Ford XY Falcon 4WD - today's oddball tempter

By: Unique Cars magazine

Date: 21.06.2021

Ford XY 4X4

Ford XY 4X4

Wagon version of the rare 4X4

This is something you definitely won't see two of at your average 4X4 club meet – an XY 4x4 ute platform with a wagon body.

Ford built a small number of 4WD utes back in the early seventies and a few of them are still getting around.

Unique Cars mag columnist Rob Blackbourn reveals in a piece on the utes: 

"The team working on the XY 4x4 project at Ford Australia in 1970-72 also put in a heap of work and dealt with a bunch of challenges to get the thing into production in the first place. The aggro involved in sorting out the pre-production issues on the 4x4 build of only 432 units was, as they say, quite character building.

"Ford’s Product Engineering team was off to a good start having just completed four one-tonne GS light-trucks for the Australian army. These flat-panel one-tonner prototypes were 4x4s powered by Falcon sixes – not light-years different from a 4x4 Falcon ute project."

See the full story here.

You can also see a Reader Ride story on one here.

There's another in-depth feature on the utes here.

Meanwhile this wagon is located up in Hervey Bay in Queensland and is on the maret for $40,000. 

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