Car Nine - Ford Falcon 1962 XK

This car was a beauty...it was big, well to me it was, it was light and airy due to the amount of window glass, it had an automatic transmission...my first! and it was also the first car I ever got a traffic violation in!!..for overtaking on a double line.."You deserve it!" you are probably thinking...well lemme tell you what happened; It was a weekend and I decided to take a drive from Sydney where I was living, to Canberra, the nations capital...when I was some distance from Sydney I came up behind a wide load, a huge thing it was, it was holding quite a bit of traffic, a section of highway came up that was a bit wider so the driver of the wide load pulled over to the left and slowed to allow the back-log of traffic to pass, due to its width each car had to partially cross the double lines, like a sheep I did as everyone else did but when it was my turn a NSW Police highway patrol car came over the hill towards me, he did a quick U-turn and pulled me over...I protested and pointed out that other drivers were doing the same thing, he responded by saying that he could only get one!!

The XK Falcon put the willies up GMH for a short time, competition is always good, I thought. It was quite different to the Holden car of the time but problems with the Falcon, particularly the weak front 'floaty' suspension (US designed) and propensity to rust soon put the Holden back at the top of the list.

Despite this I enjoyed my time with my 1962 Falcon and I had it for quite some time...but being a staunch 'New Australian', returned to Holden...lol