Amoco petrol / Ford XP Falcon - Australian TV commercial (1966)

[oldskoolfalcon]

I love this add it's got a falcon I'n it

[mrlemmos]

The Australian Labour Party killed off Golden Fleece and Ampol culminating in the great clean fuel at Amoco. Now we are stuck with a few multinational oil co's such as Shell BP, what a mess that Government has made to Australia!!!

[meringandan]

Was probably a good idea when most early cars had little by way of filters if any, Pitty the filters were never changed.

[Vincem67]

Nice XP

[dadsoldtapes]

Nice vid... I think 1966 was the year Australia converted to Metric - so by saying "every ounce" do they now mean "every litre" or something?

[Conniptions886]

"ounce" would be "milli-litre", "litre" replaced "gallon" in word usage, ie: "miles per gallon" became "kilometres per litre".

Australia converted to metric around 1974 / 1975...

[dadsoldtapes]

Oh... well the standard metric unit for fuel effiency is L / 100 km, which in fact is proportionally inverse to miles per gallon (with the conversion factor being 286 divided by miles per gallon).

Anyways I wonder how many of these cars shown here are on the road today being driven by hoons with a knack for souping-up classic cars?

[JBofBrisbane]

@dadsoldtapes - 1966 was the year Australia converted to decimal currency. Australia went Metric in September 1972. There were fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons. I think it was -

16 fl.oz. to 1 pint

2 pints to 1 quart

4 quarts to 1 gallon

and 1 Imperial gallon = 4.54609 litres.

Under SI measurement, fuel economy these days is expressed in "litres per hundred kilometres" (l/100km).

[64g15csr]

@JBofBrisbane i think you will find australia went metric in 1974 ..was one of goughs ideas he got in on dec2 1972 :)

[ebf1957]

I miss those old revolving service station signs.

[allanxxx99]

trying to find: "lovely lady, how does it feel, leaning back in my automobile...."

[Conniptions886]

Try /watch?v=8MbYgpX2svI

[Dachshund]

Good, solid, straightforward ad. None of that "In Your Face" crap like today.

[poolplayah]

go the xp! Best car ford ever produced

[horatio382009]

Love the xp