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[Scuba-Roo]

As a couple of you may know from facestalk, i have purchased an almost mint condition, EF Falcon sedan GLi, the colour is called silver, although i'd call it blue silver.

One of my best mates and myself were enjoying some fine alcoholic beverages the other weekend, when we decided it'd be a mega idea to buy some $1000 rides and flog the shit out of them. We decided we needed RWD beasts, and the only option was really a falcadore. it didnt take long to realise that there really wasnt any in decent running condition or with more then 2 days rego for under $1000. so we up'd price limit to $1500.

After days of searching, dealing with wankers on gumtree. my mate ended up with a nice white EF wagon Futura (features front electric windows, and a clock. it already had a sports exhaust, and due to an idle problem it sounds like a big block v8, it also featured a bull bar, which comes in handy...he paid a total of $1500 for it with rego till april next year.


i was on the boarder of giving up. after so many failed phone calls, or seeing cars advertised at dealers and selling within a day. times were hard. until i seen this beast pop up on one of the bazzilion "buy sell and swap" pages on facey. I quickly inboxed the lady, stopped eating my pizza and got a lift to the place at Windale (anyone from Newcastle will understand) it was a young single mum who owned the car. although it was her ex's car. yet rego'd in her name. after a quick test drive i bought the car for a grand total of a grand. with rego till march. signing the rego papers over to the sound of police sirens in the back ground, i took it for a nice drive to lay down some rubber and make sure it was right.

It wasn't till later that night i had to go jump start my brother's gen1 liberty as it had a flat battery (typical shitbox suby) that i looked to see how clean the engine bay was, i was so surprised it looked almost new!

Yesterday we took the cars out for a bush bash and what a mad adventure it was! playing cars at the traffic lights is a pretty wicked experience too.


So the car comes with a pretty wicked out of the box power plant, 4Litre big block straight 6 producing a mind blowing 157kW engine with 357Nm. Not even 10kW less then the V8. 4spd auto and features and aftermarket JVC head unit.

Future mods:

welded diff or an LSD

Rims front only, stockies on the back if you know what i mean

Potential re-paint army green.

maybe fit a canon muffler or look for a second hand sports exhaust system.


anyway less talk more pics, and videos to come.

[welby]

Hahaha definately windale spec.

[Grant]

LSD, then road trip to a driving sports dorifto night at Eastern Creek

[Morgan]

Yeaaahhh budday!!!

[BigWillieStyles]

You just bought them for fun?

[Sam]

I bought a Volvo 360 GLT today. Rear wheel drive hatchback
Ill be doing the same as you guys! Gonna weld the diff, strip the interior and go nuts haha

[Alex]

BAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!

Awesome!!

Jelly about the wagon though: Having a car with a towbar! I'd shank Kent's for that right about now! So many loads of rubbish to take to the tip, and my arsetra doesn't have one!!

So what's the plan? Dedicated slider? Or enjoy it as a boganbasher?

[AussieTemplar]

ABOMOBILES!

Love it, so jelly.

Almost bought an $800 vs commy manual the other day purely for thrashage.

[Scuba-Roo]

Would love a 3.45 lsd but we'll see if one pops up cheap, if not i'll go crazy with the mig. An would like to hit up the wet pan aswell. Not sure how these will go in the drift scene since they were built bu ford to win circut racing (australian touring car championship).

Every car ive owned has a towbar alex, so handy! Although you loose a bit of steeet cred rocking one. My sedan actually come with that box so you can run a trailer with electric brakes.

Its pretty awesome having a car that you really dont give a about.

[Alex]

Its pretty awesome having a car that you really dont give a about.

Gospel!!

My last thrash box (My old L series) I washed with gumption, was three different shades of white (including refrigerator white) and was driven with absolute disrespect. So much so, I'd drive it up gutters across footpaths, just to avoid being stuck at traffic lights.

I'd say one of the most enjoyable cars I've ever owned, because I've never had to worry about it (much).


You're gonna have so much fun with this!!

Sould scope out pick'n'payless out at Blacktown. Acres of falcadores.

[Scuba-Roo]

its pretty awesome driving over round abouts, bumping into trees and concrete dividers at car parks.


Oh yeah sweet, will have to look into it when i can be bothered. Its pretty cool that like every wrecking yard around the country would have pretty much any part id need for these.

[SUBARU]

HA!

Your number plate almost looks like... beaver.

[Scuba-Roo]

These cars have been much fun. but its time to get serious about modifying these beasts.

Since these cars certainly don't lack any performance, visual modifications were an obvious first choice.

First up was Donny's big block.





To keep the whole race car imagine going the paint theme was obvious outback style. IMO nothing says 'race car' more then a two tone outback. Since a Gen3 20psi was out of the question, we went with an outblack style.





Taking special care. No fancy 200kg tool boxes or special paint supplies for us, just the basics.





Paint time!








But two cans didn't get very far, so we had to finish the beers, jump into the shitpreza and race on down to our local supercheap auto, 4cans for $10, cheering! Why people waste thousands of dollars on paint and body work is beyond me.



eventually we finished, let the paint dry for a bit and removed the masking, then cruised onto the beautiful Newcastle foreshore where we had a photo shoot.









It reminds me of some sort of american JDM cop car.


Run out of time to do my falcon but hopefully i have it finished before Bathurst

[TSG]

I saw a VR Commodore with a similar paint job yesterday. And the most disgusting sexy chrome hubcaps I have ever seen.

[Scuba-Roo]

yerp commy drivers are wankers.

[Adam]

That turned out pretty fucken awesome!

[SUBARU]

Gold!

[Alex]

lol @ JDM American cop car thingy.

farkenlol @ 20psi Gen3 wagon

[nickknack]

Hahaha awesome! An extra line of paint + some jap characters = hachiroku falcon

[RX25SE]

Haha....one million intenet points awarded!

You and your mates need to tatoo 'Jake' and 'Elwood' on your knuckles.