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On 9/26/2022 at 8:48 PM, deankdx said:

 

i haven't seen them for a long time(3yrs at least) , it was on facebook. you'd probably need to join an ESP group and start asking, or ask on that ESP forum if it still exists(I didn't join it) 

everything's so far beyond reasonably priced these days i'd wonder if they were anywhere near the $250 odd they were. (that being said, someone's making the XE bumper lip spoiler and it's cheap on ebay at $200 ish or $250 odd, maybe they'd know of the pod) 

Ah righto. I don't have FakeBook so that's out, was kind of hoping it was a company like SAAS or something. I'll keep an eye out. Cheers dean

On 9/25/2022 at 8:31 PM, deankdx said:

 

 

there was a gauge pod the ESP had, someone was reproducing them, but expect $400. there's similar ones out there or you could make something if you are keen
 

Do you know who's reproducing them Dean? I have one good one on one car, but the one on the other has been broken by someone years ago trying to steal it. I've been trying to find them here and there over the years but everyone wants thousands so if I can get a reprop, I'm the only one it'll bother 

The eBay radiators are fine if you do your research and sizing. I've bought 8 now, even for the big block AMG I had. The stock one from AMG was $2k, and adrad one was $800, second hand one was $500, new one from eBay, $180. Had that in there 2 years, not an issue. Do your research and you'll be fine.

As for the XD-XF, the eBay ones won't bolt straight into the brackets, no but it's easily modified depending on the radiator you go with. 

Or buy a trickle charger. Most people have them on their 'when the weather is fine' cars. A good one will decrease the battery and charge it in a normal cycle as if it was on the road in normal conditions

22 hours ago, SPArKy_Dave said:

 

That's why Ford called them CenterFold bench seats!

They have extremely comfy fold-down arm/elbow rests.

 

The cushion/arm rest is also a nice handy grip, for when doing your typical x-series one handed steering -

whilst going around corners at a brisk pace.

 

I have x5 x-series with bench seat column auto.

 

XF's have the comfiest bench seats, XG's are a bit firm, and XH's are an in-between.

yes.... ‘brisk pace’..... I think I know what you mean, haha.... not from experience of course....

yeah I know but just quite the same.

i reckon I still have a Xd 6 seater out at the farm and maybe a XF 3 seater ute as well that I bought as a farm hack but I can’t remember if it went with the last clean out or not. Haven’t been up there for a while, let alone actively looked for it to be honest.

23 hours ago, SPArKy_Dave said:

 

Column Auto, Bench Seat, Rubber floor mat.

Yeah I went through that phase, and I even converted a few floor shift manuals to bench seat because it was handy when all I had on the road was one car at a time. Even came in handy on a few nights in the city, back in those days... ahem... you know, helping a damsel or damsels in distress... and I have thought about getting another one but I like having my left elbow on something a bit too much

15 hours ago, bear351c said:

Never got questioned with my FC, 13 years on the road, just other stuff......

 

Speeding,

Window tint,

Too low,

Too loud,

 

Blah, blah, blah....

 

yep, that’s where it normally starts 

7 minutes ago, Free.51 said:

Thats ridiculous haha, ive never had a problem with the cops in the 3 yrs ive been driving my FD touch wood

yeah but you guys have roadworthies where we don’t so cops can tend to be on the more a-hole side here if they ‘think’ they are right

8 minutes ago, Free.51 said:

He said he is restoring it, not sure if he is modifying it or not but id be happy with it either way. He sent me these 2 pics before when i sent him a pic of the progress i had made with the FC wheels i bought off him

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that’s awesome. I’d be keen for a chat with him one day if he’s up for it

8 minutes ago, Free.51 said:

I had a blue with some guy a few months ago over these taillights i turned right & did a left hand turn into the sunshine market place carpark indicated ofcourse then a guy that was behind me tooted his horn at me then i gave him the finger he saw this then took the next turn into the carpark too, & i saw this & knew exactly what was gonna happen, before he could get out of his 4x4 i had already put my car in park & lept out & said what ur problem!!, he goes fkn blah blah i couldn't see your indicators cos ya bloody tinted em too dark i go thats how they came from factory in this model then he goes ohhhhh thats bullshit that bloody unroadworthy & got back in his car & left

I’ve had that many run ins with Mr Plod over them, been defected 4 times over them because no mr plod believes that any car came out with tail lights that dark from factory. Even had one accuse me of colouring in the photo on the front of the glovebox manual with a black texta. 

1 hour ago, bear351c said:

Coolest tail lights in Ford history....

and as far as I’m aware, the only legal black tail lights in Australia 

1 hour ago, Free.51 said:

Ive only had one FC in the past & now one FD,  me too, the seeing part haha. I need a new seal for my sunroof

 

The bloke i bought my fc wheels off is restoring his FC cartier 351

I’ve had too many FCs and FDs to put a number on them but I don’t think there has been a time in the last 20-25 years that I haven’t at least had one. I’ll always have one. They are just way too cool not to! Especially with those tail lights.

hey that’s cool, good to know he’s restoring it! Is he doing anything to do it or keeping it stock?

16 hours ago, Free.51 said:

Cool didnt know the non cartier FC had sunroof

I’ve had a couple that had one, and my favourite one that I had also had a factory one because I remember how annoying it was to get parts for. 
 

I am always amazed to find more Cartiers and always happy to even just to see them, I don’t need to buy them

On 6/10/2020 at 5:47 PM, Free.51 said:

Ive also noticed with the cartier they had elec boot pop, mirrors & sunroof which the non cartierFC's didn't have, it was a sign of what was to come as standard on the FD model

correct. The earlier Cartier's still had the hand pull boot popper but the last of the Cartier's got an electric one as I guess they were preparing to start the FD. It was a dipping the toe in the pool I guess you could call it. Some FCs still had the electric sunroof but it was a ‘no cost option’ from memory. 

Did you buy it or someone else?

I’ll check that tomorrow bud

I have a few more photos but it keeps telling me they are too big to add, but you can see what I mean. Apart from the VCR, everything else has the Ford badge on it, including the DVD/VCR remote.

Dave will most likely be able to answer this one the quickest but I’ll ask as general anyway ,

Does anyone know of a factory option in the AUs for a VCR in the boot along with a DVD player with an entertainment screen in the cabin, apparently fitted with games as well?

I have picked up a system out of a AU Fairmont that has the factory GPS set up, but it came with all of the above as well. Now before we all jump the guns, it ALL has Ford badging on it, and not just some Ebay stickers. I have all the wiring that goes with it.

All I wanted was the GPS set up but it all came together.

For the life of me, I have never heard of anything like it, excluding limos obviously, that may have had all those options but this was in a AU Fairmont sedan.

I forgot to get photos before I left last week but I’ll post some next week when I get home, but someone might know in the meantime what the go is.

The plan is if I get time during the Christmas break I’ll be installing it into the Silver Elephant.

Any luck?

8 hours ago, winton said:

Do you have any of these items?

Nope, all these items were pretty quickly either sold or disposed of. I’ve tried for years to get the specific notes on the items and their special runs but no one can tell me what they actually looked like so to speak and what their model numbers etc were so it’s really just a hidden secret

6 hours ago, CHESTNUTXE said:

was the cartiers built at all the same time like a run of 400 or something or were the builds scatterd over a few years ?

They were only a run in the FCs, from 1979 through to late 1980. I have seen some 81 plated ones but I suspect they were actually made a year or so before and sat at the factory awaiting the order. I would think they made them in one hit but maybe with a few blank spots in case someone wanted something odd. The exact number so to speak, is very sketchy but the registered number is 400. So many have been wrecked over the years and there were actually a few that didn’t receive the special option code on the vin plate for some reason so it’s very hard to actually pin point the actual number. Ford did some weird stuff back then.

The Cartier wasn’t actually ‘officially’ a model, only a package

1 hour ago, OLM8 said:

Hi

I believe the body is totally rusted out.

When I know more and can get a good look at it I will update here.

Thanks for all the helpful info.







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Yeah that’s ok, I have plenty of bodies (as criminal as that sounds), it would

more be the odds and ends I’d be looking at. What state/area is it in? 

See how you go bud.