored FJ Holdens.

[MITCHAY]

I bought a TX5 Ghia and loved it. Then while on here I started to fall for the XR6T and F6.

My dad had a GT many moons ago though and was a bit of a Ford nut - he even got buried with a model of GT and a Ford shirt. Even with that history I've been Holden boy, so I can't say I get influenced by others.

My dad just recently retired after 42 years of service for Ford, my grandfather worked there, my uncle worked there and now my brother and I work there. Its just been ingrained in us.

I'm a blueblood from birth.

Ironically my dads dad was a Holden lover and so was his brother, they restored FJ Holdens.

Fair bloody effort

[TUF_302]

My Ford roots start back when i was about 9-10, when most family members had fords, Unlce had an XY ute with a 302, grandad had a 6cly XW wagon, dad had an XW wagon to, mum had an XF, my aunty also had an identical XF, Since then i've been all about Ford, never considered anything else!

[DR650]

While watching Bathurst in 1980 with the old man watching DJ in Tru-Blu and thinking it was the toughest looking car on earth.I even gave him my hard earned $14,I picked up some serious dog turds for that money as an 8 year old.A local bloke had an XD ex-hwp car that went everywhere sideways and I was hooked.
I've had my XD 351 Fairmont Ghia over 10 years now and my XD 351 rally basher a while now as well.Even the chef loves them with her Territory Ghia and AU Fairlane Sportsman as well as giving the old XD a caning now and then.Although our 99 Explorer was one to forget,our EB and EF wagons were good cars just like our NC Fairlane and F150.

[Polyal]

Same as most here, my Dad is a Ford guy (but had others along the way). Mainly V8 Fairlanes (ZH Marquis, ZG); I grew up with them and never remember making a choice!

[Thankfull]

Back in 1971 I was 15 years of age, supposedly living in Adelaide, and having such a good time in Sydney that the Juvenile Court of NSW banned me from entering the State of NSW until I was 18 years of Age, under pain of imprisonment in a Juvenile detention facility.

My Father came over to Sydney in his XK Falcon and took me home, he decided that he wanted to go via Canberra....anyhow we stopped at this Motel in Canberra and the couple in the room next door had a Track Red XY GT.

So they where parked right next to my Fathers car...got a real close up look at this baby when she was brand new.

That was it for me....had blue oval eyes ever since....

[GT69]

Yeah, same as most. My family was a Cortina family though. We always had one. My love for them came from the 4 door GT Cortina dad had, His first car was a cortina as well (only mark 1's and 2's) He's had kingswoods, falcons and cortina's. I don't remember when i became a 'Ford' man, but i was a Cortina teenager/young adult for sure. I still remember playing basketball on the Gold Coast (i was 12 or something) a team mate came with me and dad in the corty. He wouldn't shut up about the fact that it was a GT, Before then I had never really noticed. I didn't no anything about cars and stuff.

Anyway, the cars became a bonding experience for me and my father (he was away for work most of the time) I was the youngest of 4 kids, the siblings use to help him all the time on cars, but as they got into there mid - late teens they stopped caring. I dropped out of school at 15 and started working for dad as an apprentice, pretty much spent 4 years side by side talking cars. Anyway, at 16 i bought my first cortina. He was very much apart of the build process for the car, the colour scheme is the one he always wanted, but could never afford. The hot 1600 was his idea, i wanted a 2 litre or bigger.

But yeah, The BA was when i became a 'Ford' man, I was looking at a late model commodore for a work ute, i hated the AU shape. I bought an XP ute instead. - On a side note, guys that go lapping to pick up ladies. The first and only time I picked up purely from a car was in the XP, I was minding my own business and a women came running over to the passenger door....I lent across and locked it (thought i was gunna get mugged) haha ahh to be young again.

I remember seeing spy photo's of the new shape. Once i'd seen the BA i thought 'thats it, im buying one'. And i did, infact i bought my BA the weekend before the BF was released. Ever since then I've loved them. I respect any car, I show respect to the person/car no matter what make or model. If you love your car, I can respect that.

[XD.XG.XR6.XR8]

Dick Johnson!!!!!

[vztrt]

Originally Posted by XD.XG.XR6.XR8

Dick Johnson!!!!!

I can see why...also why I support DJR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8h49FKi3Q

[388cube_edxr8]

I had always been forced by financial reasons to drive 4 cylinder front wheel drive pussbuckets, purely to get me to work.

Even after those, going for a drive in my mates supercharged V6 VZ (or whatever it is) Commo left me wanting for power. I went for a test drive in the ED XR8 and the sheer volume of power just blew me away, even at only 165kw (the road was wet tho). I bought it then and there, drove sideways all the way home and have never looked back. I even raced my mate with the supercharged Commo and flogged him, before the power mods.

That, plus year for year, the Falcon looks so much cleaner and more refined than the corresponding Commondore. Don't get me started on the VE...

[darren327]

For me it was my cousin. I always loved cars, but back in 1977 when I was 10 and he was 18, he took me for a spin in his XW GT HO Phase II. That was it, I was hooked from that day on. He owned quite a few GT's over the years along with a Bathurst Cobra and belting around in these cars not only bolstered my love of Fords, but began my obsession with GT's and Cobras.

Cheers
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Darren

[LANKY 1]

i used to support holden when watching the v8's cos wayne gardner drove a coke cola car(which is cool!) (didn't support brocky cos his car was boring)
when i was born we had a red XF S pak but i was young and didn't know much about cars then.(then had ED wagon, escape, landcruiser-so no good influences there)
my older Bro ended up brain washing me to like fords
did consider going back to holden cos they were winning the V8 races. but they won again and i didn't like it so i knew i was always gonna be ford.
I'll appreciate a fine body regardless of the make - haha but always love a tough looking ford.

[Apollo66]

Hi all, been a ford nut since I was a little taca.

Here's a link to just a part of why I have blue blood in my veins.

http://fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11263392

Cheers Kerry