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Originally Posted by Cav
Wash ya mouth out Mick
250 cubic inch.
And the tyres were Aquajets which are now regarded as rubbish, but compared to skinny tyres back in the day they were an improvement.
There were some changes in late XYs.
My mirrors looked like this
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The engine internals were also varied and Ford placed a blue stip across the top of the motor to differentiate from other XY 250s.
I had the car for about 6 years and traded it on an XC Falcon 500 3 speed manual fitted with bucket seats in 1978 when the Govmint reduced the sales tax on new cars.
I loved XCs so much that two cars later (after a 2 litre Escort and XB Fairmont, I had an XC 302 V8 Fairmont 4 speed manual with houndstooth upholstery. |
Never heard about any blue strip on the 250 or any difference in them from XY to XB Falcon, but that the F100 250 log motor was different to the Falcon one in that it had HD bearings and valve seat inserts and maybe a different cam grind to the falcon, because my dads 1976 F100 with the 250 performed real well for a 250 as I was really surprised, when he brought it home I said WTF did you get a bloody 250- 6cyl for and he said that he had driven 4 F100's with 302 V8's and that this 250 went better then all of them.
Them 250 log motors were in the F100's till mid 1978 and then they went to the X Flow 4.1L as to the ADR laws for the F100's and the Falcons got the X Flow 7 1976.