Hey, I'm Gordon been cruising the threads along here for a few months and thought I'd get my ride 'out there'. It's a Feb 1997 EL Fairmont Ghia in Sparkling Burgandy, one previous elderly owner from a few streets away from me who travelled 101,850km's in it up with all the log book services at B.S Stillwell Ford down the road until I bought it for a steal!

I have a few plans, nothing major at the moment, more just touch up work for the immediate future i.e. paint on the roof and the chrome door strips.
Here is the car in question.
First day next to my mates VS II Calais and another mates EF Mont




Discovered a hole in the muffler that proceeded to get pretty damn loud. I decided on a Redback Catback 2.5" system with twin tips at the rear.
Before:


During:


The old system was screwed:


The new system:


After:


I've been looking around at the mods done in other E series Falcon's over the years and I will try to acknowledge where I got the original idea from. I have been interested in doing a false floor in mine. So out of the blue I decided to give it a go. Not following any real guidelines I pretty much just started to make something I want.

The frame work for the left side of the sunken boot floor. Space has been left in the frame for one (or maybe two ) amps down the track.


I always wanted to keep the floor in two parts (apart from probably not being able to fit a 'one piece' floor in it anyway) to allow easy access to the spare wheel on the right side.

Frame work up


Left side floor completed


Right side floor completed


False floor completed


Finito

Have been getting around to taking some better photos as well.
Some were inspired by the original Ford Fairmont Ghia brochure haha







Yes the fuel back light had blown...

The interior is in very good condition, however the pictures of the outside of the car are a bit deceiving, there's a few blemishes I want to get rid of soon.

Nothing great mods so far, although I hope to keep the updates coming, to the car as well as the forums. I'm also thinking of installing some after market fog lights behind the current vents on the front bumper, or some NL cornering lights as I've been driving down south a fair bit lately. Some extra width at night would be good. I've read a few threads on the latter and apparently they stay on when the high beams are on? Thoughts?

That is a 'Burton' sticker on the windshield no body in SA seems to know what the hell it is...
Post away guys.
Peace

Nice boot mod! I like the simplicity of it looks more modern with the flat floor too! Trim does look good, and I'm a fan of the twin tips too! NF cornering lights only come on when indicating with lights on, one at a time or both when hazards are used (with lights on) I'd like a set of driving lights instead myself! Keep up the good work dude!

that interior looks awesome!!

Cheers fairlane6970, I've just grabbed a pair of cornering lights for now, just for show pretty much.

Cheers andy777

I also received my new badges in the mail today, will get them fitted soon.

A Mod that I'm sure no ones ever seen before... The cornering lights

They arrived in the post this morning, and about 30 minutes later they were installed however they are currently NOT connected. Excuse the dirtiness of the car as well, it rained over night...

When removing the vents that take the place of the cornering lights in Fairmont's, I'd read up on how to remove them as to not damage any of the tabs. Halfway through removing the passenger side vent I realised somebody had already beaten me too it...



Sealant anyone? It was holding the vent in place.

Then when I started removing the driver's side vent and It was obvious that at some stage an ape tried to fix the front of my car



Finished





Rims with the brake dust shields:



And now: ( Sorry about the poor pic to compare but I can see a brake disc )



It makes more of a difference when the sun is shining on them, no longer is there a slightly faded black dish reflecting the sun back at you.

And the back as it stands at the moment with no badges and 4 drilled holes



Post away,
Take it easy guys

They do look real nice on her thats for sure! She is coming up a treat.

very nice car ther mate.
also has the ticky motor as per the gold 4.0i badge

Thanks fairlane6970,

Yea sure does benny D

No real news to update, but I recently acquired some XR height springs off SLO247... and almost have them fitted haha. Only the rears at the moment. Other than that the car is purring along nicely...

Haven't seen a EL Ghia interior in such good nick in a while lol. They're good cars, had one exactly like this in '05 with 111,000km on it. Served us well. I've also had 2x V8 ones which also were great cars.

Haha, Burton is a snowboarding brand.

Clean car, I like that.

Cheers sundeep. They are good cars!

You got it skidder.... you've earnt respect knowing that, no one else seems to come close! ha.

It has been a long long time since an update on this forum.

Here's a few new pics.







Cheers

Mirror mirror on the wall,

Which is the cleanest Ghia of them all?

This one.

Gosh that is clean perfect starting base