AH, FORD Falcon! How we miss thee. You arrived in Australia as an American design, but you were soon adapted to local conditions. And when the Yanks cruelly dropped you, we kept the dream alive with our own spin on the concept, growing in size and sophistication with each generation until Ford gave up on local manufacturing altogether in 2016.
Coyote engine swap into a Ford XY Falcon
Matthew Pankau of RRS shows you hot to fit a 5.0L Coyote mill into an XY Falcon, using the company’s trick Coyote swap kit
Barra-powered 1966 Ford XR Falcon sleeper
Ben O’Neill tackled the Barra swap in his XR Falcon almost entirely in his own shed
Andrew Holdsworth’s Pro Street XR Falcon
Through a 40-year immersion in the modified car scene, Andrew Holdsworth has been an innovator both in early street machining and the local performance industry
Matthew Carlyon’s Falcon XA GS van
We came across Matthew’s bright blinking green XA GS at the second annual Glenrowan Winter Warm Up Blanket Run in 2014 and were drawn like moths to moth food by its time-warp originality.
393ci Cobra Jet-powered Falcon XW burnout ute – Video
Dwayne McLaren’s dual-purpose ute runs old-school power!
369-cube 1984 Ford XE Fairmont Ghia – FATXE
When Jovan Batar realised his Ford XP project was going to take a few years longer than anticipated, he screwed together this tough XE to feed his speed bug
Peter Flint’s Ford XC Falcon ute – OLDHOON
Flinty, our man behind the camera, talks about his 532-cube big-block Falcon XC ute
Casey Thomas’s 1977 Ford XC Falcon
With his brothers in tow, Drag Challenge newbie Casey Thomas has brought his well-travelled XC Falcon to the table, racing in the Pacemaker Radial Aspirated class
Bruce Howie’s nitrous 1963 XL Falcon ute at Drag Challenge 2019
Bruce Howie brought his nitrous-huffing XL Falcon ute back to Drag Challenge 2019 for another crack at the Turbosmart Outlaw Blown class
2202rwhp BA Falcon wins Haltech Horsepower Heroes – Summernats 33
Maria Passos’s Barra-powered BA Falcon stomped all comers to take out the Summernats 33 Horsepower Hero award
1000hp Barra-powered XH Falcon ute
Mark Boxer slides a thousand horses of turbocharged Barra into an unsuspecting XH Falcon ute
1981 Ford Falcon – flashback
With an award-winning interior some reckon looks like a choccie biscuit, this XE look-alike Falcon XD is as tasty as they come
800hp pro street Ford XY Falcon
Tom Juric builds the 800hp pro street Falcon he dreamed of as a 16-year-old
Glenn Richards’s Barra-powered 1984 Ford XE Falcon at Drag Challenge 2019
One of a clutch of Barra-swapped 80s Falcons running in the XR6 Turbo Developments Six-Cylinder class, Glenn Richards’s XE sedan is a real sleeper at first glance
Corey Read’s LS3-powered Ford XF Falcon – Drag Challenge profile
Drag Challenge regular Cory Read isn’t about to make friends with the purists in the XD-XF Falcon Car Club, as his XF S-Pack runs eights thanks to turbo LS power
Phil Edmondson – Drag Challenge profile
South Australia’s Phil Edmondson had a massive lead-up to Drag Challenge 2019, switching his XB coupe’s exhaust from running one big single turbocharger to a pair of Precision 7875 snails
1200hp Barra-swapped XD Falcon – Drag Challenge 2019
Chris Palfreyman’s stonking XD Falcon survived the odds to nab second place in the Six-Cylinder class at Drag Challenge 2019
Home-brewed 1974 Ford XB Falcon
Tomi Vatavuk’s XB Falcon is an exercise in detailed design and homebrewed engineering, with 433 cubes for motivation
549hp 1971 Ford XY Falcon 500 sleeper
Mark Whelan has been wanting a wolf in sheep’s clothing since before it became fashionable
Natasha McMahon’s Ford XY Falcon ute
Natasha McMahon’s stunning XY ute has scored a trophy at almost every event it has been entered in