[quote B3M95K718RF07R2V][quote BDP1SA761GMO41ED]That's great historical material DB. Thanks for posting it. I hope Freeway will also have some in his vast archive.[/quote] Thanks for the vote of confidence MO, but I have very little on the XY 4x4. I missed out on the sales brochure (a simple b&w affair) which now commands a king's ransom. Ford may not have proceeded with the XA because the differences might have caused too much disruption on the assembly line. This may have also been the reason Holden didn't do the same with their HQ-HZ utes.[/quote] No probs Freeway. I'm not surprised you don't have much historical material on this rare Falcon variant, given its one-off small-volume production run. You're right about the original Ford sales brochure being hard to find for sensible money these days. Hopefully, the original photos that feature in that brochure (clearly taken at Ford's You-Yangs proving ground) have survived in Ford Australia's archives, because they would provide valuable historical reference.