Can this 650bhp Beast with skinny tires scare the Living Daylights out of me?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2023
- Grand Tourer Ep8 - This week I am in Campbellfield to accompany Dan on a shakedown drive in the nearly completed 1970 Orange Tango Ford XB Falcon.
This is the one with the 434in³ or 7.1 litre engine by one of Melbourne's most renowned engine builders and has been in the workshop for at least the time I've been visiting which is well over 15 months.
Dan and the team at Grand Tourer have worked their magic on this one producing one of the most stunning Falcon builds of the year with its orange exterior set off with a white interior.
Also in the shop are a mix of other Falcon's including a panel van and a particularly beautiful green one, that I have to say is probably my fabvourite specs of all the Falcons I've seen.
Twice weekly visits to classic auto workshops featuring cars from the veteran to RADwood eras & including car restoration, rebuilds, repairs and restomods to anything from Aussie V8s, American muscle cars, Euro exotics, JDM, your coveted everyday runabout and more. If it's built before 1999, there's every chance I'll film it.
My name is Dave and I simply l love old cars and visiting workshops to chat to the people working on them. Added to that, I devour car content on youtube so I thought I'd join in and make some myself.
Hopefully you might like to come along for the journey as well.
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Thanks as always to the lads at grandtourer.com.au/ for allowing me a nose about and to Dan for one of the drives of the year, despite it only being up and down the Hume.
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I miss my old mate Neil who passed away years ago. I work at Harrop Engineering. I found out second hand that he was gone. It hit me. I have always wanted to drop in and say hello but mabye doesn't know me anymore. Looks like you are continuing Neal's legacy. Well done Guy's.❤
The xb gt is the best built gt of them all. And so it should its the last gt. The new ones are just taxis with stripes they are not real gt,s
How can the high hp of the engine cause the belt to fail? The torque transmitted to the alternator will be the same no matter what the engine hp. This belt failure is more likely to be caused by high revs. Poly vee belts are far more efficient
Stunning car. These guys do a great job in building them and Zoran is the best engine builder in Melbourne for these engines. He built my 408 clevo for my XD, now sold and lives in QLD it’s a low 10 sec street car.
Excellent video hello from Pennsylvania USA I am very lucky to own XC Cobra number 355 here in the United States she's all original unrestored and a real head turner everybody loves the car when they see it I've learned a lot of antique and muscle cars in my life and this is the most unique thing I've ever owned I truly love the car and handles and drives absolutely flawless you Ozzie's sure know how to build a car❤❤❤❤❤
Great Australian muscle cars.i absolutely love them.if i had a money tree in the back yard i would have them all.that orange xb gt hardtop is simply stunning.
Still miss Neil
The microphone couldn't handle the horsepower
Memories of my Nascar built 351 GXL 30 years ago...RUMP...RUMP...RUMP.
Shame about the sound.
My new engine build threw the V belts also, found it to be the Romac balancer I used and after sending it back to them and being told there crap measured correctly found it did not have the correct clearance with the standard pulley. I machined the pulley on a lathe creating the clearance needed and no problems with belts since. hope this helps somebody because Romac couldn't care less.
Nice XB. Deserves its thumping clevo too.
Doesn't get any better yhan an orange XB 👌🤤
Awesome workshop !
Well done 👍 what a wonderful Guy thankyou so much IT was great 👍. Dan weekend philm school for a weekend. Cooking with gas. LoL 🤣😆 . Awesome stuff to everyone involved Kind regards Matt Melbourne VIC
Nice Video,I enjoy watching the test drive it give's me memories back in the early 1980, I used drive XB GT Gold colour with the black stripe 4 door sedan, their are Amazing cars! I do love red colour! it looks just like brand new Nice work!
Just discovered the channel. Great content on these old classics. Used to work at Grand Tourer and cannot speak highly enough of Dan and The Team. All the best fellas! Thanks Dave for another great video !
Simply awesome coming from an XW GT Silver Fox owner I can not thank you enough doing videos of the guys from GrandTourer. Please do more with them on a regular base being a true Ford Lover. Or any videos on XW , XY , XA and B please. Merry Xmas from me watching this on Xmas Day . ✌👍👍👍
Every car is a jaw dropper.