"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
01/06/2014 at 16:46 • Filed to: Daily Turismo
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
01/06/2014 at 16:46 • Filed to: Daily Turismo | 1
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The 1970 1/2 US market Ford Falcon is a bit of an oddball; it was only sold for 8 months and is essentially just a low spec Ford Fairlane with a wide choice of engines. This Falcon on ebay looks like a tire burning muscle car but would get creamed in the 1/4mile by a new Prius.
By April 1969 it was obvious that the Falcon was being replaced by the Maverick, but sales of the compact Falcon continued into late 1969 as a 1970 Falcon model, however the Falcon name was transferred to a low spec version of the Fairlane and built starting in early 1970 and ending a few months later. The resulting anomaly looks a lot like an Australian market XY Falcon and was powered by anything from an anemic inline-6 to Fords fire-spitting 429 Cobra Jet. Find this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for sale in Cabot, AR currently bidding for $11,100 reserve-not-met with $15,500 buy-it-now and 16 hrs to go.
It takes some getting used to the concept of a mid-sized Ford Falcon because the Falcon we all knew and loved was based on the compact chassis shared with the Mustang, Cougar, Comet and Ranchero. However, anyone who has seen !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! should be familiar with the Australian market Falcon, a bigger badder classic that you won't find often in the northern hemisphere. The 1970 1/2 Falcon isn't technically related to the Australian Falcon, but it is as close as we can get in North America.
Pop the hood on this muscle car and see the awesome...what? A 250 cubic inch inline-6 good for 155 (SAE gross...like ewwww gross dude) horsepower and mated to a 3 speed automatic transmission...yikes. This may look like a tire burning muscle car but you will be annihilated in the 1/4 mile by a brand new Honda Fit. The only thing you are guaranteed to beat at the strip is a fat mall cop on a Segway.
This Ford Falcon is equipped with an automatic transmission and bench seats for cruising because it won't be burning up the quarter mile or carving apexes anytime soon. However, even the most die hard traffic ticket collector must admit that the percentage of time he uses the 300+ horsepower under his hood is limited. Most of the time spend in this thing would be cruising down the road pretending you have 300+ horsepower under the hood. Is that so bad given the current selling price?
Could you live with the all-show no-go or would you buy it and swap in a Coyote V8? See a better 1/2 model year classic? e-mail us here: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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daender
> DailyTurismo
01/06/2014 at 16:54 |
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Did the nose come straight-off a '70 Torino? Imo, I'm partial to the Torino's fastback shape than the notchback of this Falcon.
AMC/Renauledge
> daender
01/06/2014 at 16:59 |
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Pretty much. Same car, really.
The Falcon was the base model. The Fairlane was the low/midrange version. And the Torino was the luxury/sport version of the same basic car.
Sorta like Chevy used to sell the Biscayne, Bel Air, Impala, and Caprice, which were all the same except for trim and body style/options availability.
webmonkees
> DailyTurismo
01/06/2014 at 17:08 |
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I thought it was, but it's not. Carry on.
masshole1
> DailyTurismo
01/06/2014 at 17:40 |
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king of posers. has a shaker with a 250 six. should have an insert big block here sticker under the hood
Twincam96
> DailyTurismo
12/20/2015 at 20:28 |
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That would be an Australian XA/B/C falcon. The XY was a much boxier looking design and was never available as a 2 door. Bana’s Falcon is an XB, I believe. BTW I’d choose a nicely tuned XFlow 250 over a stock 302 any day.