AU-SPICIOUS OR SUSPICIOUS?
PEOPLE have often wondered what would have happened if Ford had built a twodoor coupe to take on the reinvented V2-VZ Holden Monaro in the early 2000s. The Hillier brothers did build three special AU coupes, but there hasn’t been many other attempts made – which is exactly why we jumped on this AU coupe in the build when we spotted it on Facebook. We shared the owner Charles’s story and vision for this re-sculpted, widebody AU on our Facebook page, and here’s what you had to say.
Randy Davidson – Can’t wait to see how capable it is underwater with those gills.
Ash Millard – It’ll be awesome when
it’s finished!
Matt Maynard – It’s like mutton dressed as lamb.
Don Baird – Is it a Tasmanian build? Warren Apap – It reads “two doors”,
not two heads.
Kaine Stefaniak – I’d run that rear window more true to the front window and then it would look fire, but I assume he’s going for a ’Stang style. David Malcolm Sunter – A pillarless version would have been awesome. Ash Stammers – I thought it was a
Mondeo at first.
Allan Pirotta – How Ford didn’t end up making a two-door AU after the Hillier brothers’ original masterpiece has always left me stumped.
John Ko – I’m a Holden guy and I’d buy one.
Paul Brincat – Take the ugliest Ford ever and make it even worse.
Bhavesh Dahya – Why would you want to change the best body design of all time?
Damon Sexton – Anything would enhance the shape of one of these – even reversing it into a brick wall. Cade Webster – AU Falcon – the best drink holders Ford ever built!
Christopher J Shaw – It looks better than a Mustang!
Mark Lloyd Riddell – That quarterwindow is a bit Pete Tong.
Colton Wilson – How to make an Australian icon more Australian. Brock Malone – The body line and rear window on that is much nicer and more natural looking than the junk they came up with 20 years ago.
Sean Swan – That takes a lot of skill; congratulations to the builder.
Cate Louise Angus-gersch – I’m not a fan of the modern Falcons or Commodores, but I do love seeing talented people work their magic on creations like these. The amount of work and skill it takes to do this kind of thing is next-level, and that’s what I appreciate and respect. This should look really nice when it’s completed.
Ian John John – Maximum respect, this is what the world needs. Boffins creating art in light of the generic whitegoods produced today.
Steve Simmons – That’s a shipload of effort, time and money to make an AU Falcon look slightly like a Mustang.
Jamie Mckennon – Silly – you can’t improve an AU!