Okay so a few months ago I FINALLY got around to purchasing a ford.

Always been a ford fan, but made alot of silly purchases, few motorbikes and assorted (gasp) holden esq hatchbacks (daewoo cielo lol, a barina etc etc). Considering my family are huge ford fans, my dad has a 70 capri and a 68 mustang, It was high time i lived up to expectations.

So i purchased an ED falcon fairmont. Funnily enough my fav falcon series is the EF/EL, and i went for the ED simply because i could go aftermarket on the steering wheel. (but now fell in love with my ED after mods)

Anyway, enough rambling.

Okay so what i have done so far is:

* shaved the door handles and resprayed both sides,
* lowered onto 19" chromes using king springs, koni lowering shocks,
* removed the rear wing
* Clear indicators front and rear,
* Customized the boot trim (still needs work looks crappy atm)
* tinted windows darker than legal lol (except rear atm, got frustrated while making the mechanism for the shaved doors and threw a spanner at the rear window, havnt got arount to retinting it)
* Custom painted sports steering wheel matching the outside colour
* Painted centre cosole matching outside colour
* Fluffy dice from review mirror mod

And here are the pics so far:

Last edited by shaved_ED on Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:08 am, edited 1 time in total.

I never have liked the ED but urs is killer and those rims look cool on it
Whats the name of the rims

The rims are brand starcorp racing 19". They also make 19" "replica" (at least they look preety similar to) BA> XR6/8 rims.

I was actually considering getting genuine BA> rims but wanted something a bit different.

I too was never a fan of the ED, but i saw potential, and as i said i went with it purely not to be limited to the factory steering wheel. With the doors shaved, i have fallen in love with my ED, and am glad i went that route.

Future plans are:
* XR6/8 twin lights (not sure how as it has the fairmont bonnet, might need to replace bonnet?)
*respray roof (clear coat peeled off in speed stripes either side lol)
* respray boot lid where i had to remove and bog the rear spoiler
* Turbo
* Remote door poppers

F**k that looks clean side on!

Looks nice but my only opinion is the painted grey garnish with the clear lights makes it look like a VN. Quick look. Otherwise awesome job on the shaved door handles and nice car.

ok i normally dislike (with a passion) clear tailights on a boxcar. Never seen a set that looked good

BUT against your car's colour, with the clean smooth look of the shaved handles, and custom boot mod, i think it looks pretty good. The whole car just looks mint

The chrome rims imo stick out too much and take away the sublte clean look......i reckon a rim with a polished lip and white sprayed centres would go nicely, or even gunmetal grey centres?

Thanks for the comments guys!

Yeah its still a work in progress but im happy with it for now.
When i get time im gunna post up a sterp by step How to for the shaved doors for anyone interested in doing it to their car =P

Please forgive my ignorance but how the hell do you oped the door???

Iv never seen anything like it. very cool

look at the door closer... there is a knob

not much of a fan for the ed but man that looks sick very clean and lowered nicely to ill be watching your progress if you continue to upload information

Have you gotten rid of your cruise control function with that steering wheel?
I noticed it has the EB grill on it. Have you changed it?

Yeah Its Disconnected for now.

And grille is from an eb

I think its just the photos, the rear garnish doesnt look like its in primer IRL, but i intend to change it anyway

great looking ride mate.