John D wrote: I think there was about 400 to 450 built in Brisbane by Ford and if my memory serves me right a company named Shute Upton Engineering was involved as they had assembled Jeeps for Willys Australia from the late fifties until the sevenities. BIDSTBC by someone with a better memory. Regards John
They were all built on weekends so as not to interupt the normal Falcon production.
I don't know the detail so can't comment on the above. However I did do a test drive in one of them in early 70s (in my SECV days at Rubicon) for 1/2 day. For our specific requirements they weren't a great deal better than the Willy's Jeeps and Landcruiser's that we were starting to see (ie petrol guzzling sixes, 3 speeders) and we weren't sure how they would stand up to the rough tracks without a full chassis. At the time we were wearing out suspension parts on all but the older Inter's in a very quick time. I thought that Ford decided to only release them in Qld where they were supposedly a hit with cane-farmers erc? But I could be wrong.
