Fairmont Gt Wagon?

Has anyone ever seen a Fairmont GT wagon (American version)? With fuel past $4.00, drag racing is looking more like a memory.
I was thinking of turning the wagon into a GT.
1. Are there any pics of a Fairmont GT or Turbo?
2. V8, Turbo 4, or mod the original 2.3L?
3. Any other ideas?
I would like to build it like Ford would have back in 1980. No EFI.

 

Don't think that any Fairmont or Mercury Zephyr ever had the 'GT' name applied to it from the factory. Of course, being a Fox body, there wouldn't be any problem creating one of your own.......

Closest thing would have been the LTD LX's with the 5.0 V8's from '84 and '85 I believe. Only sold in sedan versions, IIRC, athough the coppers could get the guts in a wagon. The fox Marquis had a version too, but I think it was pretty rare.....

 

Find a good wagon,add the mustang stuff then go all the way and do a 2-door conversion!

 

Yeah....tell me about the 4 buck gas, DR. I paid $4.10 a gallon yesterday on a fill up for 91 octane.

 

Thunderbird turbo motor or a supercharged v-6 would be cool with a 5 speed.

 

Didn't they have a 4cyl. turbo mustang in '79 or '80? I think I remember my sister having one. Yeah that would be neat and diffrent, 4cyl. turbo,5spd wagon and I bet a blast to drive!

 

And still get over 25mpg !

 

Im probably goin 2 turbo my LTD whenever i get the v8 in if i dont sell it.

 

Not sure if you guys in the US would know about them but in the 70's Ford Australia sent parts from the Aussie Falcon GT to South Africa where they were assembled, badged and sold as a Ford Fairmont GT. Now these and the Aussies GT's were only sedan but the S.A. Fairmont GT were almost identical to the Aussie version and over the years many people in Australia have turned other variants of the same model car in to GT replicas. Here is a picture of a factory Ford Falcon wagon 4X4 that has had the replica GT treatment

 

Your Fox body wagon, the best full real life model kit you can 'kit bash' so to say. So much stuff works with little work...SH** we need Storman Norm's 2 bits here..............

 

I've heard everything in a foxbody mustang engine bay will swap right over. I've also heard that you can swap a hood over but i dunno. Some of the people I've talked to said a mustang hood would bolt right on perfectly and then some say that you would have to cut and and fabricate everything. Does anybody know?

 

Seems one of our resident experts on the fox body wagon, Stormin' Norman, is no longer a resident. Flew the coop, as it were. But, it still leaves Handy Andy....I think he is still a resident. Both these guys are well versed in parts swapping etc with these wagons. They have cleaned out a few junk yards in their area so they should know. As far as I know just about anything swaps from the stang to the Fox wagon. Don't know about the hood, though.

 

Ok I'll start a thread for it so I dont continue to junk this one up. Sorry dude

 

Good Idea....you could PM Handy Andy, too. He's a good guy and well versed on the Fox wagons. He has one.

 

I doubt the hood would work because you then could do a mustang nose conversion but have you seen one...i think not.