Landau/LTD Dash Part 1

It is worth mentioning that, as shown, the LTD and LTD Landau got a very upmarket version of the Falcon with wooden applique.



From the brochure.

Glass, glass, everywhere

Here is some later glass, as fitted to a 1976 P6 LTD, a model whose production ran from 1976 until 1979.



Pilkington changed the lettering to that shown above. Having shortened the previous ‘APPROVED’ to ‘APP’ they flipped the months and quarters. The dots under the ‘ASRI’ signify the quarters of the year, and the dots under the ‘APP’ signify the month in the quarter.

The letters under the ‘TOUGHENED’ signify the year, and if there is no dot, it refers to the year 0.

Hence the above glass was struck in October, 1976.

P5 LTD

It is immediately apparent that although the basic form of the car is based on the XA/XB Falcon and the ZF/ZG Fairlane, Ford made efforts to move the LTD upmarket, both in scale and style. The car featured a distinctive grille with head lamps hidden behind vacumn operated doors. Tail lamps appeared full width at the rear, but design regulations prevented them from being sequential in operation, and the wheel trims, while proving to be vulnerable, added to the impression of style. Being released in August, 1973, some months before the XB GT Falcon, the LTD also has the distinction of introducing four wheel disk brakes onto the local Australian market.
While officially titled the P5, the first LTD has also become known as the FA. The FA was manufactured between August, 1973 and September, 1976. 7003 were produced.

LTD Part 1

The LTD was launched as Ford’s new flagship model, replacing versions of the imported U.S. Galaxie. It marked a bold initiative by Ford, determined to capture the local top of the range market and become the de facto limousine of choice for government and business. As such, they were happy to alter the basic structure of Falcon/Fairlane and obsorb the cost in the pursuit of the market, and the LTD represented a stretching of the chassis, acquiring more length most noticeably in the rear doors and roof. Interior appointments were of the finest that could be fitted, and so well-equipped were the cars that the options list was almost negligible.
While it is common currency to assume that the LTD name was derived, as for the U.S. equivalent, from the term Limited, in fact it stands for Lincoln Type Design and was a measure of Ford Australia’s aspirations for the car.
Once again, a two letter code was used to differentiate the models.

Cleveland engines part 15

This 351C in a September, 1973 LTD Landau also has the Australian style open chamber heads with nothing cast in the corner.



By way of comparison, and as an aside, here is a U.S. 351C 2V engine in a 1973 Mercury Cougar convertible.