Luvvin' this thread guys! Keep it going.
Not sure I like the " Grandad had one on an xf they're not bad , good size." though... I bough an XE NEW!
Hahaha hey he wasn't that young when he owned it! I think he bought it around '90. If it makes you feel better his first car was a 39 2 door chev and first bike was a 37 Harley.
The list of ones I've been told I remember was he swapped his 3 year old plum crazy GTS in 76 for 70.5 Z28 that was a road registered black top car. (They both raced national road racing in NZ and some dirt speedway through the 60's and 70's.)
About '80 he got rid of the Z28 for a Cosworth converted Anglia.
He sold that after a year or so to go do some of the original BIG lumber plans for PNG and Fiji.
After there came here , had the turbo falcon awhile but kept getting yellow stickers and lifting heads.
So when I was born in 92 and most of my childhood he had a brg mark 4 Cortina Ghia with the 4.1. In it.
Unfortunately his body and mind isn't as skilled as it was only a couple years ago. I had to do a twin cam head replacement on Nan's laser couple months ago.
He got all the manifolds off for me and re assembled but I just had to do the cam install , timing and main seals for him not bad for 76. Especially smoking almost an ounce of unfiltered rollies a day for 60 years and working 18 hour days!