My FREE!!! car

[jaydee]

My Uncle puts me onto a guy who has an AU he's giving away. So I'm thinking why not. Apparently it's been left sitting under a tree after the battery went flat.

So I'm hoping it's not a Forte, otherwise it can stay there. Hoping it's a Fairmont maybe.

Anyway, get there and find it's a 2000 series 2 Futura (poor mans Fairmont, rich mans Falcon), it's been neglected for about 6 months (but he kept the rego up).
The tyres were still up so I said, yep I'll take it (gave him a carton of Coronas), chucked a battery in, fired up straight away, bit rattley til the oil got up, 188,000 kays on the clock, and drove her home, front tyres were shot, got some new ones.

So here it is under the tree.




Got her home, out with the vaccy, Kacher and air gun, pulled off all the rubbers got all the leaf matter out of the gutters etc, really bad under the windscreen and a few spiders.





Ok so after some elbow grease and pulling off bits and pieces and down to the car wash bay to use the high pressure washer here's how she looks now.




Engine bay before.



After a degrease and some Fisholene,



and some Armorall on the interior, a new steering wheel cover, as the rubber on the wheel was badly deteriorated from the sun.



So there you have it, a free car, and I found a receipt in the boot for a new radiator and water pump 3000 kays ago, SCORE.

The paint is a bit dodgey, especially on the roof, losing a lot of the clear coat from the bird droppings.

My wifes car is a BA Futura, same colour so it's pretty freaky have them next to each other.

So now the poor old XC is minus a battery and sitting in the car port conserving kays, big polish coming up for the Perth Ace Ford Cruise for the XC so that will be good.

[79FordEsky]

Mate nice work, the car look like a dump and it looks half decent now,well done mate.

[pottery beige]

awesome score...

[Bucknaked]

The interior looks spotless. Nice pickup. For a slab of Corona's, that's a much better deal than this.

[Rodge]

Great score. Bit more elbow grease, tune, oil and filter and a polish and she'll come up even better. Well done, congrats. If you look after her you could have the next 200,000 km's of motoring in a free car

[galaxy xr8]

That's pretty good for free mate, well done.

[T2TICK4D]

Great score mate I also got a free car about a week ago it is a vs ute 160k your score is a lot better

[Jim Goose]

Ok but does the aircon work??? lol

Good score but. Even if you sell it for $1500 a few months down the track it'll be worth it.

[falconnut]

Wow nice score!

[mytgxl]

Top score well done! some poeple have all the luck! lol

[Hood-G6]

Nice pickup. Came up really good too.

[Grega]

thats awesome - go you good thing

[Geez Louise]

She came up nice.

Your lucky all that bird poops didn't eat through the paint.

[mik]

well done, you have just attained the title of gold finger for a top find !

[DJR-351]

hmmmm...seems a bit expensive for an AU, is the price negotiable?.....

Seriously though, well done.....

[Bossxr8]

Why would they just give it away, cleaned up a little like you have done and its still probably worth 3 or 4 grand.

Good score.

[_Ben]

Top score.

[jaydee]

Yeah thanks guys, 4 hours hard work and she's pretty sweet.
Yes the AC does work, bit of diff, bearing noise, but not worth worrying about.
Oil change next.
BossXR8, he was only giving it away because he can't be bothered. He has 2 other nice cars, lives in a million dollar home that he's sort of renovatiiong and just didn't have time. He asked his mates kids but they all said, nuh, too old looking.

[OffRoadFalcon]

SHEESH! If I'd known about that I'd snap it up right away! Free! Heck!

Series 2, Futura, only thing it's missing for me is being a wagon! But I wouldnt say no! Thats a great car to get for free...

[Auslandau]

Good pick up. Funny what people throw out but I have been know to almost give cars away just to move them on.

Originally Posted by jaydee

The guy didn't have the code for the stereo, how do I get that please, any tips?
Do I just ring ford and give them the chassis number or something?

You have to pop into a FORD dealer with the car and give them the VIN number. Ford don't do it over the phone and will send you to a dealer. DO NOT pay the $25.00 for it ...... if they brush you of and tell you to ring FORD ..... tell them no as they do not do it. It takes them 5 seconds to look it up on the computer. You could say I have had some 'discussions' with dealers on radio codes!

Originally Posted by Mr. Grinzy

SHEESH! If I'd known about that I'd snap it up right away! Free! Heck!

Series 2, Futura, only thing it's missing for me is being a wagon! But I wouldnt say no! Thats a great car to get for free...

Like this one I got for free last year? Sold it as didnt need it. Was on gas as well. They are out there ......... just have to look and be patient. This one was by word of mouth. Had to spend about $600.00 to get it going properly though

[OffRoadFalcon]

Originally Posted by Auslandau

Like this one I got for free last year? Sold it as didnt need it. Was on gas as well. They are out there ......... just have to look and be patient. This one was by word of mouth. Had to spend about $600.00 to get it going properly though
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Yes, pretty much! Ideal if I could buy the Winter white AUII Futura wagon from my parents though (who may want o upgrade to something bigger, some sort of van, by the time i'm on P's) It's in fantastic condition, everything works, only one little bit of rust Ive seen, and it has the silver factory roo bar and HD suspension in the rear... grown to love the thing...

But I'd never pass up a free car! Not never!

[jaydee]

The guy didn't have the code for the stereo, how do I get that please, any tips?
Do I just ring ford and give them the chassis number or something?

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by jaydee

Yeah thanks guys, 4 hours hard work and she's pretty sweet.
Yes the AC does work, bit of diff, bearing noise, but not worth worrying about.
Oil change next.
BossXR8, he was only giving it away because he can't be bothered. He has 2 other nice cars, lives in a million dollar home that he's sort of renovatiiong and just didn't have time. He asked his mates kids but they all said, nuh, too old looking.

Was thinking that might be the case.

Ask your local Ford dealer, they should be able to get the stereo code for you.

[MkyHnly]

Nice score mate! I was going to pay about $7k for one of these last year and you got it for free!

Cheers.

[davenl5l]

love ya work i'll give ya 2 cartons & a bottle of jacks for it lol

[Yellow_Festiva]

Haaa well done. Don't forget to get your 'receipt' ;)

[CAMS290]

Right place right time, well done !

[phillyc]

Excellent score! AU Falcons are great cars. Exceptionally underated.

[TheInterceptor]

Im jealous...wish i was given an AUII!

Sparkling Burgundy too...best colour Great!

[Uncle Niceguy]

awesome find Jaydee i'll give ya 3 cartons of beer for it