Falcons best years, what were they for you

[Eaturbo]

When I look over the years I was wondering to myself what were the most exciting years for the Ford Falcon. The E series was an amazing era and I remember when I seen my first EA and thought wow look how beautiful that shape is. This followed up with a horde of amazing vehicles starting with the
EB XR6/8 than EB GT, ED Sprint, EL XR6 and finally the EL GT. Than we had a few years of less memorable cars in the AU Falcon. Not that it was a bad car but it didn't really bring much excitement, at least until AU3 with the 220kw XR8 and FTE 250kw cars. Than came the BA with a complete new line up of engines, a new shape and a new interior. BF was possibly the greatest era for Ford with it having truely world class engines and gearboxes.

I still remember the first time I saw a BA XR6 Turbo which was at the Ipswitch V8 Supercars and it was before the BA was on sale. Nobody could believe how amazing the car looked and how big the turbo was. Everyone was expecting a tiny little turbo which was the normal for most turbo cars. No Ford had strapped a 550hp turbo on them. It was probably the biggest most advanced turbo 6 ever built. Than Ford just kept them coming BA F6, BA GT Boss 290 BF GT cobra 302.

Than the FG which while it wasn't ground breaking like the BA it still brought with it the FG F6 310 and GT 335.

With so many years of exciting new models and the great Holden Ford rivalry, we were certainly spoilt. Holden pretty much followed Ford ever year with exciting new ground breaking models, even though they never really developed a true performance 6 like Ford did.

So that now leaves us with what in the future. No more tit for tat with Ford and Holden. No more locally built muscle that they raced on weekends at your local drag strip or at the V8 touring cars.

My age has more to do with my love of the E series and B series era. I am 40 and the E series was released when I was 12 and so my first car was a EA Fairmont Ghia. Tell us what were the greatest years for you with the Falcon.