V8 ute
Big locally-built Ford, Holden and Chrysler utes are very much a thing of the past, and these days the survivors are very welcome at car shows.
As Cliff Chambers notes in our buyer guide: “A vast model range, plentiful options and brash new colours contributed at least as much to XA Falcon sales as its big, somewhat divisive, body style. With 150,000 XAs sold during just 19 months in the market and a further 370,000 combined for Falcon XBs and XCs you would think that the market should be brimming with 1970s Falcons. But it isn’t.”
Rust inevitably killed off a fair percentage of the fleet, which were often uneconomical to repair – particularly if they were a relatively humble six. Of course the survival rate for V8s, particularly premium GS and GT models, is much higher.
This example runs a 302 V8 with three-speed automatic transmission and is with Pennant Hills Auto in Sydney, priced at $60,000.