The Old Falc.

The oldest family car I can remember was the old blue falcon - not entirely sure but, I think it was an XM falcon - wagon, in powder blue with a white roof.

Don't remember much about it, except we traveled a lot in it.

I guess I was still pretty young, and I think we got that when we got back from the Canadian sojourn.

In fact remember very little about it - but it is burned into my memory for some reason. It is the first car that I associate with model airplanes - when I was young my parents were into control line flying - a little bit of RC too, but mostly control line, and for some reason when I think of this car, it leads my mind to model planes.

This is one of the reasons why cars play such a big part in my memory in fact, because as a family we traveled to the national championships every year. These were held in a different state and town each year normally at Christmas time. This meant that I had been to every state but Tassie before I can remember that I hadn't - if that makes sense. As long as I can remember we had been all over the place.

And always by car.

I remember days driving in the Victorian countryside while Dad and his friends looked for a place to fly their R/C sailplanes - just driving miles and miles and miles, until they found a fantastic looking slope to fly from. Then they would find the homestead and ask permission - most would say yes - Including on one occasion Gus Mercurio - an Aussie actor (who we didn't make a fuss about - until we were well away afterwards!), and who was nice enough to let them fly on a slope on his property.

I think in fact we were driving the Brown Falcon for that one, but there will be more on that soon.

Anyway - ever since that blue falcon, I have been a Ford man - never actually owned one myself by the way.....